Dark Horse editor Randy Stradley announced yesterday that the comic company is going back to press for second printings of Rebellion #1, Legacy #1, and Legacy #2. The reprints will be on shelves October 25th, along with three brand new issues of the various Star Wars titles.
Guess who’s blogging?
It’s Helen! The book she co-authored, The New Essential Guide to Alien Species, comes out at the end of October.
Any Sith aficionados in the crowd?
Drew Karpyshyn’s Darth Bane novel, Path of Destruction, was released today, and starwars.com has the standard interview and excerpt up. The real question is… Will you buy it?
Oh yes, this will end well…
Assuming it’s true, that is, and it looks likely. Spotted in the latest Insider by Acky12 at the NJOE boards:
Del Rey Asks Fans to Name the next Sith Lord
Besides being the ultimate bad guys, Vader, Sidious, Maul, and Bane have another thing in common: they all had to go through the ritual of shunning their identities to solidify their allegiance to the Sith order. A pivotal point in the career of any self-respecting Sith Lord is the adoption of his or her Darth title. If you’ve been reading the Legacy of the Force series of novels (and if not, why haven’t you?) then you know that – SPOILER ALERT, highlight to read – Jacen Solo is turning toward the dark side of the Force. The young Sith Lord is about to take the most definitive of steps by adopting a Darth moniker and Del Rey is sponsoring a contest in which readers get to choose the name of the newest Sith Lord in the Star Wars saga. Is it us, or is that pretty sweet? Details for the contest can be found at www.darthwho.com
Darthwho.com has been registered by Random House and currently redirects to Randomhouse.com.
TFN thread of the indeterminate time period
“The biggest problem with Star Wars books today.” The real meat of the matter comes from Carnage04 a little more than halfway down, and it boils down to a simple fact: you can’t please everyone. (And that goes double for TFN.)
Peter Jackson speaks
In an interview with AICN, Peter Jackson talks about the limbo that is The Hobbit. Guess what? He heard the latest rumors on the internet, along with everyone else. More hopeful is the first part of the interview, where he talks about the Temeraire books. He even mentions Star Wars and franchise-building:
What I love about what George Lucas has done with STAR WARS, which I think is really cool, is that you have the movies and the movies, obviously, are the flagships of the saga, of the storytelling, but you have the comic books and the novels and everything that fills out what happens inbetween the films and what happens in other places while the films are occurring. I love that expansion of the world. This is, to me, has also got the same possibilities. The movies can be the epics and there can be other forms of entertainment that can be running alongside the movies, expanding the world of the books and the story.
Meanwhile, they’re casting for Hobbits in London. Thanks to Yav for the links!
Zahn, militaristic? How novel.
Andrew Wheeler reads Allegiance. Really, that’s it, no spoilers or anything. But please, no one tell him about Splinter of the Mind’s Eye. That’s fandom’s little crackhead secret.
Hyperspace fiction you may recognize…
Guess who’s coming to dinner
The slashers found Aaron…
And they ask him about Wes and Hobbie’s ‘relationship’ at DragonCon. (Note Helen to the right of Mike!)
But wait, there’s more beneath the cut! (Watch the video first.)