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Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in the "Daily Scans" journal:

November 14th, 2009
01:21 am [zechs27] [Link]	Purge: Seconds To Die Four Scans of the sequel to Purge. ( Read more... ) Tags: char: darth vader/anakin skywalker, creator: jim hall, creator: john ostrander, publisher: dark horse, title: star wars (19 comments \| Leave a comment)
November 7th, 2009
11:04 am [arbre_rieur] [Link]	Buffy #30 ( Read more... ) Tags: char: buffy summers, creator: jane espenson, creator: joss whedon, publisher: dark horse, title: buffy the vampire slayer (40 comments \| Leave a comment)
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)
October 8th, 2009
04:21 pm [zechs27] [Link]	Vader Week: Dark Lord's Conscience ( Aka that Star Wars story written by some guy named Alan Moore. ) Tags: char: darth vader/anakin skywalker, creator: alan moore, publisher: dark horse, title: star wars (17 comments \| Leave a comment)
October 7th, 2009
01:42 pm [zechs27] [Link]	Vader Week: Enemy of the Empire Dial Uppers Beware!! ( Darth Vader vs Boba Fett ) Tags: char: boba fett, char: darth sidious/emperor palpatine, char: darth vader/anakin skywalker, creator: ian gibson, creator: john wagner, publisher: dark horse, title: star wars (9 comments \| Leave a comment)
October 6th, 2009
06:03 pm [cmdr_zoom] [Link]	Vader Week: Thank the Maker Originally published in issue 6 of Star Wars Tales. ( What shall it profit a man... ) Tags: char: darth vader/anakin skywalker, publisher: dark horse, title: star wars (38 comments \| Leave a comment)
October 4th, 2009
09:21 pm [thanekos] [Link]	The comic version of Retro Game Challenge... and some Star Wars! so, Wil Overton's this british art dude who's currently working for Rare and's done cover art for mags like NGamer. (which I've seen at my local Barnes&Noble, oddly enough... or am I thinking of Retro Gamer?) and a recent project of his? Smart Bomb, which is your average comic anthology mag; the twist is that all of it's presented in the meta-wrapping of being a games mag. Makes sense when you read it. ( Meaning we get stuff like fake boss strategies for fake games, presented in fake fold-out poster form... yeaaaaaah... ) Current Music: A Song For Sorry Angel- Franz Ferdinand Tags: creator: davide fabbri, creator: ryan stevenson, creator: welles hartley, publisher: dark horse, title: star wars (3 comments \| Leave a comment)
October 3rd, 2009
11:03 pm [zechs27] [Link]	Vader Week: Star Wars Tales #1-2: Extinction Another fine Darth Vader tale done by Ron Marz this time with art done by Claudio Castellini. For fans of his Maul vs Vader piece you might want to take a peak at this. DIAL UPPERS BEWARE! ( Get ready for another epic fight. ) Tags: char: darth sidious/emperor palpatine, char: darth vader/anakin skywalker, char: mara jade, creator: claudio castellini, creator: ron marz, publisher: dark horse, title: star wars (64 comments \| Leave a comment)
09:47 pm [quietprofanity] [Link]	Make way for The Fat Fury! Hello! First-time poster, some-time-previous lurker. I realized this community had a distinct lack of Herbie Popnecker, the most powerful being in the universe and favorite super-hero of Alan Moore. Allow me to rectify the situation. Herbie is ... well, in the broadest sense a comedy/horror/superhero/supernatural/sci-fi book and in a more specific sense of one the weirdest things I've ever read. It was written/drawn in the late 1950s/early 1960s and so it has some occasional racism (none of which is in the following scans) and we can debate how fat-positive/fat-negative the character is, but aside from that it's just crazy fun about a chubby young kid, deemed a "fat little nothing" by his father, who gets his power from his magical lollipops. Today I've posted an early story, "Herbie and the Spirits" from Forbidden Worlds #94 (four out of twelve pages posted, mods!). Not all of the Herbie character has been nailed down yet. (He talks more like Rorschach from Watchmen in the later stories.) But it's a good introduction to the character. ( It's not so much a plot as it's a stream of consciousness ... something. ) Current Mood: amused Tags: char: herbie popnecker/the fat fury, creator: ogden whitney, creator: richard e. hughes, publisher: acg, publisher: dark horse, title: forbidden worlds (19 comments \| Leave a comment)
October 2nd, 2009
08:13 pm [zechs27] [Link]	Vader's Quest Part II ( Read more... ) Tags: char: darth sidious/emperor palpatine, char: darth vader/anakin skywalker, char: luke skywalker, creator: darko macan, creator: dave gibbons, publisher: dark horse, title: star wars (20 comments \| Leave a comment)
September 30th, 2009
12:11 pm [zechs27] [Link]	Vader's Quest Part I A fun post A New Hope tale involving a drunken Rebel Pilot, freaky alien body doubles, an alien Owl-Man, the Star Wars version of "You Bet Your Life", and of course Lord Vader himself. ( And it all starts with one simple word. ) Tags: char: darth sidious/emperor palpatine, char: darth vader/anakin skywalker, creator: darko macan, creator: dave gibbons, publisher: dark horse, title: star wars (24 comments \| Leave a comment)
September 28th, 2009
07:01 pm [superfan1] [Link]	Tag and Bink ( By Request ) Tags: char: darth sidious/emperor palpatine, char: darth vader/anakin skywalker, publisher: dark horse, title: star wars, title: tag and bink (25 comments \| Leave a comment)
02:13 pm [zechs27] [Link]	Duel of the Sith: Vader vs Maul ( Go ahead click it. It is unavoidable. It is your destiny. ) Tags: char: darth maul, char: darth sidious/emperor palpatine, char: darth vader/anakin skywalker, creator: rick leonardi, creator: ron marz, publisher: dark horse, title: star wars (56 comments \| Leave a comment)
07:55 am [joysweeper] [Link]	Young Wedge Antilles I really like Wedge Antilles. This is a bit from "The Phantom Affair", an arc of the X-Wing Series comics known for really good art, which has a flashback to when his parents were killed. Sorry, I'd write something witty and catchy, but nothing's coming to mind. ( Read more... ) So yeah, that's a bit from "The Phantom Affair" that I posted on old s_d. Thinking about more x-wing posts. This series has its ups and downs, but I like it. Tags: char: wedge antilles, group: rogue squadron, publisher: dark horse, title: star wars (24 comments \| Leave a comment)

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