Farscape had more episodes and more comics: sick burn on you, Firefly...

Today's post is just a reminder I need to get the War for the Uncharted Territories trade, but I also need #2 of the first limited: from 2008, Farscape #1-4, "The Beginning of the End of the Beginning." Created and story by Rockne O'Bannon, script by Keith R.A. Decandido, art by Tommy Patterson.

I didn't pick these up when they came out, but I think I came to the show late, too: Set after the last episodes of the series, The Peacekeeper Wars mini-series; John Crichton and the crew of the Moya are looking for a new home to live out their lives in peace. "Peace" not being the default mode of the universe, this is proving more difficult than he'd thought. New mother Aeryn is having difficulty adjusting to her new role; and former Dominar Rygel continues his long quest to retake the throne of the Hynerian empire. That last one is probably going to cause the most trouble, especially since they've brought in a familiar face as an advisor...

It does occur to me, I have a lot of limited series where I have three issues out of four. And a lot of those were picked up at shows. Why that is, I couldn't say.
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It's like a clip-show episode, but you hadn't seen all those anyway:

Darn, I have three of the four issues of this one: the 1984 limited series America vs. the Justice Society. Written by Roy Thomas, with Dann Thomas co-plotting and art by Mike Hernandez and Alfredo Alcala. (Howard Bender pencilled the last two issues, with Alcala on inks.)

Back before the Crisis, Earth-2's heroes face a congressional committee investigating the "Batman diaries." Supposedly written by Batman before his death, it implicates the entire JSA for treason, as spies for Nazi Germany. With Helena (Huntress) Wayne serving as counsel for the defense, and Dick Grayson as prosecution; the JSA counters the diaries by trying to recap events from old, old issues.

There is a pretty good checklist on the inside covers, and I'd have to guess a lot of those issues still haven't been reprinted. And you'd have to track down appearances in Adventure Comics, Showcase, Infinity, Inc. and only Roy Thomas knows what else. So, the clip-show nature of the series isn't a bad thing. Except every so often, it gets into the JSA pointing out little things, like that Batman wasn't involved in a good deal of the stories in question. And even with the Spectre showing up to try and scowl down the committee, and surprise witnesses like the Wizard, it's still four issues of courtroom shenanigans.
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