The Drum, a marketing and advertising site from the U.K., has a feature on Keltie+Cochrane, the Welsh design agency responsible for the Fate of the Jedi covers. (The site requires registration, but you can get a user/password at BugMeNot.)
Fate of the Jedi website is live!
Del Rey has the dedicated site for the new series up and running. It’s not overflowing with new material, but it does have links to two new e-postcards and the excerpt – the same one as the PDF. (via)
Out this week: Fate of the Jedi, Legacy
Tomorrow we can finally all get our hands on Fate of the Jedi: Outcast, the first book in the latest post-ROTJ series. Also kicking off is Aaron Allston ‘s seven-city book tour in Lexington. And be sure to check out the excerpt if you haven’t already.
As for comics, Wednesday brings Legacy #34, and I’ve also been seeing the latest Insider in stores. And TFN is reporting that UK fans have spotted the first Star Wars Adventures digest, but I don’t think we’ll be seeing them in the states just yet.
StarWars.com has Fate of the Jedi guide, excerpt
Head on over to StarWars.com for a 23-page Fate of the Jedi primer featuring series background, character profiles and an 11-page excerpt of next week’s big release, Aaron Allston’s Outcast. And don’t forget Allston is going on tour, beginning Tuesday in Kentucky.
Cover, blurb for Imperial Commando: 501st
StarWars.com has the cover and official blurb for Karen Traviss’ Imperial Commando: 501st.
The Jedi have been decimated in the Great Purge, and the Republic has fallen. Now the former Republic Commandos — the galaxy’s finest special forces troops, cloned from Jango Fett — find themselves on opposing sides and in very different armor. Some have deserted and fled to Mandalore with the mercenaries, renegade clone troopers, and rogue Jedi who make up Kal Skirata’s ragtag resistance to Imperial occupation. Others — including men from Delta and Omega squads — now serve as Imperial Commandos, a black ops unit within Vader’s own 501st Legion, tasked to hunt down fugitive Jedi and clone deserters.
For a bigger look at the cover and the rest of the blurb, including some possible spoilers for Order 66, head over to the StarWars.com link above.
EUbits: Holostar pitching, Randy Stradley, Joe Schreiber, TCW guides and Rebel Force
Head over to Book View Cafe for the second installment of Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff’s A Padawan’s Journal, where she tells the (sadly detail-free) story of how Holostar was pitched.
- Interviews: EU Cantina which is sporting a brand-new design) has posted their interview with Dark Horse’s Randy Stradley. Meanwhile, Suvudu has Joe Schreiber.
- Upcoming: StarWars.com has a sneak peek at The Clone Wars Visual Guide: Ultimate Battles and the fourth Rebel Force book, Firefight.
Out this week: Knights of the Old Republic
We finally have releases this week! Tomorrow, keep an eye out for WOTC’s Legacy Era Campaign Guide. (Does this contain info from the entire Legacy era or just the comic? FYI, the buzz for this has not been very good.) On Wednesday Knights of the Old Republic #39.
And next week, we finally get that damn Outcast book.
How about a random Outcast-related extra?
Over at the Amazon.com listing for Fate of the Jedi: Outcast there’s an e-Postcard (Well, PDF) from Ben to Jaina. It’s funny! Well, the actually message part is. The ‘scrolling’ text seems to think that Jaina is only notable as “Jacen’s sister.” FAIL.
Video: New The Old Republic webdoc, comic
Bioware and LucasArts have released a new web documentary detailing the upcoming MMO. Also up is the second installment of the Threat of Peace webcomic.
Bohnhoff debuts Holostar at Book View Cafe
Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff has revealed the title of the upcoming Star Wars book she’s writing with franchise vet Michael Reaves: Holostar. But the reveal is only a bit of what she addresses in the first entry of A Padawan’s Star Wars Journal, her new blog series for the Book View Cafe. (via)