Star Trek Comics: Gold Key Collection #3
Oh no! Does Jordan plan to read Star Trek comics now, too? And what about the three hundred thousand expanded universe novels? Aggggggh!
No — I’m gonna lay off on that. At least until I finish the whole project. But good ol’ Shappy let me borrow this. And, I can’t lie, it was entertaining. But bad! Dead God is it bad! And. . .for the most part. . .totally untrue to Trek.
Arguements about whether or not The Animated Series should be considered canonical or not are a complete joke compared to this stuff. Mr. Spock is emotional! Kirk and Scotty hate each other. Kirk goes around slapping women all day. . .and everyone acts like they are in a submarine, not a Constitution-class Starship. The word is that the dude who wrote these hadn’t even seen any of the show, just pictures of the actors.
Nevertheless, battles against the Vegetable-Men (if that’s your thing) are to be found in these pages.
Collected are:
Issue 18: “The Hijacked Planet”
Issue 19: “The Haunted Asteroid”
Issue 20: “A World Gone Mad”
Issue 21: “The Mummies of Heitius VII”
Issue 22: “Siege in Superspace”
Issue 23: “Child’s Play”
Issue 24: “The Trial of Captain Kirk”
Issue 25: “Dwarf Planet”
I shan’t get more granular with my review.