Club Jade

The Star Wars Books Facebook page held a chat with Pablo Hidalgo today, one of Lucasfilm’s resident continuity experts and author of The Essential Reader’s Companion.

So his most popular answer, naturally, addressed the relationship between the movies and the rest…

I think the EU will always continue to be part of the Star Wars experience, in that there are stories that are best suited for books, comics, games. etc.. The relationship between cinematic content and expanded universe content will continue to be what it is today and has been in the past. What happens on screen is one thing. What happens in the books is another. How they connect and interact is something I’m really eager to see.

More answers below the cut!

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Comics. Remember how Entertainment Weekly was supposed to break some ‘interesting’ Star Wars news? And then we heard it out of WonderCon instead? Well, their article on The Star Wars has finally shown up… And Dark Horse’s Randy Stradley is, let’s say, less than impressed with the end result.

There are two other recent, less wrath-inducing interviews with Stradley on Newsarama and Jedi Journals.

The blogside. Two very different takes on the EU/EpVII issue: Newsarama’s Lucas Siegel takes a thoughtful approach, while io9′s Rob Bricken fans the angry paranoia flames. In another direction, Bria’s Waru Express has reached the New Jedi Order.

Interviews. EUCantina talks to Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff.

Flashback. Blogger Rologutwein is creating Star Wars roleplaying modules – based on other films – in the style of the old West End Games. Here’s his covers, and one of the interiors.

Randomly… Tosche Station’s Emily has a recipe for Corellian ryshcate.

Oh his starwars.com blog, Wallace takes a look at another underappreciated Star Wars writer of the WEG era, Paul Sudlow; while LJ’s LadyElaine pointed towards an article on his personal site on the making of the GFFA map, from the Beyond the Magic CD to the New Jedi Order.

George Lucas is becoming ‘increasingly involved’ with the Clone Wars animated series. Good? Bad? Gungan? Only time will tell! In other CW news, Disney really wants the broadcast rights.

Infodrop

• American Heritage covers ILM before computers. (via)

• Dan Wallace spotlights Michael Allen Horne, who authored two pivotal RPG guidebooks for West End Games.
• The Legacy Revealed reruns Thursday.
• The new Insider is shipping. It also appears on the latest Diamond shipping list (for comic stores) so probably available in standard book shops as well.

Listings

• The Empire Strikes Back makes Premiere’s list of twenty biggest plot twists.

• USA Today’s Whitney Matheson picks Vader’s lightsaber as the most awesome movie prop.

Weird & Wacky

• Steamtroopers! Steampunk stormtroopers, Fett and an Alien pal spotted in Dubai mall. (via)

• The Darth Vader lamp. Well, that’s… ironic. (via)