Serenity, Vol. 2: Better Days

by Joss Whedon and Brett Matthews

Book Overview

Serenity: Better Days follows everyone's favorite space cowboys in a thrilling, action-packed adventure, where Mal and his crew take on a heist that promises a big payoff. But when one of Serenity's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1595821627
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Dark Horse Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Good story with Great Art!

This story is well thought out and very well illustrated. I enjoyed it a lot. The characters seemed to grow directly from the show and movie as well as from the first comic. Everything in progression, everything well planned. Highly recommended for Firefly Fans.

Excellent continuation for fans of the T.V. series.

My fellow brown coats, This may not be what we wanted when Josh said he would find a way to continue the show, but for those of us who just can't get enough of Mal and his crew these are great. If you consider yourself a brown coat then you must read these comics. They help fill in some of the missing pieces between the show and the movie. Like when the Sheppard departed Serenity which was not explained or shown in the movie. Overall I am enjoying them very much and highly recommend them.

Serenity

This book is wonderful. I miss Firefly so much since it went off the air. The book is a quick read. It shows some of the life while they lived on Firefly and the life before Firefly. The pictures and writing are very clear and clean. I would reccommend this book to an older crowd due to the violence and adult content. Perhaps 14 years and older. And of course I would recommend it to any Firefly or Serenity fan 100%. I hope you enjoy the book as much as I did.

Serenity: Volume II, Better Days

Fast read. True to the other story lines. Hope to see more just like this one.

A huge improvement over the previous Serenity series

A few years ago fans of FIREFLY/SERENITY were given a rather lack luster series called THOSE WE LEFT BEHIND. There isn't a great deal of narrative squeeze space right now in the Serenity universe. The reason is that Joss Whedon and his stars still hope to make another movie. Whether it would be a direct to DVD (which is more likely) or a a theater release is an open question. There there have been rumors from time to time that Universal, given the impressive and steady sales of both FIREFLY and SERENITY on DVD, was at least interested in considering a DVD film at some point, but so far nothing has materialized. But as long as there is a chance of a continuance of the story of Mal, Zoe, River, Simon, Jayne, and the rest of the crew of Serenity, Joss Whedon is not going to reveal the remaining major secrets about his characters. In commentaries on the film SERENITY, Whedon in particular mentioned Inara's story as the great unexplored mystery. The first film cleared up most of River's untold story, which leaves Inara's. And, of course, Shepherd Book, who will not be part of a future movie because of his death. His backstory will be covered in the next Serenity comic series, focusing exclusively on him and the story that he had been unwilling to tell in either the TV series of the film. It is at least tentatively titled A SHEPHERD'S TALE. But like THOSE LEFT BEHIND and BETTER DAYS, it will be another prequel, this one a prequel to FIREFLY as well. After that, I doubt if we wee much more in the way of Serenity comics, since Whedon clearly doesn't want to pick up at the end of the movie SERENITY. If Universal doesn't move forward with a film (they have exclusive rights to the franchise until the middle of the next decade and even then for films only -- TV rights revert to 20th Century Fox at that time), Joss Whedon might be tempted to tell the rest of the story, presumably is a comic closer in length to ANGEL: AFTER THE FALL, rather than the two short Serenity comics that we have seen so far. As I stated above, this three-episode sequence is a considerable improvement over the earlier THOSE LEFT BEHIND. There are some adventures that truly are similar to those in the TV series or film. Though not as satisfying as another film or TV series, it adds to the canonical body of adventures our heroes have embarked on. Because of its odd placement in the period of time after the TV series but before the film, not much can really happen of great import. You know no one is going to die (Joss Whedon basically invented the body count as we currently recognize it on TV) because of the later film. And River, who emerged as the ultimate lethal weapon in the film, is still self-contained and only minimally interactive with the outside world (though we the most memorable graphic in the series is a full page portrait of River having all her fondest desires realized). But given that, Whedon's team did a great job of creating a fun and funny and inte