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You're listening to Star Wars Splash Page, Comics in Review.
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This is episode number 522, and there ain't no comics
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in review.
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Hi, Jeff. How you doing, bud?
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Keep me all knowing, box sets stay open.
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May 4th, I'm hoping you're gonna be hot as before.
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This rent looks hardcore, and I don't want Siths running
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the galaxy. Hi, Matt. Yeah, we're looking at a drought
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for the next couple of weeks, aren't we?
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Yeah, we are. As a matter of fact, it looks
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like we are not getting another comic book until October 14th.
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And we're going to get two.
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We're going to get the Chirrut and Bays one shot, woohoo,
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as part of the Rogue One 10th Anniversary miniseries. And
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we'll get the Book of Boba Fett number 307. But
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other than that, it's mostly graphic novels and trades and
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collected editions.
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All right. So is there any news even to speak
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of this week?
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Not necessarily so. I mean, if you want a good
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debate regarding the future of Marvel's Star Wars comics, head
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over to the Star Wars Comics subreddit. One of the
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users there posted up.
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Just a question. New series. I hope we get a
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new series announced soon, as this is all a bit dire.
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A lot of people are going to kind of put
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it in their wish lists in there. And of course,
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we've got New York Comic Con next week, and Marvel...
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Traditionally and historically has always announced stuff there. And Lucasfilm
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does have a panel there, as does Mad Cave.
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Maybe next week we'll have some news then, yeah.
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Yeah, hopefully. Fingers crossed. I think we will.
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We're in a dearth of content at the moment, but
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it's not going to be like that for a while,
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I don't think.
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So we'll see. But that's basically it. We had December
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solicits were released. No real surprises there.
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We got the final, I can't even say we got
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the final solicit for the fall of Kylo Ren number five,
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because we had that on the feeds about three or
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four weeks ago.
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Thanks to our diligent sleuthing.
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And then we got the book of Boba Fett, the
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final issues of that one. So that gives us to
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issue number seven, seven. But what was a surprise is
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we are getting another facsimile edition. in December, we're going
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to get, uh, uh, Star Wars volume one, number 42, uh,
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which is, you know, that famous Al Williams cover of
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Dengar and Boba Fett and Bosk.
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And of course, I love that cover.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And those, you know, those are always worth getting because a, yeah,
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they're like 499 or 599, but they're printed on modern
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paper and they reprint the entire actual physical comic ads
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and everything. So, and, uh, you know, that, that issue, uh,
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If you wanted the original, if you don't already have it,
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it can be kind of pricey.
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So that'll be fun. And then that's kind of it.
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Because Mad Cave hasn't really released anything new aside from
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what we've already noted and reported.
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Right. And we'll see what happens.
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Well, I have a non-comics related review. Last week I
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finally got around to reading my world's weirdest edition, Batman
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and Superman, saved by Weird Al. Snagged a copy finally
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and got it read last week. If you're unsure about
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it and you're a Weird Al fan, it's exactly what
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you want from the comic book. So just go pick
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it up and read it. You're going to enjoy it,
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I promise. It basically starts out with a retelling of
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The Devil Went Down to Georgia, only it's an accordion
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and not a fiddle. And I'll just leave it at that.
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I won't say anything else to spoil anything else, but
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it is hilarious and exactly what you want.
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Excellent.
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Because I have a copy in my pull list box
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at my comic shop.
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Let me know when you read it. I'll be interested
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to hear your thoughts. I thought it was hilarious and
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great and heartwarming and just, yeah, felt like a weird
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Al comic book.
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Well, then I'm going to make a recommendation as well,
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but not Star Wars. I'm going to make two recommendations.
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Mad Face Studios is publishing The Last Starfighter. which is
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a sequel to the movie.
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Oh, so not an adaptation, like a sequel series.
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It's a sequel series.
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Awesome.
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And the third issue just came out this past week.
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And I got to tell you, it's a lot of fun.
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It's really good.
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And they're doing, to my mind, what a comic book
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should do when it's extrapolating upon an existing event or movie.
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Awesome.
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They have nailed it. There's only three issues so far.
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It's totally worth checking out.
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You could probably still get all three issues off the
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shelf at your local comic shop. And what's even cooler
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is I think next month, or maybe it's later this
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month or not, but sometime in the next four to
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six weeks, they're going to have a last Starfighter one-shot
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that focuses on the fake Alex that was left behind
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when Alex left.
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The beta unit.
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Yeah, the beta unit. It's just a one-shot focusing on
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the beta unit.
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Okay, you sold me. I may wait for the trade
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just to have them all in one set because it's
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easier for me to store.
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Smart idea.
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I'm going to get that when it's available. I didn't
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even know about it. Thank you. That's great.
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You're welcome. Don't sleep on that series. And then lastly,
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IDW has released the first issue of its new Star Trek.
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And basically this series arises out of the end of
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the card season three. Which I still haven't seen. So
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the captain of the Enterprise is captain seven of nine.
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Still haven't seen any of it.
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Yeah.
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So I'll have to watch those before I check that out.
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The first edition of this was quite good. I saw
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it on the shelf and I thought, you know what?
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Why not? I'll give it a go. And I did
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not regret it at all.
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Outstanding.
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All right.
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Well, there's some recommends, even though we don't have any
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Star Wars comics to review. Obviously, no solicits for next week.
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We just have, what is it? Trades next week, right?
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Yeah, all we got coming out next week is on
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October 3rd, we get the Star Wars Comics Library Volume 1, 1977-79.
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This is from Tashin, and it collects the first 23
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issues of Marvel's Star Wars Volume 1 from 1977-78. It's oversized,
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it's gorgeous, it's got the ads, but it's $ 200. So,
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do with that what you will.
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Wow.
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All right, and then next week we have a trade coming, right?
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Nope, nope, nope, nope. Oh, no, that's right.
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We were supposed to get The Smugglers and Scoundrels, The
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Race for Jabba's Bounty, original graphic novel from Mad Cave Studios,
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slash paper cuts, but that's been pushed back to, it
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looks like, November 17th.
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Okay, so Mad Cave is taking Dark Horse's route of
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delaying books already.
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Great.
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Maybe that will just give them more time to give
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us a review copy. We'll go with that.
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There you go.
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All right. Well, we'll be back next week to discuss
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anything that we do find out between now and then,
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but probably not any comics because we have none coming out.
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So until then, for Star Wars Flash Page, I'm Jeff.
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And I am Matt.
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May the Force be with you.
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Always.
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