Not really. Actually, it was the other way around. I've been writing about Comixology and drawing lately and working on this drawing reminded me I needed to get those Star Treks back onto my phone. Any excuse for drawing Trek characters, though, is a good one. Grabbing the new Comixology iPhone app requires we download all our comic books again. There are a few series I absolutely cannot do without: Kamandi, New Mutants, Teen Titans and, of course, Gold Key Star Trek. I'd add New Gods and Mister Miracle if they were available. There's one more, but I blog about it elsewhere because it falls outside our mission statement here. It's nice being able to carry around entire runs of Fantastic Four, Uncanny X-Men and Amazing Spider-Man, too.
The first thing I did when I started the app is fill one very important area of it with Kamandi. Yesterday, I started the process of re-acquiring my digital Trek books from IDW. You have two options. One is to purchase the individual issues, which is my preference. Be warned, though-- for some reason the first few substitute the old Checker Publishing softcover artwork for the original comic book covers. Then they start in with the original and very lovely photo-montage covers and-- even better-- the off-model fully-painted ones! The other option is to buy them in little groups as collections. At $11.99 a pop, that's probably the cheaper of the two, but for me, money is little or no object.
Well, even if you think I'm an ass for shilling for Comixology-- I haven't meant to; it's just worked out that way-- please enjoy Captain Kirk wearing something of a smirk. I need to fix his left eye, mouth and chin, but I'm almost as satisfied with this drawing as ol' Kirk here is with himself!
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