Tron: Betrayal

*Tron: Betrayal*
Tron: Betrayal
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Limited series
Genre	Science fiction;
Publication date	October – November 2010
No. of issues	2
Creative team
Written by	Jai Nitz
Penciller(s)	Jeff Matsuda; Andie Tong
Inker(s)	Pete Pantazis
Letterer(s)	John J. Hill
Collected editions
Tron: Betrayal	ISBN 1-4231-3463-X

Tron: Betrayal is a two-issue comic book miniseries which serves as the official lead-in to the film Tron: Legacy and was published by Marvel Comics beginning in October 2010.

Description

The series is set in 1983, shortly after the events of the original film Tron. Kevin Flynn has become the CEO of fictional software company Encom, which he has built into the largest video-game company in the world while secretly building the Grid, a virtual reality inhabited by increasingly sentient programs, ultimately including the mysterious "isomorphic algorithms" ("ISO" for short).

As his responsibilities in the real world increase, Flynn creates Clu 2, a duplicate of himself meant to serve as his proxy. In Flynn's absence, Clu 2 becomes resentful of the ISOs, perceiving them as a threat to the "perfect system" he wishes to maintain. Ultimately, Clu 2 forestalls the ISOs' emergence from the 'Sea of Simulation' and drives Flynn himself into exile.^[1]^[2] The story also introduces us to Flynn's young son, Sam Flynn, who will become the protagonist of the second film Tron: Legacy.

The epilogue of Betrayal overlaps slightly with the beginning of Tron: Legacy and the events of the 2010 video game Tron: Evolution, in which Clu 2 moves against the ISOs and Kevin Flynn.

Collected editions

Tron: Betrayal was then collected as a 128-page trade paperback by Disney Press in November 2010 (ISBN 1-4231-3463-X), which contains a new 11-page retelling of the 1982 film Tron, illustrated by Jeff Matsuda.

Reception

IGN reviewed the comic and gave it a "passable" score of 6.5 out of 10.^[3]

Notes

^ Jai Nitz (w), Salvador Larroca, Andie Tong (a). Tron:Betrayal, vol. 1, no. 1 (6 October 2010). Marvel Comics, ISBN 978-1-4231-3463-3.
^ "Tron: Betrayal". Marvel Comics. Retrieved 29 November 2010.
^ Jesse Schedeen (7 Oct 2010). "Tron: Betrayal #1 Review". IGN. Retrieved 10 May 2020 – via www.ign.com.

References

Tron: Betrayal at the Grand Comics Database
Tron: Betrayal at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)

[Tron:Betrayal-1] Jai Nitz (w), Salvador Larroca, Andie Tong (a). Tron:Betrayal, vol. 1, no. 1 (6 October 2010). Marvel Comics, ISBN 978-1-4231-3463-3.

[2] "Tron: Betrayal". Marvel Comics. Retrieved 29 November 2010.

[3] Jesse Schedeen (7 Oct 2010). "Tron: Betrayal #1 Review". IGN. Retrieved 10 May 2020 – via www.ign.com.

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