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An international trailer, of Star Wars: The Force Wakens has been released that contains the above image at the very beginning. A new pic of, one would think, a piece of the once Imperial Army. Whats interesting to me is the shape of the stormtroopers helmets and then the back of a character that has a black cloak on and a white helmet. Kind of an odd combination because from the back it recalls the image of Darth Vader, but then you have the white helmet with that black cloak, interesting choice. Anyway if you want to view the whole trailer it is provided by the CBR Trailers YouTube channel:
This is interesting. IDW Publishing is trying something new in the collectible market with the Star Wars license. They are producing blind packs for Star Wars Marvel minicomics, 3-D posters, 3-D glass, and trading cards that are puzzle pieces to form comic covers. All this for $3.99. Sounds good until you look at the break down of what’s in the packet. You have a chance to get one of the six mini comics, a chance to get one of the six 3-D posters, a pair of 3-D glass. Doesn’t sound to bad yet, but then you get to the trading cards. You get a chance of getting 1 of 36 cards. That’s going to be a lot of duplicates to get a full set of the 36 trading cards.
Don’t get me wrong everything looks neat and all and there will be collectors that love this, but for my wallet it’s just beyond my means.
Marvel has evidently gotten to big and is pulling a DC move with the merging of worlds in the 2015 Secret Wars titles. Sounds like what DC had to do with their Infinite Crisis story and Convergence story. Even Star Wars had to do something like this with it’s Expanded Universe that was axed and continuity started again. Check out the trailer for the Battleworld segment of the Secret Wars through Marvel’s YouTube channel:
For all you lucky fans that are at Celebration right now hope everyone is having fun. For us at home this is what they got to see first at the convention, the second Star Wars Episode VII: TheForce Awakens trailer. Now through MOVIECLIP Trailer’s YouTube channel you get to see it as well, if you haven’t already seen it. Or if you just want to watch it again here you go:
Very cool short film. If you are a fan of 1980’s style animation you will enjoy it even more. Great job by: Paul Johnson, artist/animator; Zakir Rahman, music; and Joseph Leyva, sound effects. Enjoy
What if there was an Empire-focussed short Star Wars animation, drawn with the crazy detail and shading of classic 80s anime that’s all but vanished from Japan nowadays?
Well, I tried my best. Apologies in advance for not living up to Venus Wars standards.
Drawn and animated by yours truly over 4 years’ worth of weekends, with music by the living guitar solo Zak Rahman and sound design by up and coming audio technician Joseph Leyva. Fans of Lucasarts’ seminal 1994 TIE Fighter game may notice a few familiar sights and sounds. That “incoming missile” noise gives me horrible flashbacks to this day…
Special thanks to the good folk at Lucasfilm for encouraging people to get creative and make these kind of projects. It’s thanks to their extremely fan-friendly nature that we can enjoy IMPS: The Relentless, TROOPS, etc.
Don’t support me on Patreon, because I don’t have one! And don’t donate to my Kickstarter, because I don’t have one of those either. Instead, if you enjoyed this, give someone at your workplace, uni, school or whatever a random bar of chocolate or can or Coke or something. Seriously, it’ll probably make their day.
That would totally make my day.
The folks over at starwars.com have released some information about the future of the Star Wars franchise. Of course it isn’t a whole lot, but it is interesting. This summer filming will begin for the first stand alone Star Wars movie, entitled Rogue One, starring Felicity Jones. Rogue One is slated for a December 16, 2016 release. Then the next installment of the main movies, Star Wars VIII, is scheduled for a May 26, 2017, release and will be written and directed by Rian Johnson. We will see how much will change between now and then.
Everyone has heard about Harrison Ford and his mishap with a vintage trainer from the WWII era. Thankfully he wasn’t hurt seriously, from last I heard. We here at ComicPop want to send our Get Well wishes to him along with everyone else in fandom.
This was posted on YouTube a couple of months ago by “Laurent Gallen”. As he explains it is a promotional spot for SKY, a German TV channel for the Star Wars series. It only lasts 10 seconds, but it is a clever and cool 10 seconds. I’m posting it today because I say it for the first time this past Sunday.
This is just to cool! Look at the scale of this snow sculpture! This was done this year at the 66th Sapporo Snow Festival, in northern Japan. This sculpture is entitled “Snow Star Wars” and was done by:
The snow sculpture, Star Wars, is made by the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force: the 11th Brigade; the 1st Snow Sculpture Producing Unit, the 11th Artillery Unit, the 11th Reconnaissance Company, and the 11th Antiaircraft Artillery Company.
They did a tremendous job! If I read the credits correctly the photos are by Kimimasa Mayama.
