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Catching up: Her Universe, Blu-rays and more

Audrey M. Brown interviews Ashley Eckstein about Her Universe and female fans. Meanwhile, the new two shirts and kids sizes that debuted at Star Wars Weekends are now available through the Her Universe website. (Be sure to check out what’s on sale – several shirts are going for half off!)

  • Lucasfilm and Fox hosted a private media event in New York last week, which means a handful of new Blu-ray details have made their way to us, via Big Picture, Big Sound. Looks like the Precious Moments-esque complete saga set comes in the form of a booklet.
  • Some fans are so put out by Sony shutting down Star Wars Galaxies that they’re actually considering suing? There’s also a petition: Apparently at least 2,500 are still playing the thing, which I would have sworn was put out of its misery ages ago. Go figure.
  • Greenpeace is using Star Wars to strike back at Volkswagen for opposing environmental legislation in Europe.
  • Star Wars is #5 and Empire #2 on Total Film’s list of the 50 greatest sci-fi movies. Who beat them out? Well, I can tell you one thing: It ain’t The Godfather.
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EUbits: Catching up with cover art, Fate of the Jedi excerpts, blueprints and more

Cover art. Two upcoming reprints are getting brand-new covers: Joe Schreiber’s Red Harvest and Michael Reaves’ Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter. Timothy Zahn also gives us our first look at the back of Choices of One on Facebook.

eBooks. Speaking of Zahn, he wrote about Star Wars and the Kindle for Amazon.

Fate of the Jedi. While we were in Columbus, two Ascension excerpts emerged: One long, one short. It’s out in August. Huh.

What in the what? If you really love blueprints — I mean REALLY love blueprints — then you’ve probably already jumped for joy about Star Wars: The Blueprints, since it was also announced last week sometime. As always when it comes to this collector edition stuff, I shrug.

Lists Dark Horse and Star Wars made Newsarama’s list of the ten most important comic relaunches in comic book history. (via)

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Out this week: Star Wars books go digital

Tomorrow all of Random House’s Star Wars back catalog will be available in all the various eBook formats. For some, this is super-exciting… For others, merely shrug-worthy. In any case, there is a trailer.

This isn’t going to be every single Star Wars book – Young Jedi Knight fans, you are nubs out of luck – but as both Bantam and Del Rey are Random House imprints, this is the vast majority of them.

There are no actual new releases this week, but I did miss last week’s lone comic: Jedi: The Dark Side #2. In stores now!

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JadeCon 2011: The post o’ quotes

We have all gathered here in the suite for our Post-Con Depression Kick-Off Breakfast: bagels, cold pizza, cake, Doritos, stale popcorn and cookies. The breakfast of geeks, baby!

Before we start putting the suite back into place, we thought we’d post our collection of quotes for, well, our enjoyment. Regular blogging will return after we get home and sleep for a few days.

  • “Acknowledge my existence!” – Fen to a cantankerous bathroom water sensor
  • “When will people realize that you just shouldn’t put pictures of your junk on the internet?” – Elizabeth
  • “Or you give it to a man who knows how to work your equipment.”
  • “Luci is a House Elf.”
  • “Enjoy your drink. We’ll pray for you.” – Luci, the Apprentice Bartender
  • “I’m a little short to dress as Darth Vader.” – Helen
  • “Hello, you’re looking down.” – Deet, supportive as always
  • “I’m licking Obi-Wan. It is a good day.” – Beth
  • “She’s Edward, not a man!” – Eliz
  • “Now.. did they get the whipped cream for me?” – Rach
  • “I like to go in there and just inhale, because it smells like books.” – Fen
  • “You don’t want to listen to x-rated fix either, Mom?” – Carly
  • “Well, that was a totally heterosexist clue!” – Carly
  • Kelly: “What are we applauding?” Dan: “My squats.”
  • “Urrr… I am not a clever pirate.” – VJ
  • “Oh my gawd. Callista is Edward. Eww. That means Luke is Bella.” – Caitlin
  • “Spores are comin’, man… woom-baya.” – Nancy
  • “Woooooomb.” – Spontaneous chant throughout the room
  • “So, who be the vendor of choice for blow-up salamanders?” – Tom
  • “Yay! Fluffy boobs!” – Russ
  • “He’s hot… not Gardulla the Hutt.” – J9
  • “Peeing in a grass skirt is harder than it seems.” – Yav
  • “Dunc has gotten into my soul. And that is scary.” – Beth
  • Aaron: “Y’all are pretty deranged.” Dunc: “We learned it from watching you!”
  • “PG actually counts by alphabetizing numbers.” – Dave
  • “As much as I’d like a big red, star destroyer, but I’m probably  better off with a Jedi.” – PG
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The fandom minute: Parenting with Admiral Ackbar

Young Archer here is well on his way to complete Star Wars indoctrination. (via)