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Just a reminder to anyone who is interested in reading along with the NJOE book club, that the book for December is Michael A. Stackpole’s Dark Tide I: Onslaught. The discussion is scheduled to begin on the 15th of the month. Feel free to post any discussion questions you want discussed in the book club thread. The Official Site has (officially) announced Lucasbooks’ publishing plans for their tie-ins to The Old Republic video game, including the previously revealed Threat of Peace trade paperback from Dark Horse (coming April 2010), Fatal Alliance by Sean Williams (July 2010), as well as an additional tie-in novel by Paul S. Kemp, and an online short story by Threat of Peace author Rob Chestney. The release dates of the short story and Kemp novel were not revealed. Random House has posted a brand new excerpt for the upcoming paperback by Paul S. Kemp. This sampling of the book’s first chapter can be found here. After reading the preview, feel free to stop by our forums to discuss it to your heart’s content. Check out all the newest happenings around the Star Wars world and for NJOE after the break!! (Read More…) Once again X-Wingurly and I sat down to discuss the newest issue of Legacy.
My first spoiler-free review of the (hopefully still)
 ongoing Darth Bane: A Novel of the Old Republic series is here! For those of you like me who hear “spoiler” and run as far in the other direction as possible, you can finally find out if Drew Karpyshyn’s Dynasty of Evil- his third Star Wars novel and 5th Sith-related project- is any good.
Darth Bane, Dark Lord of the Sith, is growing impatient as he awaits his apprentice, Darth Zannah, and her attempt to fulfill the Rule of Two. Zannah herself is growing equally restless, a restlessness that is matched only by her certainty that she must find an apprentice before assuming Bane’s mantle herself. In the midst of this silent struggle, new players emerge: an old enemy, an old friend, and the two beings with the potential to become the next Sith Lords. Crazy title right? Vergere died well over 100 years before the Legacy
Slight change of plans for posted reviews and columns this week. corax is having computer trouble, so we’ll get out the NJOE review of Legacy #42 as soon as possible - and the column he was hoping to post tomorrow. Meanwhile, please enjoy this review today, and come back tomorrow for a review of Star Wars Tales volume 1. I’ve talked about my love of art books before, with some reviews of the Visual Guide to Lego Star Wars as well as some Terminator Salvation art books I reviewed. Ultimate Battles was just what I was hoping to see in a visual guide to this TV series – covering in detail the second half of season 1 (and even previewing season 2’s first couple of episodes) over the course of it’s 128 oversized pages. But it’s not all about me, I’ll also talk about my son’s thoughts on this book too – after the break. |
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After the break you can read our thoughts on the return of the Jedi in the Legacy Era!! 
Metal Gear Solid 2 was a huge game in terms of sales – one of the first really big hits on the PS2 – and yet it was also controversial at the time. I played a lot of console games at the time, and completed and enjoyed MGS2, though I feel it was not without its problems. Still, when given the opportunity to review the novelization of the game by Raymond Benson I was looking forward to revisiting the story and see how it held up and what if any changes would be made. What follows will be a somewhat more spoiler filled review than I usually do in this column, so if that’s of interest click on the link to read more.
comics started. We shouldn’t even have to discuss her anymore, but we will. Her choices and actions are felt in an era that she has no control over. In this installment of Filling in the Blanks I’m going to address how Vergere’s actions are guiding a lot of the things going on in the Legacy comics.
Star Wars Tales was a comics series from Dark Horse that ran from around the time of the release of The Phantom Menace until Revenge of the Sith. These 24 issues presented lots of short stories featuring characters both known and unknown, written and illustrated by faces both familiar and unfamiliar. My plan is to review at least the first three trade paperback volumes reprinting these issues – and in the case of today’s review, that means issues 1-4 of the series. Click on the link to get my thoughts.
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