{"id":32807,"date":"2014-03-06T11:20:01","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T19:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=32807"},"modified":"2014-03-06T11:20:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T19:20:01","slug":"idw-publishing-to-adapt-ellison-trek-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2014\/03\/idw-publishing-to-adapt-ellison-trek-story\/","title":{"rendered":"IDW Publishing To Adapt Ellison Trek Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32810\" alt=\"COTEOF030614\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/COTEOF030614.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/COTEOF030614.jpg 580w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/COTEOF030614-50x19.jpg 50w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/COTEOF030614-150x58.jpg 150w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/COTEOF030614-300x117.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/COTEOF030614-450x175.jpg 450w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/COTEOF030614-50x19@2x.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fans of <strong>Harlan Ellison<\/strong>&#8216;s original teleplay of <em>The City on the Edge of Forever<\/em> will soon see it in comic book form.<\/p>\n<p><em>Star Trek: Harlan Ellison&#8217;s City on the Edge of Forever: The Original Telepla<\/em>y\u00a0will be released as a five-issue mini-series.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->&#8220;<em>Star Trek: Harlan Ellison&#8217;s City on the Edge of Forever: The Original Teleplay<\/em> will be written by <strong>Scott Tipton<\/strong> and<strong> David Tipton<\/strong>, with interior painted art by <strong>J.K. Woodward<\/strong>. Each issue of the series will feature a cover by J<strong>uan Ortiz<\/strong>, whose artistic interpretations of every episode of [the original series] were recently published in an oversize hardcover collection, <em>Star Trek: The Art of Juan Ortiz<\/em>. Variant covers will be provided by movie poster artist\/<em>Star Trek: Khan<\/em> cover artist <strong>Paul Shipper<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The comic book mini-series will be overseen by Ellison.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Presenting Harlan Ellison&#8217;s brilliant original script for <em>City on the Edg<\/em>e&#8230; has been a goal of ours since <em>IDW<\/em> first began publishing <em>Star Trek<\/em> comics in 2007,&#8221; said series editor and <em>IDW<\/em> chief creative officer\/editor-in-chief <strong>Chris Ryall<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a superlative joy of my long life to have worked with <strong>Leonard Nimoy<\/strong>, who became my friend, and many others at <em>Star Trek<\/em>,&#8221; said Ellison, &#8220;and an equally heart-happy joy to be working with J.K. and the Tipton Bros. and Chris Ryall on this long-awaited visual of my &#8212; humbly, I say it &#8212; brilliant original <em>City<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Expect the first issue of<em> Star Trek: Harlan Ellison&#8217;s City on the Edge of Forever: The Original Teleplay<\/em> this June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of Harlan Ellison&#8216;s original teleplay of The City on the Edge of Forever will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2971],"tags":[2596,2537,2715,5942],"class_list":["post-32807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magazine","tag-comic","tag-ellison","tag-idw-publishing","tag-the-city-on-the-edge-of-forever"],"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":"14","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32807","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=32807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32813,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32807\/revisions\/32813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}