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Wednesday will be good for Star Wars comic fans! The latest arc of Dark Times continues with A Spark Remains #2, while Darth Vader and the Ninth Assassin #5 wraps up that storyline. (A hardcover collection is expected in November.)
John Jackson Miller’s Knights of the Old Republic joins the omnibus program with a collection of issues #0-18.
Speaking of JJM, his Kenobi is coming out in hardcover next week.
Here’s a sneak peek teaser of Plastic Galaxy: The Story of Star Wars Toys, which will be available on DVD next month. And no nerds, those aren’t the final graphics… But a few familiar faces do appear!
And the spectral hijinks continue, with Latino Review now claiming that “three close sources” say Obi-Wan Kenobi is also going to return as a (presumably aged-up) Force ghost, and that Ewan McGregor wants a solo standalone as well. We already know he’d be up for returning.
Both are plausible and an Obi-Wan film is a no-brainer… But none of these recent rumors seem like they’ll end up as much more than cameos, so let’s not put too much weight on them – even for rumors – just yet.
Del Rey has put up a big excerpt of Kenobi by John Jackson Miller on Scribd for fans to drool over, as one of their 50 Page Friday promotions. Kenobi comes out on August 27, so only a few more weeks to go before you read the Tatooine Western in its entirety.
Meanwhile, author Miller has been dropping trivia about Kenobi on Twitter daily under #KenobiCountdown. Rooqoo Depot has been collecting those released so far – week one & week two. Need more info on Kenobi? I interviewed John Jackson Miller at Comic-Con extensively about his upcoming novel.
Conan O’Brien tries his best to get Harrison Ford to spill the beans. He’s about as successful as you might expect, though he did manage to make him laugh.
Good news for everyone who enjoys sleeping in on Saturday mornings: Nickelodeon is now premiering the show Friday night at 7, starting the new season (well, Book 2) on September 13.
Book 2 will run 14 episodes, 2 more than Book 1; Books 3 and 4 are also in the pipeline.
Vlogger Nye Armstrong demonstrates how to turn a hijab into the always-fashionable Princess Leia buns!
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Latino Review is furthering the rumor from earlier this week about Ian McDiarmid’s return. They say the Emperor won’t be resurrected (sorry, Dark Empire fans) but will be appearing as a Force Ghost. And he had taken a new apprentice – who will presumably be film’s primary antagonist – before he was killed in Return of the Jedi.
What else do they say? ” Not one thing they have in the script is from a book,” (or a comic?) so count out the usual suspects… If you believe this, anyway.
There are a couple other rumors floating around today as well. One, from Episode 7 News echoes something we heard in May, that Abrams may have his hands in far more than just the actual movie. This one calls him “the creative core” of everything surrounding the new films. The other, from The Daily Superhero, says that the secrecy mandates “pretty much sounds to me like armed guards are near certain important people who are working on this movie, 24/7.”
The armed guard thing sounds like something we’ll be looking back and laughing at in 2015, but hey. Sure. Why not.
So the spate of summer cons where Lucasfilm might announce news related to Episode VII has come and gone, and we’ve gotten some announcements, but nothing mind-blowing. As Dunc said earlier this week, let’s not lose our heads over it. Is it frustrating that Celebration Europe’s big reveal was John Williams, and nothing much came from D23 Expo? Perhaps. Especially when compared to the glut of Marvel movie news that came out at Comic-Con and appearances made at D23. But as film franchises go, Marvel is not Star Wars. And Star Wars is not Marvel.
Last week was dominated by talk of D23, and/or I was a little lax in tweet collecting. Don’t judge me, man. Onward!
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