Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor: Thoughts?

[The Original Nex]

Isnt that the one with Luceno?

Yep it is Luceno; who's work I enjoy. Then again, I also tend to enjoy Allston and Denning, and it seems that even a good author can find little to do with the premises they're given. I'm not holding my breath for Millennium Falcon

[Connor MacLeod]

Denning I admit kinda let me down with LOTf, but a jealous lil part of me still wants to blame LFL in general and Traviss in particular for that fiasco. I still enjoyed much of Betrayal despite the crappy foreshadowing.

I have to admit I am heartened that receently we've seen a continuation of a slew of decent authors: Allston's still around, Denning is (even if he sucks at writing, ,he usually does prety well on teh techie side), Luceno of course, and we have Reaves.

[The Original Nex]

I agree, however seeing Traviss signed on for the Clone Wars movie/premier novelization really breaks the deal for me. I'll buy Reaves' and Stover's books. As I said, I like Luceno but I don't think even a good author can do much with the post-NJO material, as we saw what DelRey/Traviss/LFL managed to do to LOTF despite Allston and Denning writing 2/3 or it. I feel like those two spent half their time trying to undo the shit Traviss wrote in.

Reaves and Stover are rare bright spots, possibly saved by virtue that they're not writing books that take place on the road to nowhere that is the post-NJO...

[Darth Hoth]

You may be confusing Shadowspawn with Blackhole/Lord Cronal who appears in the old Marvel, has a similar helmet and at one point was considered the same as Shadowspawn, an idea that obviously was nixed.

Nitpick, but that would be the syndicated strip, not the Marvel series.

[The Original Nex]

Ah the old newsie strips. My bad.

[Imperial Overlord]

The idea of Stover writing a Star Wars novel using Daley as inspiration is pure win. Caine Black Knife coming out in October just makes me even happier.

[Connor MacLeod]

If Traviss is writing the novelization for the Clone Wars movie, that might actually not be that bad. Movie novelizations tend to be fairly restrictive as far as storyline goes, you end up having to retell the basic plot in another way. I think Traviss could pull that off and it might even be passable. We might have to put up some mando-wank, but I'll doubt that she can cram that much inthere without making the novel unreasonably long (remember, she injected her mando wank into more than HALF her LOTF novels, and the RC novels post HC tended to be even worse.)

If she gets an editor with balls, it could be good. And I have a feeling given the response to her last LOTF novel, the editors might just keep an eye on her this time.

Or, at least, I'm praying that.

[The Original Nex]

If we're lucky she will be line-edited by GL as the movie novelizations were...

[General Soontir Fel]

If Traviss is writing the novelization for the Clone Wars movie, that might actually not be that bad. Movie novelizations tend to be fairly restrictive as far as storyline goes, you end up having to retell the basic plot in another way. I think Traviss could pull that off and it might even be passable. We might have to put up some mando-wank, but I'll doubt that she can cram that much inthere without making the novel unreasonably long (remember, she injected her mando wank into more than HALF her LOTF novels, and the RC novels post HC tended to be even worse.)

If she gets an editor with balls, it could be good. And I have a feeling given the response to her last LOTF novel, the editors might just keep an eye on her this time.

Or, at least, I'm praying that.

I'm willing to bet on two things:

1)There will be nothing about Mandos in the series.
2)Traviss will insert them into the novelization.

And remember, it was only a few dozen Talifan who didn't like Revelation

[Stormbringer]

Interesting. I must say that I thought there wasn't any space left in the post Endor-pre Thrawn Campaign for them to fit in a story of this magnitude, though.

There isn't really.

But that's never stopped them before.

[Darth Culator]

Darth Culator... Calculator. Wow.

LOL Oops. I think that is the screen name of a Wiki contributor.

Wait, what did I do now?

[The Original Nex]

Keff was probably thinking that they had named a new Sith Darth Culator in the book, and apparently didn't approve.

[Illuminatus Primus]

And remember, it was only a few dozen Talifan who didn't like Revelation

She actually said that? Someone actually said that?

Interesting. I must say that I thought there wasn't any space left in the post Endor-pre Thrawn Campaign for them to fit in a story of this magnitude, though.

There isn't really.

But that's never stopped them before.

Uh, sure there is. There is basically completely bupkis between the Rogue Squadron comics and the beginning of the Rogue Squadron novels, except for Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight (and its attendant sources like the DF novellas) and for what it is worth, The Glove of Darth Vader/"Jedi Prince" series. And featuring Luke, zilch from the end of the post-ROTJ Marvel run through to The Courtship of Princess Leia. Really, its the last significant gap in the post-ROTJ EU.

[Darth Culator]

Uh, sure there is. There is basically completely bupkis between the Rogue Squadron comics and the beginning of the Rogue Squadron novels, except for Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight (and its attendant sources like the DF novellas) and for what it is worth, The Glove of Darth Vader/"Jedi Prince" series. And featuring Luke, zilch from the end of the post-ROTJ Marvel run through to The Courtship of Princess Leia. Really, its the last significant gap in the post-ROTJ EU.

Plus the Mindor campaign isn't a new invention, it was already mentioned as the catalyst for Skywalker's retirement from the military in the original Essential Chronology, which was extrapolated from a line in the Dark Empire Sourcebook about Shadowspawn fighting to the death and a bit in The Courtship of Princess Leia about Han and Leia on a corpse-strewn battlefield on "Mindar" which the continuity authorities declared was meant to be Mindor.

All things considered, this is surprisingly well situated in continuity.

[Havok]

Keff was probably thinking that they had named a new Sith Darth Culator in the book, and apparently didn't approve.

Yeah, I was being a Wiki n00b. Sorry.