This book is a hodgepodge of craziness. For one, agent Dobson is back - you know, the one from the unaired pilot that Mal shot through the head. Apparently, Mal just shot out his eye, which I'm not sure how bullets and the laws of physics work but I'm pretty sure that's not all that realistic. And anyway, Mal shot him through the freaking head!
I take serious issue when characters who are supposed to be dead, suddenly come back from being dead. It's just lazy, in my opinion. Was there really no other bad guy that could have been created for this comic? We had to resurrect agent Dobson? Really? Not to mention we now have to question anytime Mal has ever shot anyone, but I digress.
The Hands of Blue men are back, but their defeat is so anti-climatic and simple it's almost not worth noting except to bemoan the terrible injustice of it. These guys were some of the most terrifying beings in the series. And they die like that? They deserved something more befitting, not a struggle that begins and ends in a couple frames.
The crew has a job to do, and they find themselves ambushed right before they reach the bounty.They are forced to kill everyone there and then they leave the bounty behind. What the serious F? I seem to remember Mal saying something about "a powerful need to eat" one time, and another time about "I do a job, then I get paid." I shouldn't need to explain how crucial it is that the crew get the bounty from this job. If they'd been running for their lives, it'd be one thing. But they stand their ground, clean out the room, and then once the coast is clear, they leave. They had the perfect opportunity to grab what they came for and go, and instead they leave without it.
This comic wasn't terrible, but it has some serious issues that I just can't get over.
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