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Firefly Lives - New Comics in 2008
gambit3 writes "'Serenity: Better Days' will be released as a 3 part comic in early 2008. The series is a step back in time to the early years of the Firefly crew, and the fledgling gang's turbulent attempts to cope with success after they pull off their first successful heist. It features the same creative team as Those Left Behind, with the story by Joss Whedon and Brett Matthews, art by Will Conrad, and Adam Hughes providing all three covers this time." Ironic, considering today's brand-new poll.
That was a truly moving account of love lost.
Oh noes, something I liked is going to a medium I am not familiar with. PANIC!!! It must be the creator taking the 'easy' way out for the creator, who is turning on us, the loyal fans, by saving money with a cheaper medium! How dare he betray us and ruin the series with these old fashioned paper printed materials!!!111one1 Get over yourselves. Whedon has always been into comic books, hes also taking over Runaways from Brian K. Vaughan (Ex Machina, Y: the Last Man) And he writes comics as well as he does screenwriting, but you guys just seem to hate the fact that its not what you're used to. If its done like Those Left Behind, same characters, personalities are exactly the same, everything except for the music is there (which I admit was a large element). Give shit a chance for Gods sake. Hasn't even come out yet.
It's a little pointed out fact that The Firefly series is almost a 1 on 1 copy of Cowboy Bebop. Whedon gets too much credit for his work in some circles. I find Firefly and Serenity still entertaining though.
Thanks for the reply.
/. policies that I am aware of that prohibit more than one account, and I have never modded my own account. If I am trying to assume a different role, then a new account seemed justified.
/. even at +3 or higher, you still get the line noise that adds nothing to the discussion. It's just newcomers parroting the same old trite arguments everyone has already argued. It's karma whoring, but it's more. This is supposed to be a place that we can go to learn stuff, as you posited. And yet with total crap that gets modded up, that becomes difficult. So I decided I would rant about it for a while.
You are absolutely correct. I did not create this account for trolling. It just kind of ended up being that way. This account was really created as a pseudo to my real account, which shall remain nameless.
So why would I create a pseudo when I have a perfectly good account (with excellent karma, too)?
Well, sometimes the groupthink gets a little intense around here. So my the persona behind the pseudo comes at life from a different perspective. Often times I agree with the general opinion around here. But even when you agree with something, you see people who agree with you for the wrong reasons, which is the very essence of groupthink. I hate that.
Another good reason to create this pseudo: maybe you hold a certain opinion about something despite knowing that your opinion is somewhat flawed, or maybe you are at least aware of and find merit in the counterarguments. I use this account to argue against my own perspective sometimes. I guess maybe it's the mental exercise. Maybe it helps me to deal with cognitive dissonance when I can disprove my own beliefs about something. But it certainly keeps me sharp trying to defend a position that is not my own. It has actually been mind opening, kind of like debate class when you had to argue for something you don't agree with.
I guess one other fringe benefit was that I got to trade insults with Arapahoe Moe. He is someone who trolled my real account, so I started unleashing the most insane, random, and vile insults I could muster up. You should read some of our flame wars, I still do when I need a laugh. They are hilarious, both of us came up with some good insults. We did that behind the play, so to speak, so we never really got modded down for it. It was great fun, and when I thought I would kill this account off I told him it was all in jest and made him a friend.
But why the pseudo? I saw fit to create a pseudo so my real account wouldn't have a split personality. There are no
But then I started to get modded down for saying things that weren't really incorrect. I started getting modded down for stuff that merely went against the grain, stuff *I* don't think was poorly argued. And then I saw the guy (whose post I replied to and pointed to in many of my rantings, James Rose or something) who posted absolute drivel and got modded to +4 insightful. It was absolute crap, and his sig was bumper sticker philosophy all the way. So I lashed out and told him what an idiot he was and got modded down while his inane babblings got modded up. It kind of came to me that even when reading
The trolling as of late is getting old, though. It's starting to run its course. Though while some people have replied telling me to get a life, I actually have a very busy life. I haven't posted much with my real account as of late. I just enjoy seeing how darn angry people get at my posts. Yes, it's line noise that people like you have to deal with, people who have been interested in things I have said in the past. Sorry for that. But it has been downright amusing just how angry the responses have been. All because of offtopic rantings on an online forum! Ha, and I am the one who needs to get a life! Are you aware that, to date, I have been moderated (mostly all downmodded) about 25 times? That's not the kicker, this is: my sta
It's not narcissicism if it's true!