Solo: A Star Wars Story opens May 25, 2018.
-GJ
Showing posts with label Chewbacca. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chewbacca. Show all posts
Sunday, April 8, 2018
Sunday, February 4, 2018
Solo: A Star Wars Story (Teaser Trailer)
Well here it is, a teaser for Solo: A Star Wars Story. Are you guys/gals excited?
Don't forget, full trailer airs tomorrow during Good Morning America.
-GJ
Monday, July 22, 2013
Comic Book Writer Brian Wood Overrated???
So far this year I've read two different series by comic book writer Brian Wood, Marvel's X-Men and Dark Horse Comics Star Wars, and so far I'm not overly impressed.
Wood's X-Men has been by far the most over-hyped series that I've seen in a long time, and I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with the fact that he's the writer; I do however think it has something to do with the fact that it's an all female X-Team, something which has never been done before. As far as story goes it's nothing exciting, and something about the way he wrote Jubilee drives me crazy (still haven't put a finger on what though).
When it comes to Dark Horse Comics' Star Wars series, well the first issue was okay, then it just took a turn for the worst. May be somebody paid good money to have Brian Wood write Leia as a crack-shot pilot (even the leader of an elite X-Wing fighter squad), but if not then this has to be the worst idea of all-time.
Now some people don't like to blame the writer for the artwork, but it's the writer's job to write the scene for the artist, so when Chewbacca decides to open the top hatch of the Millenium Falcon and shoot down a Tie Fighter there's nobody to blame but Wood, okay the editor too but Wood shouldn't have wrote the scene this way.
In case you don't know anything about Star Wars or the Millenium Falcon, there is a quad laser cannon on both the top and bottom of the Falcon, so why not use them!?!
It may be the fact that I've grown up on X-Men and Star Wars and I am being a tad bit critical, fore I have heard good things about Brian Wood's Conan series, also by Dark Horse, but I just have a hard time with everybody praising Brian Wood and his work.
Is there a writer or artist out there that you feel is overrated?
-GJ
Friday, April 19, 2013
Patton Oswalt's Star Wars / Marvel Poster
Here is the poster created for Patton Oswalt's Star Wars / Marvel rant seen on NBC's Parks and Recreation.
And just in case you missed it, here's the video.
Got to admit, he hits on some pretty good ideas. We vote for Patton Oswalt to write or direct at least one of the upcoming Star Wars films.
-GJ
Monday, January 7, 2013
A Short Review: Star Wars - Scoundrels
Once again Timothy Zahn has struck gold with his latest Star Wars novel, Scoundrels; a tale of corruption, thievery, and revenge.
Scoundrels features such classic characters like Han Solo, Chewbacca, Lando Calrissian, and one surprise appearance. We also come to know of Bink, her twin sister Tavia, Dozer, Zerba, Kell, Rachele, and Dayja. Also featured in the story is an Expanded Universe favorite, Winter.
What was enjoyable about this novel was that not only did it feature characters we know, but it showed what they were up to between Episode IV: A New Hope and Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. Also answered was the all elusive question of what the heck happened to all of Han's reward money?!?
The placement in the timeline was also a negative for me at the beginning of this novel. With both Han and Lando seeing each other now, it felt like it would take away from what we've come to know as that gut wrenching, what's going to happen moment when the two come face-to-face on Bespin. But ultimately by novel's end Zahn had made sure to restore that moment.
A little bit longer Star Wars novel for a change, Scoundrels comes in somewhere at around 390 pages, but fear not, it's a simple read and will have you so engrossed that you won't want to put it down.
Star Wars - Scoundrels by Timothy Zahn earns a 5/5.
-GJ
Monday, September 24, 2012
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Peter Mayhew Responds On Twitter
Peter Mayhew, the man who plays one of the most iconic Sci-Fi characters in history, Star Wars' Chewbacca, actually answered a pair of our questions over on Twitter!
Fanboys director Kyle Newman has not yet received the actual green light for "Chewie" from George Lucas, but has high hopes that this will be coming soon.
If you find yourself over on Twitter make sure to follow Peter Mayhew @TheWookieeRoars
-GJ
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Random Picture #1
The following image was found via Tumblr.com.
Be honest, you know this made you smile.
-GJ
Be honest, you know this made you smile.
-GJ
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Book Review - Star Wars: Death Troopers
Finished reading the new Star Wars novel "Death Troopers" by Joe Schreiber and absolutely enjoyed it.
Death Troopers is the first Star Wars novel to cross over into the Horror genre, and provided a more adult theme. Joe Schreiber paints a very desolate scene aboard the prison barge Purge and creates an unforgettable cast of humans, creatures, and the living dead.
The story also contains two of the saga's greatest icons. We won't ruin the surprise by telling you who, but if you've seen screen shots for the upcoming Death Troopers expansion pack for the Star Wars Galaxies game, then you pretty much know already.
Inside Book Flap
When the Imperial prison barge Purge - temporary home to five hundred of the galaxy's most ruthless killers, rebels, scoundrels, and thieves - breaks down in a distant, uninhabited part of space, its only hope appears to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting, derelict, and seemingly abandoned. But when a boarding party from the Purge is sent to scavenge for parts, only half of them come back - bringing with them a horrific disease so lethal that within hours nearly all aboard the Purge die in ways too hideous to imagine.
And death is only the beginning.
The Purge's half-dozen survivors - two teenage brothers, a sadistic captain of the guards, a couple of rouge smugglers, and the chief medical officer, the lone woman on board - will do whatever it takes to stay alive. But nothing can prepare them for what lies waiting aboard the Star Destroy amid its vast creaking emptiness that isn't really empty at all. For the dead are rising: soulless, unstoppable, and unspeakably hungry.
Visit The Official Death Troopers Site To Learn More
-GJ
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