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Post by okcomputer on Feb 15, 2012 18:16:56 GMT -5
New ongoing series set 25,000 years before the movies. The first issue came out this week, and it's really, really good. It's the best Star Wars-related thing I've read in years.
Anybody else get it?
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Post by magneto1138 on Feb 15, 2012 18:45:33 GMT -5
I've never cared for any Star Wars literature, but if you say it's as good as it is I'll pick it up. I blame you if it sucks.
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Post by okcomputer on Feb 15, 2012 19:08:32 GMT -5
I can live with that.
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Post by magneto1138 on Feb 15, 2012 19:15:03 GMT -5
You'll have to...
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Post by okcomputer on Feb 15, 2012 19:23:48 GMT -5
It actually is really good. Since it's the earliest in-continuity SW story ever written it doesn't require any knowledge of any other characters or events.
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Post by CelticPredator on Feb 15, 2012 20:14:35 GMT -5
I wish they would stop going backward.
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Post by optronix on Feb 15, 2012 20:16:34 GMT -5
There is plenty that is forward. As for whether this is worth reading, I'll probably pass, I don't care for the expanded stuff much and most any of it would be better than anything else Lucas has done since the original trilogy.
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Post by optronix on Feb 15, 2012 20:54:15 GMT -5
He could have made the origin cool if Boba gets the aging process done on him and then went and killed Mace Windu. All of Episode 3 could have been bounty hunter heaven, with bounties on Jedi and he kills him just for revenge but gets money as well.
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Post by okcomputer on Feb 15, 2012 21:37:14 GMT -5
Lucas acknowledged the EU plenty in the prequels. Coruscant, Kashyyyk, double-bladed lightsabers, Aayla Secura, swoop bikes, all that stuff originated in the novels and comics first.
But this new series is pretty much a fresh start. And seriously, the first issue was really good.
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Post by NecroDragon on Feb 15, 2012 22:51:39 GMT -5
I read a bunch of good Star Wars comics in the early nineties that were standalone stories that took place way in the past. Those were good.
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Post by NecroDragon on Feb 16, 2012 2:06:12 GMT -5
Hahaha, Star Wars prequel bashing is so old but it never gets old!
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Post by magneto1138 on Feb 16, 2012 9:37:00 GMT -5
Lucas acknowledged the EU plenty in the prequels. Coruscant, Kashyyyk, double-bladed lightsabers, Aayla Secura, swoop bikes, all that stuff originated in the novels and comics first. But this new series is pretty much a fresh start. And seriously, the first issue was really good. He didn't acknowledge anything worth a shit. He picked some of the most obvious crap and left all the great character development to rot while he pieced together one of the most horrible fucking stories in movie history. You didn't see Quinlan Vos in Episode I ?!
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Post by okcomputer on Feb 16, 2012 11:50:02 GMT -5
The Thrawn trilogy is awesome. It was those books that introduced Coruscant, which hugely significant in the prequels.
But please, continue shitting on the prequels. People don't like them. We get it.
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Post by okcomputer on Feb 16, 2012 18:17:19 GMT -5
Eh, I made my peace with the prequels years ago. I'm not about to defend them as masterpieces of film, but I'm not jumping on the bandwagon declaring them the worst things that have ever happened ever. They are what they are, and I can still enjoy them. And holy shit they look AMAZING on Blu-ray.
But it's really the Expanded Universe stuff that keeps me interested these days. The universe is so huge that it outgrew the movies long ago, and even if someone doesn't like what's happened with the movies there's plenty of EU stuff that they'd like. A prequel-hating friend of mine is back in the fold because of this Dawn of the Jedi series. It's almost tailor-made for lapsed fans.
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Post by magneto1138 on Feb 16, 2012 18:42:57 GMT -5
I picked up issues 0 & 1 just now. I'll read them tonight or tomorrow and give you my opinion.
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Post by okcomputer on Feb 16, 2012 18:48:14 GMT -5
Probably should've warned you that #0 is just a sourcebook with no story.
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Post by optronix on Feb 16, 2012 20:10:08 GMT -5
Eh, I made my peace with the prequels years ago. I'm not about to defend them as masterpieces of film, but I'm not jumping on the bandwagon declaring them the worst things that have ever happened ever. They are what they are, and I can still enjoy them. And holy shit they look AMAZING on Blu-ray. But it's really the Expanded Universe stuff that keeps me interested these days. The universe is so huge that it outgrew the movies long ago, and even if someone doesn't like what's happened with the movies there's plenty of EU stuff that they'd like. A prequel-hating friend of mine is back in the fold because of this Dawn of the Jedi series. It's almost tailor-made for lapsed fans. Rule 77 of the internet: if you make a thread about ANYTHING Star Wars, it will ALWAYS devolve into an argument about Lucas and the prequels.
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Post by frinspar on Feb 16, 2012 20:12:10 GMT -5
San Dimas High School football rules! Prequels suck!
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Post by magneto1138 on Feb 17, 2012 11:24:15 GMT -5
So I read the first issue last night. It was okay, but that's it. Wasn't really what I thought it would be. It started out okay, but then immediately jumped forward thousands of years to your typical SW EU reading material. Really wish it had just stuck with the tone of the first few pages of how the Jedi came about and learning their abilities given to them, for the first few issues at least. Then start slowly showing an unbalance forming within the force.
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Post by Asp Me Anything on Feb 17, 2012 14:58:44 GMT -5
Dawn of the Jed
I thought it would be about zombies in the Star Wars Universe...
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Post by okcomputer on Feb 17, 2012 16:34:30 GMT -5
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Post by Asp Me Anything on Feb 17, 2012 16:36:24 GMT -5
How was it?
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Post by okcomputer on Feb 17, 2012 17:06:35 GMT -5
Never read it. Sounded kinda dumb.
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Post by GhostRider5289 on Feb 18, 2012 13:12:06 GMT -5
Are there any good graphic novels that take place after ROTJ? I'm aware of the Dark Empire story but I can't seem to find a copy (haven't looked online).
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Post by okcomputer on Feb 18, 2012 15:35:03 GMT -5
Are there any good graphic novels that take place after ROTJ? I'm aware of the Dark Empire story but I can't seem to find a copy (haven't looked online). Dark Empire is pretty good, but I'd recommend Legacy. It takes place about 100 years after ROTJ.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2012 13:16:40 GMT -5
Legacy is great..same with Crimson Empire. Pretty sure there is a Rogue Squadron series as well
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Post by GhostRider5289 on Feb 19, 2012 13:40:59 GMT -5
Sounds like I've got some stuff to look for next time I'm in the bookstore. Thanks for the info.
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Post by mryac on Mar 3, 2012 13:42:29 GMT -5
so is the world any different 25,000 years in the past? because as much as i love Knight of the Old Republic thats what always pissed me off, it's thousands of years before the movies yet EVERYTHING is exactly the same, in all that time people still live in the same cities, use the same weapons and even have the same vehicles and droids, it just made no sense to me
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Post by okcomputer on Mar 3, 2012 17:54:46 GMT -5
The Je'daii (that's what they're called in this) use swords instead of lightsabers, there's no hyperspace travel yet, and everything just seems much less advanced. I can't remember if there were any droids in the first issue or not.
The whole thing is just really cool.
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Post by mryac on Mar 3, 2012 18:11:54 GMT -5
thats a plus then
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