Fans of Captain Malcolm Reynolds in the science fiction TV show "Firefly" (opens in new tab) now have a glimpse of his family history — in comic form.
Boom! Studios and 20th Century Fox co-released "Firefly: The Outlaw Ma Reynolds (opens in new tab)" Wednesday (Jan. 15), which is intended as a one-shot volume looking at the history of Reynolds' mother.
The comic is a follow-on to "Firefly", the space western television series by Josh Whedon that ran between 2002 and 2003 and still remains popular among its "browncoat" fans at comic conventions and other events. Much of the series dealt with the events following the fictional Unification War, which was fought between the Union of Allied Planets and the Independent Planets from 2506 to 2511, according to the Firefly wiki (opens in new tab). The Reynolds family was on the losing side of the battle.
(opens in new tab)"Captain Malcolm Reynolds — thief, smuggler, resistance fighter, and now captain of a crew of outcasts all the way on the farthest reaches of the 'verse — wasn't born an outlaw, but he comes by it honestly," reads a Boom! Studios description.
"Turns out, his mother, the infamous Maude Reynolds, is at the top of the Alliance's Most Wanted, and if Mal doesn't get to her first, the Alliance will! Kicking off a new year of Firefly, discover the secret history of Mal and his mother, what that will mean for the rest of the ‘verse ... and a new brewing war to end all wars."
The creative team behind the new comic includes write Greg Pak ("Ronin Island"), artists Davide Gianfelice ("Nightwing") and George Kambadais ("The Black Ghost"), colorist Joana Lafuente ("Jim Henson's Labyrinth"), and letterer Jim Campbell ("Abbott", "Coda".)
The main cover is by award-winning artist Ethan Young ("Nanjing: The Burning City") and variant covers by artists Ming Doyle ("The Kitchen") and Michael Walsh ("Black Hammer/Justice League"). You can see a preview without any story spoilers below.
You can find the new book at your local comics shop (use comicshoplocator.com to find the nearest one) or at the Boom Studios webstore. It's also available digital form, you can pick it up from comiXology, iBooks, Google Play, and Madefire.
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