Battlestar Comics

With the success of Battlestar Galactica, now comes the inevitable onslaught of tie-ins and stories. Webisodes, the new Caprica TV series, books, video games and comics. I havn't too impressed with the first recent foray into comics. In fact, I gave up five pages into it when the little girl told the president that the cylons killed her daddy...and her puppy.

But there's still hope. Last week, Classic Battlestar #1 was the start of a new regular series for fans of the original show. And "Lost" writer Javier Grillo-Marxuach will be coming in for a classic mini-series early next year. Lost meets Battlestar? what more can a fanboy ask for?! How about more than 2 issues, which fellow Lost-ie Damon Lindelof failed to do with Ultimate Hulk vs Wolverine.

And if that's not enough, Eric Nylund, acclaimed author of the Halo novels, will be co-writing a mini-series about the Cylon Wars with Joshua Ortega. Over-exposure? probably. But the Cylon War, at least, deserves a story of its own.


-Nick