Rapid Reviews - 8 December 2004 - Part IV

Star Trek Key Collection Vol 2: This collection reads MUCH more like Star Trek than the first one. And there are some nice bits in here too, but it's still very goofy and charmingly unTreklike. And why was Scotty so hard from the artist to get a likeness of? He looks completely wrong in the early stories, then halfway through the book finally turns into the Scotty we know and love. Your tolerance for goofiness needs to be high, but this is a fun book if you can stand it.

Comic Book Digest #3: Again, this is a great book for the price, but the featured previews just don't interest me at all. Of the many previews in this issue, the only one I had any interest in was Lions, Tigers and Bears. And this issue supposedly focuses on "All-Ages" books, although I would dispute some of those choices. Not that they aren't kid-friendly, just that they aren't reader-friendly in general. And I have to admit, there is a constant feeling that this is a Mike S Miller vanity book, and he only puts in other stories to get people like me to buy it.