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Serenity ornament on sale for 10 bucks

The Cortex — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:44:06 +0000

Entertainment Earth has a great holiday sale going on right now, with the Serenity ornament from Dark Horse marked down to $10

45% off! It’s one of our all-time favorite items, and we just know you’re going to love the Firefly Serenity Ornament. For our Black Friday Sale, you can get this fine vehicle for under $10! It’s our best price ever, so be sure to get yours before they all fly away! !

At that price you can afford to decorate your whole tree with the things. Go for it! (And send me pics)

Pre-order “Serenity: Better Days”

The Cortex — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:10:55 +0000

This is your last chance to get the preorder price for Dark Horse’s trade paperback collection of “Serenity: Better Days.”

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 crew is taken captive and tortured, the gang must put their enduring differences aside and work together to save one of their own, even if it may mean losing the cash prize of a lifetime. Joss Whedon returns to the world of his blockbuster film Serenity, reuniting with Brett Matthews and Will Conrad, his collaborators on the bestselling 2005 series Those Left Behind. * Collects Serenity: Better Days #1-3.

Full color, 80 pages, TPB, 6″ x 9″, with an introduction by Adam Baldwin, and if you preorder it from TFAW.com you get 20% off cover price, so, you know, do that.

New Serenity comic at Dark Horse Presents, for free

The Cortex — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:08:22 +0000

OK, this kinda came out of the blue… This month’s “Dark Horse Presents” over at MySpace has an 8-page stand-alone Serenity story in it called “Serenity: The Other Half ,” with art by WIll Conrad. It’s written by Jim Krueger, the man who (according to Joss ) will be writing the Book miniseries coming out next.

Joss on “Shepherd’s Tale” comic

The Cortex — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:21:06 +0000

ComicMix talked to Joss at Comic-Con - did anyone not talk to Joss at Comic-Con? Did the man ever sleep? - and he revealed a bit more about the upcoming Serenity comic:

COMICMIX: With The Shepherd’s Tale , why is Shepherd Book the first character from Firefly to get a solo story? JOSS WHEDON: I’ve done a breakdown of the story. I think Jim Krueger is going to write the actual script. The biggest mystery of what we never got to tell is Shepherd’s backstory. Everybody knew there was something more than just being Shepherd in there. And poor Ron [Glass] came to me during the strike and said, “I’m going to another convention. You’ve got to give me something.” It’s been a number of years and they always ask [about Shepherd]. I said, “You know what, it has been long enough and this isn’t something I’m going to save for the sequel that may never happen, so we’ll make a comic book out of it.” Because it’s an interesting story, really. It’s the single most-asked question: “What’s up with Book?” And now we’re going to answer that.

The interview has more about the current best-selling Buffy and Angel comics, so go check it out.

New Serenity RPG Pre-Orders Available at Amazon!

Serenity RPG 101 — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:05:47 +0000

If you’re like me, you’ve been pining away for any and all bits of news about the upcoming new material for the Serenity Role Playing Game. Well wait no more!

Amazon.com how has Serenity Adventures available for pre-order! It’s on sale right now for $19.79 – that’s 34% off the list price!

You can also pre-order a copy of Serenity Six-Shooters & Spaceships, also at a savings of 34%.

I was a little bummed to find that the cover artwork hasn’t been officially released (if I’m wrong, let me know!), but, hey, beggers can’t be choosers, right?

Go get your copies now!

Get the Ultimate Browncoat Book Collection from Kids Need to Read

The Cortex — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:11:56 +0000

The folks behind Kids Need to Read have whomped up another fantastic auction to benefit children’s literacy. You’d think there was a Big Damn Hero behind this or something… You have the opportunity to own a complete set of Browncoat reading material: Firefly: the Official Companion I and II, Finding Serenity: Anti-heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon’s Firefly, Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon’s Firefly Universe, Serenity – The Official Visual Companion, and Serenity: Those Left Behind (Hardcover). All of them signed by Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk! Woo! The auction is on now and lasts till June 15th. It’s a fantastic offer for a great cause. Go! Bid!

Big news! Limited edition Serenity comic from Dark Horse and the Cali Browncoats

The Cortex — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:21:24 +0000

Dark Horse Comics is really cool. They are unbelievably cool. They are, in fact, so unbelievably cool that they’ve joined forces with the California Browncoats to make a variant Serenity comic to sell at the San Diego Comic-Con , just to benefit Kids Need to Read . Which is pretty cool, you gotta admit. The California Browncoats will be selling the comics at SDCC. It will be a variant edition of “Serenity: Better Days #1″ with the Will Conrad wraparound cover art they used for their special DH 100 version, only this will display Will’s pencils instead. 32 pages, all the stuff from the first one, but with a cardstock cover for extra specialness. They’ll be $10 each, only 5,000 will ever be available, and 100% of the proceeds (roughly 8 bucks per book) will be donated to Kids Need to Read, the children’s literacy program founded by Nathan Fillion and author PJ Haarsma. These will only be available at Comic-Con 2008, but even if you can’t go the California Browncoats are there for you. Specifically, on eBay, where on all five days of the con they’ll be selling copies of the DH-California Browncoats SDCC edition of Serenity. Again, all proceeds will go to Kids Need to Read. Bookmark their eBay page and be ready (I’ll give you a heads up when it gets close). Major thanks to Dark Horse and to the Cali Browncoats sponsors Gabriel Stempinski, Margaret Weis Productions , Creation Entertainment , Poplollies.com , The Powers Team - Marsia and Eugene , Dwight Bragdon, Done The Impossible and Quantum Mechanix , who helped make this possible. This is a great collectible and a great cause (funny how so many Whedon-based projects combine the two). Check out the California Browncoats site for more details .