29 July 2019

Review: Star Trek: Burden of Knowledge by Scott & David Tipton, Federica Manfredi, et al.

Comic trade paperback, n.pag.
Published 2010 (contents: 2010)
Acquired November 2012
Read March 2019
Star Trek: Burden of Knowledge

Written by Scott & David Tipton
Art by Federica Manfredi
Ink Assist by Nicola Zanni and Riccardo Sisti
Colors by Andrea Priorini and Arianna Florean
Color Assist by Chiara Cinabro
Letters by Neil Uyetake, Chris Mowry, and Robbie Robbins

I am all for Star Trek stories that eschew Big Crises and Continuity Reminders and just get on with telling proper stories featuring characters I like from the television. Unfortunately, Scott and David Tipton aren't particularly suited to this kind of thing. Across all the Star Trek stories they've done for IDW, they just seem to have an inability to do interesting done-in-one stories, and this is a whole book of them. You can tell a complex story in 20-page comics, but they cannot. So many of these were so easily resolved, I expected twists that there was something more going on, but it never came. Fun to see the classic characters here (they do have a good sense of voice), but little to this book beyond that.

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