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20 New Star Wars Books and Comics to be Released

posted by LaminatorX on Friday March 13 2015, @05:32AM   
from the splinter-in-the-mind's-eye dept.

Nobuddy writes:

With most of the Expanded Universe declared officially non-canon, the Universe is relatively open and unexplored. Disney publishing along with Lucasarts have announced 20 new stories to fill in some of the details before the new movie is released.

Some love all the extra background material, while others never bothered. Are there any of the EU stories that you felt made for a better setting overall, and why? What might they do better this time around?

• many are still being written and edited many are still being written and edited (Score: 2) by PizzaRollPlinkett on Friday March 13 2015, @11:19AM

  by PizzaRollPlinkett (4512) on Friday March 13 2015, @11:19AM (#157220)

  I made the mistake of trying to read an "EU" novel once. It was so bad that remembering it still makes me want to vomit. I think Lucas Film would put anything out with the words "Star Wars" on the cover. They did not care about quality. The hired hack writers who could meet a word count by a deadline, and if the product was any good, it was accidental to the process of pumping out the product.

  So, the line jumped out at me: "many are still being written and edited" ... ! Disney isn't going to change the modus operandi here. They're still going to hire hack writers who can meet a page count by a deadline. The quality level is going to be atrocious.

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• Re:many are still being written and edited Re:many are still being written and edited (Score: 3, Funny) by The Archon V2.0 on Friday March 13 2015, @01:40PM

  by The Archon V2.0 (3887) on Friday March 13 2015, @01:40PM (#157259)

  I find myself reminded of the time Penny Arcade mocked the SW novels, where the evil undead-themed Sith guy was called Darth Andeddu. Made worse because this was an audio book, so the alternate spelling did nothing to mask it.

  http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/01/25/hope-springs-eternal [penny-arcade.com]

  http://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2012/01/25/star-wars-crap [penny-arcade.com]

  Darth Fruitbasket is part of my headcanon.

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  • Re:many are still being written and edited Re:many are still being written and edited (Score: 2) by PizzaRollPlinkett on Friday March 13 2015, @03:03PM

    by PizzaRollPlinkett (4512) on Friday March 13 2015, @03:03PM (#157299)

    I don't know whether to laugh or cry, but after a decade of Disney cramming their version of Star Wars down our throats (and I mean this Negan style, to mix metaphors), some day in the future I imagine people are actually going to be nostalgic for the bumblingly inept and stupid prequels, which will have a sort of innocent charm (except the part where Vader kills kids) and be quaint compared to Disney's marketing blitz.

    But they won't like the fiction. I love what the link says about SW:TOR making the guy want to read the novels, and then the reaction he had. I hope he had a barf bag handy. The fiction is so ... bad ... I almost can't believe anyone would publish it. I would enjoy the monkeys with the typewriters more.

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    • Re:many are still being written and edited (Score: 3, Interesting) by The Archon V2.0 on Friday March 13 2015, @05:36PM

      by The Archon V2.0 (3887) on Friday March 13 2015, @05:36PM (#157366)

      > some day in the future I imagine people are actually going to be nostalgic for the bumblingly inept and stupid prequels

      The scary thing? Talk to a 20 year old. A lot of them love the prequels more than the originals because the light saber fights are "awesome".

      I don't know, maybe I'm a freak. I mean, if you asked me to name my favorite fight between a master and a former apprentice who changed sides, it sure as hell wouldn't be the tedious CGI extravaganza at the end of the 3rd prequel.

      Hell, add in the qualifier of "my favorite fight *involving lava* between a master and a former apprentice who changed sides" and it's still below both the Darths & Droids version of the same scene AND the fight between Logray and Morag in the Ewoks cartoon "Sunstar vs. Shadowstone" (which I thought was actually pretty good).

      > But they won't like the fiction. I love what the link says about SW:TOR making the guy want to read the novels, and then the reaction he had. I hope he had a barf bag handy.

      I've never been brave enough. I read some spinoff fic for other franchises when I was a book-starved teenager. Even though teenage-me had both more patience for crap and less ability to determine a good book, I eventually switched to tracking down fanfic on the pre-Google Internet because while it was more uneven in quality it somehow still had a better average.

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• Re:many are still being written and edited (Score: 2) by Nobuddy on Friday March 13 2015, @08:50PM

  by Nobuddy (1626) on Friday March 13 2015, @08:50PM (#157465)

  I'd be curious which you read. there are some real stinkers out there, but there are also a lot of great stories.

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