My first ever comics were Star Trek comics. I loved superheroes when I was a kid, of course, still do, but what I knew of them came from Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends and the Superfriends and the Super Powers action figures (which did have mini-comics, (as did He-Man figures, but I digress in this double parenthetical)). When I fell in love with Star Trek in 1988, I couldn’t get enough of it. So in addition to watching the show and reading the novels, I picked up Star Trek comics at a convention and eventually subscribed to get the TNG comic from DC in the mail.
Although I fell off reading Trek comics for a while, I recently have started reading more of the IDW Star Trek comics (I enjoyed Godshock and I LOVED Ryan North’s Lower Decks run and his graphic novel Warp Your Own Way) so I was happy to get an eARC of the trade paperback of Lore War.
This book really drops you in the middle of a terrible new world in which Data’s evil twin brother Lore has remade all of reality in his own image. It truly is a horrific world and many of our regular characters are twisted in a terrible way. The Sword of Kahless, however, has the ability to awaken people to the changes to reality and slowly but surely Sisko, Beverly, and the others come up with a plan to strike back at Lore. A special highlight in this book is the Lower Decks Shax story written by Ryan North. When Shax is awakened to the reality by the Sword of Kahless, he relentlessly uses his knowledge of past Star Trek technobabble to single handedly take down Lores’s StarFleet in a very satisfying way. It is clear that North knows and loves Trek and uses that love and knowledge well.
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