Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Marvel Star Wars #1 Released



In case anyone is interested, now that Dark Horse no longer owns the rights to Star Wars comics, Marvel will be starting with their own much anticipated series, and it finally comes out today.  There has been a lot of buzz surrounding this release, and what I've read makes it sound promising.  If you look around you can see some previews of the artwork, and it looks pretty good.  I will say though I thought some of these same thoughts when the last Dark Horse series came out and that was pretty disappointing.  Remember that talk of Leia marrying some random prince?  She didn't, but there really wasn't much to that story line.  Also, the artwork, while good in the early issues, didn't look much like the characters we know and love by the end.

I'll probably be picking this one up.  Or, truth be told, more likely I'll just go to Barnes and Noble and find it on the shelf and read it and put it back, because it takes about six minutes to read an entire comic book.  If these are good I'll buy them when they are released later in volumes rather than individual issues.  These will be considered part of the "new" canon, so apparently they are more official.  Let's hope they don't do anything weird or annoying. 

Be sure to let us know if you pick it up and what you think.  This is an exciting era for Star Wars fans, and hopefully this will be a good addition.  Certainly it can't be weirder than the original Marvel Star Wars comics, although some of those were actually decent before they really stopped trying later on.

Thursday, January 1, 2015

Happy 2015!



Happy New Year!  I know this has been basically by far the worst year ever for the blog, so I apologize for that.  I do still appreciate any comments or readers or proof that you're still here and listening.  More importantly though, it's 2015, which means we have entered the year in which the new Star Wars movie will be released!  I bet a couple of years ago you never in a million years would've guessed that was going to happen.  I know I certainly wouldn't have.  It's still quite a ways away but since they announced Episode VII two years ago now, and that went by pretty fast, I'm sure we can handle a little over eleven more months.  And hopefully there will be some fun news about it that we can share and talk about here.  I'll post any interesting actual news and again, for now let's stay away from spilling spoilers in comments.  Speculation is totally fine, linking to spoilers while warning the rest of us that you are linking to spoilers is also fine, just make sure you're giving people the option to read it if they want to and not ruining it for those of us who want to be kept in the dark. 

Happy New Year to everyone, I hope it's a good one!