TheForce.Net talks at length with Dark Horse editor Randy Stradley about Star Wars, comics and the always ‘popular’ issues of continuity and canon. I particularly like this bit:
But, writers, know this: I am not interested in “stories” that plug or explain holes in existing continuity. Your goal is to tell a tale that moves, inspires, challenges, or at the very least entertains the readers, not to fill in perceived omissions or pave over “errors.”
And is that a vague confirmation that John Jackson Miller is working on another Star Wars comic I see? Head on over to speculate for yourself.
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1 izikavazo // Nov 10, 2009 at 2:12 pm
I kinda wish they would create comic adaptations of books. I won both the comics and the books to the Thrawn trilogy, and I love both of them.
Invasion is great, but there’s a whole heard of people who haven’t read NJO and have no plans to because they only read comics. They’re missing out on a lot of the storyline.
I guess too many versions of the same stories would cause problems too, but it would be nice to have larger stoylines like NJO and LOTF reach a larger audience.
And it would probably make them a lot of money. Logically it would require fewer writers and less planning to adapt a story rather than coming up with a new one.
2 Aaron // Nov 10, 2009 at 4:22 pm
@ fewer writers / less planning: I seriously doubt that. Adaptating a story is actually just as hard, if not even harder than coming up with a new one. Look at all the failed book adaptations if you doubt it. If adaptations were easy to make, there clearly wouldn’t be as much whining on the internet whenever a beloved classic is turned into a movie. Next candidate for classic turned horrible trash? Eagle of the Ninth. :-(
@interview: I love Randy Stradley’s take on Star Wars. If only there was a clone of his in the book department all those nonsense novels about filling gaps (yes, Traviss, I’m talking about you) could have been avoided. Must be ages that I read a SW novel that had an enjoyable story. Probably will be ages, too, since the novel trash of recent years had me give up on them completely. ;-) Sic transit gloria mundi…
3 Pabawan // Nov 10, 2009 at 4:33 pm
“but there’s a whole herd of people who haven’t read NJO and have no plans to because they only read comics. ”
I’m guessing here, but the number of people who read SW novels > read SW comics
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