Fanclub Fate of the Jedi and Aftermath Fan Club - looking forward to Crucible and SotJ!

"Yes to the first, yes to the second, but only as long as we keep to the shallows as much as possible."

Translation: Great news all around, except the last bit with the Han cover could be more exciting (ie, more original).

 

i have liked all the covers for fotj so far. so any callista rumors for allies. obviously allies is the temporary alliance of the skywalkers and the sith against abeloth

 

Ahhhh, somewhere to come and feel safe Its hard out there, EU Hate is at High I've never known before, and with the poodoo the Guys at the Ranch are releasing on a Friday I thought I was Doomed.

Absolutely thrilled at the FOTJ line, and the Lost Tribe in-betweens are my kinda thing hehe Great Stuff.

 

This series had a lot of potential when I started reading Outcast way back when. Not my most favorite series in Star Wars ever but I do intended to do a read through from DNT all the way through Apocalypse next summer after Apocalypse is out in PB to get a picture of the tragedy of Darth Caedus as a whole

 

Loved FotJ! My favorite Star Wars story yet!!!

 

I liked the new dynamic with Ben most. He's now competent, talented, powerful, and yet snarky, goofy, and a complete teenager. He was what Luke needed at that time. I like the vestara dynamic as well. What I didn't like was the father son daughter abeloth junk. Just not interested, and irritated that it helps to firm the clone wars as canon. Frustrating.

 

Hey, Sinre, is this going to be the place for SotJ/Mercy Kill fans too, like in the temp forums?

 

Excellent! I shall definitely be around, then! Do we have any word on that proposed release schedule for Sword of the Jedi?

 

I loved the covers to FotJ, they were all really cool.

 

As far as covers, it was definitely time to try something a tad more stylistic, but I confess to hoping that they try something different with the upcoming series.

 

Yes? Or maybe they're planning on renewing the contract? I personally hope for the latter, given that I really want Golden to take time and make this as awesome as she can.

 

I want a return to the NJO type of covers or the New Republic era covers but with updated faces and stuff

 

Hum. I would love to see more Dave Seeley covers, or John Harris covers. Wasn't a big fan of the collage style in most of the NJO. It doesn't seem likely that we'll get Bantam-type covers, though, considering what happened to Mercy Kill's cover.

Though Crucible does feel a bit like one of the older ones.

 

I'm not sure who did what covers but I wish we at least had a couple people on the covers and not just one person or the same people over and over again. I wouldn't mind a return to the LOTF covers, the FOTJ covers were pretty bad but just get new people on the covers. OR maybe have a scene from the book be the cover, I don't know

 

Scenes from books require that the book be done before the artist is hired...which almost never, ever happens, according to every author I've ever heard comment on the subject.

 

That's unfortunate. That could have been something new and exciting that they could have done since it was a new series or arc. Oh well. I just hope whatever they do will be good. I hope the teaser picture that came with the announcement will be a cover. That was pretty cool

 

That's part of why I'm so thrilled about the Reader's Companion - lots and lots and lots of scenes from books. Same with Warfare.

 

Although I haven't read any of FOTJ yet I do plan onto in the future.

 

One of the parts I find myself enjoying the most is the side Jedi who were introduced or expanded upon in the series.....
Sothais Saar, Bandy Geffer, Barratk'l, and Seha Dorvald; all of which I hope go on to have a grand future in the Star Wars EU!

Any characters in the series catch your eye?