LOVED. EVERY. PAGE.I doubt that I'll ever be able to pull of a critical review since I tend to get really emotional and extremely biased when it comes to Firefly so I will leave it to that. The Serenity is everything.

Well, we all know what happened to Firefly.After one season! Seriously? Thank god for small mercies.This arc bridges the gap between the TV Show and movie.The story answers questions such as what happened to "Two by two, hands of blue" guys (Which is kind of anti-climatic) and why Shepherd Books left the ship. The story also features last days of Inara on the ship and a villain from season one! The comic does a good enough job capturing the characters and their extraordinary chemistry, but th...

4.5 stars Introduction: Now, I will be honest here. Even though I have seen many of Joss Whedon’s works in the past, I did not know anything about the infamous cancelled TV series “Firefly” up until recently. What is even more surprising about this is that I had the movie “Serenity” for many years before I watched “Firefly” and I did not know that “Serenity” was a continuation of “Firefly” until I saw the movie again recently and realized that these were the same characters that I saw in

I am a HUGE Firefly fan and just finished rewatching the series for, I don't know, the 7th time? Something like that. There is also a new comic book store within walking distance of my place (Escapist Comics on Claremont, check it out!). I was in there hoping to pick up The Cloud Searchers, but Mal and Book et al looked down at me from the shelf, so despite past disappointment with some of the Buffy comics, I picked some up. Unsurprisingly, kind of disappointing. This volume is a prelude to the

Another of my fangirl favorites. I LOVED Firefly and the movie that went with it, Serenity. So, of course I’m predisposed to love these graphic novels, but unless you know the background story from the tv series and movie, you might have trouble following this story.

The bridge between TV series and film! I bought this in its single comic book issues, but I've chosen this TPB edition to make a better overall review.This TPB edition collects "Serenity: Those Left Behind" #1-3.Creative Team:Writers: Joss Whedon & Brett MatthewsIllustrator: Will Conrad GONE TOO SOON ...A ship would bring you work, a gun would help you keep it. A captain's goal was simple: find a crew, find a job, keep flying. Firefly is one of those TV jewels that they were gone too soo

4 StarsSurprisingly, or perhaps not, this comic vividly shows Serenity’s crew still fighting to make a living and being quite ruthless about it. Set between the end of the TV series and the movie, this foreshadows Book and Inara’s departure, and the “hands of blue” make a sinister appearance.Note: the afterword is particularly interesting explaining how the Alliance came to be and the resulting power grab that led to war, while further explaining Reynolds’s past and why he is who he is. Illumina...

I miss the TV show Firefly so so much. It was one of my favorites.

What makes this comic fly is that it feels as though it is a genuine episode bridging the gap between Firefly and Serenity. I don't mean that it is merely a story that bridges the gap between television series and film, which it is, but that it actually feels like its very own live action episode. Now I imagine that I feel so strongly because I am a fan of Firefly / Serenity, but I am pretty sure that you're not reading Serenity Those Left Behind or my review unless you are a fan too (if you are...

I love you Mal. More than a friend.

I hate Sundays. I hate sunny Sundays even more.But you know what makes them almost bearable?Firefly!This covers some of the gap between the ending of Firefly and the movie Serenity, and it does an excellent job of it. And to see more of these characters is always a pleasure. It could have been a bit longer (as in it should just never end), but the length fits the length of an original Firefly episode, and I like that. I also like the art, something I forgot to mention in my review of The Shepher...

I love Firefly. I love Serenity. I love graphic novels. I did not love Serenity: Those Left Behind. It was a pale imitation of the canon's greatness.What I didn't like: The back of the comic said this bridged the gap between the show and the movie, but it didn't. Apparently it is the first in a series that eventually bridges the gap. I don't need to buy and read multiple comics to get to the end of a comic series that leaves me at the beginning of the movie I've already seen (multiple times).The...

The Good: Those Left Behind is pretty much an episode of Firefly, just in graphic novel form. It comes chronologically after the end of the show and before the movie. It doesn't do much to move from A to B, especially in regard to where we find some of the characters once the movie begins, but it is a start in the right direction. The art is pretty impressive. The characters are immediately recognizable. Wash is a little weird, in an unexplainable way, but you definitely know who he is. Overall,...

After a long time of wanting them I finally got my hands on the Firefly graphic novels. The first is set sometime just after the series finished and is a short but fun adventure that slightly foreshadows the movie.A great addition was the section at the back where Joss Whedon told the story of the Firefly universe including how the Browncoats started and how Mal, Zoe and Wash got together.The artwork was great and really brought me back into a universe that I haven't visited in far too long. For...

This is a companion comic book series to a tv-series, whose life span was too short. After this series was cut short, I wanted to cry. This is one of the most beautiful and thought provoking series out there, but instead of getting more episodes, I got another season of repetitive Vampire Diaries and Sharknado, a declining Glee, some horrid copy of The Walking Dead, and the end of the good storyline for Once Upon a Time. Okay, I am less angry now. This series has two extremes.The first one:And t...

I am new to the Firefly fandom but I am totally on board in calling myself a browncoat. And after marathoning Firefly and Serenity like there was no tomorrow I was thrilled to find while shelving that my library owned both Serenity: Those Left Behind and Serenity: Better Days, both of which I eagerly checked out. Now I was actually somewhat disappointed with Those Left Behind. For many people (including myself, comics can be the perfect extension of a show or movie and I was very excited to see

Bridging the gap between the end of the TV series and the beginning of the movie, Those Left Behind is really very much like reading an episode of the show in comic book format. The art is pretty accurate as far as portraying the characters (one of my biggest pet peeves about tie in comics is when the characters on the page look nothing like the characters on the screen) and is overall nice to look at. The writing, especially in the dialog, is as solid as it ever was on the show. My one complain...

...There's no place I can be Since I've found Serenity But you can't take the sky from me....Ahhhhhh Firefly how I miss thee (dang Fox!)! Thank God for Serenity the movie and for this graphic novel! Really there's not much to say, if you loved Firefly then you will love this graphic novel!If you took away all the words to this book you would most assuredly know which of the characters each of the drawings depicted. I was pleasantly surprised.Five Shiny Stars!

I ended up reading these out of order because I've borrowed them from a friend who is in turn borrowing them from the library.I think I enjoyed this one more than The Shepherd's Tale. The art was better, and there was no jumping around (The jumping around wouldn't have been so bad in a longer story though).This story also felt too short. And it seems like it left off on a cliffhanger. I'll have to check out Better Days and see if it comes to a better conclusion. It's worth reading at least once

Loved the art work, have all the serenity collections in my home, and this is a worthy addition, great story, cannot think of 1 fault, other than it is not long enough.