Star Trek: Red Shirts #1

The dark humor and genuine pathos of Trek's most expendable crew members finally get their due in this 2025 IDW series from writer Christopher Cantwell with art by Megan Levens. Cover artist Chris Shehan sets the tone perfectly: a skeletal figure still clad in a tattered red Starfleet uniform gazes upward against a sweeping nebula-filled starfield, a distant planet hanging above — the Starfleet insignia still pinned to what remains of the shirt. It's equal parts grim and oddly moving, and a bold statement of intent for a series clearly ready to explore the human (and otherwise) cost of life on the final frontier.