Comic Book Review: Firefly - Brand New Verse #1
Rob Lake reviews Firefly: Brand New Verse #1... While Firefly may have ended its one season televison run 18-years ago, it's world has been expanded upon via various comics ever since. This new series just so happens to not only expand the Firefly universe, it also ties into BOOM! Studios ' ongoing Firefly series too! Brand New Verse takes place 20-years after the events of Serenity with the story focusing on, Emma Alleyane Washburne. Emma just so happens to be the daughter of Firefly characters Zoe Washburne and Hoban “Wash” Washburne. Taking place on the much older Serenity, we follow Emma and her crew as they attempt to make a living as Smugglers in a much less hostile universe. Writer, Josh Lee Gordon gives us a story that pulls on the nostalgia of both Firefly and Serenity . It's done in a way that keeps the sprit of what makes the show a cult hit, to then take the universe in a different direction. Gordon has done a great job in capturing the esse...