Club Jade

RIP. Artist Al Williamson, who illustrated the Star Wars comic strip and adaptions of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, passed away this weekend. He’s remembered by editor Dave Land at DarkHorse.com

We read it uphill, in the snow, with no boots. Suvudu salutes Heir to the Empire — with a little help from Tim Zahn, editor Tom Dupree and art director Jamie S. Warren — as part of their 25 years of Spectra features.

Solicitations. Look ahead to September comics from Dark Horse, with new issues of Invasion, The Old Republic: Threat of Peace, that Fett thing, and a $1 reprint of Legacy #1.

Blogside. Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff on mistakes.

For the nitpickians. A new Essential Atlas appendix – in PDF form. Prime your hole-punchers!

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There’s some Republic Commando love over at Penny Arcade, just in time for Halloween! I think I’d want to be Ordo…

• Comic: xkcd imagines Harrison Ford’s less-successful ad-libs.

• Poll: io9 has a villain cage match between Darth Vader and Q. So far? Q is winning. Go do your thing.
• Lists: Star Wars is #1 on GeekDad’s ten geeky movies to raise your kids on.
• Crafts: Build a cardboard Boba Fett costume on the cheap!

Above, a video interview with author Sean Williams on his TFU novelization, while Penny Arcade riffs on the game.

Del Rey has also emailed out a list of book release events taking place on Saturday, August 23; You’ll find them beneath the cut. (more…)

• Comics: Penny Arcade takes on one of the Expanded Universe’s less savory traits.

• Media: September issue of UK mag SFX features multiple Clone Wars covers.
• And someday we might even see them: Jeffrey Katzenberg tells Coming Soon that George Lucas is planning to convert all six films in 3-D.
• Been there, done that: The Daily Herald finds that some fans are less than buzzed for The Clone Wars. Well, that’s my experience… Just not really feeling this one.

Nine comic artists contributed to Harvest is When I Need You the Most, which debuted last weekend at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Festival. The rest of us will be able to order the 36 page, full color book tomorrow.

Above, a panel from Dave Roman and Raina Telgemeier, via her livejournal. (via)

• Diesel Sweeties is here to praise Chewbacca, not to mourn him. (Though it’s probably best we don’t tell them about Vector Prime.)

• io9 discovers Mon Calamari. So 1983.
• Yesterday, the other Star Wars turned 25.

• Flying Monkey Comics snarks at the Fanboys edit controversy.

• Intercom fun at Overheard in the Office.
• Apartment Therapy combs Flickr for the ten best collectible display ideas.

• New Jedi Order analogies in Penny Arcade.

• Heart of the City takes a ride in the Falcon.
• And while not technically being a comic in this entry, My Elves are Different tries casting Lost with Star Wars characters.
• And on xkcd: Truth.