This was a good start to the series. Space adventures are tricky for me in comics. When Star Wars and BattleStar Galactica first came out in comic form I was disapointed after the action and special effects of the movies and tv to the kind of static art in the comics. I was used to the ships zipping across the screen and the art just didn't quite match that.
Firefly didn't have that sort of action though. Serenity was never really armed and they used guns with out energy and never a lightsaber to be seen. Still the show was good while it lasted and I thought that the movie was a good chapter. This book picks up about 8 months after the movie and while a few things are in motion not a lot has changed. The biggest thing for the crew now is that Zoe had a baby girl and needs medical attention. The birth was a good sequence. But while they haven't changed much their universe is changing around them. The Alliance (which still seems like an evil empire to me even though on the comentary track of the movie Wheedon said that he didn't consider it one) is still gunning for River, she apparently knows more than just about Miranda and the Reavers. There is a resistance movement that is searching for Mal to be it's leader. I didn't think that he made it past the rank of sargeant in the series but the rebellion seems to think he's "the greatest military mind alive", which isn't the impression I got in the series. I thought of him more as determined brawler with a good fighting instinct.
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