Pimpage: Star Wars Rebellion

[Rob1971]

Forgive the shameless whoring, but the first issue of my Star Wars comic, Rebellion, is in the shops today.

There's preview pages here:

http://www.darkhorse.com/profile/preview.php?theid=13-359

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[+rufus+]

Looking forward to reading it!
See you and yer cat in Bristol, Mr W?
:-) Rufuzz

[Richmond Clements]

Let me help you with that, Rob.

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[Rob1971]

Cheers for that. I'm such a luddite.

If anyone wants to give me an idiot-proof guide to getting a little square signature pic for my postings, that'd be much appreciated too.

Thanks.

[Noisybast]

1. Choose an image you want to use (icons are 32x32 pixels).

2. Send it to Max at icons at 2000adonline.com

3. Wait for enlightenment.

[DavidXBrunt]

Or failing that give Max a message through the send-mail with a rough idea of what you want and he'll do you proud.

[TordelBack]

Well now, I did enjoy that.  After the superb Tank Sunber tales in 'Empire', I was dreading a change of creative team, and while I still prefer Fabbri's incredibly movie-accurate style Badeau does a wildly enthusistic and insanely detailed job here.  I do have  aporblem with the odd perspective and slightly washed-out colouring, but it's still very visually impressive stuff  (Interestingly, while Fabbri gave Luke the wrong lightsabre handle, Badeau hangs Vader's hilt upside down... persian flaws?).  

Rob gives Sunber a much richer internal monologues
 than Hartley, but this gels well with his changing mindset.  What Rob brings to the story is dramatic (cinematic?) scale - we get a truly massive land battle, and an audacious crash sequence.  This neatly balances the personal narrative of Tank's relationship with Luke and Biggs.  

If you're still around Rob, I'd be interested to hear how the writing guidelines for this type of title works. How free are you to tell your own stories, and how tied into a programme?

Anyhow, Tank is the most interesting character to emerge from SW licensing in an age, so keep it up.  

 

 

[Rob1971]

Glad you liked it.

The writing guidelines are pretty unrestrictive, surprisingly. As long as you know your basic Star Wars lore (the movies), I think you're probably ok. I'm not really that knowledgable about the expanded universe. Dark Horse help me out on that.

Dark Horse sent me the Empire back issues, as Rebellion is pretty much a continuation of that book. I liked the Sunber character so suggested doing more with him and they went for it. He was very well written when he was created by Welles Hartley, so I felt like I knew the character pretty well.

There's a few things here and there that you get reigned in on by Dark Horse editorial or Lucasfilm, but that's really no different from any other editorial system.

[TordelBack]

Interesting to hear there's that level of flexibility - I'd assumed a more controlling environment (on the Lucasfilm rather than DH side).

Sunber is certainly the stand-out character in 'Empire', itself the best SW book by far, so you made a good choice there.  'Empire' had cleverly built up a mildly interesting set of Rebel supporting characters, allowing a bit of proxy peril for the obviously invulnerable main characters, and Tank (actually mentioned in the movie! gasp!) was a good next step.  

Liked the Micheal Sheard/Admiral Ozzel cameo, BTW!  

[Rob1971]

'Liked the Micheal Sheard/Admiral Ozzel cameo, BTW!'

He gets everywhere, doesn't he. He's got a few lines later on in the series.

I have written dialogue for Michael Sheard. Oh yes...