Club Jade

It’s time to start keeping an eye out for Star Wars insider #136. It contains interviews with Carrie Fisher and the folks behind the new Star Wars comic, as well as a short story by new-to-the-EU author Ari Marmell.

The newstand edition has a Boba Fett cover. Of course.

Our next book release comes on the 24th, with the paperback reprint of Drew Karpyshyn’s The Old Republic: Revan. Our next actual new release comes first thing in October, with Pablo Hidalgo’s Essential Reader’s Companion.

In stores now is the paperback reprint of the seventh Fate of the Jedi book, Aaron Allston’s Conviction.

If you head over to the comic shop, you’ll find Darth Maul: Death Sentence #2 (which James has already reviewed) and the first Clone Wars Omnibus, The Republic Goes to War.

Fans who won’t be spending Wednesday on the road or in airports may appreciate that Darth Vader and the Ghost Prison #4 will be in stores that day.

As expected, it’s a slow week for Star Wars releases. Comic-reading Clone Wars fans can look forward to something on Wednesday with the release of a new Clone Wars digest, The Sith Hunters.

Looking forward, our next few book releases are both paperback reprints: Aaron Allston’s Fate of the Jedi: Conviction (Aug. 28) and Drew Karpyshyn’s The Old Republic: Revan (Sept. 25.) The next actual new release will be The Essential Reader’s Companion by Pablo Hidalgo – which Del Rey kindly gave us a peek at last week – on October 2.

Tomorrow is the day… Aaron Allston’s X-Wing: Mercy Kill will finally be in stores. Entertainment Weekly has yet another excerpt.

We linked several of the early reviews on Friday, but the weekend brought one more by Big Shiny Robot’s Bryan Young. “The book kept my heart pounding and a smile on my face, which is the best I could ask for from a Star Wars book,” he writes… So far, so good!

Meanwhile, Wednesday will be good to comics fans, with both Knight Errant: Escape #3 and Lost Tribe Of The Sith: Spiral #1 due in the shops.

Of course this week brings a glut of Star Wars stuff. Of course. First up, on Tuesday, is Lost Tribe of the Sith: The Collected Stories… All John Jackson Miller’s Fate of the Jedi tie-ins stories that you may have read for free over the course of the series, plus a new one and, I hear, some maps.

It’s also the time to start keeping an eye out for Star Wars Insider #135, which includes Karen Miller’s Myri Antilles story, a tie in to next month’s Mercy Kill.

On Wednesday, get your fill of mostly-silent fanboy-favorite grunters with Blood Ties: Boba Fett Is Dead #4 and Darth Maul: Death Sentence #1.

It’s another light release week for Star Wars fans, with Darth Vader And The Ghost Prison #3 on Wednesday being the only release

At least we know there’ll be something next week: John Jackson Miller’s Lost Tribe of the Sith: The Collected Stories.

Come Wednesday, there will be one Star Wars comic waiting in the shops: Knight Errant: Escape #2.

John Jackson Miller fans have more coming as well. Lost Tribe of the Sith: The Collected Stories, a trade paperback collection of his Fate of the Jedi tie-in shorts, will be out on the 24th, our sole book release of the month.

If you’ve been waiting for the paperback to pick up Timothy Zahn’s Choices of One, Tuesday is your lucky day. And you get that spiffy new cover to boot!

Comic fans will have something in the shops this week, too: Blood Ties: Boba Fett Is Dead #3 is on the shipping list for Wednesday.

Our next book release, John Jackson Miller’s Lost Tribe of the Sith: The Collected Stories, is coming up in about a month.

It’s yet another comic-only release week, so head to the comic shop on Wednesday for Dawn of the Jedi: Force Storm #5, which concludes the new series’ first arc, and Darth Vader and the Ghost Prison #2.

Book folks, you’ll finally have something to pick up next week – the paperback of Tim Zahn’s Choices of One. After that, we’re looking at the mostly-reprinted Lost Tribe of the Sith: The Collected Stories by John Jackson Miller (July 24) and, finally, Aaron Allston’s X-Wing: Mercy Kill (August 7.)