Red Mosquito

dimejinky99 wrote:You must have missed the entire movement. There were / are millions of them still petitioning for the legends books to be made canon again.
They’re quite serious about it.

No way that book even sold half a million copies.

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B wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:You must have missed the entire movement. There were / are millions of them still petitioning for the legends books to be made canon again.
They’re quite serious about it.

No way that book even sold half a million copies.

Combined 15 million for the trilogy according to Wikipedia.

And Heir to the Empire made it to #1 on the NYT bestseller list.

Clones of dead characters are such a lame trope in any era or medium. The clone army stuff is fine because they are just bodies and it speaks to the dystopian horrors of future industrialized warfare, but otherwise, I can't think of a single case where it works.

epilogue wrote:

B wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:You must have missed the entire movement. There were / are millions of them still petitioning for the legends books to be made canon again.
They’re quite serious about it.

No way that book even sold half a million copies.

Combined 15 million for the trilogy according to Wikipedia.

And Heir to the Empire made it to #1 on the NYT bestseller list.

Think that’s the one I’m thinking of. Graphic novel. It was badass. Amazing artwork. Great story.
Think dark horse published it?

It sold truck loads and is loved.

Alright, what book are you jerks talking about?

Because Heir to the Empire is the Thrawn series which does not appear to have Palpatine clones.

Nor, for that matter, now that i've checked, does Splinter of the Minds Eye.

Think it’s this one. It had everything. Not the cover I remember though

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Empire

Deeper down the Legends garbage disposal ...

Read the plot. It’s awesome.

Dunbass

Dark Empire was the first comic series produced after Marvel ended their series. It was released long after any kind of real Star Wars product was produced. IIRC it was the first new content released and it paved the way for the Zahn Thrawn trilogy. As dime noted, it was the series in which Palpatine has a bunch of clones. Luke also turns to the Dark Side in it.

Splinter of the Mind’s Eye was the first sequel to the original movie and was written by the dude that ghost wrote the novelization of the first movie. It was put out in ‘78 and was the first non-movie content put out. I think it’s been adapted in comic book form in the 90s but I’ve not read that version of it. IIRC Luke AND Leia fight Vader together

The Zahn Thrawn trilogy was cool, i read two of those i think?

I remember when QVC had these big Star Wars shows were you could buy SW stuff. I think me and my brother got a special edition DArk Empire comic book set off of there in the 90s.

I also remember Shadow Of The Empire for Super Nintendo maybe? anyone played that one?

VinylGuy wrote:I also remember Shadow Of The Empire for Super Nintendo maybe? anyone played that one?

Fuck yeah. N64. One of the three best games for that system.

yeah, i remember going to a video store to play it because i didnt had the n64.

I was poor ok? so yes, i played there and in older men's houses. Im not proud of it.