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I know every reviewer in the world is falling over themselves to circle-jerk over how great Marvel Star Wars is after one mediocre issue but the Dark Horse stuff really was pretty good. The Republic/Clone Wars series that ran from 1998-2006 really blew the prequels out of the water (which I know is damning with faint praise, but they were still great). Plus whatever one thinks of them, stuff like Tales/Dawn of the Jedi, KOTOR, Legacy, even Dark Empire at the time took chances that I doubt Marvel will ever allow, even after the sequel trilogy is over and they have some more space.Hakkesshu posted:Maybe I should repost my reviews of the Dark Horse Aliens sequel comics here, if anyone's interested? Don't wanna be too self-indulgent and they are fairly loving big posts. The only Aliens comic I've read was Labyrinth and that was pretty drat intense.
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Having just reread it for the first time in years, The Prisoner: Shattered Visage was a really great tie-in comic that both managed to predate the trend of tie-ins and surpass pretty much all of them in terms of quality. Plus it was such a weird choice to make a comic sequel to. Actually on the topic of weird choices, has anyone read Marvel's 2001: A Space Odyssey comics?
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May 13, 2015 03:43
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Out of curiosity, was the Karen Traviss GI Joe comic where Cobra are the real heroes as bad as I would assume a comic with that concept and author would be?
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Aug 18, 2016 04:14
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Didn't she get fired/quit from her work on Halo in similar circumstances to her departure from Star Wars? Actually looking through her Wiki page, it looks like that GI Joe comic was the last big thing she's done. The only other work listed on her page after it is a one-shot Wonder Woman comic and even that was a year ago now. Also, the fact that Karen Traviss did Wonder Woman requires some processing.
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Aug 18, 2016 16:29
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If anyone wants to read it, her post about Jedis = Nazis is still on her website: http://www.karentraviss.com/page22/files/Is_it_true_you_hate_Jedi_.html quote:But once you're past the age of puberty and you start arguing passionately with me that the Jedi were right to accept a slave army of cloned human beings and use them in war, and cloned humans aren't proper humans like us, and it was too bad the clones died, and the Jedi had no choice - well, sweetheart, I want to run a mile from you. Not the Jedi, who - just to remind you - are a figment of various writers' imaginations, just like the clones. You. If I see that you really mean it, and you're making excuses in your own mind for the Jedi just following orders on that delicate point, then you scare the living crap out of me. For real.
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Aug 22, 2016 03:06
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SynthOrange posted:She could have summarized with 'the prequels are bad and dumb the end' She actually likes the prequels (because the "good guys win" when the clones kill the Jedi) and dislikes the original trilogy (she wrote a book about how common soldiers like Vader and how he's the real hero to them because he cares for his soldiers). muscles like this? posted:The issue is that I don't think anyone was really treating the clones like that (other than her strawman Jedi.) It certainly wasn't any Lucasfilm mandate considering they had books, videogames and a TV show where they spent a lot of time featuring Clone Troopers. And the other thing is that even from the very start of the Clone Wars stuff, before she showed up, there were comics and a book where the Jedi were explicitly the ones raising these issues and the ones encouraging the clones to take names and become individuals and not be treated like cannon fodder.
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Aug 22, 2016 17:18
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Lurdiak posted:People who are made in a robot factory on commission from Dracula and have no free will are totally heroic and noble, and people who dedicate their lives to understanding the nature of the universe and using this understanding to do good are Hitler. That's another thing I liked about Traviss, she insisted that the clones never had any sort of brain chip or conditioning controlling them, they were all fully free. And as a result they carried out Order 66 because they were just such good soldiers they followed orders from their commander-in-chief. In other words, for someone who rants about how the Jedi are Nazis, she uses the Nuremberg Defense to justify her clone troopers' actions. CharlestheHammer posted:Star Wars is at its worst when it's a black and white story but Lucas loved the idea (he reportedly hated KOTOR2 because of that.)so I don't think it was intentional. Lucas also has no idea how to stage a coup, but I digress. I honestly doubt Lucas has any knowledge of KOTOR 2 at all.
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Aug 23, 2016 23:01
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