IDW Publishing & DC Entertainment Announce Star Trek & Green Lantern Crossover

IDW Publishing, CBS Consumer Products and DC Entertainment announced at WonderCon that they will “boldly go where no one has gone before…in brightest day, in blackest night.”  Starfleet and the Green Lantern Corps will join forces in an epic six issue mini-series, Star Trek/Green Lantern: The Spectrum War, written by Mike Johnson and with interior art by Angel Hernandez.  The first issue will be available in comic shops and online this July, and will carry covers by Gabriel Rodriguez, Francesco Francavilla, Elsa Charretier, and Garry Brown.

The series MacGuffin is that Star Trek characters will come to possess Green Lantern Corps power rings during a time of dark, powerful evil, and only the combined forces of the Federation and the Corps can stop those who worship evil’s might.

“We’ve looked forward to bringing these two iconic universes together for a long time,” said Greg Goldstein, IDW President and COO. “Star Trek and Green Lantern both share so many of the same science-fiction adventure themes and ideals, that a galaxy-spanning crossover like this is simply…logical.”

“Green Lantern is one of the most popular, storied characters in the history of comic books and a modern DC Comics icon. An entire universe of Green Lanterns and other supporting characters have grown out from his original adventures in the 1940’s, and this series really showcases the intergalactic scope of the franchise,” said Bob Harras, Editor-in-Chief of DC Comics.