As I write this Wednesday’s edition of “Yesterday’s” Comic is focusing on Star Trek comics. I just completed Early Voyages, which focused on the Christopher Pike years of the Enterprise. As I prepare to go into what currently passes for the chronological order of my comic collection, I’m about to start the Captain Kirk years, and this will be all over the place when it comes to publishers and in DC’s case volumes since they had the license more than once. First up in the current timeline is a book & record, or in this case comic book and record, that I thought would be easier to examine as a Saturday Night Showcase.
The Crier In Emptiness is one of a series of audio dramas Peter Pan Records produced, later splitting some of them up and including them in comic adaptations for their Power Records comic book & record series. This series featured numerous audio drama/comic packages with licenses from other kid-friendly franchise and even included original DC and Marvel stories. This story (or just the audio drama…or maybe just the comic adaptation–I’m going by what little I could find on the internet since there are no credits on the record or the comic) was written by Alan Dean Foster, who has written many Star Trek novelizations as well as other science fiction and fantasy works. (He even made novelizations and original novels based on the Michael Bay Transformers films, and they’re better than the movies.) The Grand Comics Database claims the penciling on the comic was done by John Buscema, with Dick Giordano and Terry Austin both doing the inks. I don’t know if they’re right because again, no credits on the record or the comic. No colorist written, and you may see why they wouldn’t want to be credited given the huge visual errors involved. The story however is really good and I’m happy to bring it to you tonight. Enjoy!
