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Meh. I'm a pretty big Star Wars guy, but Boba Fett... I just never got the appeal. The Boba-mania never clicked with me. Is he the only SW character whose Kenner action figure pre-dated his onscreen appearance? (--Or did it? He first appeared in the TV Holiday Special, I think. But is that "official"?) I thought his "origin story" was "Attack of the Clones."
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As for the Star Wars comic license going to Marvel, it's kind of sad. Dark Horse Comics will have been its home for the last 24 years when it switches in 2015. The current ongoing comic, simply titled Star Wars, is terrific and is exactly the kind of book I've been wanting from Dark Horse for years now. Will be sad to see it end already halfway through its second year. "Star Wars" is a great book, which is the first Star Wars comic I have bought in a very long time. I am not sure the book would have made it to 2015 regardless of whether Dark Horse retained the rights. The series author (Brian Wood) is only committed to writing 20 issues of the book, and the series is up to at least issue #11. Whoever replaces Wood has some big shoes to fill. I have also heard great things about "The Star Wars" which is an alternate take on Star Wars using Lucas' original script. I will likely pick that up in trade paperback. Personally, I am cautiously optimistic about Marvel handling the Star Wars license. Lucasfilm has done a pretty good job keeping continuity under control throughout the expanded universe of comics and novels, and I am sure that will continue when the license goes to Marvel. I am also sure that Marvel will place their top talent on the Star Wars related books it publishes. They have some great people under exclusive contract, so it will be interesting to see what they come up with. With Marvel taking over in 2015, I am sure many of the books will feature stories taking place during and around Episode VII. Hopefully, Marvel will also feature some series taking place between Episodes IV through VI.
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Jan 7, 2014 - 4:10 AM
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Joe E.
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Regarding Marvel getting exclusive rights to Star Wars comics. Disney owns Star Wars and Marvel correct? So how do you give yourself exclusive rights to that which you already own? The property has been licensed to Dark Horse for, like, a quarter century. That license apparently has expired and Dark Horse probably wasn't able to offer enough to renew it. Well, that and the fact that they can't compete with the fact Marvel and Lucasfilm are now part of the same corporate ownership, which is obviously the important factor here. Marvel couldn't just up and start doing Star Wars titles right away when Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012, since existing licenses and contracts and whatnot have to be honored of course, but it was only a matter of time. But yes, before Disney bought Lucasfilm, Dark Horse had already been publishing comics based on Lucasfilm properties (not just Star Wars, but Indiana Jones as well) for over two decades (gads, I'm old). __________________________ Dark Horse has indeed been pretty good to Star Wars over the years (since their Lucasfilm publishing campaign began with Star Wars: Dark Empire back in the early '90s), but of course Marvel itself was the very first publisher of Star Wars comics, with a monthly series (bi-monthly towards the end) that began with a six-part adaptation of the original movie (that started in March of '77, a couple months before the movie was released) and went on for almost ten years, hitting issue #107 in 1986. There were also three annuals and a separate 4-issue adaptation of Star Wars - Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (Star Wars - Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back was adapted within the main series' run, like the original movie), plus spin-off series based on the Droids and Ewoks cartoons from 1985.
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I thought his "origin story" was "Attack of the Clones." The character has at-least two origin stories (and I think it may be three). The Attack of the Clones version is completely different from prior off-screen established one from novels and such. None of it is the same. You can Google if it your interested in the details but basically after leaving his origins to secondary authors for years the Big Cheese stepped in and wrote a new one and disavowed the old story he had been making licensing money off of for years. Some fans totally freaked and it is a big reason for a lot of Attack of the Clones hate speak.[/endquote As far as I'm concerned, only the movies matter. I don't care what's in the (usually badly written-yes I tried a few of the early ones) books or comics and still less for computer games. To paraphrase, it's George's universe, and everyone just gets to play in it-if he says something is what it is, then that's how it stays! And the comment about him making money off someone else's ideas? So what? Just cos some fat sweaty fan boy threw a hissy fit on the internet doesn't mean his opinion counts for sh*t.
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Jan 7, 2014 - 9:45 AM
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Ado
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hey Lehah. Lots of good points there, yes, in many ways Star Trek was/is a victim of it's own overly detailed canon, writers bible, as well as just the sheer amount of hours of it that is produced. Star Trek's produced hours by far dwarf Star Wars, which is good and bad depending on how you look at it. I think that Ron Moore made some remarkably good stories for TNG especially the ones that developed the Klingon and Romulan characters and background. He found ways to create drama in his own way, and he was a better writer than Braga overall. On the reboot end, I think JJ clearly wanted to move Star Trek into the Star Wars spectacle end of things, which is ironically what Star Trek was not really ever about. I think it might have been a more effective approach with entirely new characters, disposing of the ties to the past. In theory his new timeline approach freed the writers, but --not actually.
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Star Trek's fortunes will wax and wane, as they always have. Having hard times while building a stellar reputation; making millions with a "spectacle adaptation" that keeps it guaranteed the franchise must go on out of simple corporate inertia. Star Trek's fortunes have always been highly ironic, just like many of the best episodes of the original show and TNG. MONTEZUMA sounds like a kick-ass idea. Spielberg has to jump back on the spectacle train sometime, and not in a studio.
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