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Read now, and weep with sorrow. (http://www.darkhorse.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=8732&sid=048529acbc9ac42a8083777ac12d2221)

(http://images.darkhorse.com/darkhorse/index_images/news/legacyzeropg.jpg)

I read about this earlier and I'll say two things that don't make it seem too bad to me:

1) I like a lot of Ostrander's comic book work.  Blaze of Glory (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0785109064/qid=1138863676/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-9251131-3325757?s=books&v=glance&n=283155) is one of my all time favorite Marvel stories.

2) There have been some pretty good Star Wars comics, many of which were set far outside the time of the movies.  A lot of the Tales of the Jedi stuff for example was entertaining.

So I'll probably at least give the first issue a shot, even if Cade looks a bit like he should be staring in a Final Fantasy game or something.

Stupid fanboi pandering of the worst kind.

Let's cross Luke with Boba and see what comes out.  Add in a twilek that's a cross between Darth Maul and a WHORE and you have the perfect teenage wankmag orgasm fest.

This is what happened to Star Wars.

Fuckholes.

I agree with Ironwood, this is just fucking stupid.  Of course, it's pandering to todays teen culture which is also fucking stupid.  Thanks to whomever we have to blame for all that. 

You mean other than Episode 2 or 3?

Yeah, this looks teh gay.

All of the "Tales" books and the "infinities" books have been entertaining.  I REALLY like the tales books (http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=br_ss_hs/104-0809268-3945566?search-alias=aps&keywords=star%20wars%20tales) and pick-up the compendiums when they're released.  Lots of little mini-stories about completly new characters or just off-the-wall scenarios using the core characters, they're really just fun and entertaining little comics that don't take themselves too seriously or try to be more than fan-ficts in animated form. (For the most part. The Maul Vs Vader one was fun but pushing it.)

That first pic looks almost exactly like a blonde Steven Tyler  :?

The first image in the linked thread was also rather annoying.  "New Sith Order!  New Empire!  Everything that happened in the movies and, hell, even most of the books is now irrelevant because we're shamelessly recycling!"  I mean when Vader turned back to the light side and chucked his master down that pit, it was supposed to be the destruction of the Sith.  According to these assbites, it was simply a very minor delay for the Sith who, after all, were willing to wait a thousand years before making their move in the prequels.

So who finally did it with Luke?

As far as I'm aware, Leia was the only surviving female in the universe after Return of the Jedi.

Hell Boy, where have you been ?  Luke got the hottie McHot of Mara Jade, another teenage idol to perform 'way of the blurred fist' to.

Though the real life actress that posed for the TCG actually was HAWT.

Ah, right then.

Sorry, Star Wars isn't my chosen field of nerditry.

Some more information here (http://www.newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?s=6f462d16c08f419f2b3f3d4975f7b962&threadid=58816).



Hmmmm...


Looks like your master Lucas approved it WUA

I was looking on Google for an image of Vader standing in front of that table in Episode 3, so I could follow it up with a nice round of "NOOOOOOO!"  I didn't happen to find that, but I did find something else that conveys horror much more effectively.

(http://www.loebrich.org/albums/2005/StarWars/tn/Vader%20006.med.jpg)

In other news, I rattled around the official Dark Horse thread and bitched until the VP of Publishing called me a troll.  Ownage.

I should have tubgirled him.

Man Vader has really let himself go.

However, his limbs appear to have grown back.  So that's a plus.

They grew back with a nasty rash or poison ivy or something...

http://vadervsluke.ytmnd.com/

Le art.

Those Skywalkers are some whiny little bitches.

On the plus side, the place I order my comics from is selling the first issue for 12 cents (50% off of it's original price of a quarter).

That's a mark of quality right there.

To be fair, the 25 cent first issue has been a pretty good marketing tactic lately.  Dark Horse did it with Kurt Busiek's first issue of Conan and for a while it was the top selling non-DC, non-Marvel comic.  Also a lot of online comic retailers offer good discounts for putting in advance orders on books since that takes out a lot of the guesswork for them on how many copies they should order.

Read through the #0 preview issue.  Mostly just sketches and character bios, but aside from Cade Skywalker, the character design is pretty good.  It does look a lot like the Tales of the Jedi stuff (only in the future this time) which I like.  There are some odd choices story-wise though.  There's Imperial soldiers with lightsabers, at least 6 characters with Darth in their name, and apparently a lot of the backstory is connected to that Yuuzhan Vong shit I didn't care enough about to read (didn't care enough to read any of the novels for that matter).  If this book requires me to be even the slightest bit interested in any of the SW history outside the original trilogy I won't be interested.  Could be an interesting Sci-Fi book, or a complete train wreck.

So, ugh, hey... could you like, elaborate? You know, for the future of mankind, and all.

You didn't see the pictures ?

Trust me, I wasn't overreacting.

She'd be more wankable in blue.

[edit] Hmm....Wankable.

Maybe "wankworthy"?

I can't get that one right.

Wanktastic?

(http://images.darkhorse.com/darkhorse/index_images/news/legacyzerocov.jpg)

It just screams "Part With Your Cash You Little Horny Fuckwads"

Sigh.

Actually, the real question is: Why are Twileks considered hot?

I usually don't like bald chicks, and definitely don't like ones with protuding, snake-like appendices.


But yet....

[edit]

Damnit..

More word confusion. Is it "appendices" or "appendages"?

If the writing is good (and like I said, I've liked some of Ostrander's stuff in the past) I can forgive them the use of their scantily clad Twilek/Maul hybrid.

Appendage would be the better choice.

Appendices is the plural of appendix, which does actually mean 'appendage', but being the term for the tiny dangly bit which likes to explode on people makes it not such a good choice.

The geeky answer is 'lekku'.

That one is for male twileks.

Now that i have, i, er... what the hell?! Is that really bad cg? Maybe it looks better in ink, or something.

Cripes, I did it again.

Are they trying to shock people?  Some of the art just seems like some of Kevin O'Neill (Marshal Law, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, 2000 AD), going for that gritty dark look.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_O'Neill_(comics)

It does seem kinda odd for George Lucas to authorize something like this, unless of course in the end he becomes the good guy and they tool around in a bitchin' hot rod.

Gay.

Twileks are Star Wars' answer to Elves.

Er, no, that's not it at all.

TwiLeks are THE EXACT FUCKING SAME as the Orion women in Star Trek.  Yes, that's right, these hawt and wet horny bitches live to serve and have no other purpose other than facilitating your peen.

What are Orion women from Star Trek? ST isn't really my sphere of geekdom.

also, you say:


..like it's a bad thing. ;)

They're from the Orion Syndicate, which is basically the Mafia in Trek. Orion slave girls were green, scantily clad, and were always doing some gypsy dance routine. Kirk liked them.

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Everybody liked them.

This really requires a link to some pics....

(http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/images/c/ca/Orion_slavegirl_ENT.jpg)

The least grainy one I could find (from Enterprise).

Actually, it pains me to say it, but that Enterprise episode explained all about Orion Women.


And they had nice norks.

And apparently some decent plastic surgeons!

mmm, she-hulk.

 :heart:

She better not be planning on doing any jumping jacks.

The writing on Enterprise must have been total shit for that sort of thing to fail.  I mean, JESUS.

It really wasn't that bad. I think it was just the wrong time for another Trek series. Some elements were really great imo (General Shran, for one).

Besides, the episode with the Orion babes was one of the better ones.

Honestly, the main reason I didn't get into it was because UPN wasn't available.

Thanks.

She does more than that actually.

You guys should check it out. It's funny in a retro kinda way. The episode is called "Bound".

Um, you really don't want me to start another rant, but let's just say that Enterprise was awful.  bad writing, bad idea, bad acting, bad characters, even a goddamn bad ship.

It was tripe and I for one was glad when it got shitcanned into the next universe.  It merely continued the woefulness that was voyager.

Hey, I didn't say it was the greatest thing or anything. Rant all you want. I'm just saying it had some good elements, and wasn't that bad at times. I picked it up after it was already off the air (and didn't really know a lot about Trek to begin with). Maybe I'm just not picky enough. Maybe it's good to not have high expectations. I don't give even a bit of a flying fuck about "continuity" either (the biggest complaint I see about Enterprise). It's just a TV show.

Again, I thought General Shran was great. Jeffrey Combs (who also played Weyoun and some Ferenghi dude on DS9) is a funny guy. It's cool that he had such a big part in the series.

The big storyarc with those lizard shapeshifter dudes was good.

The Vulcan chick is hot.

Trip and Archer were good characters. The rest of the crew was a bore.

[edit] The best thing, however, was the 4 parter with Brent Spiner and the genetically altered kids (i.e. The "long version" on how the Klingons lost their forehead ridges).

Sounds terrible.  I'll have to see if I can torrent it.

It was.  It was fucking awful.

Either you are the master of hyperbole, or you've never actually seen something truly shitty, Ironwood.

Go watch Torque and come back to me.

You're making a mistake if you think I'm on a scale.

Awful is awful.

He has a point.  Is something inherently better because there's something worse out there?

Is Uwe Boll really doing the world a service by indirectly increasing the quality of every movie that isn't his?

My only real concern at this point is that Ironwood reserve "fucking awful" for the things that really deserve it. Else it loses it's meaning. Or at least that's how I see it. "Fucking awful" is a precious phrase. Lets not waste it!

Besides all that, I'm not even that big of a fan of the show myself. Once again, I was merely pointing out that it had some good elements. I'm not going to get into some black and white debate about something I don't really believe in nor care about. I'm quite capable of seeing how someone might not enjoy it, and discussing it's pros and cons. But when someone comes in and says it's "fucking awful", I don't know what to say. I simply can not recall anything that was on that level of bad.

I found blood in my stool after watching Enterprise.

It was that bad.

Does no-one remember the TimeTravellingSpaceNaziLizards ?

The Prosecution rests.


And seriously, when have you ever known me to do without hyberbole ?  Sometimes we gather in the village and dance around the hyperbole.

You can do that in Europe, you're a much less puritanical society.  We Americans prefer to keep our hyperbole covered-up, for the sake of the children.

Update:  I've given a couple issues of this thing a look while walking around Borders at different points over the last few months.  Much to my surprise, it isn't bad.

I've read the first 3 issues and they were decent enough, but then like I've said, I generally like Ostrander's writing.

How's your wrist holding up ?

Well there weren't any half-naked Twilek horny Sith bitches in the couple issues I've looked at, so when I got thrown out of Borders for beating off in the aisles it was over something else entirely.

Fair enough.  I've met some of the hotter helpers in Borders.

Did that reporter from Cleveland follow you around with a camera?

Issue 4 is actually pretty awesome if you like Stormtroopers.
I like Stormtroopers.
My collection of things Star Wars tends to involve Droids and Stormtroopers and any Lego vehicle I can afford, so I may be biased here however.

Is that the one where the protagonist is the new recruit in a Stormtrooper squad, and he literally gets called "noob" by everyone?  That was one of the couple I've seen, and yeah it was good.  I rather enjoyed it when that one Sith asshole was shot in the back by his own soldiers.  If you're going to have a Darth Vader attitude, you'd better have that whole "danger sense" thing down better than this guy did.   :-D

Heh.  Funny I can run with.  I like funny.

Hey, WUA, Star Wars is full of homosexual androgenous men who fuck little furry creatures and sleep with their sisters.

Hayden Christensen could put on a bloody dress and still look more manly than this asshole:

(http://www.gamerevolution.com/images/games/ps2/final_fantasy_xii/small/final_fantasy_xii_013.jpg)

One of the characters are FAKE. One of them is a living human being. Have you even SEEN Shattered Glass? Your hero is a whiny little tool. That kid above is FIFTEEN. And he's not even the fucking protagonist!

Stop talking to hear yourself speak.

(http://alphaprod.free.fr/blog/images/ff7ac.png)

Seriously, how do people play/watch/buy these things with a straight face?

Actually he's 17 and he is the main character in the inital part of the game (which I'm still on).

(http://www.clicket.com/images/1704.jpg)

Sadly, the nine year old is more identifiably male than the Square femboy.

Is there something you'd like to tell us?  We're all friends here...

Well, not with him we're not.

Seriously, one's a little boy who looks like... a little boy.  The other is a representation of what is supposed to be a full-grown man, but actually looks like some sort of slack-jawed frizzy-haired model bitch.  Why was that 'little kid anakin' picture even supposed to be worth posting?

Cloud's supposed to be around 20 if I recall.

At 20, I looked about 16.

But did you look more limp-wristed than the head cheerleader at a gay pride parade?

Probably.

That's funny, I was just wondering how two Final Fantasy pictures were worth posting in a thread about a Star Wars comic.

Schild was mad that I crashed the FFXII threat to go "lol gays" so he decided to return the favor here for some reason.

So maybe WUA can help me pick my new avatar:

(http://coeurdefeu.com/sigs/ff7_cloud.jpg)   or   (http://coeurdefeu.com/sigs/ff7_vincent.jpg)

 :heart:

Vincent>Cloud

Cloud has a big sword.

Vincent's a secret agent vampire ninja sniper shapeshifter.

Right you are!

Although, I wouldn't say no to either if they were flesh and blood.  :heart:

ETA - am I the only one around here following avatar limitations, or have they changed to something larger?

It auto-resizes if it's too big, so I've assumed that the size it resizes to is the limit.

schild changed it to 150 x 150 a while back.

SWEET!  Now I can have more Vincent to annoy WUN with, although I should change to Cloud just for that reason.  :evil:

It goes with your faggoty username.

Hey dork. She's a girl.

Anyhow, you might to contribute to that stupid Box Office thread again. It'll give people the illusion that your posts aren't entirely worthless.

I kinda have to agree.  I hate quite a bit of Final Fantasy and its fanbase, but cmon.  You are being a douchebag now Windup.

Now?

Samwise, that may be the best avatar ever.

LOL!  Someone calling himself "WindUpAtheist" is actually dissing my username?  That's rich.  As Stray pointed out, I'm female and it's an old RP name that I've gotten rather attached to.

And I'll freely admit I'm being a complete fangrrl over the Advent Children movie atm.  I just finally bought it after seeing some AMVs in YouTube, and have never played any of the games in the series at all.  I'm just not a console gamer (although the FFXII thread is making me interested).   I'm just going for the eye candy here (plus I find the CG to be magnificent). 

OK, now I have to stare at Samwise's avatar for a while to figure it out.

Don't pay him any mind. He's a nutsack.

LOL.