Star Trek: Countdown #1-4 (2009)

(Carry over from May 26, 2009 blog entry. Partially reposted here. See http://ytrek.blogspot.com/2009/05/star-trek-countdown-1-4-2009.html for complete post.)

(Note: This also has an entry on my Star Trek Blog.)

Star Trek: Countdown #1-4 [Grand Comics Database links: 1, 2, 3, 4 ; Comic Book Database: 1, 1(a), 2, 2(a), 3, 3(a), 4, 4(a)]
(January through April 2009)
IDW Publishing
(Version read: Star Trek: Countdown trade paperback edition (2009) [LibraryThing] [Amazon])

Credits:
Writers: Mike Johnson, Tim Jones
Based On a Story By: Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman
Penciller: David Messina
Inker: David Messina

Series Notes: Numbers 1-4 of a 4-issue limited series. Each issue originally released with both regular (drawn by Messina) and photo variant covers.

Watchmen #10-12 (1987)

(Carry over from April 8, 2009 blog entry. Partially reposted here. See http://ytrek.blogspot.com/2009/04/watchmen-10-12-1987-and-watchmen-movie.html for complete post.)

Watchmen #10-12 [Grand Comics Database links: 10, 11, 12; Comic Book Database: 10, 11, 12]
(July 1987, August 1987, October 1987)
DC Comics
(Version read: Watchmen trade paperback edition (1987) [LibraryThing] [Amazon])

Credits:
Writer: Alan Moore
Penciller: Dave Gibbons
Inker: Dave Gibbons

Series Notes: Numbers 10-12 of a 12 issue limited series. Each issue has a primary story (#10: "Two Riders Were Approaching...", #11: "Look on My Works, Ye Mighty...", ) and secondary back up text features (#10: an assortment of various memos to and from Adrian Veidt (Ozymandias) to others in his company; #11: "After the Masquerade: Superstyle and the art of humanoid watching", a supposed interview article with Veidt); with the exception of issue #12, which has only one story ("A Stronger Loving World") and no back-up text feature.

Watchmen #4-9 (1986-1987)

(Carry over from April 5, 2009 blog entry. Partially reposted here. See http://ytrek.blogspot.com/2009/04/watchmen-4-9-1986-1987.html for complete post.)

Watchmen #4-9 [Grand Comics Database links: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; Comic Book Database: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
(December 1986, January through May 1987)
DC Comics
(Version read: Watchmen trade paperback edition (1987) [LibraryThing] [Amazon])

Credits:
Writer: Alan Moore
Penciller: Dave Gibbons
Inker: Dave Gibbons

Series Notes: Numbers 4-9 of a 12 issue limited series. Each issue has a primary story (#4: "Watchmaker", #5: "Fearful Symmetry", #6: "The Abyss Gazes Also", #7: "A Brother to Dragons", #8: "Old Ghosts", #9: "The Darkness of Mere Being") and secondary back up text features (#4: a supposed article or book introduction addressing Dr. Manhattan's impact on political events; #5: a faux history of the comic book, Tales of the Black Freighter, seen in the Watchmen lead stories; #6: Rorschach's police report; #7: an article supposedly written by Dan Dreiberg (Nite Owl 2) for an ornithological society journal; #8: an editorial in the right wing New Frontiersman newspaper; #9: Sally Jupiter's (Silk Spectre 1) scrapbook).

Watchmen #1-3 (1986)

(Carry over from March 28, 2009 blog entry. Partially reposted here. See http://ytrek.blogspot.com/2009/03/watchmen-1-3-1986.html for complete post.)

Watchmen #1-3 [Grand Comics Database links: 1, 2, 3 ; Comic Book Database: 1, 2, 3]
(September 1986, October 1986, November 1986)
DC Comics
(Version read: Watchmen trade paperback edition (1987) [LibraryThing] [Amazon])

Credits:
Writer: Alan Moore
Penciller: Dave Gibbons
Inker: Dave Gibbons

Series Notes: Numbers 1-3 of a 12 issue limited series. Each issue has a primary story (#1: "At Midnight, All the Agents...", #2: "Absent Friends", #3: "The Judge of All the Earth") and a secondary, back up, text piece (all supposed excerpt chapters from the original "Nite Owl's" (Hollis Mason) book, Under the Hood).