![]() River has a possible friend in Iris, depending on her mental stability Bea is pleased to find allies and although Jayne won’t admit it, I suspect he’s glad to be back with this crew. The days of “will they or won’t they” are past, so we see the pairings of Mal and Inara, and Simon and Kaylee. The Operative suggests that perhaps Rodgers and the Alliance will leave the Serenity be for a while, but I fear that is wishful thinking.ĭespite the rough going, another overarching feeling of the six issues is the way the Serenity crew finds comfort in each other. “Leaves on the Wind” certainly illustrates the bleakness of the crew’s situation, as the jobs aren’t coming in and they have to dip into the emergency stores of food on Inara’s shuttle. Zoe runs into the wastelands and reunites with the crew after an epic melee where Bea proves herself (and Jayne perhaps re-proves himself) as a member of the makeshift family. I enjoy how our heroes use the “no walls” setup against the Alliance. ![]() Plus, prisoners are welcome to kill each other, and they often do. ![]() Guards are happy to let the hot expanses of desert kill the prisoners. The prison site where Zoe is being held is creative: It has no walls, and prisoners are free to roam as far as they want. His politics have flip-flopped, as we saw at the end of “Serenity.” The Operative, played by Chiwetel Ejiofor in the movie, returns in a fascinating way, actually helping Mal to find the prison where Zoe is being held. Bounty hunter Jubal Early, memorably played by Richard Brooks in “Objects in Space” (1.14), has what amounts to a dark-comedy cameo. “Leaves on the Wind” flows very much like a TV episode, but one difference is that casting availability (that logistical hurdle that is part of why we haven’t gotten new live-action “Firefly” stories since 2005) is of no concern when you can draw the cast. The top 25 ‘Buffy’ and ‘Angel’ comic book arcs As Kaylee correctly notes, Mal is “a softy” toward people in need (so long as they don’t put his current crew in danger), so she’s on board for now. When rescued by Serenity, Iris (who resembles the android from “Ex Machina” with her shaved head and Alliance-issued jumpsuit) is deeper into her brainwashing than even River was. Iris provides view into River’s pastĪnother new player – who I’m sure will factor more into future stories – is Iris, one of River’s fellow brainy Alliance prisoners. He has used Alliance funds to entrap them and kill a bunch of them in one fell swoop. Her build-up of the new Browncoats is going well, but in a classic Whedonian (be it Zach or Joss) case of pulling the rug out from under readers, we learn Alliance officer Rodgers is the group’s secret benefactor. Inspired by Mal’s losing-side heroics in the war and the Miranda revelation, a New Resistance has cropped up, and for readers that means a major new character: the scrappy blue- and black-haired Bea. When viewers were introduced to the “Firefly” world, the war was in the past, but – similar to how World War II grew out of World War I – the conflict is ramping up again. Statists gonna state, right? The Miranda-deniers are happy to join pundits on the tube and drop the ever-effective T-word in regard to Mal’s bunch: “terrorists.” The crew is hailed as heroes for revealing the fact that a botched Alliance experiment on Miranda turned humans into Reavers.īut being a Verse-wide hero doesn’t protect you from vengeful governments – just ask Snowden or Assange – and indeed, the Alliance’s propaganda machine and other apologists are in full force in the media coverage. The aptly titled “Leaves on the Wind” finds Serenity doing its usual thing of looking for delivery jobs and avoiding the Alliance, but they are in especially dire straits after the events of the movie. Jeanty’s space and spaceship drawings have gorgeous scope and depth when paired with Karl Story’s inks and the colors by Laura Martin. While River and Inara sometimes look similar, their clothing sets them apart. While George Jeanty’s cute renditions of everyone are more appropriate for “Buffy” than “Firefly” – especially for manlier characters like Mal and Jayne - I still love it. Picking up after the revelation in “Float Out” that Zoe is pregnant, “Leaves” finds writer Zack Whedon beautifully channeling the Serenity crew’s personalities and speaking styles as developed by his brother Joss. Although there are plenty of excellent comics set during the time of the “Firefly” TV episodes and “Serenity” movie, the post-movie story doesn’t kick into gear until the six-issue series “Serenity: Leaves on the Wind” (January-June 2014).
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