Dark Horse is soliciting for May and the cover for the 3rd issue of “Serenity: Better Days” is in there, which makes me wonder what happened to the cover for #2. Hasn’t been seen yet, to my knowledge. Is there a mystery? Is it still being drawn? Are they purposely keeping it under wraps because it reveals something that Joss wants kept a surprise? Is there a special edition “bathing Inara” cover? Is there? Huh?
UPDATE: word from Dark Horse is that there’s a delay on the #2 cover art, which isn’t nearly as nefarious as I was hoping for. Unless Adam Hughes is maybe taking extra care drawing a bathing Inara…
From the look of it they’ll all fit together, so I’m really hoping for a poster. Warning: the solicitation for #3 gives away some very spoilery hints, so you may want to avoid peeking.
The 1st issue is coming out March 12 (Preorder it here!) (Preview the 1st 4 pages of pencil art here!). #2 will be out Apr. 9 (Preorder it here!). And the 3rd will be out May 14 (Preorder it here!)
Jayne, Inara, and Book on cover #2, no doubt.
I hath read the spoilers. And I’m wondering if they didn’t cut and paste the description of a certain Firefly episode. Didn’t we already do this story? …..
I believe the second issue cover can be seen over at Heavy Ink (heavyink.com)
issue page: http://heavyink.com/comic/3365-Serenity-Better-Days-2
image:
I am not sure if Kaylee looks quite right for me, but River with the money is the cutest.thing.ever.
(Oh, please let that be a statue!)
Iām willing to bet there will only be Jayne on the cover for issue 2. Two reasons:
1) Better Days is supposed to take place after Those Left Behind, that is, after Book and Inara left the ship.
2) It would look pretty good (not to mention funny!) if Jayne were the sole centerpiece of the picture of the crew atop the bags of money. š
Matthew Cox – I don’t think that’s the cover art (it doesn’t fit between covers 1 and 3 at all). Maybe it’s a sample page (when they don’t have the cover, they sometimes use a sample page instead). Good find nonetheless!