Media Franchise
The popularity of the short-lived series served as the launching point for media franchise within the Firefly universe, including the feature film Serenity, which addresses many plot points left unresolved by the cancellation of the series.
Additionally, there were two comic-book mini-series, Serenity: Those Left Behind (3 issues, 104 pages, 2006), Serenity: Better Days (3 issues, 80 pages, 2008) and a one-shot hardcover Serenity: The Shepherd's Tale (56 pages, 2010), along with the one-shots Serenity: Downtime and The Other Half and Serenity: Float Out in which Whedon explored plot strands he had intended to explore further in the series. The comics are set, in plot terms, between the end of the TV series and the opening of the feature film. The two mini-series were later published in collected form as hardback and softcover graphic novels.
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