Firefly: “Heart of Gold”

A brothel on yet another goram rock in space is in a heap o’ trouble, and Mal and the crew ride on in to help’em out. This is the last of the so-called “lost” episodes of Firefly, not broadcast in the show’s original run. Not since “The Train Job” has the show taken its western elements so literally and, while its not the strongest episode, it works a lot better than that Fox-ordered second pilot. If you missed it on Space, you can find it on the DVD.

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Webcomix

Knew this kid awhile back, at the end of the last century. Since then, he’s joined the rest of us (ok, some of us) in the working world but, turns out, he’s also been doing webcomix under the handle “Tailsteak.” Most of these include at least some genre element….

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