Around the Web

September 29, 2017 at 12:01 am | Posted in Around the Web, Books, Comic Books, Conventions, Events, IDW, Marvel, Movies, News, Random House, Regular Feature, Star Wars, Star Wars Books, Star Wars News, Star Wars Rebels, Television, Video Games | Leave a comment

Here is this week’s Around the Web news roundup of Star Wars and beyond.

Book News

USA Today has an audio excerpt of John Ham reading Paul Dini’s short story from From A Certain Point of View.
StarWars.com has an interview with author Claudia Gray covering her book Leia: Princess of Alderaan.
Edelweiss has two new interesting Star Wars book entries. On is for an untitled Jason Fry hardcover that’s 96 pages long and will be out March 27, 2018. It’s listed as a “replica journal” and “juvenile fiction” so this might be similar to the Rey journal that was done for The Force Awakens.

Follow the next adventure in the Star Wars saga in this first person narrative. This book for tweens will feature a first-person account from one of the main characters of the second installment in the Star Wars sequel trilogy. Format includes foldouts.

There’s also a book called Star Wars: Poe Dameron: Registro de Vuelo by Michael Kogge that is specifically for Spanish speaking fans.

Star Wars: Poe Dameron: Registro de Vuelo
Michael Kogge
March 6, 2018, Hardcover, $11.99, Juvenile Fiction, Ages 6 to 8, Grades 1 to 3
96 pages, Series: Replica Journal, Full color, 8.3 in H | 5.8 in W | 0.6 in T

Filled with dossiers, pilot profiles, and now translated for Spanish-speaking fans, here are Poe Dameron’s files, collected into one flight log.
Translated for Spanish-speaking Star Wars fans! Learn what the best pilot in the galaxy’s life was like before joining the Resistance; get complete details of his mission to Jakku; and read the harrowing account of Black Squadron’s daring attack on Starkiller Base!

Sequart is putting a book called A More Civilized Age: Exploring the Star Wars Expanded Universe. Edited by Rich Handley and Joseph F. Berenato, this book will contain essays that talk about the Star Wars Expanded Universe, aka Legends. It also includes a foreword by Timothy Zahn and an essay by Rider Windham.

Comic News

A Star Wars Comic #9 is now out and available for free online.
Marvel has an interview with artist Mike Mayhew covering the upcoming series The Last Jedi – Storms of Crait.
Marvel also has an interview with writer Matt Owens covering the Mace Windu series.
CBR has an interview with writer Charles Soule covering the Darth Vader and Poe Dameron series with some art previews.
IDW is upping their game as Nerdist has revealed that Alan Tudyk will be writing a story for their Star Wars Adventures series.
Geek Tyrant highlighted a fan comic made by Stephen Byrne. There’s no words but the art looks pretty cool.

Convention & Event News

Del Rey has posted their schedule for NYCC.

New York Comic Con is October 5 to 8 in New York, NY. Star Wars guests include Benjamin Acker, Katie Cook, Joe Corroney, Jim Cummings, Delilah S. Dawson, Kieron Gillen, Claudia Gray, Mark Hamill, Felicity Jones, John Jackson Miller, Daniel Jose Older, Cavan Scott, Michael Siglain, Skottie Young, Timothy Zahn (Friday only) and more.
Necronomicon is October 20 to 22 in Tampa, FL. Star Wars guests include Timothy Zahn.
Timothy Zahn will be in Lucca, Italy at Lucca Comics and Games from November 1 to 5th.
World Fantasy Con is November 2 to 5, 2017 in San Antonio, TX. Star Wars guests include Martha Wells.
TusCon is November 10 to 12 in Tucson, AZ. Star Wars guests include Timothy Zahn.
OryCon is November 17 to 19 in Portland, OR. Star Wars guests include Timothy Zahn.

For more events, check Star Wars Actor Appearances.

Fandom News

StarWars.com has an interview with Mark Hamill to celebrate his 66th birthday.
Here’s the latest episode of The Star Wars Show.

And here’s the “Behind the Magic of Rogue One” video mentioned and previewed on The Star Wars Show.

Here’s the latest episode of Science and Star Wars.

Movie & Television News

Star Wars: Forces of Destiny returns October 1 with a new half hour special with premiere on the Disney Channel at 8:00 PM ET, with a second half hour special airing on October 29th. Each special will consist of four new episodes and four old episodes woven together (so eight new episodes total). The new episodes will features characters such as Hera Syndulla, Han Solo, Finn and Maz Kanata. The episodes will appear online on Disney YouTube following the specials. Here’s the trailer…

Star Wars Rebels Season 4 will be airing October 16 and to coincide with the hyper machine, they’ve released a poster.

Ron Howard continues to tease the Han Solo movie, this time with a picture of some stone script and a challenge to translate it. Paul Bateman was up to the challenge.

Can anybody translate for me? #McQuarrie #UntitledHanSoloMovie pic.twitter.com/mbKltvhFbW

— Ron Howard (@RealRonHoward) September 26, 2017

@RealRonHoward this is as near as I can get you Ron, Ralph winged it as far as I know, but it was a font he came up with for Yavin 4. pic.twitter.com/qmOulMr38B

— Paul Bateman (@PaulRMQ) September 26, 2017

Can’t get enough Thor: Ragnarok? Here’s a behind the scenes video.

This one may or may not be good, but here’s the trailer for Gotti.

1992 is a film adaptation of a Stephen King short story which will be out on Netflix on October 20th. Fair warning, the trailer looks like it gives a lot away.

I haven’t read the book, but the trailer for Annihilation looks really wild. I’m definitely looking forward to this one. It’ll be out in February.