(SPOILER) Preview pages from Star Wars/Serenity free comic book

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UPDATED: Monday, March 5, 2012 22:47
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TWO

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 1:52 PM

"It's never easy". "Mal" Reynolds, captain of the outlaw vessel Serenity, is no stranger to jobs gone wrong. But when the chips are down, he's able to rely on an amazing, odd, and diversely talented crew for help! - www.freecomicbookday.com/Home/1/1/27/1041?stockItemID=STK459374

Download the preview: www.freecomicbookday.com/catalogimages/STK_IMAGES_PDF/STK440001-460000
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The One True b!X noticed the preview comic says "Firefly and Serenity: Firefly Class 03-K64 ™ & © 20th Century Fox Film Corporation". We're no longer in Universal land. http://whedonesque.com/comments/28110

There are 3 more pages in the preview. The next page is too spoilery for even me to dare put up.

MOOSE

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 2:07 PM

WISHIMAY

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 2:25 PM

So MUCH to say...

1.Han and Mal, so weird to see them in the same context since we've all been thinking it for a decade...
2.Zoe and the longest gestation in history
3. Ohhh, we're getting new passengers-can I squeal like Kaylee???
4.We're taking steampunkers for a ride now?? This ship just got more fun!!

BYTEMITE

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 2:32 PM

This reminds me of one of the funniest fanfics ever, where this eccentric guy steals Serenity and leaves the crew with a junker ship that's barely spaceworthy as compensation.

They chase him down, hijinks ensue. So good.

TWO

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 3:03 PM

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Originally posted by Wishimay:
So MUCH to say...
2.Zoe and the longest gestation in history

Having pregnant Zoe in the story is too similar to having a pregnant soldier in Afghanistan. A NATO commander wouldn't allow it.

And when Zoe/soldier gives birth, two of the babysitters are dear crazy pilot River and Jayne of the long, sharp knives. NATO would send mommy home with her baby. Anybody think Mal should leave Zoe somewhere safe? Anywhere is safer than Serenity. Even Afghanistan.

We know how Joss is handling Buffy's pregnancy -- he is terminating it. Two abortions in Whedon produced comics are probably too much, so Zoe had to go through with it. As Zoe would say, "To hell with what you think, Mal. I'm staying on Serenity with Wash's baby. It's my personal decision."

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity," where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

MUTT999

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 3:52 PM

I like how in both stories someone tries to buy the ships!
Guess I'll be on some line come May 5th.

WISHIMAY

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 5:02 PM

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Originally posted by two:
Having pregnant Zoe in the story is too similar to having a pregnant soldier in Afghanistan. A NATO commander wouldn't allow it.

Speakin' from personal experience, not much changes for most pregnant women, except the sleeping and peeing schedule...I've seen many a pregnant gal work until the day they drop the thing. The problem comes when you HAVE the thing, as it's a lot harder to do things when they are attached to your outside anatomy, and screaming bloody murder if you delay ANYTHING...

Not ta mention, this isn't a warship. And I'm not so sure she'd be ANY safer on ground, what with the Rance types and reaver attacks and chronic lack of provisions. I'd feel safer on a ship with numbers of people to look after me, and the ability to leave being a distinct bonus.
Also, soldiers and pioneers and criminals have kids, sure it's a challenge and a different way of being, but life finds a way... Zoe would figure it out, somehow, like all moms do...

P.S. I doubt very much if either Jayne or River would intend to do any harm to a baby. I'm sure they'd have to put things away, and learn to lock doors...But I have this feeling even Jayne would be a little protective of the critter...eventually...

WISHIMAY

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 5:12 PM

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Originally posted by Bytemite:
This reminds me of one of the funniest fanfics ever, where this eccentric guy steals Serenity and leaves the crew with a junker ship that's barely spaceworthy as compensation.

They chase him down, hijinks ensue. So good.

Where do I find that? Do you 'member the title?? Sounds interesting...

TWO

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 5:55 PM

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Originally posted by Wishimay:
The problem comes when you HAVE the [baby], as it's a lot harder to do things when they are attached to your outside anatomy, and screaming bloody murder if you delay ANYTHING...

Not ta mention, this isn't a warship. And I'm not so sure she'd be ANY safer on ground, what with the Rance types and reaver attacks and chronic lack of provisions.

Serenity cannot be a safe place because there would be no stories for Joss to tell. Well, there would be dull stories. Who reads those?

Zoe is handy with a cutting torch. If Joss wanted it for her, she could find work at the shipyard where Serenity was rebuilt.

Why would Joss do that sensible thing? Because he doesn't want Zoe to be foolish and Mal to be too cowardly to order her off Serenity. But Joss could have Serenity going out into danger and returning to Zoe's comparatively peaceful life as a shipwright with a baby.

Since Joss allowed writer Patton Oswalt to impregnate Zoe in Serenity: Float Out, Joss has to handle the consequences in later stories. Or kill the baby. You know how Joss can be. If he hasn't killed anyone that young before, there's always a first time. . . .

Zoe at work on Serenity. She has a future in building ships with her baby in daycare.

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity", where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

BYTEMITE

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 6:31 PM

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NATO would send mommy home with her baby. Anybody think Mal should leave Zoe somewhere safe? Anywhere is safer than Serenity. Even Afghanistan.

Probably. It's true that things are dangerous everywhere, but even a settlement in the very worst quadrant of the black wouldn't have a gun fight, explosion, breakdown, food shortage, water shortage, bounty hunter, crimelord retribution, Saffron, or reaver/bandit raid every week. Whereas Mal's luck is so awful that IS what it's like on Serenity, and it's actually one of his character traits in the RPG that at any moment in his life something randomly hazardous might suddenly occur.

I'd hope Zoe would eventually make this decision on her own, honestly. It's not necessarily the crew or even the ship, but for some reason Serenity is insanely dangerous. It's a magnet for danger.

Maybe she's even later along in the pregnancy when she goes to meet Wash's friends, and that's when she takes her leave?

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