IDW June 2014 Star Trek Comics

Movie news remains dead but the comics continue. IDW Publishing has released their publishing plans for June 2014. Only two comics are coming, one for the ongoing and another that retells what is considered one of the best episodes in all of Star Trek, City on the Edge of Forever. Only this isn't telling it as it aired on TV but on the teleplay script written by Harlan Ellison. The result should be a familiar story with a lot of differences as what is in a script often changes by the time it reaches the air (much like with movies) as budgets, producers, directors, actors, time constraints, editors and a whole other host of factors can lead to changes from the original material. Something that Ellison, famous for being a bit of an egomaniac, has long been very displeased with. I am curious to see if his vision was superior to what eventually made it to the small screen. For the full details of IDW's other books including GI Joe, TMNT, Transformers, and more click here.

Star Trek #34
Mike Johnson (w) • Joe Corroney (a & c)
"Lost Apollo" concludes here! Stranded on an alien world and cut off from the Enterprise, Spock and Bones must work together to save Captain Kirk from a fate worse than death... a fate tied to the earliest days of humanity's journey to the stars! Overseen by STAR TREK writer/producer Roberto Orci, this all-new adventure continues the Five Year Mission between the new movies!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Star Trek: Harlan Ellison®'s City on the Edge of Forever #1 (of 5)
Harlan Ellison, Scott Tipton & David Tipton (w) • J.K. Woodward (a) • Juan Ortiz (c)
For the first time ever, a visual presentation of the much-discussed, unrevised, unadulterated version of Harlan Ellison's award-winning Star Trek teleplay script, "The City on the Edge of Forever!" This Hugo- and Writer's Guild of America Award-winning teleplay has been much discussed for decades but only here can you see the story as Mr. Ellison originally intended!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99