Poking around my comics pull list online today, pruning, adding to it, checking out new trades coming out, when a solicitation on the side of the web page caught my eye. It said simply: Serenity: Better Days #1. I had to do a double take to be sure I wasn’t seeing things. Apparently, there is a new Serenity comic on the way from Joss Whedon. It looks to be another prequel to the movie, just as the last Serenity mini-series.

This may be this is old news to some people who read websites like Newsarama or CBR, but I personally keep up on what comics are coming out by reading Previews and watching the weekly release lists. I had heard rumblings that a new comic was coming, but hadn’t heard anything concrete yet, until today.

“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.”

I am VERY excited to see that Adam Hughes will be doing covers. I am normally not a huge fan of his art from page-to-page (or his writing, for that matter), but in small doses he is a genius. Here’s hoping that each issue sells 50,000 copies to show Fox that there is still money to be made from the FireFly universe and we’ll see a new movie. The comic is being published by Dark Horse and the first issue is dated to be released on March 12th, 2008.