Another fruitful week for comic fans: both Legacy #21 and Rebellion #12 are coming to comic shops on Wednesday, says Diamond. Browncoats may also want to nab Serenity: Better Days #1.
New posters for Indy IV and The Clone Wars
USAToday reveals a new Struzan poster for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, while IESB caught The Clone Wars poster at ShoWest.
ETA: You can purchase the Indy poster now at Star Wars Shop.
So long, Gary, and thanks for all the geek
Adam Rodgers explores the concept that all geek springs from D&D at the NYT. As a concept it’s hit-or-miss, but the diagram is funny.
Poll: Legacy of the Force: Revelation
Last week, we asked what you thought of the latest Legacy of the Force book, Karen Traviss’ Revelation. And it turns out most of you… Haven’t read it yet! Shocking.
Out of 112 voters total, 34 of you haven’t read it yet and 26 have no plans to read it. Of those who did, another 26 loved it, 16 thought it was okay, and 5 each went for ‘Meh’ and ‘Didn’t like it.’ The percentages don’t quite add up to 100%, but polls are weird that way.
In other Revelation news, it hit #1 on the New York Times and Publisher’s Weekly mass-market bestseller lists. It’s not totally unprecedented (Fury was #3) but I suspect part of this is that it’s simply not the season for a lot of big releases yet. (Or, Boba Fett fans: Go figure.) We’ll see how Invincible does in May.
Our new sidebar poll, inspired by the season finale of Stargate: Atlantis, is about time travel. It expires next Saturday at midnight. (I promise – no pie charts.)
And the twincest is the tame part
From the deep thinkers of College Humor, Luke Skywalker’s Lost Letters From Dagobah. I think you can see where this is going.
No time for Facebook, Dr. Jones! (and other Indy news)
…Or perhaps more appropriately :”It tells me that goose-stepping morons like yourself should try reading Facebook instead of banning them.” Paramount is planning to release thousands of short video clips from its many films for use on Facebook, using the VooZoo application, according to The Press Association. While many films will be released soon (this week), clips of the man with the whip and fedora will wait. Terms for releasing clips of Indiana Jones films will have to wait for the moment while they hash out the marketing plan related to the release of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
In other Indy news, you can now play some of the new LEGO Indiana Jones video game next weekend, even though the game doesn’t come out in June. The only catch – you’ll need to be in the UK, at the Play.com live event at Wembley Stadium.
Want to have an Indiana Jones themed birthday party? Better pre-order those Indy supplies. 4 hats for $3.35!
And in random news, filmmaker Uwe Boll, (director of Bloodrayne), has intentionally decided to release his new film, Postal, on the same opening weekend as Indiana Jones, saying, ”On the Indiana Jones weekend – May 23 – we will go out and destroy Indiana Jones in the Box Office! We all know that Harrison Ford is older as my grandpa and his time is up – would Michael Moore say! Spielberg gets sloppy. We saw that with War of the Worlds (why the —- the older brother survived?) and also in parts of Jaws, E.T., Munich etc.! My performance in Postal as ‘Nazi Theme Park Owner’ outperforms easily Ben Kingsley in Schindler’s List!” (CinemaBlend.com’s first tag on this news article is “Stupidity” – says it all)
The fandom minute
- Interview: Lightsabre talks to Kenneth Colley, who played Admiral Piett.
- Gaming: io9 brings us a brief history of Star Wars video games.
- Fan art: Photo mosaic of the Star Wars/Last Supper painting.
- YTMND: Can Luke get anything right?
Windham to tell Obi-Wan’s life story?
A certain power droid of our acquaintance points us towards another mysterious appearance on Amazon – an Obi-Wan bio by Ryder Windham, in the form of a Scholastic hardcover set for October. Amazon isn’t the most reliable source for early news, but a companion book to last fall’s The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader is certainly not out of the question.
Video: Eddie Izzard Star Wars bit
As strong as a small pony!
KOTOR III, the rumor that will not die
New evidence that there may be another Knights of the Old Republic game: 1UP has a ‘tipster’ with portions of a script. LucasArts has no comment. Whatever, dude. This game doesn’t even officially exist yet and I’m already sick of it.