Club Jade

Yeah, yeah, I know Lost had a weak season two and that season three was uneven, but for those of us who stuck with it, season four is the pay off. Anyway, a couple of articles of interest. The first about Locke and the second, um, well, mostly about Locke too and a bit of Ben.

With a new era of the franchise looming, The Deadbolt’s Reg Seeton wonders about the future of Star Wars.

Similar to the WonderCon bootleg, but watch it anyway.

Karen Allen talks up her role as cult icon to iF Magazine and and about her role as Marion Ravenwood in Raiders of the Lost Ark & Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: “How can you go wrong when you meet a woman in a bar in Nepal and she’s drinking men under the table, yelling at large men in Nepalese and ordering them out of the bar, and when she first sets eyes on Indiana Jones, she socks him in the jaw?”

Reviews of IJ&KotCS have started to appear online:

• USA Today sums up the online reviews
• AHN talks about some of these ‘leaks’
• Review #1 on Aintitcoolnews.com (may contain spoilers)
• Review #2 on Aintitcoolnews.com (may contain spoilers)
• Review #3 on Aintitcoolnews.com (may contain spoilers)

The LA Times looks at the re-release of the first three Indiana Jones DVDs, as a retrospect on Spielberg’s filmmaking.

At 328,784 bytes, Corran Horn’s entry is the biggest on the wiki, outpacing Palpatine, Anakin, and Luke. (Mara is #5.) Corran’s quote page, at #13, is bigger than Han Solo’s entire entry. (Note: Reading any of these pages may lead to LOTF spoilers, including some for Invincible.)

The hell, Wookieepedia? Is Stackpole moonlighting over there or something?

Jedi News talks to The Clone Wars director Dave Filoni. (via)

So we kicked it off with the book giveaway, but now it’s EU Cantina and NJOE’s turn. Starting today, there’s discussion over at EUC and trivia at NJOE, both of which come with prizes of their own. Head on over to EUC for the details.

Congratulations to Rae, #58, winner of our Invincible giveaway! The book order is fermenting in the bowels of Amazon.com even as I type.

Thanks to everyone for participating (fabulous response - almost 100 people!) and double thanks to the folks at EUC, NJOE and TFN for the linkbacks. Might even do it again! (Maybe.)

From 30 Rock: “Tell it to me in Star Wars!”

Was checking up on our book schedule last night, and noticed that the release date for the third Coruscant Nights novel, Patterns of the Force, has been pushed back to January 27th - more than understandable given Michael Reaves’ health issues, so hold the bitching.

Happier news comes in the form of two paperback reprints - Death Star is set for November 11th, and Darth Bane: Rule of Two for October 28.

Our Star Wars book release schedule has been thus updated.

Rebelscum has Dark Horse’s August solicitations, including Legacy #27, Knights of the Old Republic #32, Rebellion #16 aka Vector part 8, plus a new ‘Early Victories’ omnibus containing old-school 90’s minis such as Vader’s Quest and the Splinter of the Mind’s Eye adaption.

The biggest surprise is perhaps the first new Clone Wars quarterly, Shipyards of Doom, scripted by the show’s head writer Henry Gilroy.

I haven’t a clue why the new The Clone Wars trailer that aired yesterday isn’t up at starwars.com yet, but you can watch it (clearly, without Polish) online now thanks to io9.

UPDATE: And they probably got it from Yahoo, where you can nab the HD version. (Thanks, Corran Fett!)

UPDATE 2: And now it’s on StarWars.com, which also got a bit of an index makeover.

UPDATE 3: Embedded!

More than a week spoiler-free for Invincible! Whoo! Speaking of, this is the absolute last call for our giveaway. In less (or more?) EUy news, The Clone Wars theatrical trailer is now all official.

• Fan art: 1920’s Star Wars.

• Indiana Jones: Kingdom of the Crystal Skull trailer and it just keeps coming; Indy goes to Indy.
• Upcoming: Luceno’s Millennium Falcon to take us past Legacy of the Force.
• Fan films: AtomFilms launches new site for Fan Movie Challenge as 2008 deadline approaches.
• Film: New trailer for The Dark Knight.
• Video: Batman and Iron Man bicker over the summer movie season.

The folks at Swbooks.co.uk (via) spotted a cover for Luke Skywalker, Last Hope for the Galaxy at Amazon.

It’s somewhat similar to the 30th anniversary collection covers, and features the same Tsuneo Sanda artwork used in the solicitation and at the book’s listing on DarkHorse.com. Check it out under the cut! [Read more →]

• New cover from Japan, Timothy Zahn’s Allegiance, over at the Japanese cover gallery. There’s a new Last of the Jedi one up as well. Death Star expected soon, no word on LOTF… (via)

• Thrawn (and Ackbar) get a little love over at io9’s list of greatest space strategists.
• TFN reports that author Troy Denning will be on the Philadelphia-area radio show To Be Continued this Sunday.