Awesome Star Wars art (pic heavy!!) — Page 22

Just finished reading Tales of the Jedi. Great series. It’s a pity that modern comics don’t get this creative with their art. You could argue that they’re more “realistic”, and that TotJ could get a little wacky at times, but I’ll take stylized 90’s comic art over dull realism any day.

DuracellEnergizer said:

What I like most about TOTJ is that the artists actively tried to make theirs stories look like they took place in the ancient past of the SW Universe. Too bad no one involved in KOTOR & TOR ever thought to do the same.

Right. I was surprised and impressed by how different it looked from any other SW content I’ve ever seen/read before. Yet it had just enough familiar concepts in it to still feel like it belonged in the same universe.

I’ve never played KOTOR, but from what little I have seen its basically just a mix of PT and OT visuals.

TotJ reminded me a lot of Dune actually (especially the Tetans). And Onderon had a bit of a Flash Gordon vibe to it (only more 90’s than 40’s.) I really wish that EU content would borrow more from SW’s influences rather than just borrow from SW itself.

Stumbled across this poster by artist Marie Bergeron. Love this style.

Cobra Kai said:

Stumbled across this poster by artist Marie Bergeron. Love this style.

Very cool that - nice one 😃

Already posted in the Random Star Wars pics & gifs thread - but likely well worth a post in here too…

some more similar Star Wars art here from the same artist (Raymond Swanland) - https://imgur.com/gallery/HZOh0

Pick your ride…

^ from https://imgur.com/gallery/h4kbV

Yeah. Weird.

^ from https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/7qkitq/jedi_sentinel_rey_by_kittrose/

Tsuyoshi Nagano book cover art ranging from 1997 - 2004.

(This is by no means all of them, just some of my favourites.)

New Republic books source
New Jedi Order books source
PT books source

ZkinandBonez said:

*Tsuyoshi Nagano book cover art ranging from 1997 - 2004.

(This is by no means all of them, just some of my favourites.)

New Republic books source
New Jedi Order books source
PT books source

(Images removed due to space)

Oh yeah I love these. They make me wish the American covers were better, but instead we got stuff like this:

or this:

LuckyGungan2001 said:

ZkinandBonez said:

*Tsuyoshi Nagano book cover art ranging from 1997 - 2004.

(This is by no means all of them, just some of my favourites.)

New Republic books source
New Jedi Order books source
PT books source

(Images removed due to space)

Oh yeah I love these. They make me wish the American covers were better, but instead we got stuff like this:

or this:

I’m currently reading the NJO books with the American covers, and yes, some of them leave much to be desired. If I ever get to re-visut Japan I’m definitely going to try to get some of the Nagano covers for my collection.

However, the NJO book covers weren’t all boring photoshops, some of them, especially those made by Terese Nielsen, I think are pretty good. Nagano even used some of them as reference for his own covers.

And I like the simplicity of these two;

^ https://twitter.com/troydavidmill/status/929055078580813824

^ https://twitter.com/troydavidmill/status/803300197698703360

Those Tsuyoshi Nagano’s are really great. Thanks for posting, ZkinandBonez.
They make me wanna read those books. And I might!

ray_afraid said:

Those Tsuyoshi Nagano’s are really great. Thanks for posting, ZkinandBonez.
They make me wanna read those books. And I might!

Well, I’m about halfway through the second book in the New Jedi Order series now, and I’ve been enjoying them quite a lot so far. The Yuuzhan Vong are pretty interesting, I think, as long as you put yourself in the mind-set that these aren’t classical SW stories.

ZkinandBonez said:

ray_afraid said:

Those Tsuyoshi Nagano’s are really great. Thanks for posting, ZkinandBonez.
They make me wanna read those books. And I might!

Well, I’m about halfway through the second book in the New Jedi Order series now, and I’ve been enjoying them quite a lot so far. The Yuuzhan Vong are pretty interesting, I think, as long as you put yourself in the mind-set that these aren’t classical SW stories.

Yeah I’ve almost finished the last book (taken me a year to finally get through this huge series), and it’s definitely not the same tone as the films, which is why I love it.

LuckyGungan2001 said:

ZkinandBonez said:

ray_afraid said:

Those Tsuyoshi Nagano’s are really great. Thanks for posting, ZkinandBonez.
They make me wanna read those books. And I might!

Well, I’m about halfway through the second book in the New Jedi Order series now, and I’ve been enjoying them quite a lot so far. The Yuuzhan Vong are pretty interesting, I think, as long as you put yourself in the mind-set that these aren’t classical SW stories.

Yeah I’ve almost finished the last book (taken me a year to finally get through this huge series), and it’s definitely not the same tone as the films, which is why I love it.

Exactly. Just like with Dark Empire, I love how the old EU dared to take chances and fiddle with the genre & the atmosphere of several stories/plot-lines.

a BBC article on Soviet Star Wars posters (with pics of course 😉):-

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180129-the-star-wars-posters-of-soviet-europe

LOL @ Jedi Ackbar.

Thumbs Up @ Jedi Elvis
SMH @ Star Wars Terminator
AHH! @ Large Mouth Wolf

Thumbs up for Female Purple Saber Kylo

NeverarGreat said:

Thumbs up for Female Purple Saber Kylo

How is she Kylo? I haven’t read the story, but her nose doesn’t seem nearly big enough.