After Darkness Part 2 preview

IDW have released previews for their new comics out this week, including the twenty-second issue of the Star Trek ongoing series, After Darkness, Part Two, the continuation of the post-Into Darkness tale begun in the previous issue.

I've been fortunate enough to read through the whole issue already, and there's some really interesting stuff going on as they start to build up the astro-politics of the nuTrek timeline. It's great to see this series really forging ahead in carving out something original, a big step up from the early episode retellings. There's also some great art in this issue, with two particularly pleasing splash pages towards the end of the book - One of which you might mistake for a 70s Trek novel cover; a bit of a mixture of Devil World and Spock, Messiah!.

Here's the first seven pages (continues after the jump), to get your Vulcan blood boiling in anticipation: