August 03 2005
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Serenity comic #2 discussion thread.
Official discusson thread for Part 2 of the three-issue Dark Horse miniseries, which hit comic-book-store shelves today. Spoilers ahoy! (Link goes to the official description of issue 2 at DarkHorse.com.)
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so what will that startling revelation next month be? It better be Mal/Inara development or I'll cry.
Someone posted on the other thread about Captain Mal #1 at Borders around now. I went to a Borders Monday and there were three Captain Mals on a rack there, and they weren't there a week before. I asked about them and found out the few comics they have are shipped with magazines so it's possible if you have a Borders near you they will have issues out after comic book shops sell out. Of course the employee at customer service had never heard of it, and seemed to vaguely think it might come in the next few days.
The local comic book folk do seem surprised by the comic's success. I think Dark Horse knew they had a winner. I don't know a thing about comics and I knew they'd sell out fast. How could Dark Horse not know? It's nice to see the shopowners mystified, however!
WhoIsOmega? | August 03, 18:12 CET
I have a slight spoiler for the movie under this invisotext. it concerns a line that Badger says. Badger says Fanty and Mingo are why Mal lost the money. Aren't those the twins from the movie?
[ edited by eddy on 2005-08-04 02:05 ]
eddy | August 03, 18:28 CET
This one was great though. Loved seeing more of the Blue Hand Group, the return of Dobson, etc. Also love Mal and Book's confrontation, the pre-shadowing of Fanty and Mingo, and the broken Alliance ship at the battleground. Can't wait for part three.
[ edited by bonzob on 2005-08-04 02:12 ]
bonzob | August 03, 19:05 CET
IMForeman | August 03, 20:14 CET
bonzob | August 03, 21:09 CET
So, I think there are a couple interpretations for that which fit with River. I'm not sure that can be said for the dialogue in this comic. Although maybe if I could hear Summer's line delivery I would understand how it fit. Or maybe they're trying to show some transition in her character, that will make sense once we've seen the movie.
brimtoast | August 03, 21:20 CET
IMForeman | August 03, 21:37 CET
First, IMForeman is right that the question was "who". Second, crayon-breaky willow is right about how to approach it, and it's entirely consistent with, for example, her observations about cows.
(You can almost imagine her peering through the door into the cargo hold when they are smuggling cows and asking, "Who do you think is in there?")
As for the comic's River, I initially had the same uncertainty. But try very very carefully to figure out how Summer Glau would deliver some of these lines in the comics, and you'll see how they actually do work very well as River.
This is the problem with River: Her dialogue is extraordinarily tricky on the written page. It takes the performance to pull them off truly properly. So you need to try to make a rough-guess, best-stab estimate in your head as to how Summer would have played these lines.
"It stinks like sex in here," for example seemed really off to me. Until I could imagine a couple of different approaches to it Summer might have taken. And it worked as River, perfectly.
@theonetruebix | August 03, 22:00 CET
And some really good one-liners (loved the use of preoccupied, "Hindsight's twenty-twenty", "I hate that colour on you"). Best scene I thought was the Wash-Mal interaction, which was lovely.
Can't wait for the next one, and I want more, more, more. Also, loved all three covers this week. Bought the Quesada Zoe cover, but hoping the collection has all in them.
sojourner | August 03, 22:13 CET
Me, I was just surprised that there are firm plans for a series of Serenity novels, as I discovered in the ad for the movie novelization.
@theonetruebix | August 03, 22:17 CET
The artwork is pretty good if a bit uneven. Conrad doesn't get Alan Tudyk's face quite right in any frame yet, but his face is probably the hardest to capture. And the dialogue (script by Brett Matthew) does justice to Joss' unique voice, even the sly slashy innuendo of "You do whatever it is to Reynolds that you stay up at night thinking about." Uh, okaaay. Hmmm, I'll be in my bunk!
punkinpuss | August 03, 22:25 CET
chickenbird | August 03, 22:44 CET
Drifter | August 04, 01:47 CET
WhoIsOmega? | August 04, 06:41 CET
auferstehen | August 04, 07:05 CET
Also it makes me want to again curse Fox for cancelling Firefly once again, as I think that this might have been the season one finale for Firefly.
Matt_Fabb | August 04, 09:13 CET
Simon | August 04, 11:03 CET
Matt_Fabb, that's exactly what I keep thinking. The pulling together of various familiar faces into one story suggests to me a season-ender, though I think it's mor likely that in tv form it would have been maybe a two-parter.
@theonetruebix | August 04, 17:46 CET
I actually preferred #1 though I've not reread #2 yet so there's a chance my opinion will change. I also found it slightly strange that River said "It stinks like sex in here" but that didn't stop me laughing out loud at it, a lot. I also laughed at the Dobson panel that chickenbird describes.
All in all another excellent comic, roll on #3 and then Serenity. Hopefully with more comics to follow if only to bridge the gap between Serenity and it's damn near inevitable sequel.
Paul_Rocks | August 04, 19:33 CET
Harmalicious | August 04, 21:14 CET