Enemy Unseen (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

Rating:
Summary: worth reading, but...
Review: As with most of the recent Star Trek comics, Enemy Unseen collects three stories that either have a good story but awful art or the other way around.

Perchance to Dream is a fantastic story by novelist Keith DeCandido (his Diplomatic Implausibilty is the best Trek novel of the last year), but with awful, stiff, clunky art by Peter Pachoumis.

Embrace the Wolf is a cleverly written TNG sequel to the TOS episode "Wolf in the Fold" by Buffy novelists Christopher Golden and Tom Sniegoski, done in by AWFUL art by Dave Hoover.

The best art is by Andrew Currie, who does a great job with The Killing Shadows, but it's illustrating a really boring story by Scott Ciencin. A pity Currie couldn't have drawn one of the other two.

Still, it's worth it for the two good stories.

Rating:
Summary: One star is one too many!
Review: Do not buy this book! After reading this I now know why this lastest attempt at Star Trek comics failed. All of the stories have terriable art. And the plots are almost immpossible to follow. The first story involves an affirmation of "alternative lifestyles" to put it nicely and the aliens involved remind me of "Sea Monkeys" from those old comic adds. In the second story there is a panal where Capt. Picard, for no apparent reason, gets up and runs. He wasn't running before this panel. He wasn't running after this panel. None of the other charecters even notice. This second story has something to do with alien ninjas testing the Enterprise and who stop, turn around, and leave just before destroying the Enterprise and it's crew. That's the resolution to the story. This story also requires the reader to have some prior knowledge of Star Trek: TNG to recognize one of the charecters in the story, who is totally irrelivant to the plot. Also the total look of this book is very dark. All of the interior art is dark with very few white page borders. It depressed me to waste a very small part of my life reading this drek. I would give this book less than one star if I could.

Rating:
Summary: A varied collection of stories "Embrace the Wolf" the best.
Review: The Next Generation comic collection is pretty much standard fare. I wish that it had a regular title to keep some sort of regular readership. The best one of the bunch is "Embrace the Wolf" It's drawn in a cartoony style. It's layout is much more interesting than the realistic style of the other two stories. It tries too hard to duplicate the look of the TV show. The story suffers becuase it's has stories that are better told in the medium of TV. The broad galactic villians always worked better in comics because you could see a story you'd never see on TV or in the movies.

Rating:
Summary: A varied collection of stories "Embrace the Wolf" the best.
Review: The Next Generation comic collection is pretty much standard fare. I wish that it had a regular title to keep some sort of regular readership. The best one of the bunch is "Embrace the Wolf" It's drawn in a cartoony style. It's layout is much more interesting than the realistic style of the other two stories. It tries too hard to duplicate the look of the TV show. The story suffers becuase it's has stories that are better told in the medium of TV. The broad galactic villians always worked better in comics because you could see a story you'd never see on TV or in the movies.