Firefly #17

Firefly #17

by Greg Pak, Marc Aspinall (Cover Art), Francesco Segala (Colorist)

Mal is torn between his loyalty to his crew and to his responsibilities as Sheriff. If he wants to run, he has to do it now, but Blue Sun has arrived in his sector, handing out new tech that is more curse than blessing. And that's without going into the serial killer who has been leaving bodies all over town.

Genres: Comics

34 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 8, 2020

About the author

Greg Pak is an award-winning Korean American comic book writer and filmmaker currently writing "Lawful" for BOOM and "Sam Wilson: Captain America" (with Evan Narcisse) for Marvel. Pak wrote the "Princess Who Saved Herself" children's book and the “Code Monkey Save World” graphic novel based on the songs of Jonathan Coulton and co-wrote (with Fred Van Lente) the acclaimed “Make Comics Like the Pros” how-to book. Pak's other work includes "Planet Hulk," "Darth Vader," "Mech Cadet Yu," "Ronin Island," "Action Comics," and "Magneto Testament."

Reviews

[Liz (Quirky Cat) · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.9

FIREFLY #17, out this Wednesday from Boom! Studios brings readers back to a ‘verse full of dangers, and people who think they have the right to dictate how the rest of humanity should behave. That’s a world that Malcolm Reynolds has always chafed against.

The crew of Serenity has been facing many changes over the recent years (months?), many of them being unpredictable even to the most dedicated of fans. On the bright side, that means the series has consistently been full of surprises.

Malcolm Reynolds makes for the most unlikely of sheriffs, yet in Firefly #17, one can see just how easily he can get stuck between a rock and a hard place. After all, it’s not like the rest of his crew have quit the illegal gigs just because of his new career path.

Mal’s job title has always had a timer going for it. There was simply no way he would be capable of staying there long term. Now we’re starting to see the endpoint of his run at going legit, and it’s not looking pretty.

Check out the rest of my review over at Monkeys Fighting Robots

[Ming Wei · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice usage of colours throughout the issue for creating the environments that the story line passes through (sunset period, evening period, off world, internal buildings, daytime) the individual characters are well drawn and well defined, the artwork is off good quality throughout. In this issue Malcolm continues is investigation into murders, encounters blue sun agent ( a sort of universe intelligent gathering group), he also learns that is group is made up of many different sections that do not always work together, to call them individual sections would be more correct. A good issue, nice front covers, continues to take Firefly in a new direction to what as been used before. Really enjoyable. Only three pages of adverts to the rear of the issue, which is a acceptable amount. I conclude Boom Studios are doing a good job in producing new Firefly/serenity related stories. No editorial errors

[Amber · Rating 5 out of 5]

Inara is still a bad ass

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

On crime stopped and another running

The was another fun adventure with the crew, and now Mal is going have to hunt down the the rest of the crew, before the Blue Sun security get them.

[Elizabeth (Miss Eliza) · Rating 1 out of 5]

So I like the new art... that’s something. Inara going all Wonder Woman was bullshit. And Blue Sun with it’s infighting and super soldiers is a boring plot line to be developing.

[itchy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Did Inara just do more damage than Jayne?