Another Sneak Preview of Kyle Katarn's Star Wars Tales #21 Story

Ladies and gentlemen . . .

BOOYAH!

Dark Horse has just put up their 12-pages preview of Star Wars Tales #21, which features a 4-page preview (pages 9 - 12) of "Equals and Opposites" . . .

AND . . .

With the blessing and support of Jeremy Barlow, we have put up a second starwarsfanworks.com exclusive preview panel from the comic! This one's a real eye-opener. Check out the news on the mainpage of Fanworks at:

http://www.starwarsfanworks.com

Or directly on that specific news page at:

http://www.starwarsfanworks.com/newspages/092204a.html

Rock on!

 

Total pwnage...

We needed more graphical representations of the Vong War.

 

Katarn and stormtroopers on the same side =

Here's a direct link to the preview.

 

Talk about turnabouts. After all the years Kyle raised hell with the stormtroopers only to now work besides them... All we need now are Rogue Squadron, Twin Suns Squadron, a Chiss phalanx, and a whole bunch of other Jedis, and we'd have enough for one hell of a party on that planet.

 

Fun to see Kyle working with stormtroopers.

Of course, the biggest implication of the story is that some Imperial held worlds were taken by the Vong and not just attacked from orbit.

Very interesting...

--Adm. Nick

 

I have seen Katarn and am happy. Though those Storm Trooper are beefed up, and Jan looks great for her age.

 

http://images.darkhorse.com/common/salestools/previews/swtales21/swtales21p10.jpg

Is that suppose to Jan? She and Kyle aren't married yet? Ugh...

 

Yeah Kyle and Jan look pretty good for their age. They must have muscled one hell of a good medical plan out of the republic.
As for the stormtroopers, they probably shake in their armor whenever Kyle starts giving orders.

 

Nice to see you guys are getting intrigued.

Kyle & Stormies: Yeah, that was something I wanted to do from the get-go. Somehow or another, Kyle needed to be put in the company of those he once served, or something that should be uncomfortable or an odd situation for readers. I ended up choosing to set the story on a new Imperial Remnant world that was recently raided for slaves by the Vong. So, new planet and, yup, Kyle with stormies.

And, yup, that's Jan, very well-kept for her age (but it's GFFA medical tech they'd be using). As for she and Kyle not being married...nice to see that was picked up on. That's not the last time that issue will be raised within the context of that story.

 

yeah, not married - shame

Great art work though.

 

And I thought main characters were the only ones entitled to excessively long courtships.

Way to go, Kyle!

 

Kyle working with stormtroopers? This I HAVE to see

Kyle and Jan not married over a decade after that whole "long vacation on Spira" bit in JO? Hey, however it works, boys and girls

 

Who knows? Maybe after this adventure Kyle might finally pop the question.

 

Wow! Great preview! This is looking better and better, our first REAL NJO comic dealing with the actual war.

Can you imagine being a Storm Trooper assigned to KYLE KATARN. It'd be like being in Darth Vader's unit when HE WAS YOUR FORMER ENEMY.

Storm Trooper: "Y-y-y-your K-k-k-kyle..."

Kyle Katarn: "Kyle Katarn, nice to meet you."

Storm Trooper: *Gulp*

Kyle Katarn: "Er, shal we get going with our mission? Now to eliminate our enemy we must..."

Storm Trooper: *passes out*

Kyle Katarn: "Sigh, damn, what's the problem here? I only killed ten thousand or so of you guys with my bare hands, lightsaber and several tons of high powered weapons."

 

Congratulations Nathan, that looks absolutely fantastic! I really can't wait for your story. You are an inspiration for fans who can be rewarded for their love of Star Wars.

The whole of 'new-look' Tales looks great. A great improvement on the previous!

 

Now I also feel compensated for having CEIII cancelled.

 

RE: Another Sneak Preview of Kyle Katarn's Star Wars Tales #21 Story

amd another shameless plug by NPB

 

"BOOYAH!"

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Sweet.

the Kyle story alone is worth getting it.

 

Shameless Plugging: But of course. Figure any excitement it draws is a good thing. And, of course, it hides the utter awe and humility I feel underneath realizing how insignificant my tale is compared to how many great authors came before on such larger contributive scales. It's partly to keep my own continued shock at getting to do the story in check.

Booyah: Yeah, "booyah!" Heh.

The New Look: Wait until you see the inside. Jeremy's really done a great job at getting the series back on track. You see how on the first page of a story, there's an era symbol? Like right with the "Equals and Opposites" title is a NJO era symbol? The table of contents, which has been made to look a lot cooler, has actual year notations for each story on it. And, of course, the letters column is back!

 

NPB: I'm officially jealous... not only have you got this done, but it looks great!

- The Imperial Ewok

 

That's all James and the colorist. I personally was astounded. I got black and white pages from Jeremy and was totally stoked, then about a week ago, I got the final finished pages and about had a heart attack. James Raiz really pulled the story off well. I hadn't imagined that level when I was doing the panel descriptions and scripting, honestly.

 

"Actually...they're with me."

Best. Line. Ever.

This thing looks like it will rock!

Oh, and tell the Vong to give Jan back. Please?

I hope she doesnt' die in this one

 

Well, if that isn't worth running around my house making stupid 'vruum' noises, nothing is!

 

You hope Jan doesn't die, ey?

Well, don't read the last page.






KIDDING, FOLKS! JUST KIDDING!






"Or is he?"







And yeah, I like "Actually, they're with me." It's hard to pick a favorite line, though. I had a few that I'm really happy with.

By the way, interesting fact: Lt. Pallin, seen on the 2nd page of the E&O preview, was once to be named Lt. Ducce (pronounced Doo-chuh) . . . But I realized that without a pronunciation key, "Ducce" might make people say his name like a feminine hygeine product.

So I changed it. heh