{"id":10470,"date":"2010-10-14T12:54:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T19:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=10470"},"modified":"2010-10-14T12:55:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T19:55:40","slug":"tipton-creating-trek-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/10\/tipton-creating-trek-comics\/","title":{"rendered":"Tipton: Creating Trek Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Tipton101410.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10471\" title=\"Tipton101410\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Tipton101410.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"114\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>When<strong> Scott Tipton<\/strong> learned that IDW Publishing had a license to create <em>Star Trek<\/em>-related material, he was eager to get in on writing comics featuring characters he enjoyed, and wasted no time suggesting ideas in hopes of getting a <em>Star Trek<\/em> assignment.<\/p>\n<p>One of the ideas was for a Klingon series, and that resulted in <em>Klingons: Blood Will Tell<\/em>, of which Tipton is still proud. &#8220;I\u2019m happy to say that I think <em>Klingons: Blood Will Tell<\/em> holds up really well these four or so years later,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I glanced through it for the first time in years when it was recently re-released in IDW&#8217;s <em>Star Trek Omnibus<\/em>, and I was pleased to see that I was overall very satisfied with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Although Tipton enjoys writing for each of the series and the various characters; some are more fun than the rest. &#8220;Every series brings with its own unique pleasures,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve gotten to work with Spock a lot, and I think I&#8217;ve got a good handle on him. Picard is a delight to write, to tinker with the cadences and find that line or phrase you could really hear <strong>Patrick Stewart<\/strong> deliver. I expected to have trouble with Sisko, but found that his voice seemed to just come together naturally. But I think by far the most fun is the Kirk\/Spock\/McCoy triangle. McCoy really allows you that opportunity for humor that&#8217;s a little harder to come by in some of the other series, and playing off that relationship between the three of them gives you so much to work with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tipton has a website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comics101.com\">Comics 101<\/a>, that is updated each Wednesday. &#8220;&#8230;<em>Comics 101<\/em>&#8230;continues to be updated every Wednesday with my weekly column on comics history, humor and whatever else comic-related strikes my fancy,&#8221; said Tipton.<\/p>\n<p>Fans of <em>Space Seed<\/em> and <em>Star Trek: II: The Wrath of Khan<\/em> are eagerly awaiting the <em>Khan: Ruling in Hell<\/em> series, to be written by Tipton and his brother David. &#8220;The Khan series has been a blast,&#8221; said Tipton. &#8220;We&#8217;re looking at Khan\u2019s lost years, between the events of <em>Space Seed <\/em>and <em>The Wrath of Khan<\/em>, his years marooned on Ceti Alpha V. We want to explore what happens to a man so powerful, so capable, who\u2019s confronted with this kind of loss, the ultimate &#8216;no-win scenario,&#8217; if you will. It&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve ever written a tragedy; it\u2019s been quite an experience. The art is by <strong>Fabio Mantovani<\/strong>, and he&#8217;s turning in beautiful, emotionally rich pages. I can&#8217;t wait for readers to take a look.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Scott Tipton learned that IDW Publishing had a license to create Star Trek-related material,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2971],"tags":[2525,2950],"class_list":["post-10470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magazine","tag-comics","tag-tipton"],"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\/magazine\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Magazine<\/a>","tag_info":"Magazine","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10470","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=10470"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10474,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10470\/revisions\/10474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}