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Jazerus posted:the idea of vader running around with padme's handmaidens is a fun one Can someone elaborate on this, since I am so horribly out of the loop and haven't read any new EU? This sounds potentially amazing, cringey, or some combination of both.
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McGann posted:Can someone elaborate on this, since I am so horribly out of the loop and haven't read any new EU?
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Arquinsiel posted:Vader's hunting down various anti-Imperial cells and finds out that there's been some defacement of Padmé's tomb or whatever, and it brings him to Naboo where it turns out to be a trap set for him by the handmaidens and other Naboo types because as far as anyone knows Darth Vader killed Anakin and Padmé. Soooo they're out for revenge, Vader does Vader things, then he does that thing where he keeps someone dangerous as a pet for a while with Sabé and fucks around trying to kill Crimson Dawn and in the process learns about a bunch of poo poo Padmé was doing while she was alive to deal with the problem of slavery on Tattooine, like funneling money to buy Anakin's childhood friends and set them up on a nice woodland planet, because SURPRISE! Crimson Dawn has agents everywhere and the Imperial Governor is gonna test weapons on them. It's pretty meandering and silly due to the Marvel Event!!!!! syndrome but there's some fun moments. It's kind of pointless because we know Crimson Dawn doesn't succeed in killing the Emperor and Vader, but just to be sure the framing device is some randos in the future watching a holocron of some new character that starts out by telling you that Qi'ra is gonna fail and die in the process. That actually all sounds pretty awesome. Especially the part about Padme working to free slaves on Tatooine. But also all of the Vader stuff. I really need to get more into the comics.
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Feb 14, 2023 03:20
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I liked the first arc of the Pak Vader, even if it didn't quite live up to the premise but it's such an inherently genius premise that it carries the book. Then the next one was some tie-in to Rise of Skywalker and I lost all interest.thrawn527 posted:That actually all sounds pretty awesome. Especially the part about Padme working to free slaves on Tatooine. But also all of the Vader stuff. I'm not keeping up with stuff coming out right now, but there have been a lot of good comics since Marvel got the license again. A couple highlights: Star Wars (Jason Aaron): sometimes Aaron writes something great, and everything he writes is at least competent. That's what this is: a perfectly serviceable run of comics illustrated by a number of excellent artists and Salvador Larocca. Darth Vader (Kieron Gillen): a perfect run of comics. Takes place after ANH and consists of Vader trying to consolidate his position after being the lone survivor of, and therefore fall guy for, the Death Star. Of all the Vader comics, this one handles the difficult job of writing a lead who is most effective when he speaks least, which is a difficult task. Larocca's art gets dodgy on occasion, but at least it's better than his work on Star Wars. Spins off into... Doctor Aphra (Gillen / Si Spurrier): Aphra is the best new character in the new canon, hands-down. Not quite a good enough person to be an anti-hero, but down on her luck enough to be sympathetic. She's a disaster of a human being in every sense of the word and she's great. I haven't read the current Alyssa Wong run yet but I've heard good things. Star Wars (Kieron Gillen): Gillen picks up the book after Aaron. I didn't love his first arc, which deals with the aftermath of Rogue One, but everything else is great. There's some proper heist hijinx, serious space poo poo, and unfortunately the worst art of Larocca's career for a lot of it. Darth Vader (Charles Soule): not quite up to the standard of Gillen's but still quite good, this takes place immediately after ROTJ and does some mileage to transition Anakin's psyche into Vader's, including some properly nightmarish imagery where Anakin flashes back to his childhood but his face is that of a flesh-colored Vader helmet. Also there's a gun that shoots lightsabers and (spoilered for safety but I think this is a neat premise to sell people on) an issue where Vader learns that Tarkin comes from a hunting family and asks him to Most Dangerous Game him.
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Feb 14, 2023 03:50
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thrawn527 posted:That actually all sounds pretty awesome. Especially the part about Padme working to free slaves on Tatooine. But also all of the Vader stuff.
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Feb 14, 2023 04:14
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Rochallor posted:I liked the first arc of the Pak Vader, even if it didn't quite live up to the premise but it's such an inherently genius premise that it carries the book. Then the next one was some tie-in to Rise of Skywalker and I lost all interest. But it turned Ochi (of Bestoon!) into the best Sequel Trilogy character, and Vader got to ride around on a Phantoon from Super Metroid until Palpatine killed it over the course of two panels, the prick
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Feb 14, 2023 10:59
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Arquinsiel posted:It's pretty meandering and silly due to the Marvel Event!!!!! syndrome but there's some fun moments. Thank you - that does sound like it could be entertaining. I am very interested in the way Vader/Handmaidens interact and what that does to his internal monologue etc. Will check it out if I can find it on Hoopla.
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Feb 14, 2023 17:31
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Looks like both Outbound Flight and Survivor’s Quest are coming to the Essential Legends Collection on August 15th. Which should mean unabridged audiobooks. That leaves Choices of One, I think, as the only Zahn book without an unabridged audio version, and they’ll probably get around to it eventually.
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Feb 15, 2023 23:12
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Casimir Radon posted:Looks like both Outbound Flight and Survivor’s Quest are coming to the Essential Legends Collection on August 15th. Which should mean unabridged audiobooks. Any others in this wave or just zahn's books?
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Feb 16, 2023 00:49
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Casimir Radon posted:Looks like both Outbound Flight and Survivor’s Quest are coming to the Essential Legends Collection on August 15th. Which should mean unabridged audiobooks. Well that's ironic. My 3d printer outbound flight model arrived today
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Feb 16, 2023 00:51
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jivjov posted:Any others in this wave or just zahn's books?
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Feb 16, 2023 00:57
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Got the Omni-Omnibus of the old Dark Horse comics (New Republic). Has a Mara Jade story immediately after ROTJ, A shadows of the Empire sequel, and a bunch of Rogue Squadron comics. Pretty fun read. Going to have to get some of the Rogue Squadron books next since the comics act as prequels to them.
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Mar 3, 2023 20:03
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That's the kind of thing where I'd consider picking up stuff like the Knights of the Old Republic series in one big book, but the random mashing together of limited run series doesn't really interest me too much.
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Mar 3, 2023 20:36
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The Epic Collection stuff is pretty good for isolated series. The KOTOR Comic pretty much gets three volumes to itself, but because the content of each volume is dictated by in-universe chronology rather than series or publishing date, one of them has a random Star Wars Tales story at the end of the book, because it happened to be set after the end of the comic series, but not close enough to the SWTOR comics to be included in the next Old Republic volume. The closer you get to the movies, the worse it is because there's so many random stories and miniseries set during that era, but anything that's kind of cordoned off in its own little timeline like KOTOR, Legacy, and Tales of the Jedi generally run uninterrupted.
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Mar 4, 2023 03:11
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The chronology makes things janky with Vector too, so I can see that being awkward to slot in.
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Mar 4, 2023 03:52
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Crazy Joe Wilson posted:Got the Omni-Omnibus of the old Dark Horse comics (New Republic). Has a Mara Jade story immediately after ROTJ, A shadows of the Empire sequel, and a bunch of Rogue Squadron comics. Pretty fun read. Going to have to get some of the Rogue Squadron books next since the comics act as prequels to them. I have a trade collection of the Mara Jade comic signed by Zahn, Stackpole, and Allston, since he happened to be with them and I didn’t want to leave him out. I remember really loving that comic, having it be Mara vs. Isard felt like a big crossover event. I think that’s also the first time the EU tried to reconcile the special edition ROTJ ending with the Empire surviving in the EU. I still think it would be more interesting and different if the new EU went with the Empire dying in that end of ROTJ celebration. The Rogue Squadron comics are good, but I think they don’t really become great until the last third, incidentally when Isard becomes the main villain and Baron Fel is introduced.
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Chairman Capone posted:I have a trade collection of the Mara Jade comic signed by Zahn, Stackpole, and Allston, since he happened to be with them and I didn’t want to leave him out. I remember really loving that comic, having it be Mara vs. Isard felt like a big crossover event. Good to know, yeah, some of the Rogue Squadron comics have been kinda eh... but at the same time, having these little stories that aren't huge universe-changing things is a nice change from most of the EU books. I'll have to get the Rogue Squadron books and see how good they are. Also, pre-ordered the 2nd Omnibus, which includes the entire comic version of the Thrawn trilogy, Dark Empire Trilogy, and a bunch of Boba Fett stuff. Already had the Dark Empire trilogy Epic Collection, going to try to sell it to cover most of the cost of the Omnibus (Which is only $95 on OrganicPricedBooks, $135.00 everywhere else). Also have the Crimson Empire Trilogy epic collection. i loved those comics as a kid, pretty campy, but still hold up ok. Imperial Guard were cool when I was a kid.
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Mar 9, 2023 15:45
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https://twitter.com/DelReyStarWars/status/1633939097046622209?t=7EfQ7T0GF5ZtkHuv2ddNNA&s=19 Some good authors on this one, should be fun.
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Mar 9, 2023 22:24
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quote:Olivie Blake gives us a chilling glimpse into the mind of Emperor Palpatine. Now who gets to have fun with the Endor Firestorm by debris that wasn't teleported to another planet?
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Mar 9, 2023 22:34
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Oh don't worry, it all harmlessly fell into the ocean of a totally different moon of Endor that was close enough to override the forest moon's gravity, but still far away enough to not be visible in the original movie.
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Mar 10, 2023 00:01
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Interested to see that Phil Szostak is writing a story in it. Don’t really recognize a lot of other names, outside of Charlie Jane Anders.
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cptn_dr posted:https://twitter.com/DelReyStarWars/status/1633939097046622209?t=7EfQ7T0GF5ZtkHuv2ddNNA&s=19 Aww man they didn't ask me back 
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Emma Mieko Candon wrote the tie in novel for a Star Wars Visions short. Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar are some of my favourite writers so I'm very excited for whatever they do. Saladin Ahmed is pretty cool too. General Battuta posted:Aww man they didn't ask me back This was a bad choice, your story in the last one was great cptn_dr fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Mar 10, 2023 |
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Mar 10, 2023 00:25
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cptn_dr posted:This was a bad choice, your story in the last one was great  Jason Fry in the last one had a veiled reference to “Yub yub, commander,” and I’m hoping this one continues with old X-wing references.
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Mar 10, 2023 00:31
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I'm just glad that Adam Garcia is getting to write a Star War -- I try not to get too hype for twitter personalities, but he seems like a nice guy
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General Battuta posted:Aww man they didn't ask me back Apart from the story being good in general (I think about that purpose of the Empire speech a lot) I appreciated the Haruun Kal shoutout
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Mar 10, 2023 05:43
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Apparently Ali Hazelwood is primarily known for writing an AU Reylo fanfiction that then had the serial numbers filed off to be published as a standalone book, so that's a pretty interesting inclusion.
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Mar 10, 2023 21:23
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That’s kind of surprising for a Disney subsidiary to be that open about.
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What good books have been published lately? I haven't started anything high republic, so I could do that also.
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Mar 12, 2023 01:40
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Apparently IDW don't have the Adventures licence anymore, so the new High Republic Adventures series is being published in the UK by... the exact same company anyway. Corporations: real weird.
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Cross posting from the J:FO thread -- regarding Jedi: Battle Scars Just finished it Jedi: Battle Scars spoilers Greez lost an arm, Fifth Brother is a boring punk, relations between the Mantis crew are really rocky, they're still all together but starting to butt heads on goals and plans, Merrin's pansexual and her and Cal briefly discuss any possible feels between them - end result is that Merrin doesn't feel that way about Cal, Cal loves Merrin deeply but does not want to make it romantic. There's some surprisingly purple prose between the stormtrooper defector and Merrin -- like, not anything pornographic, but more time spend discussing smooching than I usually see in Star Wars -- no complaints here since I'm a card carrying Relyo fic reader. The macguffin of the book is schematics to build this thing called a Shroud, which would function as a near-perfect stealth device. Stealth like the IRL stealth bombers in that your ship or home or whatever is still visible but cannot be picked up on traditional sensor sweeps. The good guys want to use it to set up safe houses and undetectable ships, the bad guys wanna weaponize it. Bunch of cute references to stuff from the first game -- "Oggdo Bogdo is way too strong", "the pink poncho was a bit much", etc. All in all, a fun romp of a read but I don't think plot wise anything is going to be relevant to the next game
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jivjov posted:Cross posting from the J:FO thread -- regarding Jedi: Battle Scars I thought it was cute and brisk! Sam Maggs clearly has a lot of affection for the characters, which made it feel a lot more satisfying than a gap-filler between two videos really needed to be. I'm on the same page as you about the Merrin and Fret scenes-- pretty PG-13 all things considered but still a little more spicy than I was expecting from a Star Wars novel. I feel like the books have a little more leeway with queer characters actually, like, being queer and talking about/acting on their queerness which is refreshing. Fifth Brother was a pretty nothing antagonist but I kind of liked the bird disruptor guy-- Maggs writes a fun, tight action scene and I think she sold his speed and annoying slipperiness in a fight pretty well.
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Mike Mignola did the cover to an upcoming Jaxxon comic: https://www.starwars.com/news/swce-2023-jaxxon That's a rabbit who looks like he's seen some poo poo.
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So we've had Looney Tunes Jaxxon, Low-Budget Alien Suit Jaxxon, and now Actual Rabbit Jaxxon 
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Mar 17, 2023 20:16
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gently caress I need to change my av ...
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Mar 17, 2023 21:01
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Has anyone read the latest High Republic phase? I enjoyed phase one but when I learned we were jumping back in time for phase 2, it kinda killed my interest. I was getting pretty attached to the characters and enjoying the setting and would’ve rather continued with them.
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I've been trying to keep up with it, but every time I blink there's another pile of one-off weird format hardback books that cost a pile showing up that don't seem to get reprinted in paperback so I lost track and haven't managed to regain it.
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I’ve started the teen novel for Phase 2, really enjoying the apparent hook for this phase. With the Force cult seeking to challenge all the other Force faiths in the galaxy due to their hosed up beliefs.
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Mar 18, 2023 02:01
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Oh right, the Path of the Open Hand and "If you use the Force now it won't be there when people actually need it elsewhere"
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I want to like THR but it’s been a bit of a slog. I’ve read 2 adult novels, a YA one, and a junior one I got by accident.
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