If you head over to the news site Comics for Sinners, you can read my review of IDW’s Star Trek: Harlan Ellison’s The City on the Edge of Forever—The Original Teleplay #1–2; the second issue is currently on sale. It’s the comic-book adaptation of the original version of Ellison’s award-winning episode, before all the massive rewrites dictated by Gene Roddenberry—and you’ve truly never seen Classic Star Trek like this! Forget about talking time-portal rocks and Dr. McCoy’s bad acid trip, this one has an immortal race called the Guardians, who hold the secrets of time travel—and they’ve just let a drug-dealing crewman from the Enterprise slip into the past! Not your daddy’s Star Trek, is it? Give my review a read and then grab yourself a copy of this exciting miniseries before it reaches its conclusion!
And speaking of Mr. Ellison, check out this May 27th SWC post that marked his 80th birthday—a tale of my first encounter with him, back when I was an assistant editor at a book packaging company. From what I’ve been told, even Harlan got a kick out of it!
