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Grey1  1710 posts
Registered: Nov '00
8038_Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan
Date Posted: 5/3/07 12:36am Subject: RE: More Luke Skywalker novels with Luke Skywalker in the title
ThrawnRocks posted:
I think this is overall a good trend.
Totally agreed, BUT...
ThrawnRocks posted:
it is breaking the mold DR has created for itself. It is going back to a warlord of the week. It is going back to the New Republic era. It is going back to fill in the pieces. Even better it is based off of some throw away line in some old sourcebook.
LOTF is based on an antagonist that actually is some kind of a throwaway line, if you think about it - comics that had been thrown over board, are brought back for "collectors of kitsch" and suddenly form an immense proportion of the EU. Marvel should definitely have closed all of their storylines in their short-notice-final-issue (maybe put everyone on one planet for a big meeting and let that explode... wink
ThrawnRocks posted:
While the events of the story are important, it doesn't seem that it will be a "ZOMG TEH GALAXY IS ABOUT TO BE DESTROYED" story like what DR usually does.
That's what might make it really great. Let's have the Adventures of Luke Skywalker instead of the story that is just as dramatic as the movies themselves. Why should the novels attempt to top the movies?

 

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The_Four_Dot_Elipsis  2388 posts
Registered: Mar '05
8079_Toht
Date Posted: 5/3/07 1:54am Subject: RE: More Luke Skywalker novels with Luke Skywalker in the title
Barriss_Coffee posted:

ThrawnRocks posted:
I've been waiting a while to see Jaxxon appear in Rebellion, and we all know that Jaxxon is Darth Krayt.


I refuse to believe that Krayt is any other bunny than the Tumble Bunny Trainer. not_talking


I forsee the "reveal" clearly.

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Vongoid  455 posts
Registered: May '02
6511_Nen Yim
Date Posted: 5/3/07 11:30am Subject: RE: More Luke Skywalker novels with Luke Skywalker in the title
Luke Skywalker at the wrong of a lightsaber

By Stover, if necessary.

 

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The_Four_Dot_Elipsis  2388 posts
Registered: Mar '05
8079_Toht
Date Posted: 5/4/07 12:09am Subject: RE: More Luke Skywalker novels with Luke Skywalker in the title
Vongoid posted:
Luke Skywalker at the wrong of a lightsaber

By Stover, if necessary.


Hmm.

I see the little "tagline" at the back of the hardcover now.

Only Luke Skywalker could be petty enough to offend an inanimate object...

 

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TwiLekJedi  69991 posts
Title: Classic Trilogy Manager
 Registered: Jun '01
49704_H213: Halflife
Date Posted: 5/4/07 5:03am Subject: RE: More Luke Skywalker novels with Luke Skywalker in the title
NelanisGhost posted:
The Conception of Luke Skywalker?

Can there really be a whole novel based on a seven minute event?


They made a whole trilogy out of one painting.

 

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-RebelScum-  16784 posts
Registered: Feb '04
16245_Obi-Wan
Date Posted: 5/4/07 10:38pm Subject: RE: More Luke Skywalker novels with Luke Skywalker in the title
Excellence posted:

His name in any title is a pathetic marketing lure.


You're telling me that you didn't like Yoda: Dark Rendezvous's title either? I thought you just loved books like that.
doh!

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King_of_Red_Lions  729 posts
Registered: Mar '03
41081_Kuat Drive Yards Insignia
Date Posted: 5/4/07 11:47pm Subject: RE: More Luke Skywalker novels with Luke Skywalker in the title
-RebelScum- posted:
Excellence posted:

His name in any title is a pathetic marketing lure.


You're telling me that you didn't like Yoda: Dark Rendezvous's title either? I thought you just loved books like that.
doh!

-The Scummy-



I think 'and the' should be used in all star wars titles from now on. And old novels should be changed when reprinted:

Yoda and the Dark Rendezvous

Obi-Wan Kenobi and the Cestus Deception

Anakin Skywalker and the Labyrinth of Evil

Leia Organa and the Tatooine Ghost


cool

 

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The_Four_Dot_Elipsis  2388 posts
Registered: Mar '05
8079_Toht
Date Posted: 5/4/07 11:49pm Subject: RE: More Luke Skywalker novels with Luke Skywalker in the title
Plif and the Planet of the Hoojibs.

No, wait...

Kneesaa and the Sexist Pig.

Yeah.

 

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BobaMatt  14519 posts
Title: TFN EU Staff
 Registered: Aug '02
47935_Luke Skywalker - Dark Side
Date Posted: 5/5/07 7:24am Subject: RE: More Luke Skywalker novels with Luke Skywalker in the title
Luke Skywalker and the End of the Expanded Universe.

 

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Excellence  24488 posts
Registered: Jul '02
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Date Posted: 5/5/07 7:37am Subject: RE: More Luke Skywalker novels with Luke Skywalker in the title

Rebel Scum, there was little I liked about that book. wink

 

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Dawud786  2654 posts
Registered: Dec '06
42320_Luke Skywalker
Date Posted: 5/5/07 6:44pm Subject: RE: More Luke Skywalker novels with Luke Skywalker in the title
If Luke bites it we should see Luke Skywalker and the Netherworld of the Force.

 

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Barriss_Coffee  5734 posts
Registered: Jun '03
13744_Barriss Offee
Date Posted: 5/5/07 6:46pm Subject: RE: More Luke Skywalker novels with Luke Skywalker in the title
Dawud786 posted:
If Luke bites it we should see Luke Skywalker and the Netherworld of the Force.


That might be pretty cool, actually...

 

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THRAWN007  709 posts
Registered: Jul '02
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Date Posted: 5/5/07 7:24pm Subject: RE: More Luke Skywalker novels with Luke Skywalker in the title
That would be the perfect title for the last SW novel or the last one to feature Luke.

 
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Lord_Vivec  17936 posts
Registered: Apr '06
49622_H232: Sandman
Date Posted: 5/5/07 7:39pm Subject: RE: More Luke Skywalker novels with Luke Skywalker in the title
Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade in the Bedroom

Luke Skywalker and the Quest for His Lost Hand

Luke Skywalker in: I hate Palpatine and You Should too

 

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ThrawnRocks  14867 posts
Registered: Apr '04
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Date Posted: 5/5/07 8:58pm Subject: RE: More Luke Skywalker novels with Luke Skywalker in the title
Grey1 posted:
ThrawnRocks posted:
it is breaking the mold DR has created for itself. It is going back to a warlord of the week. It is going back to the New Republic era. It is going back to fill in the pieces. Even better it is based off of some throw away line in some old sourcebook.
LOTF is based on an antagonist that actually is some kind of a throwaway line, if you think about it - comics that had been thrown over board, are brought back for "collectors of kitsch" and suddenly form an immense proportion of the EU. Marvel should definitely have closed all of their storylines in their short-notice-final-issue (maybe put everyone on one planet for a big meeting and let that explode... wink

True. I forgot about that. And even better, Lumiya's inclusion, aside from being a logical character to use for a role they had already made, seems part of a larger movement in the EU to bring the Marvel comics back into the loop. We have seen several Zeltrons and Nagai in the comics, as well as a possible Hiromi. Another good trend overall in the EU.

 

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