IDW Publishing goes where no comic publisher has gone before: putting out an edition of its upcoming Star Trek comic in Klingon. Star Trek: Klingons: Blood Will Tell is a new, five-part miniseries that will be available in a special 40-page Klingon-language edition, accompanied by the original script in English to aid translation, the publisher said. The comic, which debuts in April, will also be available in a 32-page English-language edition.
Set in the universe of the original Trek series, Star Trek: Klingons: Blood Will Tell comes from writer Scott Tipton (aided by his brother, David Tipton) and artist David Messina. The series takes incidents from familiar episodes of the original series and retells them from the Klingon point of view.
The first issue centers on an unsteady peace that breaks into full-scale war after a Klingon cruiser is destroyed by the Federation starship Enterprise. Issue two will examine the result of Montgomery Scott's beaming of thousands of tribbles onto a Klingon cruiser. Artist Joe Corroney will join Messina in providing variant covers for the series.