Serenity Comic Book Series

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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Re:New life?

[RedWizzard]

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.

Is it sci-fi or fantasy?

[PCM2]

Age old question: How can you tell if the movie/show you're watching is science fiction or fantasy?

Easy. If it's fantasy, there will be dwarfs and men with beards in the cast.

If it's sci-fi, the script will talk about mercenaries a lot. If it calls them "mercs," it's a dead giveaway.

Re:New life?

[sholden]

Right behind

* 1. The Phantom of the Opera (2-Disc Special Edition)
Which was released on May 3 - 7 days ago

* 6. The Andy Griffith Show - The Complete Second Season
Which isn't released until May 24 - so preorder

* 12. Abs Diet
Which was released on May 3 - 7 days ago

* 13. Gilmore Girls - The Complete Third Season
Which was released on May 3 - 7 days ago

* 25. Quantum Leap - The Complete Third Season
Which is released today

* 33. WWE WrestleMania XXI
Which was released today.

* 38. Star Trek Enterprise - The Complete First Season (doomed, ya already know this, right?)
Which was released May 3 - 7 days ago

* 43. Ocean's Twelve (Widescreen Edition) (what? one week in the theater, was it?)
Which was released April 12 - 28 days ago.

Compared with Firefly which was released on December 9 2003 - 518 days ago.

Can you seriously not see the difference?

Re:New life?

[Dirtside]

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.

Re:FF would be good if it had a consistent backsto

[Experiment 626]

For example, how big is the Firefox universe? Is it a galaxy? A group of star systems? A single system?

The Firefox universe consists of Firefox, Mozilla, Thunderbird, Bugzilla, and Camino...