Se fino a ieri il prossimo ottobre sembrava già promettere assai bene per i fan della Legione, le novità giunte nella notte dal Comic-Con di San Diego hanno ulteriormente ingolosito la checklist prevista fra tre mesi.
In quel periodo, infatti, esordirà “Star Trek/Legion of Super-Heroes”, miniserie coprodotta dalla DC Comics con l’editore IDW, attuale licenziatario dei fumetti ispirati all’universo sci-fi di Gene Roddenberry.
Il progetto, composto da sei numeri da $ 3.99 l’uno, sarà scritto da Chris Roberson (“Superman”, “iZombie”, “Elric: the Balance Lost”), ed illustrato dalla coppia, ben nota agli aficionados dell’equipe futuribile, di Jeffrey e Phil Moy (“Legionnaires”, “Star Trek: Voyager”).
Le copertine saranno realizzate, invece, da Phil Jimenez, – la prima, splendida, potete già ammirarla riprodotta in basso – con variant di Keith Giffen, Steve Lightle, Mike Grell e Gabriel “Locke & Key” Rodriguez.
Il sito CBR riporta alcune dichiarazioni dello sceneggiatore Roberson, che ha anticipato alcuni dettagli su trama e setting della limited series:
Roberson will be working with the classic incarnations of each team, with the Legion entering into the story shortly after “The Great Darkness Saga” and the Enterprise crew picking up shortly after the Original Series, at “some point near the end of the original five-year mission,” Roberson said.
The crossover will feature six heroes from each team, Roberson told CBR, for a very logical reason. “The limitation was based on the number of transporter pads on a Constitution-class starship,” he said. “There’s only six. So unfortunately, Scotty had to remain on the Enterprise.” The 12 characters will encounter a changed reality, one that merges aspects of the 31st-century DC Universe and the 23rd-century’s Final Frontier to the disadvantage of both.
Something has happened to history, and the universe at large, while they were dematerialized. Meanwhile, a group of Legionnaires are returning from an unseen mission in the past to the 31st century and run into an eddy in the timestream, and the time bubble they’re in basically crash-lands in the 23rd century. But the 23rd century is not one they know from history, and they are immediately forced to deal with a very unfriendly population of a very changed Earth.
Che dire, se non che sarà una gioia poter leggere, per una volta, una storia di Cosmic Boy e soci scritta da un autore in via di affermazione, invece che dal solito parruccone bacucco?
Quasi quasi, non può credere neppure lo stesso Roberson:
“I’m still not convinced it’s not a prank,” Roberson said. “But they’ve paid me for two issues so far, so I guess it’s real?”
Star Trek / Legion of Super-Heroes #1 Phil Jimenez cover
Tags: Chris Roberson, IDW Publishing, Intercompany crossovers, Jeffrey Moy, Philip Moy, Star Trek, Star Trek / Legion of Super-Heroes