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Farscape Scorpius: Let Sleeping Does Lie TPB 1


By Tao Mori
May 11, 2011 - 18:47

Farscape Scorpius: Let Sleeping Does Lie follow the adventures of Scorpius after he was kicked out of the Hynerian system by Rygel. This comic book is based after the television Farscape, by Rockne S. O'Bannon, which next to Stargate was one of my favorite scifi shows. Farscape was about John Crichton who was an American astronaut who got pulled into this wormhole that shot him out on the other side of the universe in this strange galaxy with aliens. He first comes aboard this prison ship Moya, when the inmates are right in the middle of trying to escape. John joins this motley crew as they try to escape the Peacekeepers and find a life for themselves.

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John ends up discovering a wormhole weapon that could change the balance of power in that galaxy and Scorpius was the Peacekeeper (bad guy) who wanted those weapons. He was obsessed with John and followed him all over the galaxy trying to extract the secret to wormhole weapons. Scorpius and John even teamed up for a short while until Scorpius discovered that wormhole weapons were impractical and finally abandoned working together with John. Now he seeks some power in order to get his revenge against the Scarrans who abused him when he was a child. This was because Scorpius was a half breed, half Scarren and half Sabacen (which are like humans but not).

The motivation to get revenge is one of Scorpius's main drivers. We see this in the comic as we get flashbacks to Scorpius's childhood, where he is abused by his caretaker. He is pretty whiny though. Scorpius at first thought that the Peacekeepers could deliver his revenge, but such is not the case. The comic depicts a new group of opponents who would be capable of delivering his revenge and they are called the Kkore. The whole concept of there's always another big bad guy hiding around the corner is one of the things that annoys me in scifi. Of course space is gigantic, but its so convenient that all of a sudden a huge enemy comes out of nowhere because its space and they came from far away, or through some spatial anomaly. This is the race that Scorpius encounters and tries to join so that he can use them for his own purposes.

Despite this convenient race that emerges from an anomaly, Farscape Scorpius delivers on demonstrating the awesomeness that is Scorpius. Who I consider to be one of the greatest bad guys of all time. He's not an inhuman bad guy (well technically he is) but what I mean is that there are aspects to him that we as the audience sympathize with him and want him to succeed. He's no Darth Vader, he's not black, he's gray. Yeah he's a bad guy, but he does what he thinks is the right thing to do, though its not always the case with everyone else.
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I do wonder about Scorpius mental stability now in the series, as he's started to call a pet lizard John. Maybe he misses John? That wouldn't be too surprise as John was the focal point of all his interests for at least a year. He would just hang out with John trying to protect him so that his secrets of wormhole technology wouldn't go to the wrong side. I also think that Scorpius has become even more ambitious than ever before as he manipulates his way to become captain of a fleet and then leads an attack on a planet, nearly sacrificing all of the troops under his command. He doesn't come out in the comic and clearly say that he wants revenge, he just says that he wants revenge. The only thing that he hates more than the world than John and his motley crew are Scarrans, so I imagine he wants to kill of the Scarrans. Then again he might want revenge on the Peacekeepers too as they also turned their back on him. Could also be Rygel as the first few pages seem to suggest he's still holding a grudge against him when he eats the slug that kind of looks like Rygel. Well Scorpius has no shortage of enemies, that much is true.

The artwork in this piece is pretty good. There's some panels where they don't go into great detail on what you see, but then there's other images that are so detailed you lose yourself in the Farscape world. The spaceships are drawn rather well, that probably stood out the most for me. Scorpius's facial expressions are also captured well, they really make him look like the actor who played him.

All in all I would say this is a good comic, this is probably going to appeal more to fans of Farscape than people who are unfamliar with Farscape due to the depth of backstory. The comic does capture some of the backstory so those unfamiliar with the Farscape franchise could pick up this book and still understand what's going on. Finally buying the paperback version of this series is cheaper than buying the individual, which also makes this a worthwhile grab.

Rating: 8.5 /10


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