The eighth chapter of the Dawn of Defiance campaign for the Star Wars Roleplaying Game is now online. The Gem of Alderaan is followed by my own Sword of the Empire, which I would expect would follow sometime hereafter once the maps and all the shiny bits are added.
My condolences to the friends and family of Kevin Black, the cyclist killed in a terrible accident Friday in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. Kevin was a close friend of my extended family in Seattle — we had a good conversation about comics on my last trip out there, and he seemed like a really nice guy. As an impromptu memorial, a bike and jersey mysteriously appeared on a lamppost …
In the now-it-can-be-told department, the latest Star Wars comics series, Invasion — dealing with the Yuuzhan Vong in the New Jedi Order era — was just announced at the New York Comicon. It’s by Tom Taylor and Colin Wilson (artist on no less than six Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic covers). Read more about it here! There’s also a webcomic series devoted to The Old Republic, the massively …
With the news of the cancellation of Scrye: The Guide to Collectible Games, my mind went back to my years as the second editor of the magazine — one of the most lucrative times in the publication’s history, but also one of the bigger challenges I ever faced in magazine publishing. Scrye magazine was founded by Joanne White, who was introduced to Magic: The Gathering by Peter Adkison at the …
Interesting news for fellow readers interested in the Royal Navy in the 18th Century — they’ve finally found the HMS Victory. Carrying 100,000 Portuguese gold coins, at least according to the research, as part of the cargo of a convoy the French blockade had bottled up at Lisbon. This isn’t Nelson’s ship at Trafalgar, but a previous 100-gun first-rate ship that sank in 1744.
A few updates on the site: • The notes for Knights of the Old Republic #37 are online, including a stranger look behind the curtain than usual, this time involving my son’s Lego set. See for yourself how the creative process really works. (Well, there is such a thing as Lego Star Wars….) • There are pages for Knights of the Old Republic #40 and for the next trade paperback, …
Still working on getting time to do some notes for KOTOR #37, but in the meantime, that interview on Fictional Frontiers on Philadelphia’s 1360 AM is finally airing at 11 AM this Sunday, Jan. 25, delayed from an earlier time; it’s really more about Knights of the Old Republic. Early next week it will be online at the Fictional Frontiers site. And I was also a guest recently for a …
Inaugurating a new thread on this Inauguration Day: Everyone’s favorite Trandoshan (he’s not much of a pilot, but you should try his Belgian waffles) Slyssk gets a turn in the spotlight in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic #37, which makes its debut on shelves this week. I’m not certain whether it’s Wednesday or Thursday, given the holiday schedule this week — but I would assume some portion of …
I had actually forgotten to look for this, we did it so long ago… …but Comic Book Resources has a two-part Vector exit interview with Randy Stradley, John Ostrander, Jan Duursema, and myself. Part II is here. They were waiting to get it online until after everyone had had a chance to read Legacy #31. (Which I finally did… look for a certain KOTOR cameo!)
MTV.com, actually — where its Splash Page feature spotlights next week’s Knights of the Old Republic #37 — with an eight-page preview! There’s also an article by editor extraordinaire Dave Marshall about the series. I’ve been informed the issue is confirmed on the schedule for this Wednesday, so the rest of the story shouldn’t be long in coming…