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Beloved scifi-Western series Firefly has been off the air for five years, and it's been more than two years since the spinoff feature film Serenity hit the screens. Now all you junkies who miss Joss Whedon's show about misfits and rebels in space can get your fix at the local comic book shoppe. A three-issue series called Serenity: Better Days comes out in March, and after the jump we have a look at the first four pages. We're looking forward to this one.
According to series creator Joss Whedon, the plot involves a successful robbery masterminded by Captain Mal Reynolds and his crew. "Basically, they pull off a heist and everything doesn't go completely wrong. This, needless to say, has never happened, and it's about how they deal with success." It's set during in the television series continuity, which is almost like having the show back. Almost.
Based on these pages, and that great shot of a grinning Jayne, we're excited about this book. While it would be great if this show was still on the air, this comic book will hopefully be the next best thing. If we just didn't have to wait three months for it. Does this mean there's still hope for for a Voyagers! comic book? I'm still holding onto some hope.
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i keep hoping they'll pull a family guy and bring this back.
Jayne IS the hero of Canton, you know.
-and no Wash?
Hard to imagine things without him.
@strider_mt2k: Sorry missed the end there.
Wash! :D
Firefly: The Continuing Adventures of Han Solo
@omg-ponies: don't be too tuff on it. besides my wife having the waltons, firefly would be the only tv series i would even consider buying on disk.
Gods I miss this show SO MUCH. Evangelizing it is almost cruel--basically I lend the series to someone just so they can wail with me after it's over.
@Supernintendo: the only reason i watched it at all was because there was a marathon on one holiday on space channel. i sat through 16 episodes straight. i almost didn't watch it for the same reason i never did when the series was on the air...the first episode was weak, but every one after it was great! good idea lending it to friends.
@Supernintendo: Thanks for reminding me.
I'll have to bring a couple of episodes with me to work.
SHINEY!
EXTRA SHINEY!!
oof. I am excited, but still hoping they get a better artist for this. The style is not jiving with the firefly/serenity asian-techno-western pop thing Whedon did. this totally reminds me of the illustrated L Neil Smith books. I am left wanting.
"Out Of Gas" - the second saddest 44 minutes of sci-fi.
Number One: "The Visitor" from DS9
@omg-ponies: So I guess I'm not the only one who cried pretty much all the way through "Out Of Gas."
Firefly had a way of making me do that...
Any more Firefly is a bonus for me. Bring it on.
With the way Firefly is an inverted version of the whole Steampunk subculture (to the extent that Steampunk is new technology brought back to Victorian culture and time period, where Firefly is Victorian/Oriental culture brought to a future time period), and given the fact that Steampunk appears to be on the cultural rise (at least, it is over at Gizmodo), I would think it would be welcomed back with open arms. But it probably won't be. Bringing a show back from the grave means that the exec who stamped his moniker on the cancellation decision has to admit he was wrong. And that's about as likely to happen at this point as Antonin Scalia's spontaneous combustion.
That, and the Fux Network seems to be burnt out on anything that isn't a straightforward, testosterone-fueled explosion of the Terminator:SCC/Prison Break/24 serial variety, or something of the endlessly-rerunnable genre that House and Bones fall into. They've taken steps to cancel everything else that isn't American Idol or Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader: Anything that might require a viewer to think is something they don't want to invest in, although I understand that they are giving Joss Whedon's Dollhouse a "chance", that chance probably involves the Friday night timeslot of death. I wouldn't be surprised if, as its scripted shows gradually spun out into cancellation, Fox went all-reality in the wake of the writers' strike. Maybe Joss could find greener pastures at SciFi, or the CW.
Why yes, I am still bitter that they cancelled [insert show of choice here]--whyever would you ask? ;-)
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