Club Jade

Bantha Tracks #85 went up last night, so Hyperspace members can head over to StarWars.com for an 8-page PDF featuring Germany’s Jedi-Con, WonderCon, and ‘Bantha babies’ (not to be confused with baby banthas. Next time?)

Yet more brand new fiction for Hyperspace members! The latest selection is Lando Calrissian: Idiot’s Array, set pre-ESB, by Rich Handley.

Which old-schooler will be next? Dare we guess?

‘Precipice,’ the second brand new Hyperspace short story, is up on StarWars.com – and it’s by our own Chris Cassidy! She tells me that it takes place while Obi-Wan is held prisoner on Geonosis during Attack of the Clones.

The Hyperspace fan club newsletter, Bantha Tracks, is now available as a downloadable PDF – and you don’t even have to be a Hyperspace member to try out the first PDF issue.

Longtime subscribers will note that it’s now significantly longer, too. Cudos to Mary – and our fellow fans – for the great job!

Knights of the Old Republic writer John Jackson Miller’s ‘Labor Pains’ is up on StarWars.com with illustrations by Pablo Hidalgo.

Supervising Director Dave Filoni talks about The Clone Wars‘ most controversial new character (so far.)

According to Knights of the Old Republic writer John Jackson Miller on the TFN boards, StarWars.com’s Hyperspace will soon be bringing us original Star Wars short stories. (They’ve been reprinting previously-published short stories from magazines and anthologies for quite a while now, as well as original webstrips.) Miller’s “Labor Pains” will be among the first offerings.

And we bid farewell to the official site’s ‘What’s the Story’ feature with a listing of all 61 fan-written contributions to the Databank. (CJers will probably remember Kalyn Farnmir, even if the winning entry does lack penguin squeezing.)

StarWars.com celebrates the Celebration Japan announcement with a ‘Star Wars‘ in Japan checklist, a comparison of manga and American comic adaptions, and ten items they beat us to.

• The Clone Wars: Captain Rex concept art, Plo Kooned and all.

• Gaming: TFU miniatures.
• Source Archive: Neile Janna Returns to Adarlon for New Holo and Smuggler’s Roster: Random Rumors.

At least, that’s the impression one gets from winning entry for the 2008 Hyperspace Shirt Design.