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I’ll be honest, comedian Patton Oswalt could dine, bed, wed and behead my present girlfriend and I’d still not be able to resist taking him out for a seafood dinner afterwards. The man is THAT good. Stamp his name across a box filled with cirrhosis and I’ll still reach in for a feel. Hell, print his face across a body pillow and I’d cozy up next to it like we were…never mind, that’s actually kind of gross and illegal, depending on the state we’d stand trial in.

Anyway, my point is that, any Patton Oswalt news is good Patton Oswalt news and today I get to report that, per MTV’s Splash Page, details are out revealing that Oswalt will write a one-shot comic chapter to the Firefly universe, titled “Serenity: Float Out”, scheduled to hit shelves in early June. Man, that sentence had a lot of misused commas.

“Post-’Serenity,’ a bunch of Wash’s friends who we haven’t met on the show, they’re basically buying a new ship and christening it,” said Oswalt of how the death of Serenity’s pilot, Wash (played by Alan Tudyk), plays into the comic. “It’s called a ‘float-out’ when you christen a ship.”

“As they’re christening a new ship, they’re telling stories about Wash, and we’re basically seeing what could be the start of a new adventure,” he said.

Fans of Patton’s standup comedy, already know that he’s a big comic book and science fiction fan. Knowledge that actually helped aid Oswalt when fleshing out the concept.

“I talked a little bit to Joss [Whedon, Firefly creator], but I was such a huge fan of the show that I didn’t really need to talk to anybody about it. I kind of just knew it,” he laughed.

…it was very frustrating to see the show get canceled when a world was starting to come together,” he added. “I just wish Fox had given it some more time, I guess.”

You heard it here, folks. So cancel those gym membership and refill all the inhalers, just three more short months until shirtless pool parties Dark Horse Comics release “Serenity: Float Out”. Unless of course you’re on one of those TLC shows about midgets, then you’ve got a whole lot longer than just three short months ahead of you.

Special thanks to io9 for the tip.