Serenity: Better Days

Serenity: Better Days
Cover of the trade paperback, collecting the series. Art by Jo Chen
Publication information
Publisher	Dark Horse Comics
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Limited series
Publication date	March 2008 - May 2008
Number of issues	3
Main character(s)	Malcolm Reynolds Zoe Washburne Hoban "Wash" Washburne Jayne Cobb Kaylee Frye Simon Tam River Tam Derrial Book Drone Builder Ephraim Sanda
Creative team
Writer(s)	Joss Whedon Brett Matthews
Artist(s)	Will Conrad Adam Hughes

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, Serenity: Those Left Behind. 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 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.

A trade paperback volume collecting the entire series was published in October 2008.

A demonstration of an armed tactical drone is held before a large group of people by its Builder. Meanwhile, Captain Malcolm Reynolds and his crew are engaging in a heist of ancient artworks. As they attempt to flee with the art, their truck is confronted by the drone, which chases them across the busy highways of an unnamed planet, exchanging weapons fire with Reynolds' crew. As this is happening, the chase and firefight is monitored by the Builder. The thieves narrowly manage to escape the drone, which they manage to deactivate and steal as well. Meanwhile, Companion and Serenity resident Inara Serra is engaged with a customer named Ephraim Sanda, an Alliance special ops squad leader, though in her mind, she fantasizes that he is Captain Reynolds. Ephraim hunts "Dust Devils", radicals within the former ranks of the Independents, who became terrorists after the Independents surrendered at the end of the war.