{"id":10007,"date":"2010-08-20T13:47:28","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T20:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=10007"},"modified":"2010-08-20T13:47:28","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T20:47:28","slug":"koenig-returns-to-comic-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/08\/koenig-returns-to-comic-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Koenig Returns To Comic World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Walter Koenig<\/strong>, best-known to<em> Star Trek<\/em> fans as Pavel Chekov, will be writing a new four-issue comic miniseries which will be published in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The miniseries, titled<em> Things To Come<\/em>, will be published by Bluewater Productions and features a story set in a post-apocalyptic world where vampires have become the dominant species.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/ThingsToCome082010.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10008\" title=\"ThingsToCome082010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/ThingsToCome082010.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"162\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>In <em>Things To Come<\/em>, the vampires are seeking identity in the harsh environment that remains after the destruction of the world by humans. &#8220;The one intelligent species that can survive in this post-apocalyptic world are vampires,&#8221; explained Koenig, &#8220;and they are a bridge from what has gone before, which is this self-destruction of the human race, and what will come after. They are in pursuit of their own meaning. Why are they there? Why have they been created?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are those among them who think it is an act of god, and those who thoroughly reject that idea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Koenig is aware of the current vampire craze, but he plans on offering a different version of the creatures than is already out there. &#8220;As pretentious as it sounds, I don&#8217;t want to mimic what has gone before,&#8221; he said. &#8220;My purpose isn&#8217;t to capitalize on a theme, but inject it with some fresh ideas. That&#8217;s what makes writing fun for me. It&#8217;s always been what makes writing fun for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Back in the 1990s, Koenig was the author of <em>Raver<\/em>, a three-issue comic series which was issued by Malibu comics. Bluewater Productions plans on reissuing that series next year and Koenig plans on writing a brand-new story for the series, with a new &#8220;more topical&#8221; story that offers a &#8220;metaphor for our involvement in foreign lands.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walter Koenig, best-known to Star Trek fans as Pavel Chekov, will be writing a new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2421],"tags":[2589,3347,3346],"class_list":["post-10007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tos","tag-koenig","tag-raven","tag-things-to-come"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-tos\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: TOS<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TOS","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10009,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10007\/revisions\/10009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}