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"Leaves on the
Wind" Part 4
Serenity: Leaves on the Wind #4 (Dark Horse)
Script: Zack Whedon
Pencils: Georges Jeanty
Inks: Karl Story
Cover A: Daniel Dos Santos
Cover B: Georges Jeanty |
Mal assembles a team to take on the Academy
and free its students.
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Didja Notice?
Bounty hunter Jubal Early seemingly meets his
demise in this issue, being dropped
along with the trash from Serenity's cargo bay over
the surface of some world. At the end of
"Leaves on the
Wind" Part 6, it turns out his broken and battered body was
found by a native homesteader of this world and eventually
traded to an Alliance Operative who plans to heal him and
get him to find Serenity for her.
In this issue, Mal picks up a ship on Sihnon for Zoe's rescue. Inara mentioned this world in
"Serenity". It is one of the major
core worlds, with an Eastern influence. Inara was born
there, and it is also where most Companions receive their
training.
Fans know that River likes to go without shoes, but will
generally wear shoes or boots when leaving the ship. On page
13, she is seen wearing boots as the group leaves for the
mission to free the children from the Academy. On page 15,
she is mistakenly drawn without them as she races up the
steps of the Academy building. On page 17 they're back again,
inside the building.
On page 17, Jayne uses Vera to blow open a door at the
Academy. Vera is Jayne's favorite gun, as stated in
"Our Mrs. Reynolds".
The gun also appeared in "War
Stories".
On page 19, the Operative (who remains unnamed)
mentions another Operative called Kalista whom we do not
officially meet, though she may be the female Alliance officer we've
seen working with the Operative called Denon. At the end of
"Leaves on the
Wind" Part 6, the female Operative is also revealed to be
one of the Academy's augmented children.
Unanswered Questions
What world was Serenity hovering over when it
dropped its trash, along with Jubal Early? Why were they
there? Early would have met with a more assured death if
they'd dumped him helmetless into space instead.
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