Star Trek: New Visions #18: What Pain It Is To Drown

Star Trek: New Visions (Single Issues) #18

by John Byrne

Pulled down to a world made entirely of water, the Enterprise is in danger of literally flooding — while Spock and McCoy discover a sinister purpose behind this bizarre planet.

60 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 11, 2017

About the author

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John Lindley Byrne is a British-born Canadian-American author and artist of comic books. Since the mid-1970s, Byrne has worked on nearly every major American superhero.

Byrne's better-known work has been on Marvel Comics' X-Men and Fantastic Four and the 1986 relaunch of DC Comics’ Superman franchise. Coming into the comics profession exclusively as a penciler, Byrne began co-plotting the X-Men comics during his tenure on them, and launched his writing career in earnest with Fantastic Four (where he also started inking his own pencils). During the 1990s he produced a number of creator-owned works, including Next Men and Danger Unlimited. He also wrote the first issues of Mike Mignola's Hellboy series and produced a number of Star Trek comics for IDW Publishing.

Reviews

[Rick · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lot's of fun, as these tend to be, but nothing jumped out at me. Because these are photo-montages using material from the original series, there's only so much that be accomplished - but the author/artist is doing some really creative work in manipulating the images. This is fun stuff for die-hard fans of the original series.

[Ellen Schoener · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting little story.
Like the others this is well made.

[Rob Cook · Rating 3 out of 5]

A nice premise with a welcome return of Janice Rand. Not so sure on the headsets for underwater adventures though...

[Sandra · Rating 4 out of 5]

I promised myself I would begin the new year reading a Star Trek book. Better yet I'll do a graphic novel. I love these books. Photographs from the original show combined with a new storyline mixing the old and the new. With water as the villain, this was a pleasant read.