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Post by The Doctor on Nov 12, 2017 18:24:14 GMT
I told you to buy it at the time!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 12, 2017 18:24:53 GMT
I told you to buy it at the time! -Ralph I know, I know. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 12, 2017 6:34:15 GMT
I'd say Epic Collections, but they've not got that far yet.... Thanks Uncle Phil. I'll give Vol 1 & 2 a try. It won't be the same as the original issues (which, like TFUK, had better image quality and a glossier feel than the US issues) but it'll have to do. v3 up for order www.amazon.co.uk/Star-Wars-Legends-Epic-Collection/dp/1302911333/ |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 22, 2017 23:30:54 GMT
Since Star Wars Epic Collection The New Republic v3 is on it's way to join v2, I thought I'd better buy v1.
Some of Carlos Ezquerra's only US work within.
Star Wars Epic Collection Marvel Years v1 & v2 on he way after I discovered v3 had Marvel UK material.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 27, 2017 12:50:26 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 27, 2017 13:48:54 GMT
Please don't tell me I now have to rebuy these because there's stuff in them that wasn't in the Dark Horse collections.
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Post by Bogatan on Dec 27, 2017 14:54:10 GMT
Tell him Phil, tell him!
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 27, 2017 15:09:38 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 27, 2017 15:46:58 GMT
Yes, I can see the issues in this volume in there.
However I can see something that's not in there and inexplicably not in the Dark Horse volumes that I would expect to see in Epic Collection 4 or 5.....
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 27, 2017 16:05:55 GMT
Which of the Dark Horse collections of the Marvel material have you got? There's full sized trades and smaller Omnibuses?
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 27, 2017 16:08:50 GMT
What's that?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 27, 2017 16:40:59 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 27, 2017 16:48:50 GMT
Oh right, I've got the Dark Horse Omnibus books - RotJ is in Volume 4.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 27, 2017 22:32:10 GMT
Still waiting on Marvel reprinting Dark Empire...
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 27, 2017 22:47:26 GMT
That'll be a future New Republic Epic Collection
They've just released v3, completing Rogue Squadron.
Is there a Dark Horse SW Timeline anywhere?
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 27, 2017 22:53:46 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 27, 2017 22:57:42 GMT
So the New Republic Volumes have reached 5 ABY (After Battle of Yavin)
So New Republic v4, December 2018, will be mainly the Thrawn Trilogy (6 issues per novel = 18 comics = most of an Epic Collection)
Which mean New Republic v5, December 2019, will be Dark Empire.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 28, 2017 8:09:04 GMT
Only two years to wait, Andu!
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Dec 28, 2017 10:11:00 GMT
*room rumbles*
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 30, 2017 12:04:21 GMT
Dug out my digital SW comics to read while I was in London, in particular the stuff between ESB & ROTJ. I had forgotten quite how good it was! US Series www.mikesamazingworld.com/features/series.php?seriesid=4470&page=galleryESB itself - 39-44 - we've raved about before, especially Al Williamson's art which is superb. I had these i an annual as a boy and they looked amazing. SW 44, in it's UK printings, were the first SW comics I read. Star Wars #45 loved this when I first read it in the UK weekly. Definitely produced post ESB Star Wars #46 had this in b&w in the monthly and colour in an annual, misplaced along with my other annuals. Palmer's debut on the series I believe, him over Infantino is odd but it works. Again definitely post ESB. Star Wars #47 This could be pre ESB if they'd made some art and dialogue edits. It feels more like the pre ESB issues. Star Wars #48 Almost certainly pre ESB on Leia's costume alone. Star Wars #49 First Simonson on pencils issues. I have problems with Palmer's heavy inking, especially later on The Avengers, trying to make everything look the same but here combined with Simonson's pencils it produces something really nice. It's not obviously either of them and the combination works. There's some Simonson inked by someone else in a few issues. Onto the volume starting with US 50 (which I had in the same annual as US 46) later See starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars_(Marvel_UK) for what US issues were printed when by Marvel UK UK Cover Galleries SW Weekly www.rebelscum.com/marvelcomics10.aspESB Weekly, ESB Monthly & SW Monthly www.rebelscum.com/marvelcomics10a.aspROTJ Weekly www.rebelscum.com/marvelcomics11.asp |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 30, 2017 17:05:39 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 30, 2017 17:32:03 GMT
50 Anniversary issue. Contortions to shoe horn in Han Solo, ESB references with the Bounty Hunters and an old comic villain but it just about works albeit at the cost of excluding Luke Skywalker for a large part.
51/52 A large part of ROTJ done two years early and in the comic. David Micheline's first issue so the book's best remembered creative team is together with Walt Simonson and Tom Palmer on art
53/54 See above. A very odd comic but it's amazing quite how well it does work. Reading it now, I'm not 100% sure the version of the story presented above is 100% correct and am wondering if it had been formatted as a SW story as stock pre ESB and then reformatted again post ESB....
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 30, 2017 23:21:14 GMT
Oh my goodness
Just done some date work on the SW issues published post ESB. There is some real Head Of Tescos madness in progress. I'm going to need to be more awake to table it up properly but it appears that in late 1980/early 81 Marvel UK was running strips at the same time as or even before Marvel US. That leads to the year of Marvel UK originated stories which gives them some headroom which in turn results in the massive backlog they had when ROTJ arrived.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 31, 2017 12:48:20 GMT
The bellow table requires some explanation! First 3 columns relate to the UK SW issues. Story is the title of the story within if it's reprinted from a US issue and if it is it's followed by the US Issue number and date. There is then a difference between the two dates. Positive and the UK is in front, Negative and the UK is in behind, which is what you would expect they would be. Sources for all info as linked above. Mike's Amazing World of Comics gives the US publishing date, as opposed to cover date, so I've used that. The problem is the cover months for SW UK wander all over the place and it's obvious they change their system several times. We know they're vaguely correct (1 month ahead of publication) at the end, because that lines up with Jedi's release. We know the date the first monthly issue came out, a week after the last weekly issue, and if you work back one month at a time everything vaguely lines up. I've been through every issue of the UK monthly and nowhere does it give a "next issue is out on" date which is rather a poor show for a monthly comic. So with nothing else to go on I've assumed the comic is published 1st of the Month. Those are stupidly huge numbers at the top of the table. I've checked, they're right. The UK was that far ahead! You can see why they took the decision to run a year of UK stuff against no/half issues of US material. Unfortunately that throws things when they reach Jedi. UK | UK DATE | US Story | US Issue | US Date | Difference | 136 | 04/10/1980 | The Third Law | 48 | 24/03/1981 | 171 | 137 | 11/10/1980 | The Third Law | 48 | 24/03/1981 | 164 | 138 | 18/10/1980 | The Third Law | 48 | 24/03/1981 | 157 | 139 | 25/10/1980 | The Third Law | 48 | 24/03/1981 | 150 | 140 | November 80 | Death Probe | 45 | 23/12/1980 | 52 | 141 | December 80 | The Dreams of Cody Sunn-Childe | 46 | 20/01/1981 | 50 | 142 | January 81 | Droid World | 47 | 24/02/1981 | 54 | 143 | February 81 | The Last Gift From Alderaan | 53 | 18/08/1981 | 198 | 144 | March 81 | Starfire Rising | 54 | 15/09/1981 | 198 | 145 | April 81 | The Last Jedi | 49 | 21/04/1981 | 20 | 146 | May 81 | The Last Jedi | 49 | 21/04/1981 | -10 | 147 | June 81 | Resurrection of Evil | 51 | 16/06/1981 | 15 | 148 | July 81 | To Take The Tarkin | 52 | 21/07/1981 | 20 | 149 | August 81 | | | | | 150 | September 81 | The Hunter | 16 | | | 151 | October 81 | | | | | 152 | November 81 | Plif | 55 | 20/10/1981 | -12 | 153 | December 81 | | | | | 154 | January 82 | Half of Coffin in the Clouds | 56 | 17/11/1981 | -45 | 155 | February 82 | Half of Coffin in the Clouds | 56 | 17/11/1981 | -76 | 156 | March 82 | Half of Hello, Bespin, Goodbye! | 57 | 15/12/1981 | -76 | 157 | April 82 | Half of Hello, Bespin, Goodbye! | 57 | 15/12/1981 | -107 | 158 | May 82 | Sundown! | 58 | 19/01/1982 | -102 | 159 | June 82 | Bazarre | 59 | 16/02/1982 | -105 | 160 | July 82 | Shira's Story | 60 | 16/03/1982 | -107 | 161 | August 82 | Screams in the Void | 61 | 13/04/1982 | -110 | 162 | September 82 | Pariah! | 62 | 18/05/1982 | -106 | 163 | October 82 | The Mind Spider | 63 | 15/06/1982 | -108 | 164 | November 82 | Serphidian Eyes | 64 | 13/07/1982 | -111 | 165 | December 82 | Golrath Never Forgets | 65 | 17/08/1982 | -106 | 166 | January 83 | The Water Bandits | 66 | 14/09/1982 | -109 | 167 | February 83 | The Darker | 67 | 19/10/1982 | -105 | 168 | March 83 | The Search Begins | 68 | 16/11/1982 | -105 | 169 | April 83 | Death in the City of Bone | 69 | 14/12/1982 | -108 | 170 | May 83 | The Stenax Shuffle | 70 | 18/01/1983 | -103 | 171 | June 83 | Return to Stenos | 71 | 15/02/1983 | -106 |
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 31, 2017 13:06:09 GMT
Jings.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 31, 2017 23:38:42 GMT
55 The issue where the rebels find their new home. It's not 100% established why they fled the base seen in 50 but Leia was already looking in 51. The real connected storytelling starts here.
56/57 Lando's return to Bespin. Loved this as a kid, had to wait 2 months after the setup in UK 152 (US 55) for the UK to print it and then I only got it in little chunks. Even then I could see this was the proper SW strip and the bits at the front of the comic were something of an odd intruder. Even though I love everything round here these two are still a highlight. 56 also has the first appearance of Shira Brie in it.
58 R2D2 & C3PO muck about in space. Hmmm. The plan to hide the fleet is nice.
59 Luke, Lando and Chewie go to buy some TIEs that have been recovered by an arms dealer. Setup for what's coming.
Really loving reading these again.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 1, 2018 10:38:00 GMT
I do love the era of Star Wars weekly where you get loads of the old mad monster/sf back up tales, and things like Warlock, Deathlok, Micronauts and Guardians of the Galaxy.
A grand line up.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 1, 2018 11:22:32 GMT
Other than the Specials I did not get into SW comics until the dying days of Return of the Jedi weekly. All hail Cyril the editor droid.
Come to think of it, it does seem mad there is not currently a decent SW comics on newsstands with the new Marvel series. There is SW Adventures which is polybag pish and SW Lego but not a 'proper comic'. It would sell!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 1, 2018 11:24:56 GMT
Think there are some licensing restrictions in play currently.
Andy
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 1, 2018 13:04:56 GMT
I did find one in Germany when there, Titan or Panini in the same format as our comics, can't remember which publisher, which did suggest there's probably a reason why we don't have one.
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