TREKKER: The Train To Avalon Bay in stores NOW!!

by admin on April 16, 2014 at 4:02 pm

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The all-new “Train to Avalon Bay” trade paperback hits the bookshelves today– April 16! Featuring additional story pages, a second Trekker feature by Karl Kesel and me, and some amazing pin-ups by a bunch of grand cartoonists from Mark Schultz and Dustin Weaver to Steve Lieber and Ron Chan. Mercy and Molly embark on an ill-fated vacation, and end up fighting for their lives in the blasted wastelands beyond New Gelaph. This is the first of the all-new Trekker stories that I am getting back to after a far too-long absence, and I’m doing all I can to make each story social and to continue to have them all build upon the ones that came before. As far as I’m concerned, the biggest and best is yet to come. Check it out!

admin

May 20, 2014, 8:27 pm | #

Thanks for the kind words and for the insightful reading you have done– I’m glad you feel the series is worth it! And I couldn’t agree more with you that, while I’m happy to post the stories on line and do my best to make the format inviting, the best way to experience the tales is in print. I just build them that way. So I’m very happy to have the Omnibus and the first trade out in the format I always intended the work to appear in. I’m still in the middle of creating the next story and I already can’t wait to see it come out in print!
die-yng

May 18, 2014, 4:54 pm | #

I got the trade in the mail last week (I live in Germany and am German) and really liked it a lot.
Somehow I’m not much into webcomics, the format doesn’t work very well for me. So I’m glad that Dark Horse seems to be printing further trades, after the Omnibus.

The story worked really well, once again highlighting the complex persona that Mercy is.
I might be completely of the track here, but to me it felt at one or two occasions as if there was something more like romantic love between Mercy and Molly, compared to the purely deep friendship and”friendly” love.
That would be a great development for Mercy, since she might just find
something more than her job to live for and it would of course also be a good step when it comes to the representation of LGBT characters in comics in general.
Of course, like I said, I might be completely off track here and simply read more into the scenes than there was.

Artwise, I like your style in black and white, but I feel the colouring really makes it shine in the newer stories.

I’ll definitely continue buying new trades or comics, as long as the pricing stays reasonable.