{"id":1946,"date":"2025-06-07T18:33:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T18:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/?p=1946"},"modified":"2025-06-19T08:43:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T08:43:05","slug":"serenity-better-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/serenity-better-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Serenity: Better Days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>Title<\/td><td>Serenity: Better Days<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Issue<\/td><td>Graphic Novel, Vol 2<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Publisher<\/td><td>Dark Horse Comics<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Flagship Artist<\/td><td>Jo Chen<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Story Rating<\/td><td>\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Cover Rating<\/td><td>\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Genre<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/tag\/scifi\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"469\">SciFi<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Links<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comics.org\/issue\/1287525\/\">The Grand Comics Database<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is the second comic book to be based on Firefly after the 2005 miniseries, Serenity: Those Left Behind. Like Those Left Behind, it is written by Firefly creator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/joss-whedon\/\">Joss Whedon<\/a> 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 which depicts three of the nine cast members, and when placed side by side, form a triptych. The first issue was published March 12, 2008. Each issue is 40 pages long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A trade paperback volume collecting the entire series was published in October 2008.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"535\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betterdays.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1904\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betterdays.jpg 535w, https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/betterdays-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title Serenity: Better Days Issue Graphic Novel, Vol 2 Publisher Dark Horse Comics Flagship Artist Jo Chen Story Rating \u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50 Cover Rating \u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50 Genre SciFi Links The Grand Comics Database 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[469],"class_list":["post-1946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comics","tag-scifi"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3403,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions\/3403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}