Mystery Science Theater: The Comic (part 1)

I'd supposed for a while that this week would mark the release of the first issue of the "Star Trek meets the Transformers" comic I took note of a little while ago. It was easy enough to plot out my journey to the nearest comic shop, just as an indulgence. On getting an email from the digital-comics site Comixology (which I've bought some electronic manga from when the volumes get discounted further below "seemingly slightly less expensive than buying them in a bookstore would be"), though, I didn't seem to see the issue promoted. A bit of searching turned up that the comic was to show up later this month; I wondered for a while just how I'd become mistaken before managing to sort out via the "history" function of the "Transformers Wiki" it had been pushed back for whatever reason.

The email, anyway, did promote a second comic book I'd also heard about before. I don't know if I'd been quite as amused to hear there was going to be a comic book version of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 revival; the show itself attracts my attention where I hadn't been paying attention to other Star Trek or Transformers comics. Still, it was available this week, so I headed over to the comic shop. There were plenty of both cover variants there, and I decided on the standard one. (I don't want to say too many bad things about Steve Vance, the cover artist of the Shout! Factory DVDs, but his Crow never seemed as expressive as the puppet itself could be for me.)
( What I'd anticipated, and what more I got )