Thanks to everyone who entered! The three winners of the August contest, who will each receive one of the spiffy Serenity ornaments from Dark Horse Comics provided by Things From Another World, are:
Chi, Cary, and Ray Carroll. Congratulations! E-mails have been sent out, please respond as soon as possible.
Check out this wad of Serenity memorabilia. You get 12 printed sheets and a hand-drawn piece of production artwork featuring conceptual designs including an Alliance grappling hook, a Beacon and the Agents sword.
I love that The Prop Store of London is still bringing this stuff out. I think by now we’ve purchased every item from the movie that could be prised from the set, haven’t we?
One year ago today, more or less, the Serenity novelization hit the shelves. Some of us avoided it like the plague, not wanting to know anything before we were in the theater and the lights went down. Some of us — and I’m not admitting anything — went driving through several cities trying to find a copy because Amazon takes a whole two days to deliver.
Out early, finally, Titan Books has given us a wonderful gift in the Firefly Companion.
Designed with the same style and attention to detail as their Serenity Companion, the Firefly Companion is utterly crammed with cool stuff. I was blown away. Let me see if I can get the idea across.
Since Firefly came out, I have read every article and interview I could find. I’ve read Joss and Tim’s reviews of each episode, I’ve heard the commentaries again and again, I’ve hovered around all the websites and just absorbed it all. And yet this book has something new for me on almost every page.
Prices have been marked down so now’s your chance!
Check out the Firefly tee and their collection of Serenity tees . You can order them online, or stop by your local Hot Topics and see what you can find. If your store doesn’t have any in stock, ask them to check other stores and they will transfer them for you.
Stylon Online continues to bring us new, official T-shirts, and he’s had a busy week. This time we’ve got a brown Firefly shirt (limited stock available) and a black “Public Relations” shirt featuring Jayne.
Both designs are on heavyweight preshrunk 6oz. cotton tees. Both shirts are available in sizes S to XL, and the Public Relations shirt is also available as a babydoll tee. Check out their line of Firefly and Serenity wear
This year the Browncoat Ball, a shindig based on, well, “Shindig,” is being hosted by the San Francisco Browncoats so you know it’s going to be great. Dinner parries, tours of the Bay, even a visit to Chinatown is in store for you. September 22-24, and you can head here for details.
But even if you can’t make it, you can still support it and pick up some sweet merchandise at the same time. The official design for the Ball is by Adam of Black Market Beagles, and that’s all I needed to hear. Check it out, on posters, T-shirts, bags, and more.
I see absolutely no reason why your Second Life should be any less obsessive than your first, and apparently neither do these people.
Second Life is an immersive 3D environment where you create an avatar to represent yourself, and you travel through the worlds interacting with other avatars and reshaping the world to suit yourself. People design their own luxury mansions, their own skyscrapers, their own amusement parks and nightclubs and sex grottos. So, naturally, some virtual Browncoats got together to make the crappy little town where Wash is a hero. And now they have their own Firefly.
They must have had Alan Tudyk stashed in a room somewhere signing these things for hours.
The Prop Store of London has yet another little plastic dinosaur. Dunno if it ever had screen time or if it was just another plastic wannabe (stunt dino? stand-in?), but it is signed by Wash, so there’s that.
Wait, I meant “Get your Firefly Companion at Amazon now,” I’m pretty sure.
After an odd scheduling blip that resulted in the Firefly Companion Vol. 1 from Titan Books getting shipped out to comic stores a month or two before the official US release, they’re now available at Amazon for those of us without a handy comics store nearby (ahem).
Joss Whedon’s cult sci-fi Western series Firefly may have had a curtailed existence on TV, but it has since become a phenomenon on DVD, spawning the hit movie Serenity and inspiring legions of dedicated fans, whose numbers are still growing today. This, the first of two lavishly illustrated official companions, is a must, whether you’re already a loyal Browncoat, or just discovering the ’Verse. Covering all aspects of the making of the show, this Big Damn Book features:
- Exclusive new interviews with Joss Whedon, the cast, executive producer Tim Minear and many other writers and crewmembers.
- Full, uncut shooting scripts for the episodes ‘Serenity’, ‘The Train Job’, ‘Bushwhacked’, ‘Shindig’, ‘Safe’ and ‘Our Mrs. Reynolds’, annotated with comments from the cast and crew.
- Scores of rare and previously unpublished images, including behind-the-scenes shots, production art, and original Firefly props and costumes photographed especially for this book.
The US edition is available from Amazon now and it’ll be available through Amazon UK within a week, both at discounted prices.
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