Club Jade

Flashback: 14-year old Dave Lowe’s Revenge of the Jedi fan comic from 1980. There’s Luke/Leia kissing and sleeveless Vader! (via) In a more professional capacity, he also did some work for a Sci-Fi Channel Star Wars marathon back in 1993.

• Fan sites: MizzeeOh, we we know as a contributer over at EUC, has launched a new KOTOR site, Carbonite Dreams.

• Howto: A cheap custom lightsaber at Instructables.
• Lists: Topless Robot places Boba Fett in the #1 spot in their list of the 10 most awesome characters ruined by fans. Can I get an amen? (The real shocker of the article: Sonic the Hedgehog has fans?)

The Undercity Portugal blog has a new look – and an interview with Knights of the Old Republic writer John Jackson Miller. They talk about KOTOR, Vector, Indiana Jones and some upcoming projects.

GalacticBinder is a new site aiming to be the ultimate web directory for Star Wars fandom. It’s off to a nice start (here’s our listing.)

Being ad-heavy and sponsored by an official licensee, I wouldn’t count on your more paranoid fanfic sites to feel particularly welcome here, although the fact that they have a category for them at all is a nice sign. What strikes me as the most unusual is the lack of a general Expanded Universe category – it only appears as a subsection under Characters.

Still, it was on TFN yesterday, so site owners will no doubt be submitting listings like mad for a good week or so.

• T-shirts: The latest Steampunk Artoo… Now you see it, now you don’t.

• Fan sites: Wookieepedia is one of Wired’s eight best non-Wikipedia pedias.
• Craft: Fold yourself a Cubetrooper, Indiana Jones, Fetility Idol or any number of others.
• Lists: Topless Robot’s eight biggest reasons Indiana Jones is better than Han Solo, ten greatest spaceship chases ever, ten most blatant Star Wars toy rip-offs of the ’70s and Cracked’s eight classic movie robots that suck at their jobs. Hogwash!

The Star Wars Outer Rim Alliance, a network formed by seven fansites from around the globe (including our pals over at Lightsabre) launched a slick website today, complete with a message from their ambassador, actor Gerald Home.

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?

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.

• TFN features some Legacy of the Force fan art, mostly spaceships. At right, CernStormrunner’s redition of the StealthX.

• The EUCast is gearing up for The Great EU Debate of ‘08!
• Drew Karpyshyn blogs about his upcoming projects.

Randy Stradley reveals a macrotastic Legacy #22 cover on the Dark Horse message boards: TFN quickly gets to work.

• Interview: Lightsabre talks to Kenneth Colley, who played Admiral Piett.

• Gaming: io9 brings us a brief history of Star Wars video games.
• Fan art: Photo mosaic of the Star Wars/Last Supper painting.
• YTMND: Can Luke get anything right?