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| Tron: Betrayal | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Limited series |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | October – November 2010 |
| No. of issues | 2 |
| Creative team | |
| Written by | Jai Nitz |
| Penciller(s) | Jeff Matsuda Andie Tong |
| Inker | Pete Pantazis |
| Letterer | John J. Hill |
| Collected editions | |
| Tron: Betrayal | ISBN 1-4231-3463-X |
Tron: Betrayal is a two-issuecomic bookminiseries which serves as the official lead-in to the filmTron: Legacy and was published byMarvel Comics beginning in October 2010.
The series is set in 1983, shortly after the events of the original filmTron. Kevin Flynn has become the CEO of the 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. Clu 2 forestalls the ISOs' emergence from the 'Sea of Simulation' and drives Flynn himself into exile.[1][2]
The story introduces Flynn's son,Sam Flynn, who is the protagonist ofTron: Legacy. The epilogue ofBetrayal overlaps slightly with the beginning ofTron: Legacy and the events of the 2010 video gameTron: Evolution, in which Clu 2 moves against the ISOs and Kevin Flynn.
Tron: Betrayal was then collected as a 128-pagetrade paperback byDisney Press in November 2010 (ISBN 1-4231-3463-X), which contains a new 11-page retelling of the 1982 filmTron, illustrated byJeff Matsuda.
IGN reviewed the comic and gave it a "passable" score of 6.5 out of 10.[3]
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