ZkinandBonez

paja said:

I wounder if Han solo ever smuggle drugs.

Well, he smuggled “spice”, so technically, he did.

Mocata said:

TV’s Frink said:

Mocata said:

a Rik Mayall sense.

I don’t know what this means.

Well then this may offer more questions that answers… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKfbSHW9uGA

Well, that clears up one question. Or maybe both?

TV’s Frink said:

Mocata said:

a Rik Mayall sense.

I don’t know what this means.

I don’t know what either comment was supposed to mean.

“Enfys Nest is a female. […] She is signed for two more movies, presumably Solo sequels.” - Source

Some new droid designs;

Misc. promo art:

(This one reminds me of the Lando Adventure books from the 80’s.)

https://www.starwarsnewsnet.com/2018/04/multiple-new-solo-a-star-wars-story-posters-and-promotional-art-revealed.html

canofhumdingers said:

There’s tons of awesome aliens in TFA and R1. I like these guys from Maz’s castle.

They kinda look like a mix between the ANH “wolfman” and the bug-eyed concept art version of Chewie.

TV’s Frink said:

ZkinandBonez said:

I also really like the look of the Neimodians

Really? Woof.

“Woof” ?

moviefreakedmind said:

ZkinandBonez said:

moviefreakedmind said:

I forgot about him. He looks pretty menacing, I guess, but he looks very human. What about the more alien designs? I’m thinking like something along the lines of a Tuskan Raider or Wampa or Gamorrean Gaurd.

The Kel Dor look pretty menacing, and the design is very similar to Zuckuss from ESB. I also think that Benthic & Edrio and Moroff from RO fit pretty well in with the OT aesthetic.

I also really like the look of the Neimodians, and the Crimson Corsair, as mentioned above, is a pretty striking design.

Kel Dor reminds me a lot of an alien from season 4 of Star Trek: Voyager. It looks like it could’ve been a villain design at some point. I read that at least some of the background Jedi in the prequels used designs from Sith Lord sketches that Lucas didn’t ultimately approve, so I wonder if that’s where that one came from.

It wouldn’t surprise me at all if Ploo Koon was based on rejected Darth Maul concept art similarly to Asaj Ventress. Or it could just be that they wanted a design that worked in the SW universe and that they used Zuckuss as inspiration. It’s kind of funny to me how so many SW aliens since has used similar breathing devices.

BTW, what specific alien from Star Trek did Ploo Koon remind you of? I haven’t seen a lot of Voyager and now I’m really curious.

moviefreakedmind said:

I forgot about him. He looks pretty menacing, I guess, but he looks very human. What about the more alien designs? I’m thinking like something along the lines of a Tuskan Raider or Wampa or Gamorrean Gaurd.

The Kel Dor look pretty menacing, and the design is very similar to Zuckuss from ESB. I also think that Benthic & Edrio and Moroff from RO fit pretty well in with the OT aesthetic.

I also really like the look of the Neimodians, and the Crimson Corsair, as mentioned above, is a pretty striking design.

ray_afraid said:

ZkinandBonez said:

Thought that was a pic from the movie for a moment and almost lost all faith in this thing! 😄

JEDIT- Just showed the Lady of the Manor. “huh-uh… THIS THAT REAL!?” 😄

Yeah, I probably should have mentioned that it’s not from the actual movie.

Rian Johnson’s Star Wars Trilogy Could Look Very Different

“Really, the only goal I have is to think about how Star Wars made me feel as a kid, and that’s it,” Johnson told Digital Spy in an article published on Tuesday. “I’m trying to capture: What is that, if it’s not iconography, that we recognize, necessarily, from the original trilogy? What captures that spirit? What can be that for a kid who’s never heard of Star Wars? It’s getting back to the very fundamental questions of what makes this what it is.”

‘Solo’ Denny’s Commercial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=uIWiCjiYi7o

(EDIT: Image is from the commercial, not the movie. Though the aliens, and probably the set as well, will appear in it.)

suspiciouscoffee said:

ZkinandBonez said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

ZkinandBonez said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

A panel from the upcoming Star Wars Adventures Annual #1.

Is this canon or part of IDW’s more kid-focused books?

I believe the answer to both of those questions is “yes,” since I think all the kid-focused content (IDW books, Forces of Destiny shorts, etc.) are all canon.

I figured the IDW books fell in the same category as Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures.

Does that mean that books like Chewie and the Porgs is also canon?

According to the link you provided, yes.

Chewie and the Porgs is a canon young readers Star Wars picture book

OK, bad example. But stuff like Freemaker Adventures is, to my knowledge (I actually read the wiki page this time), not canon.

For some reason it made more sense to me that the young reader stuff fell into the same category.

suspiciouscoffee said:

ZkinandBonez said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

A panel from the upcoming Star Wars Adventures Annual #1.

Is this canon or part of IDW’s more kid-focused books?

I believe the answer to both of those questions is “yes,” since I think all the kid-focused content (IDW books, Forces of Destiny shorts, etc.) are all canon.

I figured the IDW books fell in the same category as Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures.

Does that mean that books like Chewie and the Porgs is also canon?

suspiciouscoffee said:

A panel from the upcoming Star Wars Adventures Annual #1.

Is this canon or part of IDW’s more kid-focused books?

So I guess since this is the spoiler thread we can simply talk about it whenever it’s out?

I figured I’d ask in advance this time, since Solo, like TLJ, will be released in Norway/Scandinavia on May 23, a few days before most people here will have a chance to see it.

Then again, I guess there really isn’t that much to spoil for a Solo prequel film.

doubleofive said:

Ongoing has a rotation of artists, there are some that aren’t pleasing to my eye, yes. The arcs are hit and miss, like all comics, but there’s been some I’ve really enjoyed.

Any specific recommendations?

As mentioned earlier, I’ve read the three Obi-Wan issues and thought they were really good.

doubleofive said:

I grab the TPB’s on Amazon for Kindle whenever Marvel has one of their insane sales. I got the latest Aphra TPB for $0.99 a couple weeks ago. This also unlocks them on your matching Comixology account.

Yeah, I thought about doing that to both the main series and Aphra, but I ended up buying the Maul and Kanan miniseries instead. There’s something about that art that just really puts me off. Aphra seems to have several different artists, some ok, some not so ok, but whenever I google the series people seem to exclusively either love it or hate it.

I’m thinking maybe I ought to stick to the miniseries for now (at least until the next time Marvel has another $0.99 sale.)

This is pretty interesting. I was aware of the fact that Luke was Starkiller in the shooting script, but I had no idea they actually shot scenes with it.

Tobar said:

Has the Darth Vader series reverted to a Dark Times setting? If so I might give that a go. The first Darth Vader run made me quit the entire modern Marvel line completely:

Wow, for real?

Well, at least the new Darth Vader series by Charles Soule is pretty good.

I feel like the new Marvel comics is pretty much a 50/50 chance of either being very good or complete nonsense. Luckily I’ve only run across good series/issues so far.

This has probably been discussed before, but is the main series, the one just called “Star Wars”, any good? I’ve only read the three Obi-Wan issues, and I liked those a lot. However I’m skeptical about the rest (and the art I’ve seen doesn’t really appeal to me).

Apparently the swoop gang from the old Marvel comics (specifically the Eight for Aduba-3 storyline) has been somewhat re-canonized;

https://www.starwarsnewsnet.com/2018/03/solo-new-details-on-enfys-nest-his-swoop-bike-the-cloud-rider-gang-and-the-planet-vandor.html

I haven’t read any of the X-Wing books yet, but I’m starting to wonder if Corran Horn’s “flaws” as a Jedi might have been Stackpole reacting to criticism about his abilities in his early SW books. As mentioned, a lot of things do not work out for Horn in the Dark Tide bduology, and even his Force powers were pretty ‘nerfed’ overall (most notably his inability to use telekinesis).

LuckyGungan2001 said:

ZkinandBonez said:

So I just finished reading the book Dark Tide II: Ruin and I’m very confused by the space-station pictured on the cover (both the American and the Japanese version).

What is it? As far as I could tell it never appeared in the story. When I first bought the book I figured it was a reference to TPM which had just been released a year before the book, because it kinda looks like one of the Trade Federation command ships, but none of those were ever mentioned.

Link to American cover

It was gonna be in the unreleased middle book of the Dark Tide trilogy that was cut down to two books. I guess they were too lazy to remove it from the cover.

Interesting. Do you have some source for that? Now I’m curious as to what was planned for the middle book.

I’m having a hard time to figure out what they could have squeezed in between the two Dark Tide books.

joefavs said:

God I hated Dark Tide. If you want to talk Mary Sues in Star Wars (and I absolutely don’t), Corran Horn is in a league all his own.

“Mary Sue”? I haven’t read any other books with Corran Horn, but in Dark Tide he fails pretty spectacularly. In the first book he nearly gets killed at the end and has to be saved, and in the second book he has to leave both the New Republic army and the Jedi Order after he is blamed for the destruction of an entire planet.

So I just finished reading the book Dark Tide II: Ruin and I’m very confused by the space-station pictured on the cover (both the American and the Japanese version).

What is it? As far as I could tell it never appeared in the story. When I first bought the book I figured it was a reference to TPM which had just been released a year before the book, because it kinda looks like one of the Trade Federation command ships, but none of those were ever mentioned.

Link to American cover

Tobar said:

Man, I can’t tell if that gif should make me feel sad, or make me impressed by Frank Oz’s puppetering skills. (I never realized how many subtleties there’s in that shot before.)

Anyway, I ended up just watching the whole first season anyway. I can see how a few episodes could have been skipped, but it probably would have felt kinda weird (even watching Clone Wars out of order got a little awkward at times).

joefavs said:

There’s a lot of monster-of-the-week stuff in the first two seasons. I would watch it through to the end from the last two episodes of S2 onward, but before that there’s plenty that’s skippable.

Ok, thanks. I was mostly curious about Thrawn and some of the weird stuff from the last two seasons that I’ve heard a lot about lately, so that suits me pretty well.

Should I just skip all of the Inquisitor stuff from the early seasons then, or would you recommend I watch some of the “essential episodes” from seasons one and two? Or would that just be weird? (What season is Maul introduced?)

So in the last few weeks I’ve been watching the Clone Wars series somewhat out of order. I’ve pretty much just watched the “essential” episodes (Mortis, Maul, Ashoka’s trial, etc.), and I’m currently just watching the rest in whatever order I feel like at the moment.

Is it possible to do this with Rebels?

I get the impression that this show isn’t quite as loose with it’s structure as Clone Wars was. I’ve read a few lists about the “essential” and “best of” episodes, but if I were to watch just these, would I loose too much of the plot for it to make any sense?

DuracellEnergizer said:

If the PT Jedi were depicted as chaste antisexuals, then shouldn’t the Sith have been depicted as polyamorous hedonists?

Isn’t that kinda what they were in Tales of the Jedi? At least Satal & Aleema Keto fits that description.

Also Darth Talon I guess? (I haven’t actually read the Legacy comics.)