Cover and summary for Troy Denning’s Tempest is up. Let the debates begin!
Del Rey moving into graphic novels
Del Rey’s new territory: original graphic novels. First up, a new Shannara story by Terry Brooks.
I doubt there’s anything Star Wars in the pipeline, since obviously Dark Horse holds the rights to publish SW comics, but I wonder if there’s wiggle room in the contracts that would allow Del Rey to do adaptions. Dark Horse certainly isn’t interested, (Their last attempt was way back in 1998) and the graphic novel treatment sure would make certain parts of the NJO a lot more digestible.
First Betrayal review
The Publishers Weekly review of Aaron Allston’s Betrayal is up at Amazon.com. It’s quite favorable but does contain a bit of new information.
Dark Horse Update: Legacy #3
Galactic Hunter has our first look at Legacy #3, most noteably the cover. Fan speculation (and a few hints from Randy Stradley) has pegged the cover subjects as Imperial royalty. Get your fanspec at TFN now, before it all turns sour.
Also in August, a new collection of Dark Empire II that includes the anticlimatic finale of the series, Empire’s End, and a second X-Wing Omnibus.
StarWars.com update
The Complete Visual Dictionary looks pretty neat, although I thought we already had one of those…
“Visits to Rancho Obi-Wan,” a Hyperspace exclusive video series about collecting with Steve Sansweet, starts next week.
Lucasfilm’s Senior Model Maker Don Bies is the latest VIP blogger. Dark Horse’s John Ostrander and Jan Duursema have also been spotted on the message boards.
Current scores on the Fan Club President Race: Uscwannabe 77, Dustin Roberts 68.
Gentle Giant’s Anniversary Gift
According to an interview RebelScum did with Amanda Burns of Gentle Giant, the Mara Jade mini-bust is a convention exclusive for this year’s GenCon, aka the traditional site of CJ’s annual gathering. How did they know we’re celebrating our tenth anniversary this year?
Random Character Patterns
Sue Rostoni has posted a character list for Denning’s Tempest, third book of the Legacy of the Force series. This is not the Dramatis Personae, just a quick list without species or affiliations.
ETA: Apparently this was just a rehash of the Personae list from Betrayal, because the original was incomplete. Sigh.
Allston live (and in color!)
Aaron Allston is going out on tour next month for Betrayal, the first in the Legacy of the Force series. The tour tips off in Orlando for Disney’s Star Wars Weekends and continues to Indianapolis, St. Louis, Austin, Dallas, and Fort Worth. Dates and details beneath the cut!
More on the Legacy comic
Dark Horse Editor Randy Stradley wrote a bit on the upcoming comic series, including a first look at some of Cade Skywalker’s buddies who I assume to be the Deliah Blue and Jeriah mentioned. Cade himself looks a bit less Billy Idol/Rambo in this take, although he seems to have a bit of a Garfunkel hair problem. It’s up for grabs which of the Sith is this delightful Darth Talon fellow.
My buddy McEwok thinks Cade is looking a tad like the lead singer of Coldplay. Hmm. He actually looks kind of Solo-ish to me, but maybe it’s just the trench/gun combo. Or the nose. I can’t decide.
Oh wow…
The cover of Darth Bane: Path of Destruction is awesome. It’s by John Jude Palencar, one of those fantasy artists whose work I like but never expected to see on a Star Wars cover.
We’ve also got names for book 4 and 5 of Legacy – #4 is Exile and #5 is Sacrifice, by Allston and Traviss respectively.
And for you NJO fans, Hyperspace is now running Greg Keyes’ Emissary of the Void, a six-part story previously printed in Star Wars Gamer and the Insider.