According to Whedonesque, Titan Books is shipping the second Firefly Companion and you should start seeing them at Amazon and other bookstores soon.

The book “has now started shipping from our US distributors, and will be hitting our UK warehouse next week, so Amazon orders should be with people shortly, and the book will be in bookstores in the next couple of weeks”.

Some comics shops got it faster than that, but now the rest of us will get to grab a copy.

32 pages bigger than the first book, the second Companion will have the rest of the original shooting scripts (which are not the same as the Firefly scripts available in many places online), interviews with cast, crew, and Whedon, screen shots, behind-the-scenes pictures, and close-up shots of props (including Vera!) and even a section on the fandom. The first Firefly Companion was just what we were hoping for, and this looks to be more of the same.

Order it at Amazon US, Amazon Canada, or Amazon UK. And don’t forget to get Firefly Companion Vol. 1 and Titan’s excellent Serenity Companion. 

I didn’t even know he was into leather…

But he was, at least briefly, in the beginning of the rescue scene from the movie, and his leather suit is now available at The Prop Store of London.

The grey suit has a triangular patch on the chest which has been sewn on the inside and ‘pressed’ through and small ball like buttons down the front. The top has a small label in the collar which has ‘Simon’ handwritten, there is also a similar label in the trousers. This costume has been custom made from the production, there are no sizes marked.

New at Stylin Online: Fruity Oaty Bar tees!

Made from heavyweight preshrunk 6oz. cotton tee, available (so far) in M, X, and XL.

Be sure to check out Stylin Online’s ever-growing Firefly and Serenity selection.

After a stirring, speech-filled election night — by which I mean a raucus evening of boasting, ranting, and discussions of “Drive,” which most of the residents there, incluiding me, were also watching at the time — I was duly elected mayor by the citizens of Washtown, the largest Firefly-themed settlement in Second Life. It was a magical night.

We had a sizeable amount of folk show up, and I stood on a convenient car to start speechifying, which boiled down to “We’re all here to see what bastard’s gonna be mayor, and I aim to be that bastard.” Like all good political speeches it promised much, said little, and there was gunfire involved. Initially there was a lack of opposition but Raven’s wizard engineeer Sabrina McGee stepped up to run against me (for the position of not-Mayor) in the spirit of democracy, and she did indeed provide a rousing speech and a worthy adversary. But promises of happy days, bright futures, and graft won the day and I am proud to accept my new responsibilities, assuming I have any.

I’ll work to expand Washtown into a township to be proud of, a cosy haven for passing ships and wandering Browncoats, without losing the smalltown feel we love so well. I’ll help to keep griefers and other uninvited lowlifes — as opposed to our occasionally lowlife residents, who are all welcome and treasured — away from our homes. And I will work to rebuild the lamented Hoban Saloon, recently devastated by what some are calling a Reaver attack. I foresee that location becoming our new town hall (with the current owner’s consent, of course).

And I would like to reach out to our neighbors, the mudflats of Canton, in the spirit of friendship, shared interests, and lucrative mud trade agreements.

This is truly the dawning of a new day. Call me if you need me, I’ll be sleeping it off.

People who ordered the blueprints from QMx Sunday are already reporting receiving them (and raving about them). Did you get yours? What did you think?

If you didn’t get a set, there’s still a hundred or so left from the limited run of 750. Head on over!

TFAW.com has opened up the gates to let you preorder Dark Horse’s latest must-have Serenity item: the Serenity lunchbox. 

In examining the rich and cohesive world of Serenity, we’ve designed a special lunch box. With the Serenity logo in brilliant litho-printed color on one side, and the iconic image from “Fruity Oaty Bar” commercial on the other, bordered by the exotic intergalactic currency created for the film, this handsome lunch box is an insider’s dream come true.

The lunchboxes are due to ship Sept. 16. Maybe to go with the new Serenity comic miniseries? And Dark Horse is hinting at more… All I know is I’ll finally have someplace to store my extra Serenity cards. $17.99, but if you preorder from TFAW.com you’ll get 20% off.

I know, I know. Browncoats have a rep for being rough, tough, and able to handle anything, often with gunplay. But what about the softer side? What about the feminine side? What about the Browncoats who are tired of T-shirts that fit like tents?

For them, Stylin’ Online offers Firefly and Blue Sun baby doll tees. Made from softer, preshrunk, 5oz. stretchy cotton blank baby doll tee shirts, they’re perfect for lounging around your bunk or showing off your curves in the Maidenhead.

Check out their Firefly T-Shirts and Serenity T-Shirts pages.

It’s good to see that the Maidenhead Bar is conscious of the ecology. Also, when they leave bottles around, 90lb girls kick them into other peoples’ faces, which is bad for business. Either way, they need those bottles gone. And The Prop Store of London is helping by selling off this one.

Clear, 14″ tall, with Arabic and Asian writing. Drink up!

Steven Brust, author of the popular Dragaeran Series, “Cowboy Feng’s Space Bar and Grille,” and many others, is still planning on releasing his already-written Firefly novel one way or another. From his LJ post:

In other news, I’m finishing up a last polish on the Firefly novel, after which I’ll send it to my agent, and, presumably, some time after that I’ll figure out how to publish it as fanfic.  Those who know, hang on to your information for a little while.

Having heard the first chapter, I’m… well, we’ll go with “eager” because “pathetically happy, with a bit of drool”, accurate though it may be, doesn’t sound as good.

If you’ve been loaning out your copies and you’re down to your last four sets, just click over to Amazon or Best Buy and snag a set for $19.99. It’s selling for around $30 most everywhere else.