COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Babylon 5 nn Modern
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Grade:
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9.4
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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4090255001
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Owner:
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Qalyar
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
In 2006, Straczynski announced plans to develop The Lost Tales, a series of direct-to-DVD anthology films containing stories set in the Babylon 5 universe that were unable to be included in the television series. The first of these, Voices in the Dark, is generally known simply as Babylon 5: The Lost Tales. Unfortunately, the $2M budget allotted to that first installment wasn't really enough to keep up with the costs of convincing technology. Warner Bros. had expressed interest in a second disc -- initial plans had been to focus on Peter Jurasik's Londo Mollari character -- but that the budget would be no higher. Disappointed with the first release, and with further production also complicated by the 2007 WGA strike, Straczynski opted not to go forward with further installments. The first set of Lost Tales would be the last.
Which brings us to this 8-page mini-comic. At the time Voices in the Dark filmed, two of Babylon 5's main character actors had already passed away. Richard Biggs died of an aortic dissection in 2004; he had played Stephen Franklin, the station's chief medical officer. Andreas Katsulas, who had portrayed G'Kar, died of lung cancer in 2006. To honor their passing and their contributions to the show and setting, Straczynski created a comic-format short story in which G'Kar and Franklin go on a series of adventures, eventually traveling together "beyond the rim". Some copies of that comic were distributed by Straczynski at the SDCC panel where he announced The Lost Tales (the majority of these are signed by Straczynski), but most copies were distributed in specially-marked "Limited Edition" DVD cases (the comic is the only thing special about them) that were sold exclusively in-store by certain Best Buy outlets in the United States. A few other copies, held over from the initial distribution channels, eventually made their way to collectors via special opportunities for the fandom.
This was a DVD pack-in copy, and so absolutely required pressing. Life underneath the case clips had left this a pretty significantly wavy book. I'm thrilled with the final result. The 9.4 is well-deserved; there's a small chip of color loss along the spine, an uncorrectable consequence of its DVD case experience.
"Explorers who later reached the edge of the Galactic Rim, the border between what's known, and what's not, found that over a dozen worlds, each with their own histories and languages, shared two words in common. Franklin... and G'Kar."
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