The trap has been set and the spies have been lured to the site of the weather antenna, now loaded with important data. So all the Starfleet security officers have to do is wait, then attack when the time is right. Of course, with such a famously low life expectancy among the red shirted members of security, things don’t quite go to plan.

If you thought the first issue of Red Shirts was shocking in terms of dispatching characters we’d only just been introduced to, wait until you read Red Shirts #2. There’s a whole sequence where one poor red shirt after another meets their demise, in often gruesome, jaw dropping ways.

Red Shirts #2 opens with character profiles, much like the first issue did, except the deceased members of the case are now crossed out. The body count from the first issue seemed surprisingly low in retrospect; the third issue will have plenty more crosses amongst the crew’s photos and details!

It’s great so far, and even though it’s a cliché to say that no one is safe (it’s a regular way of hyping up danger in a story, and rarely true), in this instance, that really does feel like it’s the case. Especially given who we suddenly, and graphically, lose out of nowhere in issue #2.

It makes for riveting stuff; a far cry from the tame peril of original series Trek, where simply appearing in a red shirt, or suddenly being referred to by name early on in an episode, would seal your doom. Here, the danger is present even when every character has their own, compelling backstory and surname, making things incredibly unpredictable and exciting.

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