Spike smoking
Spike sitting on a sofa, watching TV, with Jet and Faye standing behind him.

The Bebop crew is after a 2 mil woolong bounty on a thief called Melville. They had some insider info and almost caught him at a casino. However, Melville got extremely lucky and escaped with his loot. This made the bounty on his head skyrocket to 80 mil and so the crew is looking for new leads, hoping that they have enough of headstart against the other cowboys.

Meanwhile Melville has a run-in with the Syndicate. Melville and his partner were developing a tech, sourced by the Syndicate, and Vicious now wants their product back, as Melville ran away with it.

Spike kicking a foe.

I absolutely adore the bold and colorful art style used. It does feel like you’re reading "the intro song." What also helps with this feeling is that the first ever spoken things in the comic are "I think it’s time we blow this thing… get everybody and the stuff together… 3, 2, 1, let’s jam!" That absolutely made my day as it was also incorporated to the scene, setting and story quite well. I enjoyed the character designs of some background characters, too (the grandma in the casino, the random criminal with heart glasses, a syndicate lady etc.). I can’t wait to see the story unfold as the bounty has a quantum mechanics probability changing decice and that’s such a wicked concept! Ein, the best character, is getting included a lot at the beginning, so I wonder if/how much will his „data dog“ trait influence the story.
It's kinda funny that the comic is set in 2071, while the adaptation that this is a companion to is set in 2171.

Cowboy Bebop: Supernova Swing #1

In the year 2071, the Earth is uninhabitable, and humanity has colonized most planets and moons in the Solar System. Amid a rising crime rate, the Inter Solar System Police (ISSP) set up a legalized contract system, in which registered bounty hunters (known as "Cowboys") hunt and capture criminals in return for a cash reward.

The crew of the spaceship Bebop are just a few of those Cowboys…

(Titan Comics)

Big Shot show.
Writer:Dan Watters
Artist:Lamar Mathuring
Colorist:Roman Titov
Letterer:Richard Starkings & Comicraft’s Jimmy Betancourt
Group Editor:Jake Devine
Art Director:Oz Browne