Following directly out of Secret Invasion, was the beginning of a new age for the Avengers – a Dark Age, and a new team is formed to follow this new vision, led by Norman Osborn (formerly the Green Goblin) and made up of some of the Thunderbolts (reformed supervillains) and other undesirables – all ready to protect America from the next threat, whatever it might be, and from wherever it might come. Norman came to prominence when he shot the killing bullet into the Skrull Queen’s head, ending the Secret Invasion – and as a national hero, in a nation where the heroes nearly failed to protect the general populace – well, the president has tapped him to lead both the Avengers and SHIELD. But we’ll discover Norman always has plans of his own.

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Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars preview at Kotaku, discussion here.

The Clone Wars Adventures MMO new screenshots and video at the Official Site, discussion here.

The Old Republic MMO new abilities information, interviews and more as linked by Rouge77 in this discussion thread.

Blood Ties #1: A Tale of Jango and Boba Fett comes out today, written by Tom Taylor and drawn by Chris Scalf.

Techland interviews Tom Taylor about his Star Wars comic work, and they have an interview with Matt Higby, lead designer on Clone Wars Adventures (Techland is doing a whole Star Wars month).

Learn about The Clone Wars Weekend at Zeum (San Francisco Children’s Museum) here.

Tom Hodges (artist of Tales from the Clone Wars) is selling some of his left over CV stuff, details at Rebelscum.

Newsarama has an interview with Matthew Wood (sound director for The Clone Wars as well as the voice of Grevious and the Battle Droids) from CV.

And Geek with Curves has a contest where the prize is some CV goodies.

News about season 3 of The Clone Wars webcomic from TheForce.net.

Become a fan of DK’s Star Wars Facebook page and be entered to win a copy of Star Wars Year by Year.

I had been seeing this book for awhile without really knowing what it was, but finally decided to give it a try and check it out with my sons. As it turns out, my sons have had books out of the library like this before – I just didn’t know it was called Scanimation. I’ll try to describe it for you as I review the book, so you can get a feel for what it means too.

I’m not entirely sure how Scanimation works, but I’m going to give you my best guess. As you open the page, the image on the right appears to move – in an animated fashion. (Read More…)

Going to try something new this week. Instead of a summary of “In Case You Missed It” at the end of the week, a daily briefing updated with the latest Star Wars news as it might pertain to readers of this site. Feel free to provide feedback at the link below to this addition/replacement to our regular column.

The Official Site gives us a look at the back cover for Vortex as well as the blurb.

Ben Burtt reveals The Sounds of Star Wars (book) at Celebration V.

The official site has some pictures from The Last Tour to Endor up now too.

Geek Dad talks about The Clone Wars with Dave Filoni here.

Based on the toy packaging, rumors abound that Quinlan Vos will be in The Clone Wars this season.

There’s also talk of Quinlan Vos in the second part of the Techland interview with the Dark Horse Star Wars comics editors.

Speaking of comics, Tales from the Clone Wars is still available at the Star Wars Shop, and one of the artists (Tom Hodges) mentioned via twitter that if it sells out (I believe only 2000 were made) they’ve got big plans for a Season 2 collection.

Small blurb addition to TOR: Deceived in the Random House Spring 2011 catalog.

Techland also has a Q&A with Daniel Wallace about The Jedi Path.

Paul Kemp gives 10 reasons why Star Wars fans should read his Erevis Cale stories.

This is the kind of book that even if you haven’t read it, you’ve actually been quoting it for a long time. The stories that are in this book, about the creation of the Shadows of the Empire event have shaped much of what we know about how things are run in the various licensees of LFL as well as provided us insight into who does what job and how it all comes together in the development of a product. There are stories I’ve retold on forums that I didn’t even realize originally came from this book, until I re-read it. It’s the perfect companion piece to the Shadows of the Empire event, better than the story it’s meant to cover frankly, providing the fans with one of our earliest opportunities to see inside the workings of our favorite franchise. I’ve been highly recommending this book to people for years – and this review isn’t going to change any of that.

But if you’d like a little more detail into what you’ll find within these pages, I’ll be happy to give it to you. (Read More…)

Sometimes a whole bunch of news comes out during the course of a given week and articles just don’t last long enough on our front page. Or perhaps it’s just that the piece of news wasn’t enough to warrant a front page story, but is still deserving of being recognized as newsworthy. In Case You Missed It is meant to be our catch-all for those things – a way for us to summarize the past week’s worth of news.

In the wake of Celebration V there wasn’t a lot of groud breaking Star Wars news this past week, though there were plenty of things that could have easily been missed as people caught up on the CV stories. (Read More…)

Welcome back to another installment of This Week In Star Wars!!  After the break you can find out what’s coming out this week and what we have planned for the site!!

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Star Wars has not been without controversy even from its beginning, whether it be Luke and Leia’s kiss or the destruction of Alderaan. In my column, I will strive to defend its controversial authors, ideas, or characters to the best of my ability. My intent is to bring these issues to light and see the rationale behind them.

This month’s case is Callista Masanna and Cray Mingla’s actions in Children of the Jedi.  Did Callista fall to the dark side? Click on the link below to find out… (Read More…)

Mass Effect: Redemption takes place two years prior to Mass Effect 2, following the story of Mass Effect 1 party member Liara T’Soni as she goes on an emotional personal quest. After Commander Shepard, the famed hero of the Alliance, supposedly dies in a sudden attack on the Normandy, it seems all sorts of groups are vying for the oddest thing – the deceased hero’s corpse. The worst group working towards this goal is none other than the Collectors – now, the only question is, why do they want Shepard’s body?

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