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date posted: Jan 31, 2006 6:50 PM | updated: Jan 31, 2006 6:55 PM

Star Wars Rookies: Coming Next Week

I've just completed inking the "splash" art for Rookies, the color cover that will appear on the Webstrip index page. The strip isn't due out until next week. The art for the splash has yet to be approved, but the first ten strips have been approved. As of today, I've got three weeks completed. That means I'm two weeks behind where I wanted to be, but who could have predicted January would have been filled with the one-two punch of strep throat and diverticulitis. Yeah, I know, too much information, but after having all of fandom read about a kidney infection I had two and a half years ago, so much for privacy.

But, enough excuses. This thing is gonna happen, one way or another. Here are some answers to a few questions asked regarding the strip.

- It is set during the original trilogy.
- It's not really an adaptation, but at the same time, it's not 100 percent an original story
- If popular, it may be a continuing series; consider this first story arc a "pilot."
- There's at least one Squib in it, with the potential for more.
- It digs up a lot of old EU that no one feels like touching these days.

- It is free of Killiks.
- In a risky move, there are no lightsabers in this story!

I hope you like it when it debuts, and if there's interest, I may use my blog as a springboard for discussion about the strip.

ph

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	Arf Maul We'll Blow Your Planet Up!
date Posted: Jan 31, 2006 7:14 PM Ooh... sounds good, can't wait to see it!

	Son of a Bith The Cantina Corner
date Posted: Jan 31, 2006 7:31 PM It digs up a lot of EU that no one feels like touching these days. Please, not more Holiday Special canonizing... please...please no... anything to stop the pain....AAAAAAAAAhhhhh...

	NerfHerdersAnonymous Life, the Star Wars Universe and Everything
date Posted: Jan 31, 2006 8:28 PM Whoa! Diverticulitis...ugh. My friend is having ongoing issues with that too and a heart scare! Hope you feel better and aren't in too much pain. I look forward to them for sure! Good to see you back. Leah

	SilverForce Delusions of Grandeur
date Posted: Jan 31, 2006 8:44 PM - In a risky move, there are no lightsabers in this story! Star Wars is more than lightsabers. I don't believe they are required in every story....and they certainly aren't needed in Empire-era stories (if only Galaxies could have understood that)...you can have good Star Wars without them and many of the main heroes never use them anyway.

	Joe Corroney Drawing in the Empire
date Posted: Jan 31, 2006 9:01 PM Sounds great, can't wait to see what you're cooking up for your new strip!

janlomona
Smugglers Rants

date Posted: Jan 31, 2006 10:52 PM

SilverForce, I totally agree. I try to steer clear of Lightsabers in stories wherever I can because Jedi characters, or anyone with a sabre, just becomes too powerful, they take the story away from the 'normal humans' on the ground.
Perhaps that's why the original trilogy was better regarded than the Prequels. In the newer flicks, practically everyone you had to root for was a Jedi. In the originals you had a smuggler, his sidekick, a gambler and scoundrel and a Princess to follow - and no Lightsabres or Force powers in sight (apart from Ben, Yoda, Darth, Palps and Luke)
Keep 'em out Pabs, your story will be all the better for it.
(BTW, yeah, I know, my site is called Lightsabre...)

	RojoTrooper Star Wars Recycled Art Project
date Posted: Feb 01, 2006 6:30 AM It is free of Killiks Bugs, I hate Bugs... Han Solo.. Is it a Solo project? I could really use some Fett or Falcon action.. I can't wait to check it out.. ..Thanks, CE

	Rive Caedo Rive's Uncharted Settlements
date Posted: Feb 01, 2006 10:38 AM No lightsabers... Original Trilogy... Rookies... The emphasis on the word "Pilot" perhaps non-coincidental? A story of the Rebels replacing the pilots lost at the Battle of Yavin?

	Jedi Comedian Blog Cheese
date Posted: Feb 01, 2006 11:31 AM ...or possibly connected to the video game Rebel Assault, which starred a Rebel pilot named Rookie One (implying a squadron). I'd consider that EU nobody really wants to touch nowadays.

	bonniegrrl Droids Just Wanna Have Fun
date Posted: Feb 01, 2006 4:38 PM I may not like Killiks, but I respect onions.

	JediPug1 Like My Father Before Me
date Posted: Feb 01, 2006 8:59 PM Looking forward to the new strip. Sounds cool!

	CooperTFN Scotch Tape and Popsicle Sticks
date Posted: Feb 02, 2006 1:45 AM It's so Rookie One.

	Arf Maul We'll Blow Your Planet Up!
date Posted: Feb 02, 2006 3:30 AM It's so Rookie One. Oooh I think CooperTFN's on a winner there. I never thought of that, but yeah it seems quite obvious now We'll finally get to know his actual name!

	Rogue_Follower What Ever Happened to Grambo the Worrt?
date Posted: Feb 02, 2006 8:20 AM >>>It digs up a lot of old EU that no one feels like touching these days.<<< Glove of Darth Vader? Jabba the Hut? Jaxxon?

	Rainbow Droideka Aren't you a little short for an egg?
date Posted: Feb 02, 2006 7:25 PM Looking forward to it Pablo! The end of Ghent's "Recruitment" kind of took me by surprise - glad to hear another original strip is on the way!

	Pabawan Fragments from the Mind's Eye
date Posted: Feb 02, 2006 10:44 PM Well, the splash art's been approved, so you'll get to see it tomorrow. Nothing like cutting it close! ph

	Sompeetalay Sompeetalay's Source Blog
date Posted: Feb 03, 2006 4:35 AM - It digs up a lot of old EU that no one feels like touching these days. - It is free of Killiks. - In a risky move, there are no lightsabers in this story! < Sounds excellent. I'm looking forward to it.

Nar Cranor
Holochronicles: Continuity Hugs for Everyone!

date Posted: Feb 03, 2006 11:42 AM

Yeah I still think it is a rebel assault canon-izing as well. I suggested that back in the other blog he posted about this in his comments. Rookies and pilot quoted, no lightsabers, sketchy EU, it just screams rebel assault to me. I just hope it doesn't tread all over my star wars fan comic which also deals with rebel assault canon at http://www.fandom.swnsu.com :T Otherwise I might have to start making some plot changes.

	Hedec Ga War Journal of Hedec Ga
date Posted: Feb 06, 2006 2:18 PM It digs up a lot of old EU that no one feels like touching these days. Well, I'm hooked. Can't wait to see it!

	The Broox I Have Ideas In My Head
date Posted: Feb 07, 2006 3:15 PM First strip and already old EU, well played!

	Nar Cranor Holochronicles: Continuity Hugs for Everyone!
date Posted: Feb 08, 2006 1:57 PM Nice to see Skorr in the mix there. Fitting, since they recently did a webstrip that had Skorr in it from the archie goodwin days, I think it was. Curious where this one is headed.

	Bailey1988 Memoirs of a Mandalorian
date Posted: Feb 09, 2006 4:50 AM It digs up a lot of old EU that no one feels like touching these days. I'm sure I won't get many references, but i'll still enjoy it!

	Rogue_Follower What Ever Happened to Grambo the Worrt?
date Posted: Feb 09, 2006 3:14 PM It digs up a lot of old EU that no one feels like touching these days. Star Wars clothing references? AFAIK, this is one of the first sources to reference a SW t-shirt into continuity. (Check out the Stormie and Cross-bones poster in Rookies 1...)

	Rainbow Droideka Aren't you a little short for an egg?
date Posted: Feb 10, 2006 12:54 AM Looks cool.... Is this an already existing story? The narration sounds like it could be from an RPG scenario or something....

	O.J.
date Posted: Feb 14, 2006 6:15 PM It digs up a lot of old EU that no one feels like touching these days. Pablo, please say Jaxxon.

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