Big Damn Fan Comics

April 23, 2010 5:22 PM

Serenity Tales: fan comics based on Joss Whedon's Firefly. [via Comics Alliance]
posted by brundlefly (31 comments total)

This is awesome! it's actually more or less exactly the kind of example I was looking for for a presentation I have to give next week on fan-produced transmedia content. So cool! Thanks!
posted by The Esteemed Doctor Bunsen Honeydew at 5:28 PM on April 23, 2010

Please, just let it die and everyone move on,
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 5:33 PM on April 23, 2010 [1 favorite]

Not pony tails or cotton tails but Serenity Tales, woo-oo.
posted by stavrogin at 5:36 PM on April 23, 2010 [3 favorites]

Guss we know who Brandon Blatcher drinks to on Unification Day.
posted by Artw at 5:37 PM on April 23, 2010 [26 favorites]

Mr. Blatcher lost a lot of friends in Serenity Valley, Artw. It takes a long time for an interplanetary system to heal after a civil war and some folk take it mighty personal.
posted by edbles at 5:45 PM on April 23, 2010 [6 favorites]

Somehow we always seem to end up on an alliance website on Uni day.
posted by Think_Long at 5:53 PM on April 23, 2010

Oh yay, fanfiction in comic form! I get to object to the writing AND the art.
posted by crossoverman at 5:55 PM on April 23, 2010 [3 favorites]

angrycat: *ahem*
posted by brundlefly at 5:59 PM on April 23, 2010

Incidentally I recently realized that young Simon is played by Zac Efron. So, yeah.
posted by Solon and Thanks at 6:09 PM on April 23, 2010

Incidentally I recently realized that young Simon is played by Zac Efron. So, yeah.

God damn. First Jayne is a teabagger, now I've learned this. It has been a week.
posted by Think_Long at 6:18 PM on April 23, 2010 [3 favorites]

Oh yay, fanfiction in comic form! I get to object to the writing AND the art.
I too hate it when people use love of a series/movie/book/comic/game/art as inspiration to try create more art. It's galling.
posted by edbles at 6:22 PM on April 23, 2010

Guss we know who Brandon Blatcher drinks to on Unification Day.

Tara and Wash.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 6:22 PM on April 23, 2010 [6 favorites]

Jayne is a teabagger

It's not like he was known for his brains..
posted by flaterik at 6:28 PM on April 23, 2010 [2 favorites]

No, just no.
posted by limeonaire at 6:29 PM on April 23, 2010

Time for a filk!
posted by Artw at 6:50 PM on April 23, 2010 [3 favorites]

So -- who's got some Joss Whedon gossip? What's he's doing next?

He's possibly probably directing the Avengers movie.

No, really. What Stan Lee thinks. What Samuel L. thinks.
posted by crossoverman at 8:17 PM on April 23, 2010

Normally, I disagree wholeheartedly when good shows are cancelled by dumb programming executives. Joss Whedon is proof (over and over) that programming executives aren't wrong all the time. And yet, he gets more money.

TL;DR: What he said. Let it die already.
posted by littlerobothead at 8:38 PM on April 23, 2010

You know, those of us that enjoy his work do actually enjoy it, and aren't just trying to piss you off.
posted by flaterik at 8:42 PM on April 23, 2010 [13 favorites]

One of the table centerpieces at my wedding.

The groom's cake.

We met through Firefly fandom so it was only appropriate.

Haters can keep on hatin' but I don't care.
posted by kmz at 10:41 PM on April 23, 2010 [4 favorites]

And you know, you can be an active fan of something that you know isn't going to continue. I hold no illusions that there'll be a miraculous resurrection of the franchise. But what's wrong with continuing to love what's there? Do people tell, say, fans of Hitchcock to "move on" because there definitely aren't going to be any more Hitchcock movies? (Modulo zombies.)
posted by kmz at 10:46 PM on April 23, 2010

Is there Hitchcock slash fiction?
posted by ODiV at 10:53 PM on April 23, 2010

I would be shocked if there weren't.
posted by brundlefly at 11:30 PM on April 23, 2010

Serenity was the last movie I cried during. So there's that.
posted by daniel striped tiger at 5:36 AM on April 24, 2010

This one's pretty good, both story and art wise.

And moving on? Psh. I'll be sitting over here with the My So-Called Life box set and the Middleman 13th episode comic.
posted by dinty_moore at 6:02 AM on April 24, 2010 [2 favorites]

FINALLY, a voice for Firefly fans!
posted by Legomancer at 6:45 AM on April 24, 2010 [3 favorites]

Don't ordinarily cotton to fannish sorts of things, and was a wee skeptical about such a mixup of Gunsmoke and Star Trek. But, kinda took a likin to it after a while. Got that whole whole drama thing goin, and enough laughs for a chee-schwah-dawng-foo full of monkeys.

So, to the hostile out there I say, whoa. Space is a big place. Now, let's find some jobs and cut out the jawin.
posted by Twang at 5:44 AM on April 25, 2010

Weird, I literally just rewatched Serenity (I needed my Jayne fix after watching Adam Baldwin in Chuck...). Not a great film, but such a good show. It's the characters (and actor performances) that live beyond the constraints of the show and why we won't 'let it die'. The same goes for any show with a 'cult following'. I have trouble remembering what happens in Twin Peaks, but remember the characters with great fondness. I'm still not quite sure what happened at the end of X-Files, but I do still miss Mulder and Scully.

Also, I'm still holding out hope for a film starring Agent Cooper...
posted by slimepuppy at 9:22 AM on April 25, 2010

10 Things We Didn't Know About Firefly
posted by Artw at 2:18 PM on May 7, 2010

Concept art
posted by Artw at 4:59 PM on May 13, 2010 [1 favorite]

artw: please don't stop with the updates
posted by flaterik at 11:22 PM on May 13, 2010 [1 favorite]

Oh, okay.

Exclusive Preview: Patton Oswalt Does A Firefly Comic
posted by Artw at 1:21 PM on May 14, 2010 [2 favorites]