I’ve spend three days in wait of my covid test results drawing this and learning about Andorian reproduction. Never would I have guessed there were information about that but it’s a horny show so I’m not really surprised!! Anyway, I’m now both wiser and healthier - turns out it was just a cold!
When I saw this come together it was so cool!! I only wish there were some old school comic texture packs and fonts for Krita. There are a lot for Photoshop, maybe they work for Krita as well? If anyone have some tips on doing retro comics hit me up !
Reminders: This comic is not explicit, but there is some implied/non-graphic sex. Also contains angst, unrequited-but-oh-wait-not-really love, and accidental bonding. I should also mention that the book takes place in AOS but leans toward the TOS pairing more heavily, since it’s my personal fave :3 It also ignores some canon elements with no explanation, sorry not sorry :P
I’ll be posting all the pages over the next several weeks. Feel free to give feedback on them, as this is my first crack at ST stuff and I’m sure I’ve made lotsa mistakes :P Hope you enjoy!
This article is awesome and Star Trek comics are cursed never to have consistent art, whether it’s old UK comic strips, Gold Key, Marvel, DC here or IDW nowadays
Original art by Al McWilliams from Gold Key’s Star Trek #48 (1977). The script for this story was by Doom Patrol creator Arnold Drake with a Story Consultant credit was given to Doug Drexler. Drexler would start a career in Hollywood in 1982 with as a prosthetic makeup artist on Tony Scotty’s The Hunger and work on a slate as varied as Starman,Manhunter,C.H.U.D.andDick Tracy before he began work in the makeup department on Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1990.
From that position, his career course changed and he became a prominent figure in the design and visual effects departments for the franchise, working on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Generations,Star Trek: First Contact,Star Trek: Insurrection, and Star Trek: Enterprise as well as the director’s cut of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Drexler’s work as a Trek artist was also featured in The Star Trek Encyclopedia and the Ships of the Line calendar series among other works, my favorite being the Star Fleet Medical Reference Manual put out by Ballentine in 1977. You can find a copy of that particular work for not-very-much on the secondary market, or ogle this PDF over at Thetafleet.net.
My cover for Star Trek: Year Five, Issue 21 - part of my ongoing “Travel Guide” cover series. Talk to your LCS about getting this retailer incentive - due out in April. Will have some signed copies in the shop around then as well.
