Popularity of Better Days? by zawert

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Popularity of Better Days?

POSTED BY: ZAWERT
UPDATED: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 09:24
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Thursday, March 27, 2008 2:59 PM

I'm wondering if anyone knows how better days is being received? They sold out at my local comic shop before I could get my hands on a copy, and STILL haven't got any in. I of course take this as a good sign but does anyone know more? Also, when is number two scheduled? I saw the date before but can not find it anywhere. Thanks,
-Keir

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Thursday, March 27, 2008 3:29 PM

PEULSAR5

We sniff the air, we don't kiss the dirt.

I had to wait an extra week to get mine they sold out so fast, and I actually had it on my subscription list

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Thursday, March 27, 2008 3:41 PM

ZAWERT

Man, with the popularity of this and the assumed good rating to come from the universial HD airings we just might break atmo again. (oh please for the love of god.)

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Friday, March 28, 2008 2:55 AM

ZZETTA13

Zawert!
I too stopped by a local comic shop just yesterday and wouldn’t you know it the guy said he was SOLD OUT! I took this as a good thing although it makes me want to get my hands on a copy of “Better Days” even more now. Maybe a copy of 2 or 3 would be even better. Anyway there are a couple of other shops in the area so I’ll try them next. Wouldn’t you know it the FF/Serenity machine is still working and still making a ton of cashy money.

Z

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Friday, March 28, 2008 4:18 AM

BROWNCOAT1

May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

My local shop got twenty issues and sold out in two days. The owner has ordered more and should have them in this week.

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Saturday, August 16, 2008 7:12 AM

SWISH

I just finally got the Better Days comics - good stuff! - and I'm looking for the discussion threads. There must have been some, but I can't find any! A few details confused me and I'm wondering what other folks made of them...

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Saturday, August 16, 2008 8:29 AM

PLATONIST

Try here:

http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=2&t=33629

or Whedonesque Archives for May

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Saturday, August 16, 2008 8:39 AM

SWISH

Thanks!

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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 6:50 AM

SMAUG

Well... I hope it does well enough to justify more. I know we are getting a Shepard Book series comming down the pike.. but I hope we will continue to get more Firefly stories.

I eagerly read both Those left Behind and Better Days when I got them.. and will take just about any new story of Firefly in any medium that comes our way. But I do have to admit that there is just something missing when seeing firefly in any mannor other than on screen. This probably is also why there doesn't seem to be that much discussion about the comics.

When they come out.. there is a couple of long threads about it on the boards.. the firefly podcasts talk about them some.. but then it seems to die out very quickly.

On Better Days.. one of the firefly podcasts (can't remember which one) actually had an entire podcast that just talked about the comic, which I was glad about. But then one of the other main firefly podcasts only seemed to casually mention it a few times (that it was comming out, that it came out, that they read it, etc), but didn't talk at all about what happened IN the comic.

But anyway, when I have read the two comics (and the one that is currently on-line) I actually have to read it twice. Once to just wrap my head around the overall story (I don't think it always comes accross real clear in the comics) then once I understand the whole story.. I go back and read it again, trying to turn it into a TV episode in my head. With all the character voices, music, body language, subtle facial gestures, etc. It's hard to do that the first time around when you dont' know what everybody's motives are.

But I guess that just goes to show that Firefly isn't a one man show. We were first introduced to firefly not just by words from Joss Weadon.. but by the incredible actors, the beautiful music by Greg Edminston, the costume and set designers, the other writers, the camera men, etc. etc. It simply shows that every person who worked on Firefly.. LOVED it.. they loved what they were doing.. and they loved what they created and it SHOWED! And there is SO much that is conveyed with every tone of inflection of every word, every slight body movement, every musical cue, and so on. ALL that comming together as a whole produced what it is that we all love.

The words of Joss Weadon and the illustrations of some comic book artists.. those alone simply can never hope to convey the whole of what was Firefly. I will still buy and enjoy any comic books (or novels) that Joss writes.. but there will always be something missing.

It will always be bittersweet.. loving that we are getting new firefly content.. but grieving over what could have been.

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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 9:24 AM

PLATONIST

Well said, Smaug

I'll take more of the canon verse in any format presented, but there is something missing, and I think the little plot Grizwalds being dropped, i.e., Zoë’s backstory, Inara's possible health issues, River's trial run on a job and Mal knowing more about her useful abilities than the others, etc, would have played out better on the screen, because it's all about real live action, character reaction, and interaction.

Also, I think that Mal is being portrayed, more as originally intended, (darker with selfish motives), creating cognitive dissonance with fans because they only want to view his behavior as heroic, as seen in the BDM, when he finds a cause worth fighting for or romantically when he’s protecting his crew. They rationalize his not so becoming behavior as necessity, because he finds himself pushed out to the criminality of The Raggedy Edge. So, lots of avoidance going on with anything that would contradict what they hold near and dear about the way of the verse.

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