I just picked up X-Wing Phantom Affair TPB, and I noticed that the first page has an X-Wing Schematic, and I found this odd. I'm a Star Wars completist, so I was wondering what other tidbits I'm missing from other Star Wars comic TPBs when I buy the individual issues. Now I'm not talking about Production designs or Cover images, or only other comics, but instead other miscellaneaous stuff similar to what i found in Phantom Affair. Which Star Wars comic TPBs should I look out to buy that have different material than the original issues. Thanks a lot.
From October 2004 through June 2005, Hyperspace members were able to get a daily fix of pre-Episode III story-telling through the Reversal of Fortune webstrip written by Paul Ens and illustrated by Tom Hodges. Starting next week, those adventures continue into the post-Episode III era in Evasive Action: Recruitment.
From the offical site. Sound scool. Will this be up here too?
Prepare to Take Evasive Action
July 29, 2005
From October 2004 through June 2005, Hyperspace members were able to get a daily fix of pre-Episode III story-telling through the Reversal of Fortune webstrip written by Paul Ens and illustrated by Tom Hodges. Starting next week, those adventures continue into the post-Episode III era in Evasive Action: Recruitment.
Evasive Action is the new masthead title for the on-going adventures of Jedi Padawans Drake Lo'gaan, Zonder and Ekria -- three young survivors of Order 66 on Felucia. The galaxy is no longer a friendly place for a Jedi, fully trained or not. The teenagers are faced with not only fugitive status, but also decisions about what to do with their lives now that everything they've been trained for is gone.
Darth Vader, still relatively new to the suit, is also finding his way leading "his new Empire" in Recruitment. "I found it interesting during the writing process that the internal playback in my head kept switching back and forth between the voices of actors Hayden Christensen and James Earl Jones for the Vader dialog," says Ens. "The prequel trilogy has clearly been successful in driving that connection into my subconscious."
"Reversal of Fortune was a challenge and a thrill to craft because not only was it a tale setting up memorable on-screen action, but I also deliberately intertwined it as tightly as possible with the Labyrinth of Evil novel, the Clone Wars cartoon and the first half of Revenge of the Sith," recalls Ens. "Conversations and action would pick up or overlap by two seconds here and there with the other sources. It was greatly inspired by tales like Back to the Future II and 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead'."
Beyond the upcoming novel Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader, the timeline immediately following Episode III has not yet been firmly solidified in the Star Wars expanded universe, so the creative team is also looking to other sources for a regular stream of the kind of inside "Easter eggs" that intrigued the fans of Reversal of Fortune.
"Obviously there are assumptions and extrapolations from the fall-out of the end of the Clone Wars and creation of a new Empire," Ens explains, "but Recruitment will touch upon threads from all over the EU map including Attack of the Clones, Dark Empire, bounty hunter comics, video games and solid nods to some of the earlier roleplaying game material."
Hodges has also adapted his distinctive style to match the darker tone of Recruitment. "I am working a little differently on this strip," says Hodges. "Instead of using standard Bristol Board Paper, I'm using Cold Press Illustration Board and I won't be adding the gray tones in PhotoShop, but by hand. I think it gives more emotion to it. It also helps bring the story into the darker, used universe that Episode III introduced and was continued into the Original Trilogy. Vader is still a young man, but early on, you'll see why he's so feared throughout the galaxy."
"Also don't expect Ekria, Drake and Zonder to look the same. I've 'steamlined' Zonder to look more along what I originally intended on Reversal, Ekria is starting to become a young woman and Drake is, well, a teenage boy who thinks he's invincible."
Hyperspace members should look for Evasive Action: Recruitment to begin August 1