TekWorld

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TekWorld
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Cover to issue #1 of TekWorld (September 1992). Art by Lee Sullivan.
Publication information
Publisher Epic Comics (Marvel Comics)
ScheduleMonthly
Format Ongoing series
Genre
Publication dateSeptember 1992 - August 1994
No. of issues24
Main character(s)Jake Cardigan, Warbride
Creative team
Created by William Shatner
Written by Ron Goulart
Evan Skolnick
Artist(s) Lee Sullivan
Penciller(s) Rich Suchy
Inker(s) John Stanisci
Letterer(s) Pat Brosseau
Ken Lopez
Colorist(s) Evan Skolnick
Mike Worley
Editor(s) Fabian Nicieza
Collected editions
TekWorld ISBN   0-87135-985-5

William Shatner's TekWorld (or Tek World) was a comic book series published by Epic Comics/Marvel, from 1992 to 1995. [1] It is based on the TekWar novels.

Epic Comics was a creator-owned imprint of Marvel Comics started in 1982, lasting through the mid-1990s, and being briefly revived on a small scale in the mid-2000s.

Marvel Comics Company that publishes comic books and related media

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TekWar is a series of science fiction novels created by Canadian actor William Shatner and ghost-written by American writer Ron Goulart, published by Putnam. The novels gave rise to a comic book series, video game, and later TV movies and a series, both of the latter featuring Shatner.

Contents

Publication history

Lee Sullivan, who was the principal artist on the series (providing the art for 16 issues and all the covers), had worked with Evan Skolnick on Marvel's RoboCop series, and it was Skolnick who recommended Sullivan to the editor Fabian Nicieza when they lost the original artist for the project. [2] Sullivan was also allowed to produce the full line art because, he says, "I had found it difficult to provide pencils that anyone could ink well, and the results were much better." [2]

Lee Sullivan (comics) artist

Lee Sullivan is a comic artist who lives and works in the UK.

Evan Skolnick is an American writer, editor and producer who has created content in a wide variety of media including newspapers, magazines, comic books, books, websites, CD-ROMs, computer games and video games. He is currently an instructor in the Game Design & Development program at Cogswell College in San Jose, California, and a prominent game writer, with credits on recent titles such as Cuphead: Don’t Deal With the Devil!, Mafia III and Star Wars: Battlefront.

Fabian Nicieza writer

Fabian Nicieza is an American comic book writer and editor who is best known for his work on Marvel titles such as X-Men, X-Force, New Warriors, Cable & Deadpool, and Thunderbolts, for all of which he helped create numerous characters.

Following a request from Shatner, the look of the series was adjusted to parallel the television series when it was in production [2] Despite being more closely tied-into the expanding TekWar franchise, the title was one of those which got cut during Marvel's financial problems in the mid-nineties, with the last issue cover dated August 1994. [2]

<i>TekWar</i> (TV series) TV series

TekWar is a television series, based on the TekWar novels ghost-written by Ron Goulart from outlines by William Shatner and developed for television by Stephen Roloff. The series follows Jake Cardigan, a former police officer turned private investigator working for Cosmos, a private security firm owned and operated by Walter Bascom.

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Issues

  1. "Born Again"
  2. "Across the Border"
  3. "Warbride Revisited"
  4. "Fatal Reunion"
  5. "Tek War"
  6. "Moon Kill"
  7. "Space Jack"
  8. "Welcome Back Cardigan"
  9. "Prison Bound"
  10. "Fugitives"
  11. "Disorder at the Border"
  12. "Chasing Shadows"
  13. "Bionic Duel"
  14. "Attack of the Zombies"
  15. "Plague?"
  16. "Back to the Freezer"
  17. "Destination Kyoto"
  18. "Showdown at the Shrine"
  19. "SIMS of the Father"
  20. "Hand of the Rising Son"
  21. "Who Aren't in Heaven"
  22. "Fathers & Guns"
  23. "We'll Be Right Back..."
  24. "A Matter of Innocence"

Collected editions

Part of the series has been collected into a trade paperback:

In comics, a trade paperback is a collection of stories originally published in comic books, reprinted in book format, usually presenting either a complete miniseries, a story arc from a single title, or a series of stories with an arc or common theme.

International Standard Book Number Unique numeric book identifier

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See also

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Leonard Simon Nimoy was an American actor, film director, photographer, author, singer, and songwriter. He was known for playing Spock in the Star Trek franchise, a character he portrayed in television and film from a pilot episode shot in late 1964 to his final film performance in 2013.

Tek Jansen

Tek Jansen is a fictional character featured on The Colbert Report and in a comic book series published by Oni Press. Jansen originated as a recurring joke in the form of a supposed self-published science fiction novel on the Report, reportedly as a parody of Bill O'Reilly's 1998 novel, Those Who Trespass. The character later appeared on the show in a series of animated shorts entitled Stephen Colbert Presents Stephen Colbert's Alpha Squad 7: A Tek Jansen Adventure, with Jansen voiced by Stephen Colbert, and in 2007 became the protagonist of a five-part comic series.

Notes

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-02-27. Retrieved 2011-04-02.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. 1 2 3 4 An Interview With Comic Artist Lee Sullivan, SciFi Pulse, October 13, 2008

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