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Below are the 11 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 31st, 2009
09:27 am [volksjager] [Link]	Happy Halloween ! See you in the pumpkin patch... Halloween week. You can't have Halloween week without some Kelly Jones art. ( Read more... ) Tags: char: deadman/boston brand, char: phantom stranger, creator: kelley jones, creator: mike baron, publisher: dc comics, theme: halloween week, title: deadman (12 comments \| 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 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
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)
August 11th, 2009
03:21 pm [ashtoreth] [Link]	A Drinking Man's Tour of the Galaxy: Part III Our heroes had braved a brawl at the Black Hole bar, fell into a real black hole, crashed into a bowl world, fought their way through the deadly zones of technology and unarmed combat. After many days they come to the deadliest of all--*the Zone of Philosophy!* Part 1, part 2 and now...the conclusion. (App 8 pages from the 28-page Nexus 8) ( Read more... ) Tags: char: badger/norbert sykes, char: nexus/horatio hellpop, creator: mike baron, creator: steve rude, publisher: first comics, title: nexus (12 comments \| Leave a comment)
August 10th, 2009
05:12 pm [ashtoreth] [Link]	A Drinking Man's Tour of the Galaxy: Part II The first part is here. (2 and a half pages from Nexus 6, 7 pages from Nexus 7) ( Read more... ) Tags: char: badger/norbert sykes, char: nexus/horatio hellpop, creator: mike baron, creator: steve rude, publisher: first comics, title: nexus (8 comments \| Leave a comment)
August 9th, 2009
11:17 pm [ashtoreth] [Link]	A Drinking Man's Tour of the Galaxy: Part I The comic book 'Nexus' was a space opera. The main protagonist, Nexus, dressed like a superhero, had powers like a superhero--but wasn't a superhero. Compelled by psychic dreams from the scifi future distant planet on which he lived, he was a murderous fiend to governments whose mass murdering heads of state he routinely assassinated, he was a hero to oppressed masses, many of whom followed him to his home for protection. Judah Maccabee, an apelike alien quasi-bounty hunter who patterned his life after Nexus was one of his few trusted friends. Not having powers naturally, Judah has a sword that channels the power of a group of psychics that back him. 'Badger' was a comic book about a former Special Forces Vietnam veteran with multiple personality disorder and a few manias who ran around modern day Wisconsin dressed in a costume beating up rude people because he believed he had a mission from god. And god was a badger. This is their teamup story, and one of the all-time greats. (Approx 4 pages from Nexus 5, 4 from Nexus 6) ( Read more... ) Tags: char: badger/norbert sykes, char: nexus/horatio hellpop, creator: mike baron, creator: steve rude, publisher: first comics, title: nexus (23 comments \| Leave a comment)
July 22nd, 2009
10:26 pm [richardak] [Link]	Unsurprisingly, it ends badly between Ursula and Sundra. ( Sunny goes all mama-bear behind the cut.... ) Tags: creator: mike baron, creator: steve rude, publisher: rude dude studios (8 comments \| Leave a comment)
June 9th, 2009
03:32 am [richardak] [Link]	One Perfect Moment: Nexus ( More insanity behind the cut.... ) Tags: char: nexus/horatio hellpop, char: sundra peale, char: the merk/drizripool, creator: mike baron, creator: steve rude, publisher: dark horse, publisher: first comics, series: one perfect moment week, title: nexus (18 comments \| Leave a comment)
April 4th, 2009
10:18 pm [ashez2ashes] [Link]	Mr. T and the T-Force Issues #3-5 There are two types of people in the world: people with souls and people who do not like Mr. T. True Fact. ( It's T-Time Below the Cut! ) Tags: char: mr. t, creator: mike baron, publisher: now comics, title: mr. t and the t-force (19 comments \| Leave a comment)