Eddie spotted an Amazon.com listing for an audiobook of The Clone Wars: No Prisoners by Karen Traviss. It also gives a release date of May 19… But it is Amazon, so nothing is certain! (via)
Give Clone Wars another shot. It’s good!
So I was in the audience at Dragon*Con when they showed the first episode of the upcoming Clone Wars cartoon. Do yourself a favor: give it another shot.
I was in the same group as others who found the movie to be, um…tedious. I wasn’t terribly impressed. But the first episode I saw was great! A nice balance of character, story and battle. And I think Yoda has more lines in this first episode than in all the movies combined. It descends into a couple of spots of “only funny to kids” humor, but only for a few seconds here and there. And I suspect that will fade as the series finds its legs.
So don’t give up on it just yet. Stick with it for a few episodes and see if it doesn’t win you back. You might just be surprised!
The Clone Wars TV trailer is up!
Cartoon Network now has it online! Huzzah!
The Clone Wars comes to TV October 3!
Cartoon Network charmingly made us ignore an entire episode of Ben 10: Alien Force first. In brief: Mon Cal Jedi. Grievous. Plo Koon speaks. Lots of Ahsoka. October 3rd at 9:00. Roger roger.
Watching for the trailer on StarWars.com and CartoonNetwork.com (or maybe Yahoo?) but it may not show until morning. On Tuesday. Happy Labor Day! Up now!
Are we getting The Clone Wars trailer tonight?
UPDATE: There is probably a Clone Wars trailer tonight on Cartoon Network at 8:00pm: The channel is teasing something very big for that time, and TCW fits that bill a lot more than TFU. (Big thanks to Mike and Tagne!)
Both TFN and Yoda’s News have reports from Dragon*Con on Steve Sansweet’s presentation. He showed the first episode of The Clone Wars and said that the premiere date should be announced early next week with a “month long promotional series for the launch of the show.” Could said date be October 3rd?
Sansweet also mentioned Celebration 5, but without solid specifics: 2010 is a likely date, with a location in the midwest or eastern U.S, consistent with what we’ve been seeing.
He also showed some new The Force Unleashed clips. Tune into Cartoon Network for a game trailer tonight at 8:00pm. (Or… something else? Whatever: Tune in.)
Star Wars ladies who won’t hesitate to kick your ass
Bettie Magazine counts down nine badass Star Wars women, including several from the Expanded Universe. It’s not particularly hard to guess who rightfully takes the top spot. (via)
Secrets of The Clone Wars
The official site points out some of the little details in the new movie.
The Clone Wars freebie for the kids!
Want a cool mini-activity book for free? Check your local comic book shops and theaters for the free Star Wars: The Clone Wars activity books, which include a $5 off coupon for Toys R Us.
This mini-book contains about ten pages The Clone Wars-themed puzzles (including a crossword and a maze), designed for the younglings.
Preview two The Clone Wars comics
DarkHorse.com has posted preview pages for The Clone Wars #1 and the digest-sized Shipyards of Doom.
Catching up with The Clone Wars: AP goes to the special hell, Henry Gilroy, defending the prequels
JadeCon is never a good time for real blogging, and so several stories over the last week got missed. Now that I’ve slept an entire night (and then some,) and taken a Claritin (damn you, con crud!) and am finally back in the land of working wireless, here’s some of The Clone Wars stuff that got missed:
- The AP came up with a real head-scratcher yesterday: Anakin Skywalker as a dirty old man. Now, let’s not pretend there won’t be any Anakin/Ashoka fanfic, but seriously? No.
- CBR has an interview with Henry Gilroy about Dark Horse’s Clone Wars line.
- Creative Loafing’s Fresh Loaf is defending the prequels from The Clone Wars. I for one would so choose to watch even The Phantom Menace over TCW.
- io9 had five things they want to see in The Clone Wars TV show. More Ziro? Umm…
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