Taxonomy posters have a long history in entertainment and education. They can range from a staid and serious presentation of the comparative anatomy of mammals for the college lecture hall to the free and breezy relationships between kinds of beer that are perfectly at home in the college dorm room.

We recently spotted a new poster-sized graphic of “Size Comparison – Science Fiction spaceships” from artist Dirk Loechel that pretty much took our breath away. It covers ships from approximately 35 different popular science fiction universes from books, games, film, and television, including Star Wars, Star Trek, Farscape, and much more. They are all rendered in the same scale according to the best sources that Mr. Loechel could find.

Click on the image below to go to the author’s web site and zoom in on the real thing.

The $11 t-shirt deal of the day over at TeeFury today is called “Space Pioneers” by CoDdesigns and is inspired by Firefly.

The sale began at Teefury today, Friday, September 27, 2013, at midnight EST, and will continue for 24 hours from then, and once it’s over, it will not be sold on the site for $11 anymore, though it will continue into the next day for $14 (look for the After Hours bar at the top).

Fans have been fighting for more Firefly since the show was canceled far too prematurely by Fox. We’ve seen a movie, Serenity, and various comics released focusing on the characters Joss Whedon created and their origins or bridging the TV series to the movie.

While the fight to see the TV series return (or at the very least a couple of straight-to-video movies) continues, a new Serenity comic is on the way from Dark Horse that will offer something fans have not seen since the movie, and that is a continuation of the story.

Keep reading for more on where the story picks up (spoilers if you’ve not yet watched…in which case why?!) and to see a couple of preview images from the new comic.

Whoever says Joss Whedon‘s criminally canceled Firefly is dead and gone clearly underestimates the passion of the show’s ever growing fanbase…even over a decade after the show was ended.

One line from the show’s opening song that’s grown to become a sort of motto for fans in their ongoing fight to see Netflix or someone else resurrect the show, standing for tenacity and determination, is “you can’t take the sky from me.” These words were never truer recently when a cloud formed to look very much like the Firefly crew’s ship, Serenity.

You can check out the image below.

The $10 t-shirt deal of the day over at RIPT Apparel today is a Firefly-inspired design called “Shiny Objects in Space” by TheEpicEffect.

The shirt went on sale at RIPT today, Sunday, September 15, 2013, at midnight CST, and will continue for 24 hours from then, and once it’s over, it will not be sold on the site anymore.

The t-shirt is available in men’s (through 3XL), women’s, and youth sizes for $10 each. Kids sizes are $10 (Girls, Toddlers, and Onesies); Hoodies for $38 (in Men/Unisex sizes). Shirt color is in black (see images on product page). You can also get the design on coasters for $25; iphone (4/4s & 5) cases for $18; and prints (18″x24″) for $20.