Writer: Mike Johnson
Creative Oversight: Roberto Orci
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Release Date: 2013
ISBN: 9781613776230
Related Project: Star Trek Into Darkness
Star Trek: Countdown to Darkness is exactly the kind of official comic AbramsFans should track because it sits in the space between a movie and the larger franchise conversation around that movie. As an official prequel comic, it was built to feed anticipation for Star Trek Into Darkness while expanding the Kelvin timeline on the page.
That makes it useful here for more than checklist reasons. It shows how the Abrams-era Star Trek movies were supported not just by one-off merchandise, but by story material meant to keep fans engaged between releases.
