The official site has a Monday surprise for us: The cover art for Joe Schreiber’s Deathtroopers.
EU interviews times 3: Stover, Miller & Wilkinson
EU Cantina has posted their Matthew Stover interview, while Lightsabre talks to Karen Miller. Also at EUC, The Force Unleashed’s Adrienne Wilkinson.
I sense a connection here…
Oh, not overtly – Other than Walter Jon Williams having been a actual Star Wars author – but here’s two interesting reads that I urge you to compare and contrast: Williams on writer geeks and the TFN Lit forum’s ‘Why you and I shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the canon’ thread.
Out this week: Knights of the Old Republic
Knights of the Old Republic #37 is on Diamond’s shipping list for Wednesday. As an added bonus, check out the preview for The Clone Wars #4.
The fandom minute: Thracken misses io9’s bus, My Little Ponies, Flickr, Designer editions
You missed one. io9 lists the most ridiculous evil twins in the multiverse, tragically ignoring Star Wars’ Thrackan Sal-Solo. Okay, sure, so maybe a mention for a C-list Expanded Universe character is too much to expect, but he’s the identical cousin of Han Solo! But evil! With a mustache! He led an organization called the Human League! What’s not to mock?
- My Little Pony: Bonnie interviews Mari Kasurinen, who has a new custom – Han Solo!
- The blogside: Qui-Gon Jinn is an America tourist. (via)
- Copyright: Flickr is still silent on the Heilemann deletions. I’m mourning that I never got to icon any of them.
- Random: Star Wars Designer Edition. I am 99% sure I’ve seen these before (the Insider?) but I can’t remember where and searching the blog has proved fruitless. So, enjoy.
Comic old, comics new: Sneak peek at new KOTOR, taking in all of Vector
Editor Dave Marshall talks a wee bit about Knights Of The Old Republic #37, plus a nine page preview. (Alas, the issue didn’t come out yesterday – at least not if you believe Diamond.)
Meanwhile, CBR has John Jackson Miller, John Ostrander, Jan Duursema and Randy Stradley to talk about Vector now that it’s done – and/or the first trade is imminent, depending on your point of view. But the piece does contain spoilers.
TFN thread of the indeterminate time period: The key phrase here is ‘historical perspective’
After nearly two decades, three actual movies, a TV show/movie, and (approximately) a thousand other books, of course Heir to the Empire and pals have some continuity issues. Sorry, that’s just how we play it in the GFFA. Suck it up, fanboy.
But we can agree on one thing: The covers have always been pretty bad. Of course, some of the EU’s worst have nice Drew Struzan covers, thus proving the old adage…
EUbits: Gizmodo discovers the GFFA; TFU up for writing award; First look at Insider #107
Great things on the Wookieepedia: Gizmodo has blogged the Wookieepedia’s galaxy map (originally appeared in Star Wars Insider #65) thus making it legitimately cool on the internet. Or something. Not that I’m saying you kids still don’t have some work to do.
- Comics: Randy Stradley has an update at Dark Horse’s Star Wars Zone. Big news is that The Clone Wars comic will go on (monthly!) for six more issues. And there will be two big announcements at New York Comic-Con.
- The Force Unleashed: The game is a nominee for the WGA’s award for 2008’s best videogame writing. (via)
- Magazines: Could the Star Wars Insider be on the road to improvement with a new editor?
- Authors: Karen Traviss is up for the Philip K. Dick award for the final book in her Wess’har series, Judge.
Pro art: Seeley’s Mindor cover, step-by-step
Tor’s Irene Gallo gets Dave Seeley to share his process for ‘Rogue Leader,’ the painting that became the cover for Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor.
Book review roundup: Karen Miller’s Wild Space makes the Livejournalers squee
About a month ago, Karen Miller’s first Star Wars novel was released. It’s been getting a surprising amount of of lip service in fandom lately, and I wasn’t sure why until I read a couple of reviews on LiveJournal – not exactly the hot spot for EU meta these days.
But no, right there in Jedi News, four reviews in little over a week, and two of them (Calmer-Sky and Senatorsfan-Ink) are so enthusiastic you’ll need a squeegee afterwards. Meanwhile, LazyPadawan enjoyed it but has a much different perspective on the book’s (dare I say?) fan service, while JawaStew takes a balanced tone.
Another surprise came off-LJ – a review of the book at io9 by Charlie Jane Anders, their first for Star Wars fiction. With the catchy title of ‘At Last, A Book That Explains Why Obi-Wan Is Such A Dick,‘ it’s easy to see why this post has a whopping 14,407 views as I type this.
And lest you doubt, the numbers at the highly-critical Jedi Council review thread look pretty good as well: An average of 8.08 out of 10.
With my chronic case of Clone Wars apathy, I’m still not too tempted to pick this up myself, but maybe… At the library. If I see it. Those who have read it, what do you think?