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 paranthetical)). 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 miniseries and his new graphic novel Warp Your Own Way) so I was happy to get an eARC of the trade paperback of Mr. North’s two Shax/Lower Decks tie in issues from IDW and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
In Shax’s Best Day, Shax gets to fight a ton of fascist Klingon warriors following the reincarnation of Kahless. In Shax’s Worst Day, Shax is awakened to the unreality of Lore’s reality rewrite by the Sword of Kahless, after which 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 all of Trek and uses that love and knowledge well. This book is super fun and a great addition to your Trek comics collection.
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