Serenity Lives...On The Web!
Joss Whedon has hit it big on the internet. He won multiple Eisner Awards (Best New Series: Buffy Season 8 and Best Digital Comic: Sugarshock!) at this year's San Diego Comic Con, set the internet ablaze with his Dr. Horrible Web-Series, and Now he's at it again with Serenity: The Other Half. I can only he assumes of the "other half" of the only stuff we have to check out online, leaving room for all our friends at Zuda (The Timothy Brothers and Neil Kleid) and Act-I-Vate (Joe Infurnari, Kevin Colden, and Molly Crabapple & John Leavitt) of course.
Firefly is a great example of a series that has been kept alive by the fans. What do you think about this? I'm not the Joss Whedon mega-fan that Alex is, but I do know a great universe of characters when I see it. When I read the story about how the cast stayed at a Browncoats convention even after it had been cancelled it just proved to me that the creative team behind the series cared about their fans. Joss Whedon has done the same thing with Buffy. The network pulls the rug out from under him, and he ressurects the universe online then proceeds to win an Eisner for his efforts.
Obviously there are a lot of other creative people involved and Joss Whedon is just the man at front of the line, but what do you think? What other series tv/film/comic book do you think deserve the same treatment as Buffy and Firefly?
Let us know!
For some of our greatest episodes of Comic Book Club featuring these fine people check out the linkage:
Zuda Comics and Act-I-Vate on Comic Book Club:
Neil Kleid, Molly Crabapple, John Leavitt, Kevin Colden (Pictures & Podcast)
Joe Infurnari (Pictures & Podcast)
The Timothy Brothers (Pictures & Podcast)
Joss Whedon, buffy, serenity, Joe Infurnari, Act-i-vate, Zuda, Molly Crabapple, John Leavitt, Neil Kleid, Kevin Colden, Timothy Brothers, Sugarshock!
I'd love to see HBO's OZ brought back to life in a comic, but I dont think anyone remembers it anymore. That show was brilliant.