I was reading the unauthorized by Edgar Rice Burroughs inc adaptation of the martian series, supposedly Marvel is doing an authorized version. which probably is changed to fit the new movie sadly.

The unauthorized one i was reading took liberties too but not in the same painful manner that the script by Stanton does.

None of the adaptations have ever done the material justice. I have always hoped for a Frazetta / Alex Raymond/ Al Williamson type effort.

Some of the IDW Trek stuff is well written, the stuff not by Orci or Kurtzman.

But the art is almost always bad and the photoshop covers, and cgi interior line art is bogus.