The solicits for the June 2010 comics have been added!!  Join the discussion on our mesage boards as we talk the latest issues of Legacy and Invasion!!  We also take a gander at Tom Taylor’s next Star Wars Adventures tale, The Will of Darth Vader!!

As this week begins we will take a look at what’s planned for the site!!

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Announced today on the Official Old Republic website, Bioware and LucasArts have once again teamed up with Dark Horse to create this original comic series published entirely online. Blood of the Empire features a new perspective and strong character-driven story written by BioWare’s Senior Writer Alexander Freed and published by Dark Horse.  Get the full details, including a sneak peek at the series at the official Old Republic website!!

One of the things I loved about volume 1 of Annihilation Conquest was the Starlord Miniseries section – which was really about Starlord being forced to lead a rag-tag group of heroes on a suicide mission with little chance of success. Guardians of the Galaxy takes many of the same characters from that miniseries (those who are left alive anyway), brings in some of the other major players from that story, and continues to send them on missions with very little chance of success. This book has everything you could want out of a comic featuring the cosmic adventures of a miss-matched group of superheroes. If you’d like to find out more, you know what to do…

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I’ve never picked up one of these Omnibuses before, and the first thing I’ve got to say is – they are huge! Before I go any further and review the actual content of this particular volume, I’ve just got to say up front, with this many comics issues bound together into one book, you almost can’t go wrong. I understand that Dark Horse is including things in these volumes that are hard to find – and they’re generally presented in chronological order (though I’ll have more to say on this later in the review) making them a very good way for fans to get caught up on stories they may have missed. And this volume definitely fits into that category for me – I don’t think there was a single story in here that I’d read before. But to read the rest of my review, you know what to do.

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My first novel review for NJOE was Aaron Allston’s Outcast, the first entry in the Fate of the Jedi series.  It is only fitting that my first novel review for 2010 be Aaron Allston’s newest installment into the series.    Backlash keeps its story very straight forward, bouncing back between Dathomir and Coruscant.  New characters are introduced and our heroes face hidden dangers at nearly every corner, after the break you can read my thoughts on the newest Fate of the Jedi novel.

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After a long, long wait, Backlash is finally here. I wasn’t sold on Outcast - I enjoyed it well enough, but I didn’t think it was great. I’ve often said Fate of the Jedi didn’t really start for me until Omen, and Abyss is one of my favorite Star Wars books ever. But Backlash proved to me that Allston’s still got it, as I’d consider it at least as good as Omen, because he’s certainly firing on all cylinders this time. Backlash is anything but a slow book – but still filled with a good number of in-jokes, cross-references to past adventures, and more use of the droids. It’s also a very focused novel, keeping the plot centered around the characters’ adventures on Coruscant and Dathomir. To read the rest of my spoiler filled review, click on the link.

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This week sees the return of Fate of the Jedi to the shelves of our local bookstores!!  After the break you can also see what we have planned for the site!!

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After literally hours of fiddling with various options spread over several weeks now, NJOE has overcome the issue of our RSS feed.

Those who’ve tried the original RSS and Atom feeds might have noticed one problem- they don’t work.  They didn’t feed.

On the sidebar to the right of this, however, we have not one, but four brand new subscription options.  Not only do we have a new RSS Feed, but NJOE now offers Email Subscription, as well as Twitter and Facebook Pages, which are both regularly updated (and a good part of the reason it took so much time and effort to get everything working properly).

While we haven’t given up on making these better, all of these subscriptions are fully functional, regularly updated with Site and Star Wars news and waiting for you to pick one, two, or all four of them!

August 18th 2009.  That is the date that Star Wars Fate of the Jedi Abyss was released.  Fast forward to this Tuesday, March 9th of 2010, and we finally have the newest  chapter of the Fate of the Jedi saga on the shelves of our local bookstores.  Now it’s been awhile since we saw Luke and the gang and their adventures, after the break you can get a refresher on what has happened so far in the series.

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