Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
It’s that wonderful time of the year when Lucasfilm’s licensees try to give us as much as possible to offer our friends and families to get us for the holidays.
The latest offering from the holiday collection is Star Wars Chronicles: The Prequels, by our friends Stephen J. Sansweet and Pablo Hidalgo of Lucasfilm.
At a price tag of $150, this is probably an item for your more generous relatives. But it is certainly a fantastic book.
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Ewan McGregor’s run as Sky Masterson is over. Wah! To help lessen the pain, Rose at ewan_playground has posted some fantastic pictures.
Saving (right, click, save) them is fine, but please don’t hotlink directly to the pictures.
Posterwire on the propaganda-style teasers for V for Vendetta. They’re really fantastic posters, and I’m not looking forward to the inevitably bland photomontage that will no doubt follow for the release.
Harry Potter is the top blog personality of 2005. Or so says The Blog Herald, anyway – I can only find a list of today’s most featured people on Blogpulse.
Knit zombies! Adorably grisly!
Whedon’s people deny it, but IGN is claiming that Universal has given the go-ahead for low-budget sequel to Serenity. The film would be broadcast on the Sci-Fi Channel or possibly go straight to DVD.
And while we’re on the subject, Serenity hand puppet theatre.
Make us a Star Wars themed nativity scene! Then send us pictures. The best one – as chosen by a crack panel assembled from the Club Jade mailing list – wins.
You can use pretty much any medium – a drawing, action figures, your pals from the 501st… We’re not picky.
Send us at least 3 but no more than 6 “high-res” (at least 600 pixels wide) quality JPGs of your entry. At least one must be a full shot of the scene, the rest can be closeups or details. Email your entries to simpletricks@gmail.com by December 15th, 2005.
Originality counts, so be as creative as you can. Remember, CJers love the bizarre.
RULES
1. The scene must contain at least 5 recognizable Star Wars characters. It doesn’t have to be all Star Wars characters, but they should be the main focus.
2. Only one version of each character may be used – you can have an Anakin or a Vader, not one of each. (Multiple Stormtroopers/Clonetroopers/Jawas and such are fine, but only one of each will count towards the 5 figure total. Yes, different kinds of troopers are fine.)
3. Pictures must be in focus. Mostly. We need to be able to tell who’s who.
4. Keep it at least PG-13.
5. Mind tricks don’t work on us. Only funny.
PRIZES
The first place winner will get a choice of $50 gift certificate to either Star Wars Shop or Amazon. First, second and third place winners (and maybe more) will get their entries posted to the Club Jade blog for all to admire.
The Lord of the Rings musical moves closer a March 23 opening night in Toronto and the set designer isn’t even nervous!
It doesn’t sound like there’ll be a chorus line of dancing Orcs or a rendition of “Don’t Cry for Me Minas Tirith.” Ah well.
And the Drew Karypyshyn Darth Bane novel is… Path of Destruction, due October 2006.
Inner Bitch watches the entire saga (in release order) and is more than a little surprised.
Halagard takes a look at what the Expanded Universe might look like if it started after the release of the prequels.
Meanwhile, Jeff Dillon of The Disembodied Brain picks up The Joiner King and The Unseen Queen. He’s not impressed.
Shoiryu slashes out for a bit, but calms down for a nice discussion of the Master and Padawan attachment.
A short thread on Padme as Anakin’s anima breeds an entire community devoted to the subject. Neat!
In the realm of blogs.starwars.com, there’s a new multiblog for Official Star Wars artists.