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Firefly
"Welcome to the Club"
Firefly #8
BOOM! Studios
Written by Greg Pak
Illustrated by Dan McDaid
Inks by Vincenzo Federici
Colored by Marcelo Costa
Lettered by Jim Campbell
Cover A by Lee Garbett
July 2019
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Our splintered damn heroes all get in
deeper than they thought.
Didja
Know?
The issues of this series were untitled. I came up with the
title
"Welcome to the Club" from a line of
dialog in the issue.
Characters appearing or mentioned in this issue
Wash
Shepherd Book
Zoe
Jayne
River
Simon
Unificators
Kaylee
Chang-Benitez
Boss Moon
Governor
Paul Tomlinson
Inara
Mal
Boss Moon's mother (unnamed, on stellarcom only)
Boss Moon's ex-wife (unnamed, mentioned only)
Boss Moon's ex-husband (unnamed, mentioned only)
Lank Darling
Sgt. Antonio
Boss Singh
Didja Notice?
On page 1, after confronting the new Browncoat "army", Wash
tells them he spent most of the war in a POW camp. POW, of
course, stands for "prisoner of war". Although this was not
previously canon, actor Alan Tudyk (Wash) joked in the audio
commentary of "War Stories"
that Wash had served as a pilot during the war but was shot
down on his first flight and spent the rest of it in a POW
camp entertaining the other prisoners with shadow puppets.
Writer Greg Pak may have now made that piece of Wash's
history canon!
On page 8, Paul tells Inara that Mal is accused of the
Bayliss Hospital massacre. This must have been an incident
during the Unification War.
On page 9, Inara seems to admit her love for Mal to Paul.
On page 13, Boss Moon tells Mal that things have gone
crabfoot. By "crabfoot" she means "sideways".
On page 17, Paul uses what appears to be an old-timey
telephone as he receives the report that Boss Moon has been
arrested. Since Paul seems to be a rich man, the telephone
may be a modified antique from Earth-That-Was. In
"Trash", several antique phone items
were seen in the rare artifact collection of wealthy
landowner Durran Haymer at his estate.
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