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Serenity Comic Book Series

Posted by Zonk on from the pitter-patter-of-tiny-feet-in-huge-combat-boots dept.

stoolpigeon writes "CBR News is reporting that Dark Horse will be publishing a 3 comic series to provide material that bridges the gap between the Firefly T.V. show and the Serenity film. From the press release: 'The plot of the comic book series centers on the crew members of the ship known as Serenity, who once again find themselves broke and on the wrong side of a number of very large firearms when a heist goes awry, and some old enemies catch their scent. After facing one failure after another, Malcolm Reynolds becomes the target of a conspiracy between government and mercenary forces, and a tense and divided crew must try to unite behind their compromised leader...'"

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  1. Re:New life? by RedWizzard · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's the other way round. Universal won't allow Fox (or anyone) to make a new TV series for the duration of the movie deal (potentially up to three films). After that the rights revert to Fox and they can do whatever they want, including making a new TV series. If they're smart they will, and I think they will, but because they're not smart they'll make it with a different cast and crew and it'll be terrible.

  2. Release Date by spyrral · · Score: 3, Informative

    Since the press release neglected to mention it, I looked up the release date of the first issue on Dark Horse's website.

    Issue #1 hits July 06, 2005 at a cost of $2.99.

  3. Re:New life? by Dirtside · · Score: 4, Informative
    What is so difficult about the notion that while you enjoy a TV show, most of the world didn't want to watch it? Can't you people just accept that there weren't enough people out there who share your taste, instead of imagining some Illuminati conspiracy to keep profitable shows off the air for no logical reason?
    Yes, I suppose we just imagined that they showed the episodes in a random order (imagine if they showed '24' in random order), we just imagined that they preempted it with no warning a couple of times, we just imagined that they gave it the worst possible timeslot (Friday night), we just imagined that there was essentially no publicity for the show, we just imagined that they constantly fucked with the production by doing things like going to Joss Whedon on a Friday afternoon and telling him -- after the first (2-hour) episode had already been filmed -- that they wanted a new pilot, and they wanted the script on their desks when they arrived on Monday morning. The first episode, which establishes a lot of the world and the backstory (and still has lots of action and explosions), was shown dead last, after the series was cancelled.

    Yes, that's right: we imagined all these things.

    --
    "Destroy science and religion. Science would re-emerge exactly the same; but not religion." - Penn Jillette, paraphrased
  4. How big? by Kurrelgyre · · Score: 3, Informative

    Except for the pilot, each episode was prefaced by a video montage to cover for the fact that the pilot hadn't even aired. And the montage had a voiceover:

    "Here's how it is -- the Earth got used up, so we moved out, terraformed a whole new galaxy of earths. Some rich and flush with the new technologies, some... not so much. The Central Planets, them as formed the Alliance, waged war to bring everyone under their rule. Few idiots tried to fight it -- among them, myself. I'm Malcolm Reynolds, captain of Serenity. She's a transport ship, Firefly class. Got a good crew: fighters, pilot, mechanic. We even picked up a preacher for some reason, and a bona fide Companion. There's a doctor, too; took his genius sister out of some Alliance camp, so they're keeping a low profile. You understand. You got a job, we can do it -- don't much care what it is."

    There's your setting, and the central premise, too.