#fotonovel

[driveintheaterofthemind]

5 Random Paperbacks

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Lou Ferrigno - The Incredible Hulk A Video Novel (1979)

[rainbowresurrection]

Obsessed with this

[male1971]

[laughs-and-rain]

I think this calls for a little Vulcan ingenuity.

pages from Star Trek Fotonovel #4 A Taste of Armageddon

[tricorderreading]

Fotonovel #3 - The Trouble With Tribbles

[gammasquad]

I don’t think we talk enough about the last pages of the Star Trek Trouble with Tribes Fotonovel

[rickybutlersays]

my fotonovelisation of A Taste of Armageddon came, and i had forgotten that that was the episode where we were given "why, mr spock, you almost make me believe in miracles" and that page took me off my FEET

[noodlecontinuum]

Found at the thrift store today 🥰

[spocksocksrock]

there are a Lot of funny pages in the fotonovels but this might be my favorite

just look at spock’s face LMAO

[vintagegeekculture]

Star Trek Fotonovels were published by Pocket Books between 1977-1979 and were comic books created around still photographs of an episode. Some even had neat extras like how the “All Your Yesterdays” photo novel had an interview with guest star Marietta Hartley, who played the cave girl Zarabeth. In the days before VCRs and on demand streaming, it was the only way to re experience an episode on demand.

[rainbowresurrection]

Hm. Okay

[male1971]

[mllebleue]

It is in my hands! Officially out July 1st from McFarland but on order now. 16 essays on Star Trek novels and their authors.

Table of content:

Introduction: Into the Vastness of the Novelverse ­Caroline-Isabelle Caron and Kristin Noone 1 Official, but Not Canon: The ­Tie-In Writer’s Dilemma David Mack 19 Feinting Forward, Barging Backward: Philosophical Analysis of Spock, Messiah! Anne Collins Smith and Owen M. Smith 37 Growing Up with Deep Space Nine: Recruiting New Fans and Teaching Ideology Through YA Literature Judith Clemens-Smucker 52 “300 ­full-color action scenes”: The Star Trek Fotonovels, Multimodal Storytelling as Paper Television? Caroline-Isabelle Caron 69 Putting the Romance Back into Space Opera Valerie Estelle Frankel 90 “The dream of stars”: Judith and Garfield ­Reeves-Stevens and the Star Trek Epic Geoffrey Reiter 107 Imzadi, (Almost) Happily Ever After and the Female Gothic Tradition Carey Millsap-Spears 124 The ­Tie-In Novels of History: Adaptation and Expansion in Diane Carey’s Star Trek Fiction Kristin Noone 141 “What’s in a life?” Grappling with Genre, Gender, and Liberal Humanism in The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway Mareike Spychala 159 Wind-Riders, Divers, and Merry Whales: Vonda N. McIntyre’s Star Trek Novels Una McCormack 174 “The sheer unpredictability of the insane, demented galaxy”: Peter David’s New Frontier Novels Val Nolan 192 The Hurt and the Comfort in J.M. Dillard’s Mindshadow: ­Tie-In Novels and/as Fanfiction Agnieszka Urbańczyk 209 Surviving the Borg? Exploring Vengeance and Humanity in Peter David’s Vendetta Brian de Ruiter 226 Contaminated Community in Jean Lorrah’s The IDIC Epidemic Leah Faye Norris 243 Kira Nerys: Bajor and Beyond Sherry Ginn 255 A Coda on Coda Caroline-Isabelle Caron 266

[mrcowboytoyou]

Star Trek: The Fotonovel

So TOS fotonovels are a thing that exists. If you've never heard of them- they're comics composed of stills of the show episodes. A couple of the first six movies were also made into fotonovels BUT they're both a little different than the ones based on TOS episodes and I will get to them in due time.

Right off the bat there are a couple of things that need to be said. For one, why do these exist? Well I imagine they made for a good way to consume your fave episode without having to wait for it to come on TV again. With that in mind, these fotonovels work perfectly. They're very true to the episodes with some exceptions. These differences come from the fact that these aren't comics drawn based on an episode, they just take stills directly from the show and the show was not intended to be read/viewed in this way.

Some things cannot avoid being abridged or compressed in favor of this new format but for the most part this is never really distracting and nor does it take away from the reading experience. After all, it's supposed to be a very detailed reminder of the episode you already know, so you can just relive it with the pictures.

Additionally, sometimes the fotonovels have extra lines and these are mostly found in the way of thought bubbles the characters have. Overall they're very charming but don't have a lot of utility now a days. I own some because I have problems.... They make up almost a fourth of my ST TOS book collection.

If you are interested in them my general thoughts are that the ones made from the episodes are really well done for what they are. They're also basically just some of the most popular episodes from the show using only episodes from the first two seasons. They're delivered in their own order adhering to neither the release of the show nor its intended release.

TITLES (ones i own)

The City on the Edge of Forever

Where No Man Has Gone Before

The Trouble With Tribbles

A Taste of Armageddon

Metamorphosis

All Our Yesterdays

The Galileo Seven

A piece of the Action

The Devil in the Dark

Day of the Dove

The Deadly Years

Amok Time

Star Trek: The Motion Picture Photostory

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Photostory

Now, you'll notice I said that the ones made for the episodes are good, and so far I have been sure to separate the ones done for the movies. This is because there's a bit of a quality drop.

For starters, they kept them the same length as the fotonovels of the episodes. Right away that presents a pretty big quandary because the movies are over twice as long. So if you're looking for something that adds to the experience of seeing the movies, these last two fotonovels will not do that- rather they will take away. A lot of scenes just don't make it into them and neither of them are adding from the novelizations either.

And then we have their page quality. All but one of these have shiny, coloured pages. Wrath of Khan is unfortunately in black and white and not even composed like a comic but is rather movie stills with accompanying dialogue. That's sort of like a massive let down given how big of a deal that movie is.

I intend to really get into the nitty gritty with each of these- especially the movie adaptions.

And, if you're worried about the loss of homoerotic subtext- you're all good... plus its just a tad funnier this way.

[tricorderreading]

Fotonovel #8: Amok Time

I'm sorry the WHAT??