Thursday, April 14, 2016

Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who: Assimilation2

As the first comic book I ever read, this Star Trek and Doctor Who crossover is one of the bests that I've read so far. Using the characters of the Next Generation in the Star Trek franchise and the Eleventh Doctor and his companions Amy and Rory from Doctor Who, the comic sees the crew of the Enterprise-D teaming up with The Doctor and his companions to stop an alliance between both franchises' cybernetic invaders, Doctor Who's Cybermen and Star Trek's Borg. The artwork is nearly gorgeous with it's very realistic look of the characters though at times can feel off, though the part where Tom Baker's Fourth Doctor meets Captain Kirk and his crew is fun to read due to the more traditional look you'd expect from the late 70s and early 80s. With a perfect use of both franchise's mythologies the crossover is perfect for those who love both and always wanted to see a crossover between the two due to the many similarities such as their use of time travel and exploring distant places in space. The reason I never read a comic before this one was because of the huge history involving the various universes in both DC and Marvel, as well as other companies. What convinced to finally read comics were because even if comics have a large history with lots of continuity, so do other things I love such as Star Trek and Doctor Who, and another is due to watching the web video series Atop the Fourth Wall where the host, Linkara, reviews comic book, most of them considered the worst, where he once did a list of comics he'd never review and this crossover was in that list. Until that is a few weeks after I bought it and he did review it as part of a Patreon sponsored suggestion. However I'm really happy that I finally got to read comics and since then I've bought and read a comic, sometimes a series of them in one book, a month. Over all: 95%
Top list so far:
1. Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who: Assimilation2

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