Star Wars, Geek Culture, and Power Converters
So, one of the bigger hits of the past nebulous period of time has been a kind of dico-ey rock song by Maroon 5 called ‘Moves Like Jagger.’ The song has a catchy enough hook, but fails in that it doesn’t actually have anything to do with the Rolling Stones.
And now this thing has happened. The inevitable parody. Moves like Jabba. The video is potentially NSFW, so watch it yourself before you show it to the kids. Embedded video after the jump.
James Haley spotted some interesting Dark Horse-related news coming out of the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo (C2E2).
The second arc of “Conan” by Brian Wood will be a three-issue arc by James Herring, but Becky Cloonan will continue to work on the series long term. “Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi” did well for the publisher, Parkinson said. There are more plans for the original trilogy characters including the death of Boba Fett as written by Tom Taylor in “Star Wars: Blood Ties.” More plans are in store for Darth Vader and Darth Maul comes July. Atkins also announced that readers will soon see a “Star Wars” book set in the original trilogy era written by one of Dark Horse’s biggest talents.
Edit: Not a trilogy, but some sort of project set in the OT era.
Speculate, readers! Speculate!
And a format change.
New on sale date, 7/24, and format, trade paperback, for @jjmfaraway LOST TRIBE OF THE SITH: COLLECTED SERIES. #SWEU @Darth_Duff
— StarWarsBooks (@DelReyStarWars) April 13, 2012
Also announced are the inclusion of brand new maps. Look for the Lost Tribe collection to hit bookshelves on July 24th.
Who wants a free copy of EG to Warfare? All of you, I imagine! Unfortunately, only two of you will be getting them. The following two people! Who were randomly selected from a hat.*
*Red Dixie cup
Congratulations winners! E-mail your address to staff.toschestation@gmail.com and we’ll send you your copy.
Thanks to everyone who entered and helped us make the first week here at Tosche Station a success. Keep your eyes open, I imagine we’ll have more contests in the future.
A little while ago, my Tosche Station Radio co-host Nanci and myself did a guest spot with the Star Wars Book Report. If memory serves, we talked about fan fiction, fun at conventions, and our thoughts on the post-Return of the Jedi Expanded Universe.Hop on over there to listen to us go off-the-rails on someone else’s podcast!
With the outrage over Dancing Han Solo*, one would think there has never been a bad Star Wars game to grace the market. Lucasfilm has sold out for a quick buck, you say. Oh you silly fans. If that’s the measure for selling out (whatever that means), Lucasfilm sold out years ago. Star Wars has a long and storied history of shoddy video game tie-ins pushed out the door to make some scratch.
*I don’t care what any of you say, Dancing!Han is the best thing to happen to the fandom in the last decade.
Star Wars: Rebel Assault II: The Hidden Empire: Death by Colons was a horrible mashup of bad full-motion video, clunky game mechanics, on-the-rails dullness, and difficulty curves designed by a sadist. If the horrid acting didn’t make you cringe to the point of turning it off, the bizarre spikes in difficulty at random moments would make you rage quit. Rebel Assault II hearkens back to a day when every game developer on the planet thought that unskilled actors and a green screen were the key to creating a big hit. Rather than, you know, actual gameplay value.
To celebrate the official launch of Tosche Station, we’re giving away two copies of Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Warfare. How can you claim one for yourself? Simple!
Opportunity the First: Follow the Tosche Station Twitter account and retweet this message
Opportunity the Second: Give us a Like on Facebook.
We will randomly select one winner from each pool to receive a copy, so enter in both places to increase your odds of winning a book that I really enjoyed.
The contest will run through Thursday with a winner announced Friday. Good luck!
Hit it, @DelReyStarWars
Read Karen Miller’s Myri Antilles short story that will appear in SW Insider 135 last night. Fun read, really dug it. #SWEU@Darth_Duff
— StarWarsBooks (@DelReyStarWars) April 12, 2012
That high-pitched sound your dog just picked up on was probably me. Between this short story and Mercy Kill, it’s going to be a good year for the Antilles sisters in EU literature.
I think she sold a few copies of that.
J.K. Rowling, author of a somewhat popular series of young adult book, has announced the title of her first adult novel: The Casual Vacancy.
When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock.
Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war.
Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils…Pagford is not what it first seems.
And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?
The “blackly comic” novel is due out later this year according to Rowling’s publisher Little Brown.
Via the Wall Street Journal blog
Part II of our Fate of the Jedi review looks into new characters, the authors, loose ends, and gives a score for the series as a whole. Be sure to read the first part here.
To the jump!