Year Five #25 preview and artwork

This past week brought us issue 25(ad) of the Star Trek: Year Five(ad) comic series, the bumper epilogue issue which bridges the end of the Five Year Mission on towards the world of The Motion Picture. Almost the entire creative team of the two year maxiseries returned to contribute to this final issue, which was written by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly, Jody Houser, Paul Cornell, Jim McCann, and Brandon Easton, with art by Carlos Nieto, Silvia Califano, Angel Hernandez, J.J. Lendl, Megan Levens, and Christopher Jones, all coloured by Charlie Kirchoff!

The book is available in two different covers, with the regular cover artists for the series of course also return: The main cover(ad) is by Stephen Thompson with colour by Charlie Kirchoff, while the rarer retail incentive cover(ad) is by J.J. Lendl. Continue below to check them out, plus a five page preview from the book, and come behind the scenes art:

Cover artist Stephen Thompson also shared on Twitter some of his artwork for the cover. Below is the inked version, before colour, and if you have a look on Twitter you'll find the pencil version of the design too.

While looking back to the previous issue, artist Silvia Califano shared her work on this time travel splash page:

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Year Five #25, Epilogue: Experienced in Loss

Written by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly, Jody Houser, Paul Cornell, Jim McCann, and Brandon Easton. Art by Carlos Nieto, Silvia Califano, Angel Hernandez, J.J. Lendl, Megan Levens, and Christopher Jones.

Ebay(ad), Amazon(ad), Things From Another World(ad), Forbidden Planet(ad).

Year Five omnibus #4: Experienced in Loss 

Collects issues 20-25, plus the Valentines special.

Written by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly, Jody Houser, Brandon Easton, Jim McCann, and Paul Cornell. Art by Angel Hernandez, Sylvia Califano, Stephen Thompson, and Christopher Jones.

Amazon(ad), Things From Another World(ad), Forbidden Planet(ad).

To keep track of all the latest Star Trek comic releases, hit the comics button on my 2021 schedule page, or have a look back through my comics tag for the latest posts, and for this series in particular the Year Five tag. You can also find reading lists for several Star Trek comic series on my Trek Collective Lists site.