Press Release: IDW Heads into Darkness!

IDW Heads Into Darkness! Publisher Announces Prequel Series to J. J. Abrams’ Upcoming STAR TREKTM Movie San Diego, CA (December 14, 2012) – IDW Publishing will publish STAR TREK: COUNTDOWN TO DARKNESS, the official prequel series to Paramount Pictures’ upcoming movie, Star Trek Into Darkness. Like the best-sellingCountdown series before it,COUNTDOWN INTO DARKNESS will be the only place for fans to experience the events that set the stage for J.J. Abrams’ sequel to the 2009 blockbuster film Star Trek.   Written by Mike Johnson with a story by Roberto Orci and art by David Messina, this 4-issue miniseries will lead directly into the May release of Star Trek Into Darkness, bridging the gap between the two films and giving fans an exclusive peek at the film’s mysterious story.   “We were thrilled by the reception that the original Countdown prequel comic received in 2009,” saysJohnson. “We're excited to be working again with David Messina and the team at IDW to bring fans an all-new original story that leads directly into the next film. Star Trek is back in a big way in 2013!”   Packed with the high-stakes adventure and sci-fi intrigue that has made the Star Trek franchise a global institution, STAR TREK: COUNTDOWN TO DARKNESS is sure to delight the legions of fans anxiously anticipating the continuing adventure of the intrepid crew of the USS Enterprise.   STAR TREK: COUNTDOWN TO DARKNESS #1 ($3.99, 32 pages, full color), licensed by CBS Consumer Products, will be available in stores in January 2013.  Diamond order code: NOV12 0340 STAR TREK: COUNTDOWN TO DARKNESS digital comics will be available via the iOS Star Trek Comics and IDW Comics apps, online at read.idwpublishing.com, and in the Apple iBookstore. “STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS” is written by Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman & Damon Lindelof, based upon “Star Trek” created by Gene Roddenberry, and directed by J.J. Abrams.  Abrams will also produce with Bryan Burk through Bad Robot Productions, along with Lindelof, Kurtzman, and Orci.

About IDW IDW is an award-winning publisher of comic books, graphic novels and trade paperbacks, based in San Diego, California. Renowned for its diverse catalog of licensed and independent titles, IDW publishes some of the most successful and popular titles in the industry, including: Hasbro’s The TRANSFORMERS and G.I. JOE, Paramount’s Star Trek; HBO’s True Blood; the BBC’s DOCTOR WHO; Toho’s Godzilla; and comics and trade collections based on novels by worldwide bestselling author, James Patterson. IDW is also home to the Library of American Comics imprint, which publishes classic comic reprints; Yoe! Books, a partnership with Yoe! Studio. IDW’s critically- and fan-acclaimed series are continually moving into new mediums. Currently, Warner Brothers and Barry Sonnenfeld are attached to adapt LORE into a feature film starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Disney are creating a feature film based on World War Robot, with Michael Bay‘s Platinum Dunes and Sony bringing Zombies vs. Robots to film.

Note: I'm fairly excited about this. My inner trekkie fangirl squealed over the Dr. Who and Star Trek crossover, so I'm excited about this as well!

Best book ever? Wesley Crusher: Teenage F#ck Machine

I discovered this via Regretsy while trying to avoid studying for my Spanish exam. It's quite possibly the best worst book ever. My article is tame, but the book itself is most assuredly NSFW.

Imagine Wesley Crusher. If you're not familiar with him, google Wil Wheaton and/or Wesley Crusher and watch a few videos of him on YouTube. Go ahead, I'll wait.

(Rifles through flascards. Cierro... los libros... Oh, you're back already? My bad.)

So anyway, Star Trek fans generally have two reactions to Wesley. Either they want to shoot him out an airlock or they're fans of the character. There's a third group that doesn't really care one way or another about him, but the extremes are the most vocal. And boy is this extreme vocal.

Penned by one "Kitty Glitter", Wesley Crusher: Teenage F#ck Machine goes where not many fanfic authors have gone before: onto the Amazon marketplace where the author hopes it'll land on your kindle. If you're a Prime member, you can read this book for free. If not, you have to pay $3 for it or wait for the inevitable bootleg copy to circulate the internet.

The premise is that you have Wesley Crusher and feline pilot Meow Solo. The brief bit that I read on Regretsy's article (click here for that article) had the two doing to do with a random unnamed girl on a holodeck. Picard interrupts and gets shot by Moriarty. This is where the sample ends, but I imagine that hilarity ensues. Amazon has a sample of the book posted if you're curious. (Click here)

It's pretty obvious that this is as "real" as My Immortal was, but it's still pretty funny. Wheaton has taken the fanfic in stride, further proving how awesome he is as a human being by being willing to laugh at himself and his crazy, crazy fandom.