You know, I usually stay clear of EU...

But today I did something daring!

Well, to start off let me say that as far as EU has gone, I have only read the Thrawn Trilogy like when it first came out. There were somethings in it I enjoyed and some things that I did not like at all, but it was a nice read. Anyway I pretty much stay away from EU for reasons that may be obvious for some and for some other reasons I have of my own.

But today I went to this cool new store that deals with books, anime, comics, graphic novels, etc, etc.

And after looking around for a bit I noticed I had to go soon. So I had no idea what I wanted to get, so I just picked up this cool graphic novel collection of stories on a whime.

It was called SW Tales: Volume 1.

It cost me 20 bucks, but it was over 200 pages and so what the hell.

So I picked it up, started reading it and found myself enjoying it very much.

It had a great deal of good stories in it, some serious, some just plain odd and some just plain hilarious like "Skippy, the Jedi droid".

Anyway, it was worth every dollar.

Has anyone else read this volume of really interesting graphic tales?

And if there are more graphic novels like this one, which are some good ones you would recommend?

 

Volume Two comes out in May...same length, same price.

 

You have taken the first steps to a larger world.

Congrats, s_o_t_t! The movies rock, and I will always love them. However, as obsessed with Star Wars as I am, I want more than the movies, which is why I love the EU. True, there are some things in the EU I do not like, but then the same is true with the movies. Does being a Star Wars fan mean you have to enjoy every second of all 4 (soon to be 5 and then 6 in 2005) movies? Of course not.

Tales is cool series. Some of it is considered to be within the official timeline, some of it isn't. Still a good read. I loved Tales when they first came out, so great, so funny... then they went downhill for a bit, but now they've gone back up in quality as Dark Horse heard from fans on what they did and did not like.

~*~Bria

 

I think there are 4 per TPB, though I'm not positive... my comic shop got one copy in, and they held it for me, even though they doubted I'd buy it (since I buy individual issues), and I didn't...

DH doesn't increase the price alot for TBPs and the regular issues are 4.95 if I recall correctly, so $19.95 + tax sounds like 4 issues...

~*~Bria

 

Hmmm, interesting. Tales Volume has like around 12 stories in it. Pretty good deal.

I enjoyed it. I will admit it. The funny ones really made me bust a gut.

Now, I won't read actual EU books, so for now I will stick with the graphic novels or comics heh

A question for EU readers and those who venture into AOTC spoilers.

How will the EU deal with the more and more contradictions to it? One of them being Vader and a certain big spoiler in AOTC that was handled in another way in EU, especially SOTME and the Thrawn Trilogy?

How will the EU work that out?

 

The only contradiction that AOTC brings up is Owen's relationship to Obi-Wan. Aside from that, AOTC meshes almost seamlessly with the established EU.

 

Why do i find it disturbing that lots of people know enough about a movie (that doesn't come out for months) to say that it meshes well with the EU ?

The comics are sort of like the novels : some bad, some good and some really awesome. I truly hope you enjoy them.

 

Owen's relationship to Obi Wan does not contradict the EU. In one of the JA books, it?s revealed that Obi Wan had a brother named Owen, but it?s not the same person. Owen is obviously just a common name, like Bail or Antilles. However, the Owen/Obi Wan relationship does directly contradict the novelizations and screenplays. Luke?s references to Owen as Obi Wan?s brother are based on false information given to him by Obi Wan, and so contradict nothing; he was just misinformed.

I wonder if this means that Return of the Jedi is no longer canon?

 

What you picked up is the first year of Tales issues. It's a quarterly series. 64 pages (twice a normal sized comic) every 3 months. IMO, the first year was by far the best. The most recent issue was #10, #11 comes out in March or it should.

If you are interesed in some AotC related comics the writer of Extinction (Ron Marz) has two comics coming out next month. Both double sized (should be 56 or 64 pages). Jango Fett and Zam Wessell. Assuming no more changes they'll both be out in March. Jango Fett was originally supposed to be out in December it's now supposed to be out in mid March.

 

Whoops. My bad, has 16 stories in it.

Yeah, I wil probably pick up the Jango one. Not interested in Zam as a character so much though.

Yea, I know some could be cleared up easily, but in the ROTJ novel it says more than Ben having a brother named Owen. That he took Luke to his brother Owen and his wife Beru.

And that is not what I was talking about anyway. Um, well, a main one being Fett's origins and the other one being being a certain spoiler I cannot mention here bit it concerns Vader and and something that happened to him in SOTME and then alluded to in Zahn's book.

 

Congratulations, and welcome to the rest of the Galaxy

 

Well, understand that tales is infinities(AU of star wars) and by definition to LFL doesn't apply to the continuity. The stories are made to be enjoyable but not used in a timeline, unless lfl goes back and refrences them in a later Continuity source.

 

son_of_the_tear: Like I said, it's really easy to clear the cahnge with the EU. But it's pretty much impossible to clear it with ROTJ. Therefore, as ROTJ has been blatently contradicted by a more recent canon source, ROTJ shouldn't be canon.

 

sott: Zam is in the Jango book and Jango in the Zam. I think they're pretty closely linked together.

 

Yeah, the new Insider says that both Jango and Zam appear in each other's books. Anyway, I normally stay away from the comics (for no particular reason other than I really cant afford them on top of my other purchases) but SW Tales # 1 sounds too sweet to miss ! Im going to pick it up as soon as I get my hands on some $$$$. !

 

The Tales series is awsome. You picked up an excellent book.

 

What you are failing to consider though, is that Lucasfilm has already stated that Jaster is NOT Boba fett. They said that they were in between deciding whether he is another imposter in the vein of Jodo Kast, or just a fake cover story Fett spread to hide his true origins.

And for God sakes, before anyone goes thru the thread screaming "Infinities! Infinities!", this announcement was made before there WAS an infinities.

Same goes for Owen Lars and Ben being brothers. LFL made and announcement through the Jedi council on the main site concerning that. They are not brothers.

 

We're going to have to wait and see on that, Sithspit. A lot of the authors like including obscure continuity in their books, and it's quite likely that the new Boba Fett series of books will tie the continuity together. It's already quite likely that Boba's Marvel comics history will be alluded to.

 

Or, it could be that Boba just went to Concord Dawn after AotC... it's not impossible.

 

Dan Wallace who works for LFL has told me once that after the movies are out, he will try to incoporate all the boba fett events into a cohesive list. As well he agreed with the alias theory.

Now if the EU already does it now, so much easier for him later on.