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
Warren Ellis would be writing every episode. In 2006, Ellis was hired to develop a science-fiction television series for AMC titled "Dead Channel", but the project was put on hiatus. The series followed a television network executive who discovers the existence of aliens and decides to turn the discovery into a reality show. "Listener", a near-future science fiction novel, was planned as Ellis' next book after "Crooked Little Vein." The novel has since been lost and cancelled. "Wastelanders", a web-based "end-of-the-world" collaboration with director Joss Whedon, was postponed due to Whedon's work on "The Avengers". Ellis and British producer Vivek Tiwary developed