NEW Serenity Comic!!!

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UPDATED: Friday, August 22, 2008 02:46
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PLATONIST

Monday, August 11, 2008 12:54 AM

Thanks for the zip file, Two.

Yeah, the Training House ended up not being the safest of places, but I think it would add a layer of quirkiness and comedy, that this period of time is lacking.

I don't think Mal thinks of River as traumatized, crazy and whimsical in the brainpan, yes, but not traumatized. He isn't that sensitive to other's life changing experiences.

NBZ

Monday, August 11, 2008 2:20 AM

My point was less the trauma, more the fact(?) that he has issues with their trade.

MER

Monday, August 11, 2008 1:46 PM

Yea, thanks :)

CYBERSNARK

Monday, August 11, 2008 4:13 PM

I don't think this was intended to be a criminal job (or at least not entirely criminal). I think it was a borderline legit job (I regard smuggling as better than actual theft --I grew up reading about "freelance traders" like Han Solo ) that went pear-shaped. Mal wouldn't have expected Reavers, nor would he have started a plan that explicitly involved River with a gun --too much opportunity for unpleasantness.

Probably a typical "double-end" (pick up cargo & half of payment at point A, deliver to point B and receive rest of payment). Possibly with a ridealong (the guy carrying both halves of the payment), which would make sense because the "contact" would then be in position to take credit for any smugglers caught in the sting.

Possibly he was just bringing River along to "point A" to see if their contact could be trusted. Then the Reavers showed up, the contact got shot, and they all rabbitted. Jayne & Zoe are the standard "away team," and Simon would've insisted on coming along with River (plus, y'know, a medic is never a bad idea).

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NBZ

Monday, August 11, 2008 5:42 PM

I got the impression that the contact WAS the job.

Otherwise they would have had the option to sell the cargo elsewhere.

ATTICUS187

Monday, August 11, 2008 5:54 PM

Thanks for the zip file MER! I do most of my pokin around at work and a lot of links are blocked. If there were some kind of point system in place here you'd totally get some of mine.

.....depending on the strength of the Yen of course.

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EMBERS

Monday, August 11, 2008 6:44 PM

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Originally posted by hughff:
Enjoyable enough but I'm not entirely happy with the character development in these comics. Mal's feet of clay seem to have hardened up considerably. In this episode he gets Simon and River on a criminal run, which was a MAJOR source of conflict in the bdm. And he had a clearer idea of River's talents than sits comfortably with me.

In Better Days it was even worse. He should have been tortured by jealousy in the late reveal about Inara's unexpected client. Given how Atherton made him twitch, what would this have done? Significantly more than Nandi did to Inara, methinks. So while I'll take this (thank you very much) I hope Mal is a complete spoon in the next installment, whenever that should appear.

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well a lot of people had been wondering why Mal was so much angrier in 'Serenity' than he was in 'Firefly' so ALL the comics have been showing what happened after the TV show that got Mal into such a dark place (where we found him at the beginning of the movie)...
so it all works for me.

New Firefly fans should check this out: http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=15816

NBZ

Monday, August 11, 2008 9:50 PM

Never noticed that post by hughff. I think he was busy being physically tortured at that point to think over the mental anguish.

Mal did challenge Inara at the end and she refused to give him a straight answer. can't see him do much more than that.

CANTTAKEMYSKY

Monday, August 11, 2008 11:01 PM

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@CANTTAKEMYSKY - even if that was her reason, the actions weer still irrational. Stabbing someone for wearing a t-shirt you dislike is certainly not rational (civilised?) behaviour.

Very true! Wow what a whu-dahn I am for saying that it was. Not exactly what I meant. I should think before I type, hahah. Xie xie for pointing that out nbz! I guess what I meant to say is that it made sense to her (you know, like she is physically destroying part of Blue Sun) so I believe a new phrase needs be coined here: Riverrational?

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ALMANAC

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 6:20 AM

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Originally posted by two:
A zip file with 8 pages of the "Serenity: The Other Half" comic can be downloaded at https://rcpt.yousendit.com/596466391/1414e394ca1f4f5810ca86202dd2d25f
The zip file will be available for 7 Days or 100 downloads

Done and done.

Thank you very much for doing that work for us! I was hoping some way would turn up to download this for future reference...

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