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January 2012 |
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The following news items were posted
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Tuesday
31st January |
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Friday
27th January |
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NEW
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Thursday
26th January |
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Wednesday
25th January |
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Monday
23rd January |
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Friday
20th January |
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![[The Essential Reader's Companion]](../../../reference/images/essential-readers-companion.jpg) |
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Cover revealed for Reader's
Companion
Publisher Del Rey has revealed
the cover
for Pablo Hidago's The Essential Reader's
Companion, due
for release in the US on 21st August. With cover artwork
by Paul Youll, who also created the cover artwork for
the X-Wing
novels, this new reference
book promises to be a "super guide" to the novels, short stories, e-books, etc
with illustrations by Chris Trevas and Jeff Carlisle:
A new, never-before-published entry in our extremely popular series of fully illustrated Star Wars Essential Guides.
Star Wars: The Essential Reader’s Companion is a book Star Wars fans have been asking for, and will be presented with astonishing full-color artwork throughout!
Star Wars: The Essential Reader’s Companion is the first Essential Guide devoted entirely to published Star Wars fiction, from the original movie novelization, to young reader’s books, short stories, eBook novellas, and the most recent adult novel. This book will cover all
the fiction that has built the Star Wars Expanded Universe over the last thirty-five years.
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Thursday
19th January |
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Wednesday
18th January |
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Thursday
12th January |
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Thursday
12th January |
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Comics for April 2012
In their latest solicitations,
Dark Horse Comics has announced the following
Star Wars comics for April 2012 and upcoming graphic
novel collections.

Comic book issues:
![[Knights of the Old Reoublic: War! #4]](../../../legends/oldrepublic/images/comics/kotor54.jpg) |
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Knights
of the Old Republic: War! #4 (of 5)
Comic Book by John Jackson Miller, Andrea Mutti,
Gigi Baldassini, Michael Atiyeh et al.
Approximately
3,962 years before the Battle of Yavin
The battle for the future of the Republic is on!
The Republic, the Mandalorians, and even some of the Jedi are corrupt—so Zayne Carrick is going to take matters fully into his own
lightsaber-wielding hands. It’s high risk and utterly insane, and the allies Zayne has to work with aren’t exactly what you’d call trustworthy . . . but at least this time he knows that up front!
Available: April 11th 2012 |
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![[Agent of the Empire: Iron Eclipse #5]](../../../legends/rebellion/images/comics/agent-empire-iron-eclipse-5.jpg) |
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Agent
of the Empire: Iron Eclipse #5 (of 5)
Comic Book by John Ostrander, Stéphane Créty,
Julien Hugonnard-Bert, Wes Dzioba et al.
Approximately
3 years before the Battle of Yavin
Jahan Cross finally learns the truth about the deadly project called “Iron Eclipse.” Now all he has to do is defeat the crazed mastermind behind it all, keep his allies from double-crossing him, and escape the Corporate Sector with his life!
All in a day’s work for an Agent of the Empire!
Available: April 11th 2012 |
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![[Dawn of the Jedi #3]](../../../legends/oldrepublic/images/comics/dawn-jedi-3.jpg) |
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Dawn of the Jedi:
Jedi Storm #3 (of 5)
Comic book by John Ostrander, Jan Duursema,
Dan Parsons, Wes Dzioba et al.
Approximately
25,000 years before the Battle of Yavin
The balance of the Force on Tython has been thrown into turmoil. A ship has fallen from the sky, bringing with it a strange, dark, and hostile individual. Three young Jédaii who felt “called” to the site of the crash now fight for their lives with their swords and the Force. But live or die, the storm that will engulf the homeworld of the Je’daii has already begun!
Available: April 18th 2012 |
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![[Boba Fett is Dead #1]](../../../legends/rebellion/images/comics/boba-fett-dead1.jpg) |
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Blood Ties: Boba
Fett is Dead #1 (of 4)
Comic Book by Tom Taylor, Chris Scalf et al.
Approximately
2 years before the Battle of Yavin
The news spreads from one end of the galaxy to the other like wildfire: Boba
Fett, the galaxy’s most feared bounty hunter, is dead.
But when members of the team that killed Fett are themselves picked off one by one, Connor Freeman—the son of one of Jango Fett’s clones—gets pulled into the action in a most unexpected way!
Available: April 25th 2012 |
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Graphic Novel collections:
![[Knight Errant Volume 2: Deluge]](../../../legends/oldrepublic/images/gn-knight-errant-02.jpg) |
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Knight
Errant: Volume 2 - Deluge
Graphic Novel by John Jackson Miller, Ivan Rodriguez, Iban
Coello, David Daza
et al.
Approximately
1,032 years before the Battle of Yavin
Alone, deep behind enemy lines, Jedi Knight Kerra Holt has a new plan—liberate her homeworld from the
Sith! But when her arrival on the planet coincides with an ambush from a Hutt mastermind, her daring rescue quickly starts looking like a suicide mission.
Collates issues #1 thru #5.
Available: June 13th 2012 |
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Omnibus: Droids
and Ewoks
Omnibus Graphic Novel by
various
Based on the children’s television cartoon series of the same names, Ewoks and Droids explores further adventures in the lives of the Ewoks on Endor and the droids R2-D2 and C-3PO. The Ewoks become embroiled in the dangers of their planet—lizard warriors, underwater kingdoms, magic spells—and the outside world—pirates, invaders, and more! The droids encounter more than one new master, war
droids, megaweapons, time travel, and even Ewoks! This omnibus collects all the issues of the
Ewoks and Star Wars: Droids comics series, released in the 1980s by Marvel’s imprint
Star Comics.
• Collected for the first time!
Available: June 20th 2012 |
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Thursday
12th January |
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Wednesday
11th January |
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Tuesday
10th January |
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Monday
9th January |
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Saturday
7th January |
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Friday
6th January |
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50-page Darth Plagueis
exerpt
Publisher Del Rey has
published a 50-page
excerpt
from Darth
Plagueis by James Luceno, due next week in
hardback in the US and on the 19th in the UK. Here's the
publisher's blurb for this much anticipated novel:
Darth Plagueis: one of the most brilliant Sith Lords who ever lived. Possessing power is all he desires. Losing it is the only thing he fears. As an apprentice, he embraces the ruthless ways of the Sith. And when the time is right, he destroys his Master—but vows never to suffer the same fate. For like no other disciple of the dark side, Darth Plagueis learns to command the ultimate power...
over life and death.
Darth Sidious: Plagueis’s chosen apprentice. Under the guidance of his Master, he secretly studies the ways of the Sith, while publicly rising to power in the galactic government, first as Senator, then as Chancellor, and eventually as Emperor.
Darth Plagueis and Darth Sidious, Master and acolyte, target the galaxy for domination—and the Jedi Order for annihilation. But can they defy the merciless Sith tradition? Or will the desire of one to rule supreme, and the dream of the other to live forever, sow the seeds of their destruction?
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Thursday
5th January |
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Thursday
5th January |
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Digital comic releases for
January
Dark Horse Comics has
announced the following Star Wars comic titles for
digital release in January:
- Wednesday 4th:
Episode I Adventures
Empire #9-12
Infinities: A New Hope
Knights of the Old Republic #29-35
Tales #2
- Wednesday 11th:
Knights of the Old Republic: War #1
Agent of the Empire: Iron Eclipse #2
Vader's Quest #1-4
Tales #3
Dark Force Rising
The Clone Wars: Colossus of Destiny
Union
- Wednesday 18th:
Tales #4
Dark Times #13-17
The Last Command
Zam Wesell
- Wednesday 25th:
Legacy #25-28
Crimson Empire III: Empire Lost #4
Jango Fett: Open Seasons #1-4
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