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Below are the 8 most recent journal entries recorded in the "Daily Scans" journal:

November 1st, 2009
12:16 am [joysweeper] [Link]	The Thrawn Trilogy: Dark Force Rising "I have no qualms about accepting a useful idea merely because it wasn't my own." ―Thrawn Here's the other half of Dark Force Rising. First part was here. You can probably tell that this time I have the book in hand. When I uploaded these, I forgot to shrink them, and I am not going to delete them and reupload smaller versions. So the contents of this post are on my Livejournal. Well? What is your choice? Tags: char: grand admiral thrawn, char: han solo, char: luke skywalker, char: wedge antilles, creator: fred blanchard, creator: mike baron, creator: olivier vatine, in-joke: tl;dr, publisher: dark horse, title: star wars (Leave a comment)
October 23rd, 2009
01:12 pm [joysweeper] [Link]	The Thrawn Trilogy: Dark Force Rising " This one is constantly thinking, analyzing, strategizing. He showed no fear, but was curious, studying me in turn." ―Emperor Palpatine Much better art now. ( Are you willing to stake your life on it? ) Tags: char: grand admiral thrawn, char: han solo, char: luke skywalker, creator: fred blanchard, creator: mike baron, creator: olivier vatine, publisher: dark horse, title: star wars (15 comments \| Leave a comment)
October 21st, 2009
07:50 pm [zechs27] [Link]	Star Wars Tales #19 Two tales requested from this particular issue of Star Wars Tales, "The Lost Lightsaber" and "Into the Great Unknown". ( Deju Vu will follow. ) Tags: char: han solo, char: indiana jones, publisher: dark horse, title: star wars (16 comments \| Leave a comment)
October 17th, 2009
03:31 pm [joysweeper] [Link]	The Thrawn Trilogy: Heir to the Empire Five years after Endor and the death of the Emperor, the Empire was in bad shape. There had been successors who had ruled the Empire, or tried to. Pestage, the Tribune, Ysanne Isard. Under them it splintered, warlords like Teradoc and Zsinj splitting off on their own to fight them and the New Republic. The Empire just kept losing people and worlds, rarely if ever winning any important battles. And then the last of the Grand Admirals came back from the Unknown Regions. Alien. Analytical. Awesome. "I am Grand Admiral Thrawn. I have been away, but now I have returned. I know some of what has occurred. You will fill in the details of the rest when I come aboard. Rejoice, Captain, for the Empire will rise again." - A Grand Admiral Returns ( We haven't been defeated, merely slowed down a bit. ) Next up is Dark Force Rising. Why is the tag "Heir of the Empire"? And why have a tag for it at all? Only two posts will ever use it. Tags: char: grand admiral thrawn, char: han solo, char: luke skywalker, char: wedge antilles, creator: fred blanchard, creator: mike baron, creator: olivier vatine, in-joke: tl;dr, publisher: dark horse, title: star wars (41 comments \| Leave a comment)
October 16th, 2009
01:40 am [zechs27] [Link]	Shadows of the Empire Part II #4-6 of the Shadows of the Empire Mini. With bonus awesome the Brothers Hildebrant art from the card series. Dial Uppers Beware!! ( Read more... ) Tags: char: boba fett, char: darth vader/anakin skywalker, char: han solo, char: luke skywalker, creator: john wagner, creator: steve perry, publisher: dark horse, title: star wars (9 comments \| Leave a comment)
12:17 am [joysweeper] [Link]	The Thrawn Trilogy: Heir to the Empire "It was just after four o'clock on November 6, 1989, and I was three days into writing my first novel for my new publisher, Bantam Books, when the phone rang. It was my agent. "Tim," he said after the usual pleasantries, "we have a very interesting offer here."" - Zahn This is the honorary Episodes Seven, Eight, and Nine. This is what kickstarted the Star Wars Expanded Universe as we know it. Marvel Star Wars was there first, true, and so were Han Solo's and Lando Calrissian's short trilogies, and Splinter in the Mind's Eye, and assorted minor comics and kidlit. They didn't usually stray far from the movies, though, and they weren't epic. Not like this. Well, actually, this is just the comic book adaptation of that trilogy. And it's not as good, but I can't find too much fault with that. I love the Thrawn Trilogy, Zahn's writing, and his characters. I really do. ( Even compressed, Zahn is awesome. ) The art for Heir to the Empire really isn't all that good. Stick around, though. Other books get better. I think two posts per book, meaning three issues per post, should do. There are twenty eight pages in the first issue, twenty six in the second, and twenty four in the third. Current Mood: pleased Tags: char: grand admiral thrawn, char: han solo, char: luke skywalker, char: wedge antilles, creator: fred blanchard, creator: mike baron, creator: olivier vatine, in-joke: tl;dr, publisher: dark horse, title: star wars (46 comments \| Leave a comment)
October 9th, 2009
12:54 am [zechs27] [Link]	Shadows of the Empire Part I Shadows of the Empire #1-3 by John Wagner and Kilian Pluckett though using Steve Perry's story but adding they're own to it. Dial Uppers Beware! ( Read more... ) Tags: char: boba fett, char: darth vader/anakin skywalker, char: han solo, char: luke skywalker, creator: john wagner, creator: steve perry, publisher: dark horse, title: star wars (7 comments \| Leave a comment)
May 13th, 2009
01:44 am [unknownscribler] [Link]	( Superdickery ) ( Star Wars meets the DCU ) Tags: char: boba fett, char: darth maul, char: darth vader/anakin skywalker, char: flash/barry allen, char: han solo, char: luke skywalker, char: mace windu, char: superman/clark kent, char: yoda, publisher: dc comics, title: action comics (49 comments \| Leave a comment)