Matthew: And a helmet! He had a very nice helmet!īut let’s move on from this. Makes total sense that he’d appear in the comic in a new, tricked out uniform.Ĭolin: Is your definition of “tricked out” just “wears a tattered cloak” now? Matthew: And again, to be totally fair, Whedon had indicated that Jubal would return when talking about the potential for a second Serenity film. I think it’s just because we’ve already seen a returning villain in a previous story – Dobson, in Those Left Behind, and it just seemed a bit soon to go back to the returning villain well.īut I just checked and it’s been nine years since that story saw print, so what do I know. ![]() I say oddly because clearly Jubal Early is an interesting character who made an incredibly memorable appearance, and fans – including myself – have clamoured to see more of him ever since. What else in particular spoke to you about the issue?Ĭolin: Oddly, Early’s return was the only moment that gave me pause in the entire issue. ![]() “Objects in Space” is easily my favorite episode, though I imagine that’s the case for a lot of people. And I have to say, more than anything else in this issue, that’s what got me jazzed the most. Which includes the return of Jubal Early in, like, this bad ass space superhero costume, helmet and cape and all. That said, Float Out left us with a revelation that directly feeds into this issue… Even Patton Oswalt and Patric Reynolds’ Float Out one shot – the first comic to chronologically take place post-Serenity – was mainly flashbacks to before the series started. These stories were hapered by our already KNOWING WHAT happened next. Again, not to dismiss the previous comic adventures, but there was only so much story that they could tell given that they were either set between Firefly and Serenity ( Those Left Behind, Better Days), or filling in backstory ( The Shepherd’s Tale). I think that a big part of this Firefly feeling is that we’re forging ahead with some uncharted territory here. It’s dealing with the after-effects of the Big Damn Movie head on – we’re seeing the direct fallout of the Miranda broadwave, and it appears to be a big factor in where the story’s going. ![]() Firefly the comic that actually feels like Firefly.Ĭolin: If it’s not Serenity 2, it’s TOTALLY like season… three(?) of Firefly. And then there’s a graphic novel about Book’s background and now Jubal is back and, hey, look, this is the real continuation of the adventure of Malcolm Reynolds and his merry bunch of bandits. I also, and it took me a second to realize I was reading it, but this is basically Serenity 2, right? At least partially, anyway I remember Whedon talking about what he would’ve done if he made another movie in the ‘verse, and the two things he said was that he would explore Book’s background and bring back Jubal Early. And that was always my biggest complaints about every other comic that we were given up to this point, in that they were entertaining enough but always felt a little bit off, like they were missing that singular spark… and here it is, hidden in this issue at the center. This isn’t meant to knock the previous “Serenity” comics or anything like that, but I picked up this book and sat there reading it and just thought, wow, it feels like I’m getting back into this universe that we’ve been apart from for so long. ![]() Matthew: Well, I think the easiest reason why would be that it simply just feels like Firefly, doesn’t it? I mean, honestly and genuinely so. How about you, Colin?Ĭolin: You know what, Matthew? I heartily enjoyed it also. Matthew: So before we start breaking things down, let’s just give our gut reactions here. “As a science fiction story, Serenity has it all.”-Broken Frontier Buffy’s Season 8 and 9 artist conquers the galaxy!.Meanwhile, everyone is asking the same question. Always outlaws, Mal, a very pregnant Zoe, new pilot River Tam, and the other surviving crew members are in greater danger than ever. Malcolm Reynolds’s crew shook the ’verse to its core when they laid bare the crimes against humanity undertaken by their sinister government-the Alliance.
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