Holonet Blast #78

Posted on by

Happy Monday, friends, enemies, and neutral acquaintances! Even before New York Comic Con this past weekend we had a lot to talk about, so I hope you’re ready for some news!

Here are five illustrations from Star Wars: Women of the Galaxy that are ready to enter your eyeballs (they are all excellent but my favorite is the one of The Daughter). The full book comes on October 30 and will have even more wonderful art.

This past Wednesday, John Favreau posted the name and premise of the live-action Star Wars TV show on Instagram! The Mandalorian will be set “after the fall of the Empire and before the rise of the First Order” and will follow a lone Mandalorian (I know, shocking) gunfighter on the outskirts of the galaxy. The lack of gendered pronouns already has hopes up and speculation flying. And as if this wasn’t exciting enough, the next day we were given our first image from the show, along with a list of episode directors, including Dave Filoni (who will be directing the first episode), Deborah Chow, Rick Famuyiwa, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Taika Waititi (!!!!!!).

(I am excited for Taika to do a Star War)

Our very own Bria wrote about the NYCC Star Wars publishing panel for the official site! The panel covered both insights into and reveals of novels, comics, picture books, and more, including the covers for Claudia Grey’s novel Master and Apprentice, Caitlyn Kennedy and Brian Kesinger’s C-3PO Does Not Like Sand, and Who’s Who In the Galaxy, and, most definitely relevant to our interests here at Tosche Station, the announcement of Alphabet Squadron by Alexander Freed, due out June 2019, which “follows a unique team of pilots, each flying a different class of starfighter as they struggle to end the war they fought so long for once and for all.”

There are also details and insights on the tongue-in-cheek self-help books Be More Vader and Be More Yoda, the Thrawn comic, Lando’s Luck, Flight of the Falcon, Women of the Galaxy (including more art! like Ciena!), the Darth Vader comic, the Shadow of Vader comic, Han Solo: Imperial Cadet, the Age of Republic comics, the Age of Rebellion comic (the Leia issue involves Boushh!!), the Star Wars Adventures comic (now with more Prequel team-ups), and the next Choose Your Destiny book.

In toy news, yesterday at the Hasbro panel Black Series Doctor Aphra (and her droid companions Triple Zero and BT-1) and getting Black Series figures! Because I don’t need to keep my money!