Very, very cool. Great feel.

I was a little thrown by the chronology at first, but I think I'd place this between the final episode on the DVD and the movie. (The correlation of River and Drusilla, crazy girls who see the future, is increasingly apparent. Oh, Joss, you fiend!)

In anycase! It's good to see the crew in their groove, pre-'Serenity: The Movie'. The hijinks of the series continue, everything is as it should be, and I'm glad I picked this up. Not too dark, like the movie, but not too safe, like some of those episodes. It's a good mix and a good introduction to the panels for these guys. The drawings are true to the actors but don't look like lifeless screenshots, Mr. Conrad has done a fine job.

I feel though that this continuation is one long episode, it read quickly, but didn't have clear chapter breaks, as a collection from several comic series issues might. This makes stopping unweildly and a little like pausing a movie for an hour or two, the flow stops. As the flow in this is awesome, that is a bummer.

Only other problem? I can no longer hear the mandarin curses, I can see some characters of words... But only gorram is spelled out for us. Since it's print, could we maybe finally see a translation of those curses?