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beccastareyesSo, this is a Firefly/Serenity comic. About Book. That answers all the mysteries of his backstory. And... well, that's it. Seriously, it's like Joss Whedon, reflecting that he'll never get to give us all the details about Book's Mysterious Past, decided to just write them down in one book.
The basic structure of the book is we see Book on Haven, the planet he ends up on on the movie (and, god help me, I'm trying not to spoil that for all of you who aren't Firefly fans, even if it feels like Everyone Knows all the spoilers), and reflecting on his life. We get successive flashes backward -- the first one showing him on Serenity, then him leaving the abbey right before the first episode, then we start going into the details we don't know.
It's an interesting structure, since the overall story is 'how did Book get the way he is today?', so it's almost like it traces the stream of 'and where did that come from?' until Book's childhood. And I do think it worked well.
But one of the annoying things I found about this was that it was just too damn short. Because Whedon had to condense all his notes into one story, we pretty much get a collection of scenes, rather than going into depth into any one moment of Book's life. So it comes off as a bit superficial. I'd have rather something that felt more novel (or TV episode) length, rather than what we got.
You can read the above paragraph as 'Bitter Firefly fan is still upset over the cancelation of her show'. Also, I didn't like the artist chosen, but... eh.
But, anyway, it's definitely a comic that really only works if you're invested in Book as a character, which pretty much means 'Firefly fans only'. And maybe I'd wait until they come out with a softcover version.
The basic structure of the book is we see Book on Haven, the planet he ends up on on the movie (and, god help me, I'm trying not to spoil that for all of you who aren't Firefly fans, even if it feels like Everyone Knows all the spoilers), and reflecting on his life. We get successive flashes backward -- the first one showing him on Serenity, then him leaving the abbey right before the first episode, then we start going into the details we don't know.
It's an interesting structure, since the overall story is 'how did Book get the way he is today?', so it's almost like it traces the stream of 'and where did that come from?' until Book's childhood. And I do think it worked well.
But one of the annoying things I found about this was that it was just too damn short. Because Whedon had to condense all his notes into one story, we pretty much get a collection of scenes, rather than going into depth into any one moment of Book's life. So it comes off as a bit superficial. I'd have rather something that felt more novel (or TV episode) length, rather than what we got.
You can read the above paragraph as 'Bitter Firefly fan is still upset over the cancelation of her show'. Also, I didn't like the artist chosen, but... eh.
But, anyway, it's definitely a comic that really only works if you're invested in Book as a character, which pretty much means 'Firefly fans only'. And maybe I'd wait until they come out with a softcover version.
