IDW PREVIEWS FOR MAY 21st

[MattBrady]

IDW Publishing has five debuts hitting stores this week, along with one returning favorite in a new form- and we’ve got looks at all of them. Click on the thumbnails for larger versions.

Star Trek: Assignment Earth #1

John Byrne (w & a & c)
IDW’s Star Trek: Second Stage continues, as comics icon John Byrne unveils the first-ever Star Trek series of his decades-spanning career! The 1968 TV episode "Assignment Earth" had been the Season Two finale for the original Star Trek series, and was intended by Gene Roddenberry as the pilot for a spin-off series that never came to pass. Now, Byrne delivers the series 40 years after it would have debuted, recounting the adventures of interstellar agent Gary Seven and his Earth-born assistant as they covertly confront threats to the past so that they can save Star Trek’s future. Byrne will both write and draw the series, which steps one year forward with each installment, beginning with 1968, the year that the spin-off series would have appeared.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Dead, She Said #1

Steve Niles (w); Bernie Wrightson (a & c)
Legendary comic book artist Bernie Wrightson inks his own work for the first time in more than two decades! And joining Wrightson on this noir horror tale is the writer who has revitalized both genres in comics, Steve Niles. Detective Coogan knows well that there are some pretty shady freaks out there in the big city… but he doesn’t know that some of those freaks ain’t human. He learns it the hard way, and ends up on the wrong side of a bullet, all in the first issue of this new series that mixes horror and noir into a tightly wound nightmare of twists and turns.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Tank Girl: Visions of Booga #1

Alan Martin (w); Rufus Dayglo (a); Ashley Wood (c)
The creative team responsible for revitalizing Tank Girl last year returns with an all-new series! In Visions of Booga, Part 1: Falling Angel Blues, we join Tank Girl and her marsupial hubby Booga as they find themselves the victims of the worst run of bad luck ever. The tank has been lost in a wager and the Australian Mafia are after their pelts. Their only hope seems to lie on the other side of the country, with Booga's estranged little brother. A transcontinental Kerouackian odyssey begins, courtesy of Mr. Martin and Mr. Dayglo (Snaked), with the help of some smart wraparound covers from the esteemed Mr. Wood (Zombies vs. Robots).
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

[MattBrady]

Igor Movie Prequel #1

Dara Naraghi (w); Grant Bond (a & c)
The upcoming animated feature film IGOR will feature the voices of John Cleese, John Cusack, and Steve Buscemi, and this series of all-new, original stories will serve as a lead-in to the movie by introducing you to Igor, Scamper, Brain, and all the other delightfully twisted characters from the land of Malaria. In this debut issue, see how Igor came under the employ of the inept Dr. Glickenstein, much to the loveable hunchbacked assistant's dismay. Then, laugh your way through Igor's first failed evil science fair experiment as he befriends the demented lab rabbit, Scamper. And finally, Carl Cristall, Malaria's top-rated TV talk show host, profiles another famous evil scientist on his program. This can only end in utter chaos. Courtesy of Dara Naraghi (Lifelike) and artist Grant Bond (Clockwork Girl).
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FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Zombies!: Hunters #1

Dara Naraghi (w); Don Figueroa (a & c)
On a remote Caribbean island, four wealthy thrill-seekers come to stalk the most dangerous game on the planet: the living dead. But with an ex-CIA commander as the showrunner and a Haitian voodoo priest providing the prey, things on this outlaw safari are bound to go wrong. Very wrong! Don Figueroa (Transformers) steps away from robots and gets his hands dirty by handling full art chores on this new series penned by Dara Naraghi (Lifelike, Igor Movie Prequel).
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FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Angel: After the Fall #1: The Director’s Cut

Brian Lynch (w); Franco Urro (a); Alex Garner
Angel: After the Fall, picking up where Angel: Season Five ended, hit the ground running and has been a smash-hit ever since Joss Whedon’s characters first stepped into a Los Angeles cast into Hell. Now, experience again the beginning of the story in this special edition that also includes writer Brian Lynch’s complete script and his writer’s annotations, too. Alex Garner (CVO) provides an all-new painted cover for this special issue.
FC • $5.99 • 48 pages

[seamonkey]

Gary Seven is my favorite character from the original series. I'll be sure to check this out.

[SeamusMcClernan]

The Trailer is hysterical...

...my kids watched it over & over - so I'll be sure to pick up a few copies of this.

[vbartilucci]

Yeah, John Byrne and Gary Seven - this has high awesomesauce potential.
Need some Isis pin-ups, fast...

And yeah, Igor just came out of nowhere - might be the surprise good film of the year. Saw they were pushing it at NYCC, didn't care at all, till I saw John Cusack (high on my wife's "I'm allowed to have reprecussion-free sex with them if I have the opportunity" list) as the star. And the trailer does indeed rock the house.

[painters_eye]

...Just like Klaus Janson brought so much to Miller's work, I wish a nice finisher could be added to the Byrne work so that we could appreciate a bit more that blank backgrounds.

[ShinAkuma666]

Zombie: Hunters looks interesting, I like the premise, I know theres a lot of Zombie titles these days but this one sounds promising.

[Statham]

Damn good to see Alan Martin's keeping the Tank Girl revival moving at full steam - We've got Dayglo's series now, another superb Wood series coming in the winter, and I hear there's also going to be a strip in 2000AD.

With that and the re-release of the old Hewlett stories coming up this autumn, it's a damn good time to be a Tank Girl fan.

[dougspidey]

I have the book:

Star Trek: Assignment Earth #1

John Byrne (w & a & c)
IDW’s Star Trek: Second Stage continues, as comics icon John Byrne unveils the first-ever Star Trek series of his decades-spanning career! The 1968 TV episode "Assignment Earth" had been the Season Two finale for the original Star Trek series, and was intended by Gene Roddenberry as the pilot for a spin-off series that never came to pass. Now, Byrne delivers the series 40 years after it would have debuted, recounting the adventures of interstellar agent Gary Seven and his Earth-born assistant as they covertly confront threats to the past so that they can save Star Trek’s future. Byrne will both write and draw the series, which steps one year forward with each installment, beginning with 1968, the year that the spin-off series would have appeared.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

[Daigo-Bah]

Geez- just look at Byrne's pages compared to the others below it. It's simplistic to a ridiculous degree.