Posts tagged Star Wars
I love spaceships. When I saw Star Wars for the first time, I didn’t want to be a Jedi—I wanted to fly an X-wing.
For that reason above all others, I was downright giddy to hear the announcment of Star Wars: The Blueprints.
There’s much more than spacehips, of course; these technical drawings detail the Star Wars saga at its planning stages, ranging across all six films.
What’s more, these original blueprints (not to be confused DK’s Star Wars Blueprints) were hand-picked from the archives by Lucasfilm author/editor Jonathan Rinzler, 95% of which have never available to the public.
I could go on about how this book is presented in an oversized (15.5” by 18.5”), cloth encased form—pretty much the perfect coffee table book for a Star Wars fan—but you can see all of that in the specifications at Epic Ink’s official site.
As far as what I think about the book, well—you’ll just have to watch the video.
Star Wars Invasion Vol. 2 - Rescues is Dark Horse’s latest installment in the New Jedi Order era—namely, the invasion of the Yuuzhan Vong.
When I flipped through the first trade paperback last year, I was pleasantly surprised. I didn’t particularly care for the NJO series from Del Rey—nineteen novels was spreading the story incredibly thin, for my taste—so it was all the more gratifying when the first volume of Invasion blew my socks off.
Writer Tom Taylor does a superb job of expanding the Star Wars mythos, deftly telling his own story in and around pre-established storylines by blending new characters with classic ones.
