Around the Web

December 1, 2017 at 12:01 am | Posted in Around the Web, Books, Comic Books, Episode VIII, Events, Movies, News, Regular Feature, Sci-Fi, Star Wars, Star Wars Books, Star Wars News | Leave a comment

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

Book News

• StarWars.com has another excerpt from the upcoming Canto Bight novel.
• Tastes Like Chicken by Kevin J. Anderson is out today and it’s the latest novel in his Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. series. You can read the first chapter for free here.
• The manga for Lost Stars Vol. 1 is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Note this is an English translation.
• Easton Press is putting out a leather bound volume of Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia. Fair warning, though, it has a steep price tag.
• Studio Fun posted an interview with author Jason Fry covering some of his upcoming Star Wars books.
• Star Wars: The Rebel Files Deluxe Edition by Daniel Wallace is out. Pre-orders are also up for just the hardcover version (July 2018).

Comic Book News

• A Star Wars Comic #11 is out now for free online.

Convention & Event News

• John Jackson Miller will be at a Canto Bight book launch at Barnes & Noble in Appleton, WI on December 5th.

Fandom News

• Here’s the latest episode of The Star Wars Show.

• Double dose of Science and Star Wars.

• How It Should Have Ended did a fun hero swap with It and Jar Jar Binks.

• IGN has some neat looking Star Wars posters.

Movie & Television News

Press has been ramping up for the release of The Last Jedi with a deluge of interviews, articles and new images. So here goes…

• EW has articles on the Resistance ski speeders, Canto Bight police speeders, BB-9E,
• Everyone has been making the rounds on Good Morning America including Mark Hamill, John Boyega, and Daisy Ridley.
• John Boyega was on The Tonight Show which you can catch here and here.
• Daisy Ridley was also on The Tonight Show which you can watch here and here.
• John Boyega on LIVE with Kelly and Ryan, as well as Daisy Ridley.
• Rian Johnson did a live Q&A on Facebook, and a live Q&A on Twitter.
• Empire magazine has a new image of DJ and Snoke.
• Topps has revealed some images from The Last Jedi via their cards which you can view here.
• Star Wars Interviews has an interview with the new Chewbacca Joonas Suotamo.
• Life size Kylo Ren starfighter the TIE Silencer.

• And taking a break from Star Wars, there’s the new trailer for Avengers: Infinity War.

Toy & Collectible News

• Her Universe has a bunch of new Star Wars items, from Chewbacca vests to porg sweaters.
• Yakface has a look at the upcoming Kotobukiya First Order Executioner ARTFX+ 1/10th scale statue.
• Bunch of Star Wars reveals from S.H. Figuarts from Tamashii Nations 2017 preview night. Click here to check them out.

Video Game News

• From December 3 to December 9th, Target is running a $20 off sale for Star Wars Battlefront II.