“Firefly” was the best completely new SF show of the 21st century. Not a reboot, not a re-imagining, not a fantasy, and not clearly cribbing from any other show on TV. Imagine! A show that isn’t just like every other show, whoda’thunk it? But because it was brilliant and untested, the television gods were angered, and prophesied that it should be consigned to the outer darkness of the FOX network, amidst wailing and gnashing of teeth, and occasional pitchforkings from network suits with nothing better to do.
I can hear you now, “Hey, what do you mean saying no one gives a crap about American Flagg? How dare you! Howard Chaykin’s American Flagg was one of the best comics of the 80s, and a beloved staple of the emerging indie comics industry and the counterculture itself!” Well, yes, that’s all true and well and good, but check out the spelling, sparky: Normally there ain’t no “K” in “American,” is there? And while American Flagg itself was at least occasionally all those things you mentioned up there, my dear hypothetical reader, it’s sequel was…well…something else.
We don’t claim to have our finger on the pulse of the comics industry here at Republibot and really it’s only fair to mention that the vast majority of comics are simply outside our mandate because they’re superhero tales or fantasy or True Tales of Lovelorn Manga, or what have you.
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