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Firefly
"Kaylee and the Bandit"
Firefly #5
BOOM! Studios
Written by Greg Pak
Illustrated by Dan McDaid
Inks by Anthony Fowler, Jr.
Colored by Marcelo Costa
Lettered by Jim Campbell
Cover A by Lee Garbett
April 2019
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Zoe resolves to track down and rescue Mal
from Boss Moon.
Didja Know?
The issues of this series were untitled. I came up with the
title
"Kaylee and the Bandit" from a line of
dialog in the issue.
Characters appearing or mentioned in this issue
River
Zoe
Simon
Pilgrims of Moriah
Wash
Kaylee
Chang-Benitez
Shepherd Book
Jayne
Inara
Mal
Boss Moon
Boss Moon's mother (unnamed, on stellarcom only)
bartender (unnamed)
Lank Darling (not named until next issue)
Didja Notice?
On the Lee Garbett cover of this issue, Mal is seen in his
war days, dressed in a brown coat with the flag patch of the
Independent Planets on the coat's shoulder.
Chang-Benitez implies to Kaylee that his first name is
Leonard.
With Mal captured by Boss Moon, Zoe takes charge of
Serenity and tells the crew they're going to find Mal.
When Jayne and, to a lesser degree, Simon, object, she says
they can get off when they stop for fuel on Nazareth.
This is the first
mention of this world in the
Firefly
universe. Like the moon Bethlehem introduced in
"Clipped Wings", Nazareth is a
city in the
country of Israel on Earth-That-Was, said to be
the
childhood home of Jesus Christ in the Bible.
Boss Moon reveals she's heading for a military supply depot
on Beta Seven Niner. This is the first mention of the depot
in the
Firefly
universe.
Boss Moon tells Mal she wants to pick up a
cryo tank to freeze him in for the trip back to the
Alliance. This may be a nod to the carbonite-frozen Han Solo
taken to crime lord Jabba the Hutt by bounty hunter Boba
Fett in the Star Wars films The Empire Strikes Back
and Return of the Jedi. River was also frozen in
cryogenic sleep in a crate that was brought aboard
Serenity in "Serenity"
and "Government Goods".
In this issue, we're introduced to some giant centipede-like
creatures on Seven Beta Niner. The beasties make return appearances
in the following three issues.

When Jayne offers to act as protection for Simon and River
until they get wherever they want to go, Simon remarks that
he's hesitant to entrust their safety to someone who's tried
to turn them in to the Alliance three or four times already.
As far as I can recall, Jayne has tried to turn them in only
once, maybe twice. In
"Government Goods", the
tied up Agent Dobson somehow got hold of a piece of metal to
cut his bonds and resume his attempt to capture Simon and
River; it is speculated that Jayne gave him the metal piece
to cut with (the maybe). In "Ariel",
he contacts the police on Ariel in order to turn the pair
over himself.
At a bar on Nazareth, Zoe asks for a bottle of Jax. She is
handed a bottle the size of a beer bottle, so Jax may be a
brand of beer.
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