oh yeah, and the gorram fic

I got hold of all three issues of the Serenity comic yesterday, devoured them (not literally) and realised they didn't effect the fic I've been dawdling over since the other week. The whole thing is definitely called Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and I finished part 1 of it, provisionally titled The Best Little Whorehouse on the Rim, last night but I want to write the other three parts before I post it.

The Serenity comic does a very nice job of moving us from somewhere after Out of Gas through to somewhere before Serenity the movie. Joss always seems to get some of the finest comic book artists around - the run on Astounishing X-Men is beautiful - and this is no exception. Yet the whole thing reads like a bit of a continuity exercise: villains from the series return only to make way, in the final panels, to the Agent from the film. Badger - and who doesn't love Badger? - reappears and helpfully mentions the twins who replace him in the film. The reason Book has left is revealed. It presses all the fan buttons, in other words.