RWBY #1 is the first of seven issues of the comic series RWBY. It was published by DC Comics digitally on August 28th, 2019.[2] Its physical release was on October 9th, 2019.[1]
Chapters[]
Chapter 1: "Prelude: The Elegy"[]
—DC Comics
Ruby Rose introduces Remnant and Team RWBY while giving a recap of the events up to the Fall of Beacon, the splitting of RWBY, and the formation of Team RNJR.
Chapter 2: "Ruby: Part One Stories"[]
—DC Comics
Already on Anima, Team RNJR travels through the Forest of Hinoki before running into a swarm of Lancers. As they walk and fight, Ruby remembers a moment from her past around one of her late mother's birthdays.
Characters[]
Major Characters[]
- Ruby Rose
- Yang Xiao Long
- Summer Rose (Flashback)
- Taiyang Xiao Long
- Nora Valkyrie
- Lie Ren
- Jaune Arc
- Pyrrha Nikos (Cameo)
- Penny Polendina (Cameo)
- Blake Belladonna
- Weiss Schnee
- Adam Taurus (Cameo)
- Cinder Fall (Cameo)
- Ozpin (Cameo)
- Jacques Schnee
- Bartholomew Oobleck (Cameo)
- Peter Port (Cameo)
- Qrow Branwen (Flashback)
- Raven Branwen (Flashback)
Minor Characters[]
- Willow Schnee (Cameo)
Changes from the Show[]
Chapter 1: "Prelude: The Elegy"[]
- Penny is seen wearing a Beacon uniform even though she never attended Beacon Academy and comes from Atlas.
- In one of the battles, Weiss uses her full summons in battle even though during her time in Beacon, she can only summon partially.
- When Ruby thinks about the people she loves and cares about that died during the Battle of Beacon, she thinks about Penny, Pyrrha and Ozpin even though she is not aware of Ozpin's death, since in the show, Qrow only informed her that Ozpin goes missing.
- Ruby is rendered unconscious at the end of the Battle of Beacon. Afterward, she returns safely to Patch to help her father take care of the unconscious Yang.
- In the show, Taiyang tells Ruby that Qrow found her unconscious at Beacon and took her home.
- In the show, Yang regains consciousness before Ruby, but in the comic, it is reversed.
- In the show, Jacques takes Weiss back home to Atlas, but in the comic, she is seen not only with her father, her mother, and an Atlesian Knight-200.
- It is unknown if the white-haired woman who accompanies Weiss back to Atlas was Winter or her mother.
- Blake set sails on a sailboat instead of a ship.
- Ruby and the remaining of Team JNPR leave Patch in the fall instead in the winter.
- Taiyang sees Ruby and her friends off to leave Patch even though in the show, he never gets a chance to stop her from leaving.
Chapter 2: "Ruby: Part One Stories"[]
- Jaune's eyes are depicted in gray instead of blue.
- Qrow's eyes are depicted in reddish brown instead of red.
- Raven was able to talk in her bird form when she is speaking to Ruby in her childhood. It is unknown if Raven is capable of speaking in her bird form or not in the show since she did not talk in that form in the show.
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