The raffle over at Cash for the Crew has new items added, so they’ve extended it another day. That means you have a little more time to make a donation to MPTF’s Work Stoppage Relief Fund, send CftC your receipt, and get entered into a raffle to win one of their great prizes such as signed scripts from Buffy, Angel, Drive, Wonderfalls, Battlestar Galactica, Scary Movie, and more. Just added:

- JERICHO - “Why We Fight” - Signed by the JERICHO writers
- “Scary Movie” - Signed by Craig Mazin
- Books “The John Lennon Affair”and “The Elvis & Marilyn Affair” - Signed by author (and WGA member) Robert S. Levinson

And signed fan initiatives:
- Stand Up for Buffy - The campaign that started it all for BtVS fans - Signed by Joss Whedon, Marti Noxon, David Fury, Jane Espenson and Doug Petrie
- Give Buffy an Emmy - For Your Consideration Ad for the BtVS episode “The Body” - Signed by Joss Whedon. Despite the fact he had burned his hands only days before, he still signed this at ComicCon 
- Save Firefly - Pictured above. This one probably needs no explanation - Signed by Joss Whedon

Go, donate, win something, and help the people suffering from the writers strike.

It’s on the shelves, and here’s mine. Inara’s Shuttle is the latest Serenity ship ornament from Dark Horse Deluxe and our ‘versy armada is growing, growing… More pics after the jump.

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Every year, the FX Show in Orlando assembles together a pile o’ celebs, a ton of comic writers and artists, and an assortment of dealers and shoves ‘em into a room. Every year they get guests from the hottest new shows and the most beloved older ones, cult favorites that bring out devoted fans from all generations. And every year they get someone from Firefly who blows all the others away.

If you’re not interested in my play-by-play you can just check out the pics at Flickr.com. And I’ve got video of the Whedonverse Panel with Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Rohm, and Nicholas Brendon here: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4.
If you are interested, read on…

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Geoff Mandel, graphic designer for Serenity, is having a Writers Strike sale on eBay and there are some tasty items indeed:

Autographed Mal Cortex screenshot print - “To Be Bound,” a limited edition fine art print. This ‘Verse-style “wanted poster,” with fingerprints, retinal scan and biographical details on Malcolm Reynolds, was created for the first Firefly/Serenity convention held in the United States, and the total edition was 500. No more will ever be printed. High-quality 4/color print on heavy satin stock, 18″ x 24″. Signed and numbered by the artist with silver Sharpie at lower-right. He’s been putting more up for auction as they sell, so just go here to find them.

Firefly/Serenity money - This auction is for CASHY MONEY used on screen in the series Firefly AND the movie Serenity. These are NOT the high-quality reproductions produced by QMx, but actual prop money created for both the series and movie. VERY rare, you don’t see Firefly money very often.

River Backlit Graphic - a backlit graphic used on screen in the movie Serenity, a one-of-a-kind collector’s item. This brain scan graphic with data on River Tam can be seen early in the film, where it is carried by Dr. Mathias. The auction is for the graphic ONLY, and does not include the lighted viewer.

There are also items from Space: Above and Beyond, NCIS, Mission Impossible 3, Star Trek Voyager, and even stuff from the Emmys!

The auctions have more details and larger pictures. Click here to see all of them. Bid quick, and bid often!

From the Dark Horse site:

Make sure to tell your favorite retailer that this winter, Dark Horse will be sending 100 winning retailers 10 FREE alternate cover versions of one of this years most anticipated releases, the return of Joss Whedon’s Serenity. Joss Whedon and Brett Mathews return to write the mini-series, with Adam Hughes doing covers. The DH100 cover is a custom, full-wrap around piece created by the mini-series artist, Will Conrad.

Tell your local comic store! Maybe after they win they’ll be grateful, hint, hint…

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!).

So this gent named RoboGeek worked at a plaxe that used a Spectrum Z510 3D printer. And whever it was worked on, they ran a test file. And his boss was also a sci-fi fan and let him run his own files though. And so, along with some funky geometrical shapes and a few other familiar looking ships, he produced this beauty from Sean Kennedy’s poly mesh.

Head over to MAKE Magazine to see his other creations, and because MAKE Magazine is just generally cool anyway.

Universal HD will be re-airing Firefly in HD again this March, and some folks were thinking it might not be a bad idea to remind UNiversal that we’re still out here and still interested in this franchise, particularly the continuing of it. And so Operation Full Burn was born.

What can you do? Easy, Just head to the Universal HD Firefly fan forums and sign up. That’s all, although you’re more than welcome to hang around and say hey to each other and to all the new fans coming from that direction. Costs you nothing and it swells the ranks over there.

Operation Full Burn details.

Check out this cool little desktop wonder. Lanin D. Thomasma from ntoonz.com sculpts funky little pop culture statues, including several licensed lines for online comics like General Protection Fault and Accidental Centaurs, and he found out about this cool little science fiction show, you might have heard about it…

The result was this menacing marquette of a very familiar looking crewmember that he made for himself. It’s not on ntoonz.com  at the moment, but there are lots of other marquettes to look at, and you really should.

Creation Entertainment has announced their “Salute to Firefly and Serenity” convention, to be held November 22-23, 2008, at the Burbank Airport Marriott Hotel. 

So far they have Jewel Staite lined up to guest, but I’d expect plenty more before they’re through.

They’ve also got some more stuff in their store I hadn’t seen, including a Serenity cappucchino mug, a pile of patches, and a Serenity Icons tee (pictured), and more than a few autographed photos for sale (autographs currently have free shipping).

Spotted at Amazon: a listing for a Blu-ray edition of the Firefly DVDs.

It’s notable that there is no price, ship date, cover image or actual information available, so this is very probably Amazon being careful. But there is a place where you can ask to be notified when such a thing is available, and it might be interesting if they suddenly had a few hundred thousand people ask for it, don’t you think?