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 and work as a movie, which meant I had to cope with problems like introducing nine main characters who'd already met!" The script was based on unused story ideas for "Firefly"s unfilmed second season. On writing the dialogue, Whedon felt that part of it came from "getting to invent the language", which "once I had ... reads like a kind of poetry". The narrative centers on Captain Malcolm Reynolds as the hero accompanied by River Tam acting as the catalyst for what he does. The score was composed by David Newman, and according to Whedon was intended to "deglorify space—to