Abel G. Peña details how he was able to purchase the not-available-in-the-U.S. Star Wars manga.
Book and comic updates
Nonfiction: J.W. Rinzler talks about wrapping up work on next year’s Making of Star Wars. He mentions two books I don’t think we’ve heard much about, a scrapbook and a pop-up book.
Fiction: Sue Rostoni posts a short timeline of Tempest. And in comics, John Jackson Miller has announced that Dark Horse is going to revive the in-continuity news source starting with in Knights of the Old Republic #13. No word on if this will spread to the other comics.
ETA: Apparently letter columns are returning to the comics as well, though it’s not known in what issues yet. (Thanks, Broox!)
First look at Secret Weapon
Secret Weapon is the seventh Last of the Jedi book by Jude Watson. Sue Rostoni has recently confirmed that the series will run to ten books.
Tempest in Hardcover
The latest Legacy of the Force novel is an alternate selection of the Science Fiction Book Club in their Winter catalog. This is, as far as I know, the only place fans can get the book in hardcover. SFBC also offers Bloodlines, the Dark Nest Trilogy, and several other Star Wars books.
The recent X-Wing comic omnibus is also offered for winter, though not in hardcover.
The Club Jade review of Sculpting a Galaxy
Okay. I have to own up to my own Star Wars bias: I skip all the documentaries that involve models or special effects. (I know. I’m a betrayal to my own geekdom.)
So when Insight Editions (the folks who made the gorgeous Dressing a Galaxy, last year) announced a book about the models? I was a bit torn.
Sure. I collect all the books. But I was going for the Limited Edition one. And the price is not cheap. However, I can finally admit to having fallen to the model side of The Force by saying that it is totally worth spending obscene amounts of money to pick up the Limited Edition of: Sculpting a Galaxy: Inside the Star Wars Model Shop.
Totally worth it.
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Out this week
Tuesday: Lethal Alliance, a new game for the Playstation Portable and Nintendo DS. ($39.99)
Wednesday: Either I screwed up last week or Knights of the Old Republic Vol. 1 was pushed back. (Trade paperback, $18.95 )
Such a nice boy; he kept to himself
Kidan9 analyzes Jacen Solo, the early years. Wait, people actually read the Young Jedi Knight books?
TFN thread of the indeterminate time period
Let’s all take a moment to be grateful the fanboys aren’t running the EU, shall we?
On the other hand, I’m still cracking up at the idea of Kevin J. Anderson’s Happy Fun Legacy Adventures, volumes one through four. In my head it turns out something like this.
TFN thread of the indeterminate time period
NJO Redux: Poor Internally Consistent Characterization in LOTF is a rare gem from the TFN boards – title and bumpy start aside, it turns into an intriguing, civil (so far) discussion on characterization issues in the Legacy of the Force series, if you can stomach a few touches of outright fanboyism.
I know – I’m shocked, too.
Comics for March
RebelScum has Dark Horse’s March solicitations. For comics, just Legacy #10 and KOTOR #15. In trades, a Maul collection and Vol. 2 of KOTOR, plus the previously announced second volume of Panel to Panel.