Insider #59 -- :(

Yeah I agree, we should however get a special EU-only magazine.

 

What I'd like to see is for them to print the EU short stories in both the Gamer and the Insider. That way you wouldn't have to buy both mags if you're not a gamer and just love the movies and the whole story (which includes the EU).

 

That is what gamer is, or star wars galaxy, and adventure journal before it. A magazine that is generally 100% expanding the universe. The numbers that take up a very little part of the magazine are surrounded by articles that expand the universe explain things, expand events, etc. It is made for gamers and non-gamers alike. Articles expand the universe for non-gamers enjoyement, like me.

 

Needless to say that kinda pissed me off, but it did get me to thinking of some troubling questions. Why doesn't the EU have it's own fan magazine with material from both Darkhorse and Del Rey. Why does the EU have to play second class citizen to the movies and RPG material in the two fan magazines I'm aware of?

RPG is EU. I love Gamer. I just think that all the EU stuff should go into Gamer, while Movie stuff should go into Insider. When there's too much overlap I feel like they're trying to get me to buy a magazine I don't really want for a few "exclusive" snippets of EU stuff.

 

" I feel like they're trying to get me to buy a magazine I don't really want for a few "exclusive" snippets of EU stuff. "

It ain't just a feeling.

 

Also gamer is connected to WOTC, Del Rey, lucasarts, and Darkhorse, everything everyone has been asking for in a magazine devoted to expanding the universe.

 

Val...
"True much like how zahn articles color views on the EU..."

The author you mentioned is also why I said "detract from" in addition to "add to." Things like the non-fiction TOS essays like "From Beyond the Rim" can also color things through erroneous statements, for example.

And perhaps the most powerful fictional effects actually come from non-fiction sources - the dreaded subject of canon. With but a single sentance, non-fiction LFL employee comments in Insider from people like McCallum, Sansweet, etc. can build up or tear apart the very fabric of the EU.

 

Yet, again I say that those are the kind of things that I am not interested in buying insider for, I'm only interested in the Fiction of the expanded universe. Articles written as documentation of the the EU universe's events, history, technology or science. Something that Insider for the most part doesn't add to it's magazine. A magazine devoted more to the behind the scenes and making of information, aspect of the EU or movies.

 

True.