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Endless Mike posted:It sure is! Loved reading the story about a woman who worked for darth vader, who runs around with robots literally designed for killing people, where lots of people violently die with my kids. Not ready to talk about two women kissing
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Dude is into very boring pornography, too. Edit: The replies to that review are all basically calling him a dumbass, at least. Endless Mike fucked around with this message at 16:20 on Sep 17, 2018 |
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Sep 17, 2018 16:17
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site posted:Loved reading the story about a woman who worked for darth vader, who runs around with robots literally designed for killing people, where lots of people violently die with my kids. Not ready to talk about two women kissing Mmm. How to put it....'Evil always gets it's just desserts'. The Empire is doomed to fall, the Emperor will die, and so will Vader. Making them fully and truly deserve their fate, so there is absolutely no question that their being defeated/killed is good is also a standard. As they write more and more stuff into the blanks, you get more and more of this. And those who work with them will also get what is coming to them, unless they have the sense to get themselves safely good, neutral, or anti-hero. 'It's alright to show bad people doing very bad things, because they're bad and will get defeated/punished for their bad'. It's very old style morality play, very....'childish' I guess you'd say.
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Sep 17, 2018 21:47
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Marvel teases something.
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Sep 18, 2018 11:44
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Not a whole lot of new info there beyond what we already knew...but man I'm super excited for this series. I love little one-off stories
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Sep 18, 2018 11:58
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Interesting that Tom Taylor is writing the Resistance comic. He also wrote the NJO comic for Dark Horse in the late aughts.
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Sep 18, 2018 16:33
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Aw, I was catching up on Vader and really liking the Imperial architect with the impossible job of trying to design a citadel for him in line with his aesthetic preferences. They could have kept her around for a few more issues at least.
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Same. I like the current Vader series, but I feel it's been introducing and killing off a lot of interesting characters to quickly.
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Sep 26, 2018 02:50
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First issue of IDW's Goosebumps-analog, Tales from Vader's Castle, hit today. I think I would have liked it better without the framing story...but I'm not sure if the little spooky tale would have held up for the pagecount of the whole issue by itself. Cool little idea though, might actually be kinda spooky for real young kids.
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Some news from NYCC, the current Vader series is, just like the last one, ending at Issue 25. Apparently the origin of his fortress was the big thing they wanted to build up to and reveal. Chuck Wendig is doing a 5 issue Vader miniseries called Shadow of Vader. Each issue is about a different character and how a run in with Vader affected them. Apparently Wilrow Hood is showing up in one issue.
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Oct 5, 2018 22:31
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lol its a castle we dont care
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Synthbuttrange posted:lol its a castle we dont care Between stuff like this and the Solo movie, the NuCanon has in little more than a year fallen into the "everything has a super-important backstory" trap where it took Legends like 30 to get that dense.
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galagazombie posted:Between stuff like this and the Solo movie, the NuCanon has in little more than a year fallen into the "everything has a super-important backstory" trap where it took Legends like 30 to get that dense. Uh, the EU was doing that poo poo in like the 80s, and it's still nowhere as bad since there's not a new version of the story about the skull Luke throws at the Rancor.
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Oct 8, 2018 04:40
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Endless Mike posted:Uh, the EU was doing that poo poo in like the 80s, and it's still nowhere as bad since there's not a new version of the story about the skull Luke throws at the Rancor. Was there an old version of that story?
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galagazombie posted:Between stuff like this and the Solo movie, the NuCanon has in little more than a year fallen into the "everything has a super-important backstory" trap where it took Legends like 30 to get that dense. I think they're about on par. NuCanon started in 2014 or so, right? So that's been around four years. The old EU started properly in 1990 or 1991 or whenever the Thrawn trilogy novels came out and those Tales of Mos Eisley Cantina/Jabba's Palace/Bounty Hunters books were out in 1995 and 1996.
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Oct 8, 2018 09:11
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Xenomrph posted:Was there an old version of that story? I think it was in the Tales from Jabba's Palace book, there's a little aside about who's skull that was. Just some guy who pissed off Jabba.
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jivjov posted:Chuck Wendig is doing a 5 issue Vader miniseries called Shadow of Vader. Each issue is about a different character and how a run in with Vader affected them. Apparently Wilrow Hood is showing up in one issue. Not anymore, because Marvel is run by idiots. quote:So, here’s a thing that has happened – I just got fired from Marvel. Taken off issues 4 and 5 of SHADOW OF VADER, and taken off an as-yet-unannounced SW book. This might be a long thread, so apologies in advance. (I hesitate to talk about this, because honestly, it gives the Worst Possible People a win, something they’ve wanted for a while. But I also feel like I’ve long held to honesty and forthrightness, and I don’t feel like lying when people realize I’m not on these books anymore.)
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Oct 13, 2018 00:15
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gently caress Chuck Wending He’s still butthurt fans didn’t like his lovely rear end novels that are now unfortunately canon Marvel 100% made the right choice firing him (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Oct 13, 2018 03:36
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So why was American Dracula let back in here?
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Oct 13, 2018 03:44
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Top Gun posted:gently caress Chuck Wending If you feel called out by the man who calls out lovely toxic fans, that says a lot about you
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Oct 13, 2018 04:33
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Top Gun posted:gently caress Chuck Wending Canon is a literally useless construct from a fan perspective, and is only marginally useful from a creator perspective. Also Mara Jade never died, and anyone who thinks otherwise can fight me.
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Oct 13, 2018 04:49
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Xenomrph posted:Canon is a literally useless construct from a fan perspective, Unless you want to, you know, discuss an ongoing narrative...
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Oct 13, 2018 04:52
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jivjov posted:Unless you want to, you know, discuss an ongoing narrative... Like, it’s all fiction. Fans talk about Marvel or DC comic books without deferring to “canon”, and said comics actively ignore or contradict each other for the sake of telling an interesting story. poo poo, even the MCU movies do it, with narratives that are interesting and character building in isolation (Tony’s character arc in Iron Man 3, or Thor’s in Ragnarok) and they get thrown right out the window in the next movie. Universe building can be neat, and as a fan of the old EU I liked that things were interconnected, but at the same time there needs to be enough leeway to allow interesting/good stories to happen without authors feeling like someone else’s unrelated project from 5 years ago wrote them into a corner. Additionally, it’s good when lovely narratives can be recognized and purged, continuity be damned. Like when the Clone Wars cartoon actively undid Karen Traviss’ Mandalorian nonsense.
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Oct 13, 2018 05:09
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jivjov posted:If you feel called out by the man who calls out lovely toxic fans, that says a lot about you Look my problem is a ton of great novels and comics were tossed in the garbage to make way for poo poo like wending aftermath trilogy and my bigger issue with him was people didn’t care for it and HE got extremely hostile throwing a blanket over literally the entire old school Star Wars community and calling them toxic and poo poo. From what I remember he attacked the fans first and that’s when people really starting going after him.
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Oct 13, 2018 05:16
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Cant let The Gays invade my star wars
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site posted:Cant let The Gays invade my star wars See this is what I’m talking about People gave real criticism to his novels and others said they just didn’t care for it or for his style of writing and his response? Star Wars fans can’t handle gay characters But keep doing that this tactic has already shown really great success in the real world as we’ve all seen
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Oct 13, 2018 05:29
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Top Gun posted:But keep doing that this tactic has already shown really great success in the real world as we’ve all seen If only i treated bigots with respect, they would stop trying to kill me
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Oct 13, 2018 06:00
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Yeah, no. He legit received a ton of backlash that was born out of homophobia and from alt-right mags chuds. Sure, his prose wasn't for everyone and he is fine with that, and even says that he doesn't want to lump in the people who just didn't like it with the toxic fans, but a lot of people on here and on Reddit like to say those alt-right mags chuds and their homophobic hate mail he got didn't exist when it did. It very much did. I am immediately suspicious of anyone who says otherwise.
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Top Gun is one of those alt-right maga chuds that cries about anything other than straight, white men being the focus of anything.
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Roth posted:Top Gun is one of those alt-right maga chuds that cries about anything other than straight, white men being the focus of anything. Totally false But there’s little I can do to defend myself so keep up the dogpiling here because you aren’t able to win in the real world and your certainly not going to win against hardcore Star Wars fans
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Oct 13, 2018 06:33
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Top Gun posted:Look my problem is a ton of great novels and comics were tossed in the garbage Give me the names of the Disney Gestapo that came into your home and burned your EU books. YOU CAN STILL READ THEM THEY ARE BOOKS
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Oct 13, 2018 06:39
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Roth posted:Top Gun is one of those alt-right maga chuds that cries about anything other than straight, white men being the focus of anything. "I'm not racist, I just post nearly exclusively about precisely the same dumbshit dogwhistle hodgepodge of petty grievances that online racists care about."
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Oct 13, 2018 06:43
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Carteret posted:Give me the names of the Disney Gestapo that came into your home and burned your EU books. YOU CAN STILL READ THEM I know but they are no longer part of the story and all of those great characters and concepts have been ignored/thrown out in favor of really crappy stories such as Wendings trilogy of novels with cringe worthy writing. I would love to meet someone that will tell me with a straight face that wendings novels are so much better than the Thrawn trilogy or hell even Kevin Anderson’s Jedi Academy Trilogy. Totally worth it to remove those from canon in favor of mr bones, Wesley crusher and the prize pig himself.... a forgettable gay imperial officer! Because gay characters certainly couldn’t have been introduced in the existing canon under the penmanship of a better writer. No Disney Had to come in and hire top talent chuck wending to make it all better. It’s the same issue with DC and why fans got so frustrated with the new 52.
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Oct 13, 2018 06:47
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Archyduke posted:"I'm not racist, I just post nearly exclusively about precisely the same dumbshit dogwhistle hodgepodge of petty grievances that online racists care about." What does this have to do with race? Wending is white and all the characters he introduced are white or alien so I’m not sure what the gently caress your talking about
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Oct 13, 2018 06:49
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The issue with the old EU wasn't a lack of quality or a desire to write superior stories, it's that it's extremely hard to write and grow a universe around something with three decades of baggage attached to it. Can you imagine if they tried to write The Force Awakens with all that in mind? It'd force the movie to be as impenetrable as hell.
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Top Gun posted:I know but they are no longer part of the story and all of those great characters and concepts have been ignored/thrown out in favor of really crappy stories such as Wendings trilogy of novels with cringe worthy writing. I would love to meet someone that will tell me with a straight face that wendings novels are so much better than the Thrawn trilogy or hell even Kevin Anderson’s Jedi Academy Trilogy. Totally worth it to remove those from canon in favor of mr bones, Wesley crusher and the prize pig himself.... a forgettable gay imperial officer! Because gay characters certainly couldn’t have been introduced in the existing canon under the penmanship of a better writer. No Disney Had to come in and hire top talent chuck wending to make it all better. Sir this is a Wendy's
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Oh and by the way Wendinf didn’t introduce gay characters to Star Wars. Paul Kemp introduced an LGBT character back in Lords of the Sith and guess what? No one really complained because his novel was actually GOOD Hurr but the people who want to argue with me didn’t even know that because there just a bunch of loving posers who hear half rear end news and just want to try and bully and intimidate anyone who doesn’t go along with the narrative
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Oct 13, 2018 06:59
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Top Gun posted:I would love to meet someone that will tell me with a straight face that wendings novels are so much better than the Thrawn trilogy or hell even Kevin Anderson’s Jedi Academy Trilogy. None of them are very good, to be honest. Top Gun posted:Oh and by the way Wendinf didn’t introduce gay characters to Star Wars. Paul Kemp introduced an LGBT character back in Lords of the Sith and guess what? No one really complained because his novel was actually GOOD Anyway, Karven Traviss introduced an LGBT character in one of her books and I remember people complaining because the book was not very good. People didn't generally complain about having a gay character that I can recall; people did give Wendig a hard time about it in addition to his book being bad. I'm not sure why they got such different responses.  If you want to be pedantic, Bioware wanted to include a gay character in Knights of the Old Republic in 2003 with Juhani but were apparently barred by Lucasfilm who had a "no gay characters" at the time (something which apparently went back to the 1980s). Speaking of Star Wars comics, does anyone else remember that Brian Wood series from just before Dark Horse lost the licence where a small group of fanboys lost their poo poo over Leia piloting an X-wing because she'd never been shown doing it in the movies so it was  NOT CANON that she would know how to?
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Oct 13, 2018 07:56
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Wheat Loaf posted:If you want to be pedantic, Bioware wanted to include a gay character in Knights of the Old Republic in 2003 with Juhani but were apparently barred by Lucasfilm who had a "no gay characters" at the time (something which apparently went back to the 1980s). It's more than that. I remember reading something about Lucas threatening legal action against a fanzine that had Luke/Han content in it.
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I hadn't heard about that; this is actually something I discovered by reading about the original Marvel comics from the 80s, which introduced a species of aliens who are constantly horny called the Zeltrons. A group of them is seen flirting with Luke and someone slipped a male one in as well, which had to be done on the sly because both Marvel and Lucasfilm had a policy against portraying gay people openly in the 80s.
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