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Chairman Capone posted:Every line of her dialogue, and even a lot of the art, just make me think someone thought, "Harley Quinn is really popular... why don't we just copy her into a Star Wars comic?" i dont care!! I love it!! going to get really into hot topic now byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Lake Jucas posted:Counterpoint: thr new Vader comic. new vader is great, but to me Aphra's exploring way more interesting areas of star wars and opening it up a lot more. All the weird droids & creatures, the junkyard prison, it has way more acknowledgement of human relationships, the force crystal. Its the weirdest comic which is very good. Jerkface fucked around with this message at 19:54 on Jul 8, 2018 |
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I'm stupid excited for all the stuff announced at SDCC. The Age of ________ series looks fantastic; I love one-shots so much EDIT: Oh; and I got a letter published in Star Wars Adventures; which is awesome jivjov fucked around with this message at 22:43 on Jul 25, 2018 |
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Caught up on the main series, Vader, and Aphra. Vader remains my favorite of the three, but Aphra is pretty close. I'm still hoping in vain that Larocca gets replaced on the main book, but I enjoy the places Gilen's taking the story.
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Roth posted:Caught up on the main series, Vader, and Aphra. Yeah I've got a bunch of Aphra on my Kindle ready to go. But I really love Vader.
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Aug 1, 2018 03:33
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Hell ya Rogue Squadron!
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Aug 7, 2018 05:38
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The digital version of Darth Vader #19 was missing the last page when it released on Wednesday. An update should have got out already to put it in.
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Aug 12, 2018 04:20
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Huh, at the time I thought it ended a little abruptly but didn't think more of it. Rechecking, it looks like the last page is in and lol RIP black Twilek and pink lady, you were entertainingly evil
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Cross-Section posted:Huh, at the time I thought it ended a little abruptly but didn't think more of it. lol oops
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Aug 13, 2018 18:01
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Looks like Larocca will be moving off Star Wars at issue #55. November solicits have Andrea Broccardo on art for issue #56 and Angel Unzueta for #57. Edit: Andrea Broccardo did the art for the two Doctor Aphra issues during the Screaming Citadel crossover. Angel Unzueta is the current artist on Poe Dameron, which is ending at the next issue. OhFunny fucked around with this message at 21:31 on Aug 21, 2018 |
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Aug 21, 2018 21:27
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Is Star Wars the longest-running Marvel series without getting a relaunch and a new number-one issue in the last five years?
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Wheat Loaf posted:Is Star Wars the longest-running Marvel series without getting a relaunch and a new number-one issue in the last five years? According to the guy who owns my FLGS, Star Wars is most likely a case of Marvel wanting to get to an Issue #100 (and if they hit #114, they'll tie the last time they had the star wars comics license)
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Wheat Loaf posted:Is Star Wars the longest-running Marvel series without getting a relaunch and a new number-one issue in the last five years? Definitely. jivjov posted:According to the guy who owns my FLGS, Star Wars is most likely a case of Marvel wanting to get to an Issue #100 (and if they hit #114, they'll tie the last time they had the star wars comics license) Marvel's original Star Wars series went to issue #107. I guess it's 114 issues in total with the 3 annuals and the 4-issue ROTJ mini series. Dark Horse's Star Wars series kept the same numbering when it renamed Star Wars: Republic at #46 until #84 when it got renamed Star Wars: Dark Times with dual numbering. The new numbering on the cover and total series number on the inside cover, so technically Marvel needs to reach issue #116 to overtake the old Dark Horse line and honestly I think they want to just so they can print LONGEST STAR WARS SERIES across the top of it.
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OhFunny posted:Definitely. Ah yes, I knew it was in the early 100s, checked Wookieepedia and neglected to count the annuals and ROTJ (not sure why ROTJ was separate...ANH and TESB were part of the regular run..)
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The original Marvel run had some weird issues with ROTJ. For a few months after the movie came out, they kept printing pre-ROTJ stories. And even after they would occasionally have a pre-ROTJ issue in the middle of their post-ROTJ storyline about the Rebels recruiting planets for the Galactic Conference.
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In the latest Aphra ... Did 000 kill Figrin Dan and the Modal Nodes?????!?!
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There could be more than one band that looks like Fingrin' Dan and the Modal Nodes...
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Star Wars usually operates under the logic that all species are physically identical to, and have the same job as, whatever members were in the movies. It is entirely possible that there are a lot off Bith bands that wear black shirts and solely play in dive bars.
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no man they're dead and now my CD is worth more money
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Eh, by Cantina Band #3 and #4 I think the nodes were really riding off past success so I suppose It's good they went out on top.
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Jerkface posted:no man they're dead and now my CD is worth more money That's not what those songs are called! One is "Mad About Me" and I forget the other one. I, uh, read that one book about what everyone in the cantina was doing that day.
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CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:That's not what those songs are called! One is "Mad About Me" and I forget the other one. Don’t be ashamed, that book (and the Jabba’s Palace one) are cool. When I massively scaled back my collection of SW novels, those were some of the few I kept (along with, like, the Xwing books).
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I liked the cantina tales book but the tales from jabbas palace one is the best because boba fetts story is about him being volcel when jabba offers him a night with slave leia. #nofapfett
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There's one story from the Mos Eisley Cantina one I really liked, about how Labria (the guy with devil horns) was actually a fugitive war criminal and music-lover who orchestrated this overly-complex scheme to get the Modal Nodes a residency at the cantina. It was like something from an Elmore Leonard novel.
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Aug 26, 2018 22:46
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I like the Weequay one where they're revealed to worship a magic 8-ball.
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Honestly, while everyone else may opine that we dodged a bullet, personally I'm a bit disappointed to have missed out on a Mos Eisley movie when they cancelled the Star Wars Story movies because I think you could do a fun "22 Short Films About Mos Eisley" thing. That's the movie Lord and Miller should have been put to work on. Wheat Loaf fucked around with this message at 23:57 on Aug 26, 2018 |
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Aug 26, 2018 23:55
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Wheat Loaf posted:they cancelled the Star Wars Story movies This never happened.
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Wheat Loaf posted:There's one story from the Mos Eisley Cantina one I really liked, about how Labria (the guy with devil horns) was actually a fugitive war criminal and music-lover who orchestrated this overly-complex scheme to get the Modal Nodes a residency at the cantina. It was like something from an Elmore Leonard novel. Labria’s story gets a payoff in Boba Fett’s story in the Bounty Hunter anthology, too.
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Xenomrph posted:Labria’s story gets a payoff in Boba Fett’s story in the Bounty Hunter anthology, too. Oh, yeah, I remember that. Did Daniel Keys Moran write both of them? I know he did the other Fett stories in various anthologies.
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He did, but that might have been the story he wrote under a pseudonym because he didn't like the edits that were done to it.
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Fuckin' everyone in the bar that day has a real significant life. The guy in the astronaut suit is a Jedi sensitive. The ladies with coiled cone beehive hair are spies. The werewolf dies either at the battle of Yavin or Endor, and he was in love with the tentacle eyeball monster. Wuher the bartender made the best drink in the galaxy out of Ponda Baba's severed arm. Nobody just had a beer and went home.
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Well I mean a lot of them did, they just did other stuff later. That soup-vampire guy just smokes his pipe if I remember right. Isn’t Wuher shouting “No blasters! No blasters” the one linking moment that happens in all of the stories?
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Phy posted:Fuckin' everyone in the bar that day has a real significant life. The guy in the astronaut suit is a Jedi sensitive. The ladies with coiled cone beehive hair are spies. The werewolf dies either at the battle of Yavin or Endor, and he was in love with the tentacle eyeball monster. Wuher the bartender made the best drink in the galaxy out of Ponda Baba's severed arm. Nobody just had a beer and went home. Point of order: he made the drink out of Greedo's corpse. I like the soup vampire guy partly because I liked the Quinlan Vos comics where the Anzati are recurring adversaries and partly because there's one line from the Essential Guide to Characters which is fantastic taken out of context: "Only one man ever complained about Jerriko's high prices. Jerriko drank his soup. The man died." Edit: He also has a bit where he muses on how he's a thousand years old and hasn't seen a Jedi in nearly a century, because authors had no idea what the timeframe for the prequel era (which I'm pretty sure people knew was coming by that point but nobody other than Lucas knew what was going to be in it) was going to be. Writers wildly speculating about the pre-OT setting is good fun (my favourite is Marvel's Star Wars Annual #1 from 1978 which features a Clone Wars adventure with Obi-Wan and his two apprentices, Darth Vader and Luke's father) and I regret that nobody's ever compiled them in one place. Wheat Loaf fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Aug 27, 2018 |
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Larocca hasn't been tracing for this last arc and it's much improved my enjoyment of it.
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Need more stories with the Monster Hunter couple in the Aphra annual, they were great. Well, the wife was anyway.
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I finally took the plunge and started reading the Doctor Aphra trade paperbacks, and I'm having a real good time. I've finished the first volume and just finished the "annual" in volume 2. I only bought the first two because the Amazon reviews for those two were largely high, but volume 3's reviews took a nosedive. Did I do the right thing in skipping that one?
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No. All of Aphra is fabulous.
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I'm not sure what's in volume 3, but the only bits of Aphra I haven't enjoyed so much were the weird space vampire crossover with the main Star Wars title.
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Would volume three by any chance be the one where she kisses another woman a couple of times?
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It sure is! (TBF, though, the other reviews that have actual things written have more reasonable criticisms, and only other one mentions that at all, saying it felt rushed, but not against the idea.)
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I always pity the kids of parents like that. It's super clear that this guy is either explicitly or implicitly teaching his kids that same sex relationships are in some way bad or inappropriate. That's always depressing to see.
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