Firefly blended westerly aesthetics with space traveling , and steampunk stories are frequently set in the American West . Greg Rucka and Rick Burchett ’s webcomic Lady Sabre & the Pirates of the Ineffable Aether study steampunk , distance travel , and westerns , and adds a crew of spacefaring pirate , conduct by a steel - wielding lady .
Lady Sabre is a heroine of the pulp mold , a skilled fencer who can well kill five armed homo , and does n’t mind pull out a handgun to even out the odds . When she ’s not stealing priceless artifact from rival captains , she ’s moderate a crew of multiethnic privateer ( including one automaton ) . Rather than locomote a galaxy meet with individual planet , the crew of the Pegasus exist in the Sphere , a serial of lands link up by the Aether . The Aether looks like empty sky , but ships can navigate upon it , and it is prostrate to the sort of storm that chevy any ocean .
Thanks to some fancy sword workplace and some high - flying hijinks , Lady Sabre has liberated a roll case from a rival , the airshipman Captain Hans von Kater . The only problem is , the instance is interlace and even her master safecracker ca n’t get inside . Meanwhile , on the landed estate of Tanitan , the Marshal Miles Drake and his right - hand man , Deputy Tracker Keyton Drum , have arrive across a mysterious key in the ownership of a known criminal . Already , the copious and hefty have come in search of the key , and what it unlocks is far stranger – and far more powerful – than Drake and Drum could have imagined .
Rucka ’s destination with Lady Sabre is to commit a sport adventure story from his mishmash of image . He ’s already put a decent tailspin on the conventions of hoarded wealth function , and hinted at the big political sympathies at work . And Lady Sabre herself is a heroine of the Rucka tradition : cagy , self - assured , and not loth to a little bit of wildness . Lady Sabre tends to be paced more like a photographic print amusing than a webcomic , but it has enough storyline under its belt for a satisfying read - through . And mayhap now that the comic its get beyond its initial MacGuffin hunt , we ’ll get a chance to meet the eternal rest of the corps de ballet behind the Pegasus .
[ Lady Sabre & the Pirates of the Ineffable Aether ]
ComicsGreg Ruckawestern
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