Serenity: Better Days Serenity: Better Days Serenity: Better Days is a 2008 three-issue comic book miniseries published by Dark Horse Comics, based on the 2002 science fiction television series "Firefly", and the 2005 feature film into which it was adapted, "Serenity." It is the second comic book to be based on "Firefly" after the 2005 miniseries, "". Like "Those Left Behind", it is written by "Firefly" creator Joss Whedon and Brett Matthews, illustrated by Will Conrad, and is set in between the end of the TV series and the feature film. Unlike the previous series, Adam Hughes illustrated all the covers, each of
Joss Whedon feel the intimacy of being on a ship as opposed to the grandeur". He used two long steadicam shots for several minutes of the film's opening sequence to establish "a sense of safety in space". In 2006, it won a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form. The elements of science fiction that Whedon wanted to convey were essentially different in kind, and held "a sort of grittiness" and "realism", which he said, together, "get the most exciting kind of film-making". Like "Firefly", the film contained a statement on individual liberty. Critic Roger Ebert observed, "Like "Brave New World"