Dark Empire

[TighFighter]

Aren’t there actually two where Leia and Han get hitched with some retcon to explain it?

Seriously, though, I managed to snag the Dark Empire I TPB from a used store a while back and it’d been sitting on the shelf waiting for me to catch up with KOTR, Legacy, and Dark Times. Now that I’m all caught up, I picked it up last week and gave it a read.

It’s fun, and obviously a great story. There’s something really special about any comics (or other EU material) that touches the time right around the original movies (New Hope through ROTJ). Seeing those characters come to life again – priceless.

It’s definitely more “old comic” style than the newer material. The art is from a previous era, and the story moves much faster than the newer material. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, either. I’m definitely going to snag the second paperback at the comic shop today and check it out.

re: Thrawn Trilogy, I managed to find the second and third books at the used shop, but I’m still hunting for Heir to the Empire. I recently read one of the Legacy of the Force series (Exile) and am now looking for the rest of that series as well. Fun stuff.

You’re thinking about Tatoonie’s Ghost. It’s a Han Leia tale that takes place right after courtship.

The thing that’s cool about the Expanded Universe is that when Heir and Dark Empire began to revive the publishing side of SW Lucas mandated that every has to fit and connect without contradicting whatever comes down the pipe. The only exception being the movies.

One cool EU fact, the name Corouscant came from what Timothy Zauhn named it in his first series.

I was thinking… It might be a good idea for you to change the board name to Star Wars Expanded Universe. The comics are only a small part of the EU and I’ve noticed how the conversation,in this thread and the others, have turned towards the novels and games.

I wish I could go to the comic shop more often. I used to be all about the X-men and other Marvel books and on top of that Star Wars. Ever since college and beyond, though, I just can’t keep up with the cost of comics today. I still pick a book up here and there, but mainly I try to keep up with SW.

[TighFighter]

I am into ANY time in the Starwars universe. I just love everything about it. Even the second trilogy, which alot of the older peeps don’t like. But I love it!
I just got a whole bunch of audio books from my pal. There are like 15/20 books from the old republic, and about 12/15 books during the New Republic and like 10 books about the New Jedi Order.

I might have to go back for the “Courtship”

Work is gonna be just great

The Eu eras go like this…

Old Republic- 5,000 years b4 ANH, KOTOR etc.
Rise of the Empire- Everything between Ep.1-Ep.4
Original Trilogy- Events between Ep.4-Ep.6
New Republic- Events after Ep.6-NJO
New Jedi Order- 19 book series that is one long story.
Legacy of the Jedi- Book series that follows NJO and Legacy comic that takes place 100 years after ROTJ

Chuck I noticed you mention that you read one the Legacy books. You might want to at least go back and read the NJO series first. Otherwise you might be lost on some things. Everything else B4 that in the New Republic era just adds flavor to the NJO background.

[Chuck]

While I’m relatively new to the novels, I’ve read quite a few of the comics from most eras, and I fill in a lot from Wookieepedia as necessary. The overlap is interesting, though!

[BSG_AdiKT]

While I’m relatively new to the novels, I’ve read quite a few of the comics from most eras, and I fill in a lot from Wookieepedia as necessary. The overlap is interesting, though!

Just do what you gotta do to get the stuff in audio format and listen to when u can, ipod, mp3, whateva, its good stuff, if ya need links to torrent connections lemmie know