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As a kind of tribute to 1970s photonovels, comic great John Byrne is creating a “new” original Star Trek episode for IDW’s Star Trek Annual 2013.

You don’t have to be a huge Trekkie to see that this looks pretty cool.  There is a real richness in color and lighting that you don’t see in the high key lighting of later “generations.”  Thought at first glance, this might look like John Byrne just grabbed a bunch of video stills and turned them into comic book panels, many of these panels have  been created in Photoshop from different images.

You can check out more on the process on John Byrne’s website, and you can buy Star Trek Annual 2013 in December.

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