Serenity Better Days
Comic Summary: JOSS WHEDON (W), BRETT MATTHEWS (W), WILL CONRAD (A), MICHELLE MADSEN (C), and ADAM HUGHES (Cover) On sale Mar 12 Joss Whedon returns to the world of his blockbuster film Serenity with the three-issue comics series Better Days. Better Days revisits everyone's favorite space cowboys in this thrilling, action-packed adventure, with Mal and his crew on a heist that promises a big payoff-what's surprising is that this heist just might make good on that promise. Whedon reunites with Brett Matthews and Will Conrad, his collaborators on the best-selling 2005 series Those Left Behind. Adam Hughes joins the team for covers. • Prequel series to the blockbuster film Serenity by Joss Whedon. • Front covers by critically acclaimed Adam Hughes. • Serenity: Those Left Behind has sold over 85, 000 copies! Joss Whedon and Brett Matthews return to Serenity!
Codes: 76156815190900111 JAN080041
- Price:
$2.99$2.39- Artist:
- Will Conrad
- Author:
- Various
- Cover Artist:
- Adam Hughes
- Release Date:
- March 12, 2008
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- Expected soon
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Customer Reviews
A great addition to the best show ever. The artwork captures the look and nuances of the actors. The story is fun, of course, but I found it a tad tough to translate Joss’ humor in the pacing of the panels. Otherwise, this is a fantastic start to a great story.
1 pts.
While I am not sure if a Dark Horse book still qualifies as an “indie” book (it holds some of the biggest licenses in comics, Buffy, Star Wars, etc), I enjoyed this book enough to take a bit of a closer look at it.
First of all, if you don’t like Joss Whedon or his writing style (shocking, but they are out there) then you aren’t going to like this book because it’s Whedon at his best. Much like Kevin Smith, I have always been a big fan of his television and movie writing, but I really believe that Whedon’s true story telling abilities lie in comics (see: Astonishing X-Men). I say this because Joss Whedon penned books are one of the few books that make me laugh out loud when reading them. Serenity is no exception.
Mistreated by the TV networks, Whedon’s fascinating space-western, Firefly was unceremoniously canceled in the middle of it’s first season. Fan’s latched onto the show on DVD, and soon a Movie was green-lit to wrap up the story. Serenity was well received in theaters, but the comic prequel, Serenity: Those Left Behind was even more coveted, and difficult to find to this day. Serenity: Better Days is set between the movie and the TV show, and tells the story of the rag-tag group of petty thieves led by Malcolm Reynolds. Chock full of the usual Whedon-esque dialouge, and plot twists, Better Days lives up to the hype of the original.
Brett Matthews once again joins Whedon on art duties, and does a great job of capturing the whimsical and adventurous tone of the story. It is always difficult for an artist to jump into a book that is full of characters that have real-life representations, but like Georges Jeanty in Dark Horse’s current Buffy series, Matthews manages to do a great job of visually representing the characters in a way that leaves them recognizable, yet stylized.
I really believe that Joss Whedon is destined to do great things in the world of comics. His work on not only his own properties, but also with the X-Men proves that. What’s nice is that he can work in both the big business world of Marvel, and the smaller world of Dark Horse. If only they would let him take a crack at Star Wars: Knights of The Old Republic.
1 pts.