In honor of the new Firefly comic series by Greg Pak and Dan McDaid from IDW, I thought I'd start a Firefly thread to talk about the new comics, and maybe go over the old stuff as well. I'm pretty excited to see new material after the last series from Dark Horse in 2014 (which I hated), but have some reservations.
I'm a bit torn about this. On one hand, it's nice that they're setting it during a time where all the cast is alive. On the other, it's really frustrating that they're not making a statement about whether they're going to overwrite the Dark Horse stuff. Additionally, it's nice that they're committed to a year long arc, at least, instead of the tiny shreds of stuff we got for over a decade from Dark Horse. Maybe they're trying to test the waters, and see whether it's popular enough to try to do a sequel series that overwrites or even jumps way past the Dark Horse stuff.
It feels a bit like Whedon is letting go of the reigns, since he knows that he's clearly not going to be someone to really supervise more than a miniseries every two to three years, so if someone wants to create something a lot more consistently, it's going to have to be a lot freer - so no "executive producer" credit on these comics, unlike the Buffy Seasons. We'll have to see how it goes...but honestly, I liked the first issue a lot more than the first issue of Those Left Behind.