Year Five #21: The Raptor's Wings part 2 cover, excerpt, and behind the scenes. Plus other Year Five updates

Last week brought us issue twenty-one(ad) of IDW's Star Trek: Year Five(ad) comic series, which was part two of the Vulcan time travel story The Raptor's Wings. Continue below for a five-page preview from that book, plus some behind the scenes art, and other updates from the Year Five series.

The Raptor's Wings was written by Brandon Easton, with art by Silvia Califano and colour from DC Alonso. As usual for the series, you can find it in two covers, either the main one(ad) by Stephen Thompson (coloured by Charlie Kirchoff), or the rarer retail incentive cover(ad) by JJ Lendl, in retro travel poster style. Check them out, plus the preview pages from the book:

The issue artists have shared some nice behind the scenes bits for this book. Cover artist Stephen Thompson for instance shared some alternate ideas for the cover (and if you check their tweet, you can also see the final design pre-colours):

Meanwhile interior artist Silvia Califano shared their exciting splash pasge from the book, pre-colouring:

And also gave us a nice behind the scenes look at their design for a new Vulcan ship featured here.

Looking further ahead in the series, IDW have now revealed the cover art for issue twenty-four(ad) in the series (the final save for the epilogue issue).

And there's also some general scheduling updates, as the series is running a little later than solicitations first indicated. The final three-part story, Ithaca starts in a few days time in issue twenty-two(ad), with part two(ad) also due in July, and part three(ad) in August. The extra-long epilogue issue twenty-five(ad), Experienced in Loss, is now due in September. And the fourth omnibus in the series, also called Experienced in Loss(ad) (which will contain the final two story arcs, the epilogue, and also the Valentine's special), has now been pushed back to December.

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Year Five #21: The Raptor's Wings, part 2

Written by Brandon Easton. Art by Silvia Califano. Colour by DC Alonso.

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Year Five #22: Ithaca, part 1

Written by Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly. Art by Stephen Thompson.

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Year Five #23: Ithaca, part 2

Written by Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly. Art by Stephen Thompson.

 Things From Another World(ad), Forbidden Planet(ad).

Year Five #24: Ithaca, part 3

Written by Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly. Art by Stephen Thompson.

Things From Another World(ad), Forbidden Planet(ad).

Year Five #25: Epilogue - Experienced in Loss

Written by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly, Jody Houser, Brandon Easton, Jim McCann, and Paul Cornell. Art by Angel Hernandez, Silvia Califano, Stephen Thompson, and Christopher Jones.

Things From Another World(ad), Forbidden Planet(ad).

Year Five omnibus #4: Experienced in Loss

Written by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly, Jody Houser, Brandon Easton, Jim McCann, and Paul Cornell. Art by Angel Hernandez, Sylvia Califano, Stephen Thompson, and Christopher Jones.

Amazon(ad), Things From Another World(ad), Forbidden Planet(ad).

To keep track of all the latest Star Trek comic releases, hit the comics button on my 2021 schedule page, or have a look back through my comics tag for the latest posts. You can also find reading lists for several Star Trek comic series on my Trek Collective Lists site.