Around the Web

March 20, 2020 at 12:01 am | Posted in Around the Web, Books, Comic Books, Conventions, Marvel, News, Regular Feature, Star Wars, Star Wars Books, Star Wars News, Toys & Collectibles | Leave a comment

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

Book News

• StarWars.com has an interview with author Rae Carson covering her novelization of The Rise of Skywalker.
• If you’re familiar with the website or podcast Coffee With Kenobi, Dan Z. will be writing a Star Wars book which will be out in October. Pre-orders are up already. It’s called The Star Wars Book and will be co-written with Pablo Hidalgo and Cole Horton.

Comic News

• StarWars.com has a preview for Bounty Hunters #2.

Convention News

• MCM Comic Con London has been postponed from May to July.

Fandom News

• Star Wars authors Kevin Hearne and Delilah S. Dawson have started their own podcast. You can check it out here.
• If you want to see something weird, Deep Fakes has taken a break from George Lucas videos to do a Ewan as Old Ben video.

• Star Wars Rollout is back and features a young Ben Solo.

• Galaxy of Adventures is also back with some new videos. They jump around in the timeline on these. The first video might actually be post-TROS since it’s implied TROS is the first time they encounter the First Order jet troopers.

• New “Our Star Wars Stories” video.

• Clone Wars Download for “Unfinished Business”.

Movie & Television News

• The Rise of Skywalker is now available digitally. It’ll be available physically on March 31st, but no word yet when it’ll hit Disney+.

Toy & Collectible News

• Mark Boudreaux over at Hasbro is retiring, and Star Wars artist Chris Reiff is joining the Hasbro Star Wars design team as an Associate Principal Designer.
• Pre-orders are up for the Hot Toys Mandalorian and child deluxe set.

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