The Star Trek franchise is having its first summer comics crossover this year in Day of Blood, a story whose roots lie in the world of tabletop RPGs. The story arc is promised to act as a season finale to the IDW comics series Star Trek, written by Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly and illustrated by Ramon Rosanas. The IDW comic already features a crew made up of characters from different Trek shows, and is a kind of Trek mini-crossover on its own.
In the summer of 2023, however, the Trek crossover action really heats up, with the cast of Star Trek coming together with that of IDW's other major Trek series, Defiant, in the ambitious Star Trek event, Day of Blood. While beloved Star Trek characters and cast members have met up before in various films, TV series, and tie-in media, Day of Blood will be the first time that such a confrontation occurs in a summer comics blockbuster extravaganza. Surprisingly, though, the roots of the idea seem to be not so much in previous comics crossovers, but rather in the RPG roots of writers Lanzing and Kelly.
