I'm surprised no one's mentioned this, but if its on another thread please delete this one.  However, TrekWeb.com links Chris Ryall's IDW blog which states that Mr. Byrne's next IDW title is Leonard McCoy, Frontier Doctor which is set between the TV series and ST:TMP. He also posted a page from the episode "Balance of Terror" that Mr. Byrne pencilled.

Here's a taste:

As you can probably tell, this 4 issue mini is set just before the first TREK movie.

(To derail the Idiot Squad before they even get started, no, this does not mean I am using myself as the model. It means I developed a face that looks enough like Kelley/McCoy to pass, but does not require constant reference to photos.)

Wow!! :^)

Glenn Greenberg is gonna love this!

I've gotta say, JB, your attempt to find "your" McCoy is a lot better than a lot of other recent artist's attempts.

I like the technology on the ship interior as well, particularly the computer displays -- looks like it could be a transitional period between the displays of the original series and the displays of the movies.

I concur wholeheartedly.

And Kirk's hairstyle from that era has been captured perfectly. (I remember that when Marvel had the rights from 1979 to 1981, the artists often drew the TMP-era Kirk with his TOS era hairstyle, which would drive me up the walls.)

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Here again is where I shout out a big THANKS to TREKCore.com. Those almost frame-by-frame screenshots make it SO much easier to find the angle and expression (or close to, anyway) I need for the traced shots.

Fantastic!

JB's use of main characters/likenesses from TOS has been escalating for a while now. Glad to see that he's finally playing with some of the top-tier characters (Spock's appearance in CREW was a nice warm-up). Looking forward to this!

Very excited about this.

Great job on McCoy, JB!   Especially that panel where he's taking his seat (no dialogue yet, but his expression already makes it look like he's saying something sarcastic in the typical McCoy manner).

Like the little touch of Admiral (?) Kirk opening up the booze drawer and there are two glasses there.

I seem to remember Kelley being asked at a 70's Trek con about what McCoy would be doing post-TOS, and he mused that the good doctor might have become a veterinarian! 

How many folks here are aware that it's not really a belt buckle, it's actually a "perscan" device that monitors the wearer's life signs and sends the data to his or her doctor?

(All right, quiet down, Greg Kirkman, I know YOU know!) :-)

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Do you know about the special implants that Starfleet flag officers have in their brains that alert them to universe-threatening cataclysms?

This was a notion that Roddenberry himself included in the novelization of THE MOTION PICTURE. It's the means by which Kirk first finds out about V'Ger's encounter with the three Klingon vessels at the beginning of the movie.

As I recall, Kirk is vacationing in Alexandria and all of a sudden, images of the three Klingon ships getting obliterated by V'Ger (provided by the monitoring station Epsilon IX) fills his mind.

And if I remember correctly, Roddenberry included an author's footnote revealing that the implants are top secret and not known to the general public, for fear of accusations against Starfleet of mind control practices.

Edited by Glenn Greenberg on 27 October 2009 at 1:44pm

Quote: for fear of accusations against Starfleet of mind control practices.

Suddenly imagining a few Federation citizens wearing transparent aluminum foil hats and keeping a wary lookout for black shuttle crafts...

JB -

You *own* that likeness of McCoy. Very much fits within your style as well as being an incredible likeness of Kelley.

Bravo.