RSS Posted June 8, 2010 Report Share Posted June 8, 2010 Five of the nine comics reviewed this week are the Dazzler one-shot, Fantastic Four #579, Mystery Society #1, Power Girl #12, and Secret Avengers #1. The above is from: http://www.earth-2.net/reviews/c/iiwy/iiwy-131 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted June 8, 2010 Report Share Posted June 8, 2010 Nice to see you took my invitation seriously, Mike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted June 8, 2010 Report Share Posted June 8, 2010 That is kinda what motivated me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted June 8, 2010 Report Share Posted June 8, 2010 Well lookit me! A Geeky Tony Robbins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koete Posted June 8, 2010 Report Share Posted June 8, 2010 I'd wager George Lucas doesn't have much to do with the Star Wars comics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delete Posted June 8, 2010 Report Share Posted June 8, 2010 I'd wager George Lucas doesn't have much to do with the Star Wars comics. Jumping into a comic series that runs concurrent with a series of books from 10 years ago probably was not the best idea in the world either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James D. Posted June 10, 2010 Report Share Posted June 10, 2010 One of my roommates has read nearly everything in the Star Wars Expanded Universe, and he swears by the quality of a majority of the stories. Maybe I should get started on those stories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted June 10, 2010 Report Share Posted June 10, 2010 Some of the novels I've read have been better than all of the films by far. The Bounty Hunter Series and the Admiral Thrawn Trilogy are great places to start. Shadow of the Empire is an excellent tie between films. I liked it better than the first and third film. There's good stuff out there. I haven't read a SW comic since the old Marvel series so i can't comment on that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delete Posted June 10, 2010 Report Share Posted June 10, 2010 Actually rereading that review you probably needed someone else to review that book. When one of the complaints from the reviewer is that they didn't get the twenty year backstory of Han and Leia's kids thus making it unfriendly to new readers I'm not sure that's entirely fair. I mean there are only so many pages in a comic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George W. Posted June 10, 2010 Report Share Posted June 10, 2010 Having read most of the post-ROTJ books, I can atest to the quality of good portion of them. If you're really interested, James, I'd start with the Heir to the Empire trilogy, then go with the Rogue and Wraith Squadron series, and then I, Jedi. New Jedi Order is a interesting concept that falls on it's face near the end, Legacy of the Force is very good up until the last book and is a perfect example of how the prequels should have handled Anakin, and avoid anything by Kevin J. Anderson. On topic, I think Hannah makes an overly-strong but good point about being a new reader in what is essentially a continuing saga of the next generation of Skywalker clan. Jumping in on 20-30 years of continuity will leave many people scratching there heads and turn them off to the book, no matter the quality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted June 10, 2010 Report Share Posted June 10, 2010 To be fair, I was probably one of the worst people he could've given it to. I know absolutely nothing about the Expanded Universe, as I admitted. I really feel like that comic's more geared towards people who are already strongly invested in the universe, and if you're dropped in knowing nothing like I did, you're fucked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delete Posted June 10, 2010 Report Share Posted June 10, 2010 To be fair, I was probably one of the worst people he could've given it to. I know absolutely nothing about the Expanded Universe, as I admitted. I really feel like that comic's more geared towards people who are already strongly invested in the universe, and if you're dropped in knowing nothing like I did, you're fucked. I don't think the comic book you reviewed was designed to be new reader friendly. My assumption is that it being a series running concurrent to a long series of books so it would seem more a companion piece than anything. I say assume because as George W. already said the ending to that series of books was ungodly bad so I have no desire to jump back into this plotline. Legacy, which has been canceled, is a very good new reader future Star Wars comic I think. The only returning character is the ghost of Luke Skywalker so that helps. So I would say that some Star Wars comics you can jump into and others not so much which is the norm for any comic stuff really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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