Star Wars Fate of the Jedi – Vortex – review: Awesome. This book is the best in the series yet. January 23, 2011
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Vortex (Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi, Book 6)
We’ve been tracking, reading and reviewing the Fate of the Jedi series since 2008, when Lucasfilm first announced the series. The first Fate of the Jedi book: Outcast – was ok, but not great. Book two – Omen – was awesome. Book 3 – Abyss – was weak. Book 4 – Backlash also weak.
Now book 5 – Allies – the book immediately preceding this one was interesting, but unsatisfying.
In contrast to those first five books, we have nothing but praise for Vortex. The writing is amazing and kept us turning page after page. The courtroom stuff with Tahiri which has been dragging on, was exceptional this time around.
the battle inside the Jedi Temple and the demise of Kenth Hamner …WOW…we didn’t see that one coming.
Luke battling Abeloth and the Sith Again? ok..we saw that coming but still cool.
Vestara killing Lord Tallon? no we didn’t see that.
But the best part is the fact that this book stuck to the tried and true Star Wars formula. We had multiple sub-plots that all come together in a big set of concurrent event. Hamner and the Jedi with the launch of the StealthX’s, the return of the Horn’s, Errant Venture’s attack on the Coruscant mirrors and Luke battling it out for his life.
WOW.
Author Troy Denning, knows what Star Wars fan want and he has delivered in spades with Conviction.
Sith Teneb Kel – has the Blood of Empire on his hands in Star Wars The Old Republic #6 January 10, 2011
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The first half of the Star Wars The Old Republic comic book series from Dark Horse was kinda lame.
the second half is AWESOME.
Teneb Kel is an awesome Sith. He is cunning, he is ruthless and he know how to defeat those who are stronger than he is.
This final issue of the Blood of Empire story line brings Kel to the pinnacle of power — but only after he kills his friend — maggot and barely escapes the emperor’s first apprentice.
Astounding story, brilliant art combine for the best Old Republic comic book yet!
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Ahsoka Turns to the Dark Side in Clone Wars season 3 return in 2011 December 15, 2010
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We all know that Ashoka doesn’t make it. But what we didn’t know is how she gets toasted.
With the upcoming second half of season 3 – staring on January 7, 2011, we might finally find out.
Apparently Anakin’s apprentice, turns to the dark side…
LEGO Star Wars III set for release on Feb 15, 20100 December 15, 2010
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Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars
who among us did not LOVE LEGO Star Wars (1&2 and the combined set?)
Now after several years of no new LEGO Star Wars games, TT Games has set Feb 15th, 2011 as the release date for the next installment : The Clone Wars.
And yes, this looks awesome….though we do have some early concerns about the split 2 player setup which we’ve seen before from TT in Indiana Jones Lego 2…
The Sounds of Star Wars – one book that we’d love to get as a gift December 15, 2010
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The magic of Star Wars has a lot to do with sound.
We all know what a lightsaber sounds like, a wookie and even R2D2.
All those sounds were designed and created and this book tells that tales behind ALL of them.
It’s got an integrated digital audio player, so you’re not just reading about the sounds, you’re hearing them too.
The Sounds of Star Wars
Princess Leia – Carrie Fisher literally FRAKED fans December 14, 2010
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We had to do a double take when we saw this article – to make sure it wasn’t on the Onion ..or an old April Fool’s joke.
But apparently Carrie Fischer better known to us as Princess Leia, really liked Star Fans …REALLY.
Carrie, 54, confessed: “I certainly have, along the way, slept with a nerd.
“But I don’t think I ever got anything out of it except the sex.
“It was probably good. Nerds will surprise you. They’re way more enthusiastic. More bang with your buck.”
Black Friday SciFi comics and toy deals – Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek, Star Wars, Dark Tower November 25, 2010
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A lot of great deals for SciFi comic book and toy lovers to look at this Black Friday. 
How about a Battlestar Galactica Series 3: Razor Kendra Shaw for only $5 ? Or Battlestar Galactica Origins TPB Vol. 1 Adama for $5.99?
Or if you’re a fan of 300 – get the original hardcover for only $8
It’s also a good time to jump into Steven King’s Dark Tower comic books too with 60% off the cover price for hardcover graphic novels.
For Star Trek Fans, how about Star Trek II: Regula 1 Admiral Kirk Action Figure FOR $6.39?
And for Star Wars comic book fans how about Star Wars Ominbus: Tales of the Jedi for $9.98?
Star Wars The Force Unleashed II Comic book should be all Boba Fett goes lame. November 9, 2010
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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Volume 2
This comic book isn’t Starkiller’s story..
and it’s not quite the same as the game — even though it’s written by the same guy that wrote the game’s story.
This is the story of Boba Fett – yeah Han Solo in Carbonite Boba Fett.
In the beginning he’s hanging with a female bounty hunter that ends up swiping his DNA (for Vader! what were you thinking perv?)
Then he hunts down Starkiller — only to stop and not KILL him as he could/should have, because he was hanging onto to Juno Eclipse and he got soft.
YEAAAAH Boba Fett gone LAME.
And what’s the deal with Vader being captured? ARe you kriffing kidding me?
It’s just a crude setup to ensure that there will be a third version of the game.
Like we set though…a fun read and something that all star wars fan will enjoy.
Quinlan Vos Comes to Star Wars Clone Wars animated November 3, 2010
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Quinlan Vos is one of the greatest Jedi ever created by Dark Horse — and until now he has exclusively existed only in the comic books.
But now at long last he’s coming to TV in Season 3 of the Clone Wars!
Quinlan is cool because he’s kinda like Cade Skywalker (Legacy) in that he’s got powers like a Sith but he’s got a good heart. He’s been to the Dark Side (and back), but the difference btwn Light and Dark can be a blur for him.
Star Wars The Old Republic : Fatal Alliance – WTF is this crap? October 26, 2010
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We’re really looking forward to the upcoming Star Wars The Old Republic MMOG.
The early trailers have all been awesome –
So we picked up the first Old Republic book – Fatal Alliance – with likely unrealistic expectations.
This book has some good characters and is well written – but the story is lame and just doesn’t make sense in many areas.
The ‘Fatal Alliance’ is a an alliance of Jedi and Sith against a mutual third party enemy. What’s unclear is how both Jedi and Sith decided to act together..that’s the core of much of the book and it just didn’t make sense to us.
The whole Hex culture on Sebaddon didn’t make sense either and neither did the final resolution.
Though the conclusion was unsatisfying to us — the path to the final chapters was fun to read – a jaunt through Coruscant to Hutta to above the galaxy. Eldon Ax is one awesome Sith witch and we also like the character of Jet the bounty hunter type. The double agent Envoy Vii was also kinda neat too.
So yes, this book does have some redeeming qualities…but it just left us with a bad taste in our mouth.
Star Wars The Force Unleashed II Trailers and Cut-scenes are beyond awesome! October 13, 2010
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Star Wars The Force Unleashed II is out on October 26th and Lucas keeps on pushing out new trailers and cut scenes.
Whatever you thought about TFU 1, TFU 2 is more of everything and it sure looks to be ridiculously more intense.
Here’s the launch trailer:
Starkiller ramming Vader through some walls:
and Vader telling Starkiller to obey (in a snowstorm with stormtroopers):
Star Wars 3D? YESSSS!!!!!!!!!!!! September 30, 2010
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YUP yet another version of Star Wars – this time it’ll literally jump out of the screen.
Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace is expected to be released theatrically in 2012. A release date has not yet been determined.
“Getting good results on a stereo conversion is a matter of taking the time and getting it right,” said John Knoll, Visual Effects Supervisor for Industrial Light & Magic. “It takes a critical and artistic eye along with an incredible attention to detail to be successful. It is not something that you can rush if you want to expect good results. For Star Wars we will take our time, applying everything we know both aesthetically and technically to bring audiences a fantastic new Star Wars experience.”
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Star Wars Clone Adventures now Available – for Free! and no don’t bother to pay for it.. September 15, 2010
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Star Wars Clone Wars Adventures is now LIve!! But don’t expect an Old Republic type MMO – that’s now what this is about — at least as far as we’ve seen so far.
There is a ‘second life’ type of lobby where users can chat(?), though we’re not sure of the point. Really what Clone Wars Adventures looks and feels like to us at this point is a glorified portal for a whole bunch of reasonably decent games.
Yeaah it’s fun, but MMO in the regular sense – it’s not. But hey we’ll be in there until Old Republic does come out…
Star Wars Clone Wars Animated Season 3 Kicks off this week September 13, 2010
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Hard to believe that Star Wars Clone Wars has been on the air for over two years now…but it’s True!
Season Three starts this week! It seems like just yesterday
we paid to see the pilot movie in the theater too… (BTW, Amazon has decent pricing on Season 2 and Season 1 if you need to catch up)
Clone Wars Animated has been an awesome series so far, giving us a different viewpoint on Anakin Skywalker and introducing us to worlds that we’ve never seen before (but read about).
And of course, how can we talk about Clone Wars without mentioning Ashoka Tano?
With Ashoka we have perhaps the brightest new character addition to the Star Wars universe outside of the 6 movies.
We’ve also gotten a more personal view of the clones with Captain Rex and crew.
For Season three it looks like we might see the end of Asaj Ventress and the return of a creature that looks a whole lot like Darth Maul!!! We can hardly wait…
Star Wars The Old Republic Threat of Peace comic isn’t as Epic as the video game trailer September 7, 2010
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Like everyone else, we’re eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Star Wars The Old Republic MMO game this year (we hope!).
So we’re gobbling up every little tidbit we can, including the Dark Horse comic book series.
The first story arc of the Old Republic comic, a three issue set titled, “Threat of Peace” has now wrapped up — and we’re not too impressed.
The basic storyline is solid, a Sith/Jedi truce and the various factions, both Sith and Jedi that want to see the truce ended before it really begins.
The problem is that the story as told in this comic is very disjointed and is extremely difficult to follow. Don’t bother trying to read individual issues of this series, they simply don’t make sense. As a complete story arc – that’s a bit better as the single cell (or page) context makes more sense across three issues.
Long story short is that the Jedi themselves were trying to undercut the Sith/Jedi treaty. That part of the story was kiinda cool, but the delivery overall is weak.
The art is also relatively weak in this series and isn’t at the same level that we’re used to from Dark Horse. Perhaps we just have unrealistic expectation for this series, since the LucasArts/BioWare trailers for The Old Republic have been so awesome so far.
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Star Wars Blood Ties #1 What is Boba Fett Afraid of? September 7, 2010
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First things first – Chris Scalf the artist on this issue – and he truly is an artist – is one of the finest artists in comics today.
With Blood Ties #1 Scalf gives us — the lucky readers – with a visual feast of brilliantly painted artwork that is breathtaking to look at.
The story isn’t too shabby either. Blood Ties is a joint Jango/Boba Fett tale with young Boba learning lessons from his Dad – that somehow also connect to the future when Boba is his own feared bounty hunter.
Great fun and a really enjoyable experience for all Star Wars fans.
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Star Wars Fate of the Jedi: Allies – Jedi and Sith join together to destroy Abeloth September 3, 2010
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So far, the Star Wars Fate of the Jedi series has been interesting, but each book leaves us feeling a bit cheated – and Allies is no exception.
Yes there are some AWESOME sequence in this book, but there are also sooooooo very many issues that make no sense whatsoever as well.
Vestara and Ben — seemingly – get closer, Daala continues to take aim against the Jedi and the Sith of the Lost Tribe become allies with Luke Skywalker.
It is the Jedi Sith alliance that makes the least amount of sense. Did the Sith want to destroy Abeloth (the evil being in the Maw making all the Jedi nuts?)? That’s unclear.
The actual end of Abeloth was also unclear and to us – very unsatisfying as well.
This is a middle episode book – and no, not middle episode as in Empire Strikes Back.
The writing is brilliant and we all know and love these characters at this point, the problem is the unfulfilled plot, which leaves us wanting more (a good thing), but with too many loose ends.
Overall though, this is a tremendously enjoying book to read that is literally a non-stop ‘page-turner’ that all Star Wars expanded universe fans will enjoy.
Star Wars Legacy #50 Disappoints August 24, 2010
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Star Wars Legacy #50 was supposed to be the final issue of Star Wars Legacy.
BUT IT’S NOT.
The sleemos at Dark Horse are only putting the series on hiatus and then coming back at us with a ‘mini-series’ in december.
Yeaah that’s low-ball Hutt scum territory. Instead of continuing the series for another 6 issues – they scare the bantha poodu out of us and tell us they’re canceling the series.
The final #50 – regular Legacy issue was good – but it wasn’t good enough to be the FINAL issue of the series regular run. Nothing is really resolved – except well that Darth Krayt is back..and oh yeah Cade is going to hunt him again – BIG KRIFFING DEAL – been there, done that and read that before.
With so many layers in Legacy, there are so many loose ends and none were wrapped up in this issue. It’s not a final issue and not deserving finale for the final issue of the greatest Star Wars comic ever written/drawn.
We don’t understand Dark Horse – or why they’d screw with us this way – it’s not cool. YES we’re very excited for the new Legacy mini-series, but we would have been EVEN HAPPIER if there would be an issue 51 coming out in September.
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Silent Empire Strikes Back – brilliant August 20, 2010
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Star Wars heralded a new era of special effects for movies … but what if Star Wars were done in the silent film er?
Star Wars Legacy Series ENDS TODAY! August 18, 2010
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The greatest Star Wars story (outside of the original movies) ever told is coming to an end..
TODAY.
Today the last issue of Star Wars Legacy ships – and yes we’re very sad.
Legacy is THE REASON why we got back into comics. Issue #0 (with that awesome pic of Darth Talon on the cover) jumped out at us and we’ve been hooked ever since.
This is the Star Wars universe turned upside down.
The Sith are many and the Empire and its own Imperial Jedi Knights.
The regular Jedi order is on the run.
And the last Skywalker – Cade – is a drug using bounty hunter that would make Bobba Fett cringe.
There has never been a Star Wars saga like Legacy – it excels on every level, characters, plot, dialogue and art.
Ending this series at #50 is the dumbest thing we’ve ever seen from a comic book publisher and there is no way that this story should end with this issue. There is also no way that this entire story will be over with this issue either.
Do we expect to see the Legacy era in Star Wars books? HELL YES.
Will we ever see Cade Skywalker again in a comic book? We sure hope so… He is the ultimate force user – not quite a Jedi, not a Sith and a type of bounty hunter scum that would always shoot first and then shoot up on drugs later.
We will miss Legacy dearly – and yes Dark Horse will not be getting our dollars in the same frequency they used too (dumb move Dark Horse!).
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