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Firefly/Serenity Chronology (Also, see the Brand New 'Verse Chronology) |
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"Fun With Dick and Jayne" | "The R. Tam Sessions" | "River Run" | "Serenity" | "Government Goods" | ||||||||||
Firefly: Still Flying | Online webisodes |
Firefly: River Run (BOOM! Studios) |
Episode 1a | Episode 1b | ||||||||||
A piece of Jayne Cobb's boyhood is revealed in a vignette. |
The strengths and weaknesses of a
young girl are revealed in a series of counseling sessions at
an |
Simon Tam is determined to rescue his little sister from the depredations of the Alliance Academy. |
The crew of the smuggling ship
Serenity take on some passengers, not knowing the people may
be even more hazardous to carry than their standard cargo. |
Mal must make a decision about what
to do with his fugitive passengers. |
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"The Train Job" | "Bushwhacked" | "Shindig" | "Safe" | "Our Mrs. Reynolds" | ||||||||||
Episode 2 | Episode 3 | Episode 4 | Episode 5 | Episode 6 | ||||||||||
Mal and his crew are hired to hijack
a shipment from an |
Serenity encounters a
shipwreck left booby-trapped after a horrific Reaver attack. |
In order to secure a job transporting
cargo off-planet for a client, Mal attends a social event that
leads to him being challenged to a swordfight in defense of
Inara’s honor. |
When Simon is kidnapped by a village
in need of a doctor, Serenity is forced to dock with an |
Mal inadvertently marries a young
village girl. |
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"Bad Company" | "Jaynestown" | "Out of Gas" | "Ariel" | "War Stories" | ||||||||||
Firefly: Bad Company BOOM! Studios |
Episode 7 | Episode 8 | Episode 9 | Episode 10 | ||||||||||
The secret origin of Saffron. | Serenity visits a world where Jayne is considered a hero of mythic proportions. |
After an explosion leaves Serenity
crippled, Mal orders the crew to abandon ship. |
Simon hires the crew to pull a heist—one that will help him diagnose and treat River. |
Tension surfaces with |
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"What Holds Us Down" | "Downtime" | "Trash" | "The Message" | Big Damn Hero | ||||||||||
Firefly: Still Flying | Webcomic | Episode 11 | Episode 12 | Novel | ||||||||||
A junkyard heist goes wrong, leaving Kaylee to play the hero to get herself and the injured Wash out alive. | Serenity spends some downtime snowed-in after a planetary rendezvous. | Mal is shocked to discover that an old friend’s new bride is Saffron under a new name. |
Mal and Zoe receive a large package
that they find contains the body of an old war buddy. |
Browncoat vigilantes accuse Mal of being a traitor to the Independent cause during the war. | ||||||||||
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"Crystal" | Carnival | What Makes Us Mighty | "Heart of Gold" |
"The Sting" Part 1 |
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Firefly: Still Flying | Novel | Novel | Episode 13 | Graphic Novel | ||||||||||
River has visions of the fates of Serenity's crewmembers. | The Serenity crew takes on the sinners of a gambling mecca on the Rim world of Bethel. | The Serenity crew takes a simple job that turns into a potential war crime. |
A bordello, whose madam is an old
friend of Inara’s, hires the crew to protect them from a
gunslinger and his gang. |
Saffron approaches the women of Serenity with a proposition. | ||||||||||
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"The Sting" Part 2 |
"The Sting" Part 3 |
"The Sting" Part 4 |
"The Sting" Part 5 |
"Objects in Space" | ||||||||||
Graphic Novel | Graphic Novel | Graphic Novel | Graphic Novel | Episode 14 | ||||||||||
Saffron takes the girls to the site of their upcoming theft. | Saffron's anticipated double-cross begins. | Saffron's diamond heist is made, but what will be the aftermath? | Never leave a woman behind. |
A bounty hunter secretly boards
Serenity and methodically disables the crew one-by-one to
claim the enormous reward on River’s head. |
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The Magnificent Nine | "Better Days" Part 1 | "Better Days" Part 2 | "Better Days" Part 3 | "Clipped Wings" | ||||||||||
Novel |
Serenity: Better Days #1 (Dark Horse Comics) |
Serenity: Better Days #2 (Dark Horse Comics) |
Serenity: Better Days #3 (Dark Horse Comics) |
Firefly #1 (BOOM! Studios) |
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The crew of Serenity meet Jayne's long lost love, Temperance, and his previously unknown daughter, Jane. | The crew pulls an art heist, but something is watching them. | The crew heads to the resort world of Pelorum to enjoy some of their new-found wealth. | After Mal is kidnapped by Ephraim, Zoe makes a revelation to the crew. | Losing her starboard engine and chased by Alliance deputies known as the Unificators, Serenity is forced to land on an outer world moon to hide and seek repairs. | ||||||||||
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"War Criminals" | "The Spilling of Blood" | "The Deal of Your Life" | "Birth of a Unificator" | "Kaylee and the Bandit" | ||||||||||
Firefly #2 (BOOM! Studios) |
Firefly #3 (BOOM! Studios) |
Firefly #4 (BOOM! Studios) |
BOOM! Studios Free Comic Book Day 2019 #1 (BOOM! Studios) |
Firefly #5 (BOOM! Studios) |
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The Unificators come after Mal and Zoe as wanted war criminals. | Mal and Zoe face the Unificators; the Pilgrims of Moriah arrive at the Sacred Spires and begin a ritual. | Mal strikes a deal with Boss Moon. | A brief, semi-origin of Boss Moon. | Zoe resolves to track down and rescue Mal from Boss Moon. | ||||||||||
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"A Stand Up Fight" | "Changing the Game" | "Welcome to the Club" | "War!" | "Serenity Valley" | ||||||||||
Firefly #6 (BOOM! Studios) |
Firefly #7 (BOOM! Studios) |
Firefly #8 (BOOM! Studios) |
Firefly #9 (BOOM! Studios) |
Firefly #10 (BOOM! Studios) |
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Zoe abandons Serenity to lead a new crew. | Wash, Book, and Inara set out to catch up with Zoe in her mission to rescue Mal. | Our splintered damn heroes all get in deeper than they thought. | A new Unification War begins. | Mal tries to put a stop to the building war...until his mother steps in. | ||||||||||
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"Big as Life" | "War Crimes" | "The Outlaw Ma Reynolds" | "New Sheriff in the 'Verse" | "Duty Calls" | ||||||||||
Firefly #11 (BOOM! Studios) |
Firefly #12 (BOOM! Studios) |
Firefly: The Outlaw Ma
Reynolds (BOOM! Studios) |
Firefly #13 (BOOM! Studios) |
Firefly #14 (BOOM! Studios) |
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The war Mal is trying to stop is instead escalated by Ma Reynolds. | The "war" comes to an end, but at what cost to Mal? | As Mal pursues his outlaw mother, each muses on their past history together in their own way. | Mal begins his stint as an Alliance sheriff. | While Mal takes his new job as sheriff seriously, Zoe also has a mission of her own. | ||||||||||
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"Into the Fire" | "The Target is Your Heart" | "Small 'Verse" | "Cops and Robbers" | "Who Wears the Crown" | ||||||||||
Firefly #15 (BOOM! Studios) |
Firefly #16 (BOOM! Studios) |
Firefly #17 (BOOM! Studios) |
Firefly #18 (BOOM! Studios) |
Firefly #19 (BOOM! Studios) |
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Mal finds himself aligned with Blue Sun agents to solve a series of murders of innocent settlers. | Mal's friends begin to be targeted by the mysterious assailant. | Mal and Boss Moon track down the mystery killer. | Serenity runs into some big trouble against Blue Sun. | The Chang-Benitez gang falls under the wing of the Bandit King. | ||||||||||
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"Blue Sun Rising" Part 1 |
"Blue Sun Rising" Part 2 |
"Blue Sun Rising" Part 3 |
"Blue Sun Rising" Part 4 |
"Blue Sun Rising" Part 5 |
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Firefly #20 (BOOM! Studios) |
Firefly: Blue Sun Rising #0 (BOOM! Studios) |
Firefly #21 (BOOM! Studios) |
Firefly #22 (BOOM! Studios) |
Firefly #23 (BOOM! Studios) |
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Zoe's crew continues the search for a new home. | Sheriff Mal is sent a trio of robo-deputies to aid him in upholding corporate law. | Blue Sun introduces the future of law enforcement. | Ma Reynolds lays down the law with Sheriff Mal. | Mal puts a new plan into motion to stop the Robo-Mals. | ||||||||||
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"Blue Sun Rising" Part 6 |
"Blue Sun Rising" Part 7 |
"Those Left Behind" Part 1 | Those Left Behind Part 2 | "Those Left Behind" Part 3 | ||||||||||
Firefly #24 (BOOM! Studios) |
Firefly: Blue Sun Rising #1 (BOOM! Studios) |
Serenity: Those Left Behind #1 (Dark Horse Comics) |
Serenity: Those Left Behind #2 (Dark Horse Comics) |
Serenity: Those Left Behind #3 (Dark Horse Comics) |
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The crew launches its attack against the Blue Sun "remote deprecation" facility. | The crew has their showdown with Blue Sun and Director Sang. | A job goes wrong on a border world, forcing a hasty escape; Inara prepares to leave Serenity for good. | On old foe reappears to aid the Blue Hands in setting a trap for Serenity. | While the blue-gloved agents move on Serenity, Mal has his own showdown with Dobson. | ||||||||||
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The Ghost Machine | "The Other Half" | Generations | Life Signs | "Triggered" | ||||||||||
Novel | Webcomic | Novel | Novel | Serenity movie (Part 1) | ||||||||||
A prototype pacification device made by Blue Sun incapacitates the crew of Serenity, leaving each trapped in their own hallucinated fantasies of life that turn to nightmares. | Mal accepts a job that sounds too good to be true. | A tattered star map leads the crew to an ancient Earth-That-Was space ark, bringing River under the spell of another former Academy experiment. | When the Serenity crew discover that the departed Inara is dying from a terminal illness, Mal decides they will stop at nothing to help her recover. |
River gets “activated” by a
subliminal message planted in a TV commercial. |
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"A Better World" | "Living Weapon" | "Take the Sky" | Watch How I Soar | The Shepherd's Tale | ||||||||||
Serenity movie (Part 2) | Serenity movie (Part 3) | Firefly: Still Flying |
Firefly: Watch How I Soar GN (BOOM! Studios) |
Serenity: The Shepherd's Tale (Dark Horse Comics) |
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The crew of Serenity discover
the secret of Miranda. |
The crew of Serenity must get
through Reavers, the |
A seventy-odd-year old Mal receives a package at his remote rim world home. | Attend previously unseen moments in the life of Wash-That-Was...and a future moment of Wash-That-Could-Have-Been. |
Who was Shepherd Book before he took
his message of salvation to the stars? Who was he when he
learned to fight without pause, without remorse, and with a
blinding fury? And how did he find God in a bowl of soup? |
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"Float Out" | "It's Never Easy" |
"Leaves on the Wind" Part 1 |
"Leaves on the Wind" Part 2 |
"Leaves on the Wind" Part 3 |
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Serenity: Float Out (Dark Horse Comics) |
Free Comic Book Day Serenity: Firefly Class 03-K64 (Dark Horse Comics) |
Serenity: Leaves on the Wind
#1 (Dark Horse Comics) |
Serenity: Leaves on the Wind
#2 (Dark Horse Comics) |
Serenity: Leaves on the Wind
#3 (Dark Horse Comics) |
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Friends from |
A would-be hijacker, plotting to take Serenity, gets the drop on Mal. | Where is Serenity? | Everyone is searching for Serenity...and someone finds it. | River goes in search of secrets, while Jubal Early finds his prey. | ||||||||||
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"Leaves on the Wind" Part 4 |
"Leaves on the Wind" Part 5 |
"Leaves on the Wind" Part 6 |
"The Warrior and the Wind" | "No Power in the 'Verse" Part 1 | ||||||||||
Serenity: Leaves on the Wind
#4 (Dark Horse Comics) |
Serenity: Leaves on the Wind
#5 (Dark Horse Comics) |
Serenity: Leaves on the Wind
#6 (Dark Horse Comics) |
Free Comic Book Day 2016 (Dark Horse) |
Serenity: No Power in the 'Verse #1 (Dark Horse) |
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Mal assembles a team to take on the Academy and free its students. | Showdown against the Alliance! | Mal stages a breakout of Zoe on the prison moon. | River tells little Emma a bedtime story. | The crew receives a call for help from Iris. | ||||||||||
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"No Power in the 'Verse" Part 2 | "No Power in the 'Verse" Part 3 | "No Power in the 'Verse" Part 4 | "No Power in the 'Verse" Part 5 | "No Power in the 'Verse" Part 6 | ||||||||||
Serenity: No Power in the 'Verse
#2 (Dark Horse) |
Serenity: No Power in the 'Verse
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Serenity: No Power in the 'Verse
#4 (Dark Horse) |
Serenity: No Power in the 'Verse
#5 (Dark Horse) |
Serenity: No Power in the 'Verse
#6 (Dark Horse) |
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The crew agrees to help Iris find Bea with some help from the Peacemakers, but things take a turn. | The crew puts their plan to rescue Bea in motion. | Bea is sprung from an Alliance cell; River returns not her old self. | Having rescued Bea, the crew now find themselves having to ally more closely with Mericourt to rescue River and Iris from the Alliance. | The crew escapes from Burnet, but not without damage. | ||||||||||
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"A Christmas Cobb" |
"Return to Earth-That-Was" Part 1 |
"Return to Earth-That-Was" Part 2 |
"Return to Earth-That-Was" Part 3 |
"Return to Earth-That-Was" Part 4 |
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Firefly: The Holiday Special #1 (BOOM! Studios) |
Firefly #25 | Firefly #26 | Firefly #27 | Firefly #28 | ||||||||||
Jayne learns the true meaning of Christmas. | A few years after the crew's defeat of Blue Sun, the crew is divided and seeking divergent fortunes on two different ships. | Zoe makes a startling discovery on Regina. | Kaylee and Zoe attempt to track down the self-exiled Malcolm Reynolds. | Kaylee's and Zoe's crews launch an attack on the portal ring. | ||||||||||
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"Return to Earth-That-Was" Part 5 |
"Return to Earth-That-Was" Part 6 |
"Return to Earth-That-Was" Part 7 |
"Return to Earth-That-Was" Part 8 |
"Return to Earth-That-Was" Part 9 |
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Firefly #29 | Firefly #30 | Firefly #31 | Firefly #32 | Firefly #33 | ||||||||||
The crew explores Earth-That-Was. | The crew parleys with the Earthers. | Kaylee develops a plan to take on the plunderers. | When the portal ring was destroyed, Serenity was not the only ship pulled through. | Kaylee's partnership with the Earthers takes a turn. | ||||||||||
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"Return to Earth-That-Was" Part 10 |
"Return to Earth-That-Was" Part 11 |
"Return to Earth-That-Was" Part 12 |
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Firefly #34 | Firefly #35 | Firefly #36 | ||||||||||||
Double-crosses galore! | The crew makes a plan for a way to return to the 'Verse. But who will decide to stay behind on Earth-That-Was? | Return to the 'Verse! | ||||||||||||
Brand New 'Verse Chronology | ||||||||||||||
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