Speaker 1: The Force will be with you always. Hello and welcome
Speaker 1: back to another episode of Star Wars Alliance. Of course,
Speaker 1: I'm your host, play and with me like every single week.
Speaker 1: Of course. Is Katie, Katie? How are you doing today?
Speaker 2: You know? I had my toddler home today because my
Speaker 2: sister's kids are sick, So I have whiskey.
Speaker 1: That about Jai? How I am? I'm doing well. We
Speaker 1: went to go see a friend that we haven't seen
Speaker 1: in about a year.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And the only reason why I know that is because
Speaker 1: the last time we saw her, she gave birth to
Speaker 1: her first child. Uh. And that I jinxed.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: I jinxed it. When we were here last She's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm doing like three weeks. I was like, wouldn't it
Speaker 1: be funny that? Oh no, he did you you if
Speaker 1: you gave birth before we left?
Speaker 2: No, it would not.
Speaker 1: I I just happened to say. I was like, wouldn't
Speaker 1: it be funny that before we left to go back
Speaker 1: to Indiana we actually got to see the baby? And
Speaker 1: they're like, haha, very funny. And then that night, Uh,
Speaker 1: she sent Abby texts and she was like I hate
Speaker 1: Clay and so uh Eugene was born. Uh and we
Speaker 1: got to see him for the second time. That was
Speaker 1: fun today. But yeah, as uh, if you're not here
Speaker 1: live with us here on YouTube, you did hear him.
Speaker 1: Just be just a second. Adrian is with us for
Speaker 1: the first time in a while, in a long while.
Speaker 1: We we I know that you have gone on such
Speaker 1: a journey through some stuff recently, and I will say, like,
Speaker 1: it is really excited to see the stuff that you've
Speaker 1: been doing recently. I know that you The not so
Speaker 1: exciting stuff is, of course the surgery and everything else. Uh,
Speaker 1: but Adrian, how have you been, man? It has been Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's good. It's been a yeah, it's been a while.
Speaker 4: Twenty six for for my wife and I had lots
Speaker 4: of surgeries, lots of in and out of the hospitals.
Speaker 1: I had a hip replacement at thirty two.
Speaker 4: I found out that my Latino dad isn't my Latino dad,
Speaker 4: and I'm actually black, and I have a whole family
Speaker 4: I don't know about, and I don't know, just just
Speaker 4: a bunch of other stuff. But Star Wars has been
Speaker 4: the only constant. So this is like the first week
Speaker 4: where I've You're like, okay, let me get back into it,
Speaker 4: especially after all the CDC announcements, which was like the
Speaker 4: first thing that I'd written or covered in like forever
Speaker 4: for for but why though for for Star Wars stuff.
Speaker 4: So I was like, oh, yeah, I like Star Wars
Speaker 4: books and it's always been my favorite. What am I doing?
Speaker 4: I should be reading more. So picked up a bunch
Speaker 4: of books and just really excited to talk to the
Speaker 4: guys again. It's been so long.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's what we're gonna be covering today. We're
Speaker 1: going to be doing a recap of the Sandyo comic
Speaker 1: gun announcements. One of them I will be able to
Speaker 1: talk about in a little bit more context other than
Speaker 1: just the voice acting. Uh, and that is of course
Speaker 1: the U Zero company. Because Adrian, I know, like, you
Speaker 1: have to be excited about this game, right, Yeah? I
Speaker 1: think honestly, I think we talked about it, I don't know, like.
Speaker 4: Last year, about being excited about a game like this,
Speaker 4: and we're finally getting it. I think it's one of
Speaker 4: the games that I wanted because I reber Amarkle like
Speaker 4: two years ago about like what star games need to happen,
Speaker 4: and they're all happening.
Speaker 1: So I'm uber excited, uber excited.
Speaker 4: I'm actually I'm actually and I might, you know, talk
Speaker 4: to you a little bit about this later, but I
Speaker 4: need to rank all I need to rank the ten
Speaker 4: top Star Wars games, and it's much harder than I
Speaker 4: thought it was going to be, especially with Zero Company.
Speaker 1: Coming out, because it looks amazing. Yeah. No, with with
Speaker 1: the new move and like the new setup and everything,
Speaker 1: I now have I think the capacity to be able
Speaker 1: to start streaming. I a while ago purchased a Humble
Speaker 1: bundle of nothing but Star Wars video games from Yes
Speaker 1: and they have just been dormant on my computer and
Speaker 1: in my Steam library for now almost two and a
Speaker 1: half years. So I'm gonna get started with that with
Speaker 1: Zero Company. I am gonna start streaming with Zero Company
Speaker 1: in August. It was kind of like a weird decision
Speaker 1: of like, hey, I mostly buy all my video games
Speaker 1: VI a PlayStation. With all the controversy over physical and digital,
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know what, I'm gonna go with PC
Speaker 1: on this one, so that way I can play it
Speaker 1: and stream at the same time.
Speaker 2: I've always been a PlayStation person, but with the fact
Speaker 2: that I don't buy that many video games, I'm very
Speaker 2: specific about the ones I buy. As you know Clay, Yeah,
Speaker 2: but like the Pod Racing one, Matt has always been
Speaker 2: an Xbox guy, so it might be that he's by
Speaker 2: like we're buying the Xbox One.
Speaker 1: Come to the dark side. We have game Pass. We
Speaker 1: have game Pass. This right here, I still I still
Speaker 1: have like this box right here under this table beside
Speaker 1: me has my Xbox just sitting there. I know I
Speaker 1: could use it. I know that. Uh, most of my
Speaker 1: other friends have Xbox and play Xbox more than I
Speaker 1: do have friends playing PlayStation. I just need to get
Speaker 1: it out and I need to start playing with everybody.
Speaker 1: But let's let's go ahead and and talk a little
Speaker 1: bit more about this voice cast. The biggest, i think
Speaker 1: one of the bigger announcements of this voice cast when
Speaker 1: it came to Zero Company was the return of both
Speaker 1: Dee Bradley Baker for a new original clone named Trick,
Speaker 1: which is CT thirty three oh one. And of course,
Speaker 1: the biggest boom of the announcement of Zero Companies trailer,
Speaker 1: which is Anakin Skywalker. We have a returning voice actor
Speaker 1: of of course, Matt Lantern being Anakin Skywalker again. So
Speaker 1: that was really really fun to see that we get
Speaker 1: to have the return of them, but we have voice
Speaker 1: actors Jonathan Freeman, Vic Michaeliss, Sorry, Alex McKenna, Leo Howard,
Speaker 1: DC Douglas, Jason Pisak, Rica Charman, Erica Luttrell, JB Blanc,
Speaker 1: Jim Peery, Hunter Smith, Dylan Caneen if I'm saying that correctly,
Speaker 1: Nicole Rentea and Judy Alice Lee all playing a part
Speaker 1: in a very large cast of characters that can be
Speaker 1: on your team in Zero Company. Katie, I will say this,
Speaker 1: I think with your brain you will really enjoy the
Speaker 1: strategic gameplay of Zero Company, but I don't know if
Speaker 1: you have the patience for it. So like question because.
Speaker 2: And like Claig, you and I have had this conversation before.
Speaker 2: I'm big into minimal button presses. I don't want to
Speaker 2: have to press three different buttons to do a jump
Speaker 2: sequence like that. Was my biggest issue with Spider Man
Speaker 2: was it was like, oh, press x ya to like
Speaker 2: jump kick this villain. I never got past the first
Speaker 2: villain Inspider Man. I was not pissed off with how
Speaker 2: the gameplay worked. Is like I had the capability for it,
Speaker 2: but my brain doesn't process that many button clicks.
Speaker 1: With this game. It plays like a board game. A
Speaker 1: lot of these more strategic games you will have, of
Speaker 1: course your team. They'll give you like a Playmatt type
Speaker 1: of scenario. When it comes to your environment. You know
Speaker 1: that your enemy team will be on the opposite side
Speaker 1: and you move them and then depending on your range
Speaker 1: of attacks with each character, it shows you, hey, you
Speaker 1: can you know, hit these characters from this far and whatnot.
Speaker 1: It is a time consuming style of game, so I
Speaker 1: always warn people like, this is not a game that
Speaker 1: I would recommend. Just like off the cuff, you have
Speaker 1: to be a fan of strategic turn based games. And
Speaker 1: this just the trailer within itself at Summer Games Fest
Speaker 1: got me. You're really excited because there's one moment whereas
Speaker 1: there's a montage of your team and it's just cycling
Speaker 1: through all of the different characters that you could possibly
Speaker 1: create for your team. So having what four, eight, twelve,
Speaker 1: sixteen main characters here, I think is going to be
Speaker 1: really really fun. I'm really excited about this. But some
Speaker 1: of the talent here has a history with things like
Speaker 1: Star Wars, Scar, Star Wars Squadrons, Steven Universe, Star Trek, Discovery,
Speaker 1: Battlestar Galactica, you're looking at things like Dropout, Arcane, Marvel Rivals,
Speaker 1: Red Dead, Redemption two, Mayor of Kingstown, Criminal Minds, Marvel,
Speaker 1: Spider Man two, uh, Mass Effect, and Monster Hunter Wild.
Speaker 1: So these people know video games, so really really awesome
Speaker 1: to see this cast of characters uh and and voice
Speaker 1: cast really excited. And on Star Wars dot Com they
Speaker 1: actually have a sample of the Zero Company's score, if
Speaker 1: anybody wants to go check that out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know you said that's like might not be
Speaker 4: a game for Cape. I think because it's Star Wars,
Speaker 4: it might be. And I think that's like the best
Speaker 4: thing about what they're doing now is giving us different
Speaker 4: games in Star Wars, but make it star Wars, you know.
Speaker 4: So I feel like, because you're connected enough, you might
Speaker 4: you might find like a person you really like, and
Speaker 4: then that's your like main and all that good stuff.
Speaker 1: So I have faith. I have faith.
Speaker 2: It's just mainly like the whole video game aspect on
Speaker 2: its own, because like I tried Outlaws with like mostly
Speaker 2: my husband playing it, and we didn't get very far
Speaker 2: in there because I kept getting motion sick. That's thea
Speaker 2: and so things like Skyrim have always made me motion sick.
Speaker 2: With like the camera and stuff. So that's why I think,
Speaker 2: like the pod racing game might be something I can
Speaker 2: get into, just because you tend to face forward and
Speaker 2: that's really the only thing, like, yeah.
Speaker 1: And the camera is always behind you. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So if it shows up on game Pass, Matt
Speaker 2: has game Pass, so we could potentially try it then,
Speaker 2: but I don't I'm not gonna make him purchase anything
Speaker 2: probably other than the pod racing game. Racing games have
Speaker 2: just always been something that I'm down for.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it will be eventually. Everything's on game
Speaker 1: Pass eventually, but I doubt it will be there on launch. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So it says here that Zero Company is not going
Speaker 1: to be on game Pass at launch, but yeah, which
Speaker 1: makes I can see it eventually jumping on there. But yeah,
Speaker 1: really really excited about this. Probably going to be a
Speaker 1: day one purchase for me that comes out in almost
Speaker 1: exactly one month. Its release date I believe is the
Speaker 1: twenty seventh, Yeah, twenty seventh of August, so a little
Speaker 1: less than one month to go. Now some other news,
Speaker 1: let's talk about some of these smaller announcements when it
Speaker 1: comes to books in other media, like that, we have
Speaker 1: the New Hope and other parts of the original trilogy
Speaker 1: novels finally getting a unabridged audiobook.
Speaker 2: This is so exciting for me.
Speaker 1: Now here's my question to you, because Katie, I think
Speaker 1: I already know your answer because we've talked about this
Speaker 1: several times. The next part about this announcement is that
Speaker 1: it's narrated by Mark Thompson. Do they always need Mark Thompson?
Speaker 4: No, Oh, we don't always need Mark Thompson a lot.
Speaker 1: Like there was a little part of me that like,
Speaker 1: after Mark Thompson started to do more of like the
Speaker 1: DC audio books, I was like, does that mean we
Speaker 1: can finally start to see different names on other Star
Speaker 1: Wars titles, And then this announcement came. I was like,
Speaker 1: maybe not.
Speaker 2: Well, but I think at least they're getting him off
Speaker 2: of like newer books. Like I don't think he's voiced
Speaker 2: a new book this year in the audio books because
Speaker 2: the Outlaws prequel was done by the voice actors in
Speaker 2: the game, and then Legacy. I can't remember who's the
Speaker 2: narrator for Legacy. But then January LaVoi is doing Edge
Speaker 2: of Abyss yes, so so I don't think he's done
Speaker 2: a new book this year. So at least there's that
Speaker 2: that there they are getting other people involved.
Speaker 4: I like Mark Thompson, but he just makes all his
Speaker 4: characters sound the same and like all like the thy
Speaker 4: characters sound was saying to me, and I was.
Speaker 1: Gonna say, he has about three different voices. He has
Speaker 1: his like feminine voice, he has his main character voice,
Speaker 1: and then he has his alien voice. And his alien
Speaker 1: voice literally sounds the same for like that one random
Speaker 1: character in each one of the people he does. So
Speaker 1: I would I would like to see more people.
Speaker 4: Give me Jeff Hayes. Give Jeff Hayes an audiobook. Jeff
Speaker 4: hays does the Dungeon Crawler and.
Speaker 1: Range to jump on that bandwagon I saw, man, his
Speaker 1: range is insane. His range is insane, so wild.
Speaker 2: Have I seen the Wonderwall song?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I did see that. I saw that on TikTok.
Speaker 2: Yes voices, So don'nut sings the Wonderwall song, but she
Speaker 2: adapts it for the Dungeon.
Speaker 1: That's hilarious.
Speaker 2: It's absolutely phenomenal.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he spends like most of the book in like
Speaker 4: a feminine voice, and he kills it.
Speaker 1: He rocks it.
Speaker 2: That's why he's going to be the.
Speaker 1: Cat in exactly. I need to jump on the bandwagon
Speaker 1: for that. I feel like everyone that I know has
Speaker 1: already either like caught up to the series or starting
Speaker 1: the series, and I'm just here, like Clay, It's like
Speaker 1: it's a lot.
Speaker 2: Matt, it is a lot, but Clay, Matt doesn't read.
Speaker 2: And Matt finished the first book and is starting the
Speaker 2: second book tonight.
Speaker 4: That's how good alternative if you don't want like a
Speaker 4: like a long series, but same kind of style, same
Speaker 4: same writer.
Speaker 1: Operation Bounce House came out like I just got it.
Speaker 4: I just got It's like eight hours on the audiobooks.
Speaker 4: It's pretty short, right, It's good. I like that one
Speaker 4: a lot.
Speaker 1: Operation They ever.
Speaker 2: Get Jeff Hayes, because doesn't he run his own production company,
Speaker 2: and I don't think they would.
Speaker 1: Go him go.
Speaker 4: I think about how many fans you would bring to
Speaker 4: Star Wars audio if you had Jeff as do an audiobook?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Now, is this an audible exclusive?
Speaker 2: No? I don't think Operation Bounce Houses.
Speaker 1: It's a full book two all right? Well, then in
Speaker 1: that case I am because I have like sixteen freaking
Speaker 1: credits over at yes perfect on libro dot FM. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna look it up right now and grab it. I
Speaker 1: have been like super anti billionaire, anti capitalism, so I'm
Speaker 1: trying to do everything I can to like stay away
Speaker 1: from Audible and Amazon of course, of course, so uh,
Speaker 1: Libro has has been taking my money a whole lot lately.
Speaker 1: So we got that for the original trilogy. I'm actually
Speaker 1: really excited about this because I have not really jumped
Speaker 1: into the novelization of these, uh. But my stepdad, he
Speaker 1: is very big into audio books, and he has wanted
Speaker 1: to read the novelizations, uh, but he has only been
Speaker 1: reading stuff via audio audio. So he's really excited about
Speaker 1: this announcement. Something that completely went over my head, and
Speaker 1: Katie was just like, Clay, that's old news. I don't
Speaker 1: know why you're talking about this. The Vader book one,
Speaker 1: which one.
Speaker 4: Because I felt like there was a few announcements, was like,
Speaker 4: we're giving you Vader in comics, We're giving you Vader
Speaker 4: in books, We're giving you Vader and everything.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that Icons one looks so good. The Icons
Speaker 1: book does look really, really good. But Katie did remind
Speaker 1: me that this was actually announced what like a year
Speaker 1: and a half ago.
Speaker 2: Two years ago, I think almost two years ago.
Speaker 1: And is just now getting like a hard release date.
Speaker 1: So this I think is going to be very fun
Speaker 1: for anybody who does love those coffee table books something
Speaker 1: to just kind of skim through from day to day.
Speaker 1: It looks like a very very fun read. So I'm
Speaker 1: really excited. I think now that I am in the
Speaker 1: space that I am in, I can finally start getting
Speaker 1: those books. Amberlyn is finally old enough to know what
Speaker 1: she can touch and what she cannot touch. So I
Speaker 1: think this one may be on the radar finaling.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all of my books you see behind me if
Speaker 2: you're on YouTube, Guys, all my shelves are currently empty.
Speaker 2: All my books are coming in this weekend from my mother.
Speaker 2: Matt is making a trip tomorrow, and then my mother
Speaker 2: in law is supposed to be coming on Saturday, and
Speaker 2: Matt's going to go back up. I'm excited because, yeah,
Speaker 2: Mara is also like, she grabbed my mom's glasses this
Speaker 2: weekend and I've said, ma, are those yours? And she
Speaker 2: said nope, I dropped it.
Speaker 1: So huzzah. I love that.
Speaker 5: I feel like I can put my coffee table books
Speaker 5: back out.
Speaker 1: With that, we also got some comic book news when
Speaker 1: it comes to Star Wars. Some of these that we
Speaker 1: have already kind of mentioned. We did get a little
Speaker 1: bit more details on them, but we got some more
Speaker 1: inside looks of the Mad Cave and paper Cuts stories
Speaker 1: titles like Star Wars Smugglers and Scoundrels and Tales from
Speaker 1: the Outer Rim. These are both going to be paper
Speaker 1: Cuts Publications. Paper Cuts is an amazing publisher I've had
Speaker 1: the opportunity to work with them before, back when I
Speaker 1: was working with Comic Book Distribution. Great great company. I
Speaker 1: think Star Wars is in great hands when it comes
Speaker 1: to this. They are very family friendly, very poppy, very
Speaker 1: kid oriented for sure, but very fun nonetheless, So I
Speaker 1: really like the Jackson's coming back.
Speaker 4: Kevin Scott is an absolute genius of all mediums and
Speaker 4: genres when it comes to comics, so I'm very excited.
Speaker 1: I think, what is Greg Pack doing the other one?
Speaker 4: I think Greg Pak is doing the Scott the Outer
Speaker 4: Rim one, and then yeah, the Jackson one is obvious
Speaker 4: gonna be Kevin Scott.
Speaker 1: So very exciting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, super excited for this. I did find it interesting
Speaker 2: that dark Horse has not had any other announcements. I
Speaker 2: believe the Mace Window comic is still set for October,
Speaker 2: but then they literally have no other announcements currently, So
Speaker 2: is the license just going to paper Cuts and dark
Speaker 2: Horse is relinquishing it like I DW did.
Speaker 1: I can only assume. Yes, I have not heard anything
Speaker 1: on like my side of the comic book world, but
Speaker 1: I like because of how quiet they have been, if
Speaker 1: there was anything coming from dark Horse and Star Wars
Speaker 1: Sandio Comic Con would have been it. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think the only thing that they announced was that
Speaker 4: they're doing like the the hardcover of the Galactic Tales
Speaker 4: of Terror that covers the Nightmnger.
Speaker 1: Oh so good. Other than that, I don't think I
Speaker 1: saw anything else. Yeah, and even that that was gonna
Speaker 1: be the very next thing that I bring up. Gorgeous cover,
Speaker 1: by the way, this like beautiful like teal cover. I
Speaker 1: can't remember the the artist for this one. This one
Speaker 1: is uh, they do all of the the Tales of books.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, who is this freaking artist? But I
Speaker 1: can I can actually share it on my screen right now.
Speaker 4: Beautiful, beautiful cover. Yeah truly, h Francesco. Yeah, this is great.
Speaker 4: It's so good.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know if you guys have had
Speaker 1: a chance to read this story yet, were it?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Man, it's so good. It's so good.
Speaker 4: It's such great storytelling across the three generations of Star
Speaker 4: Wars with like the same story. Oh man, it's good.
Speaker 4: Oh man, it's good. I want to I want to
Speaker 4: talk about it. Whenever you talk about I'm coming back,
Speaker 4: there's a last scene specifically that I'm like, that's that's her.
Speaker 4: That's why you would have wanted her, not Luke. That's
Speaker 4: why you would have wanted her, not Luke, because she's
Speaker 4: not scared to shoot a ghost.
Speaker 1: You know. I'm with it. I'm with it. And then
Speaker 1: another story that we actually have not read yet and
Speaker 1: we're waiting until the actual completed volume. That's something that
Speaker 1: we've decided that we're going to do just because, uh,
Speaker 1: getting the week two week stuff is a little bit
Speaker 1: harder for us with family and stuff. But the fourth
Speaker 1: issue of the High Republican Adventures pathfind He is coming
Speaker 1: out very very soon, it says here. The series follows
Speaker 1: a team of republic Pathfinders to dispatch to a distant
Speaker 1: corner of the galaxy to investigate the death of a
Speaker 1: Jedi master. We've been very, you know, still very very
Speaker 1: excited about the continuation of the High Republic. This Pathfinders
Speaker 1: is currently the only thing that is within that timeline.
Speaker 1: We have had some glimpses in teases of or not
Speaker 1: teases slash cameos of stuff that is in recent books
Speaker 1: referencing High Republic, but nothing super solidified like the stories
Speaker 1: that we have gotten in the Initiative of the High Republic.
Speaker 1: And that's kind of what we're still waiting for.
Speaker 2: And s Glenn says there is more Higher Republic stuff coming.
Speaker 2: That was one of the things he said that I
Speaker 2: don't remember which panel, but he didn't say it this weekend,
Speaker 2: so at least now.
Speaker 1: But that's a question for both of you guys. I
Speaker 1: know that all of us enjoyed High Republic stuff. Do
Speaker 1: you think that they continue to do these small stories
Speaker 1: or do you think they go out of their way
Speaker 1: to do another initiative.
Speaker 2: I don't think there's going to be another initiative in
Speaker 2: the Higher Republic. I think it's going to be add on.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't think they need another initiative for it.
Speaker 4: Established the universe, established the law, and just give us
Speaker 4: comics the way that you're giving us comics and stories
Speaker 4: for everything else, and it should be fine, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, I think so. With the way that they
Speaker 1: have been releasing books recently, especially with things like is
Speaker 1: Like Stars, I do think dabbling in that going genre
Speaker 1: based and then choosing which parts of the timeline to
Speaker 1: really throw that story into, I think that would be
Speaker 1: really best for the Higher Republic, to be completely honest,
Speaker 1: I think that would be amazing. Yeah, But the only
Speaker 1: other comic news is actually not Star Wars related, but
Speaker 1: it is lucasfilm related. If anybody is interested, Indiana Jones
Speaker 1: is getting a I don't know if this is a
Speaker 1: one shot or a.
Speaker 2: Five issue limited series.
Speaker 1: Ah Okay, a five issue limited series is called Indiana
Speaker 1: Jones and the Sword of Pandemonium. So if anybody was
Speaker 1: asking for some more Indiana Jones stories, we now have it,
Speaker 1: which is really interesting of like you see the success
Speaker 1: of like somebody like Mad Cave with things like speed
Speaker 1: Racer with uh uh oh, what's some of the other
Speaker 1: random titles that they have Flash Gordon uh some of
Speaker 1: that older classic stories uh And it feels like I'm
Speaker 1: about to date myself with what I'm referencing with that
Speaker 1: to Indiana Jones. But like, I'm surprised Indiana Jones didn't
Speaker 1: already have an ongoing series over at Marvel to be
Speaker 1: completely honest, but you know, maybe this is one thing
Speaker 1: to kind of test the waters, to see if that
Speaker 1: can be something of uh in their in their in
Speaker 1: their little sandbox playground before we move on to the
Speaker 1: bigger book announcement. I did send Katie a screenshot of
Speaker 1: this today. Uh. It says here that there is a
Speaker 1: comic book series. Is this the comic book series? I
Speaker 1: can't Uh, yes, it is coming from a paper as well.
Speaker 1: X Wing Academy is a series ongoing which is an
Speaker 1: ongoing paper cut series will feature a Hogwarts like style
Speaker 1: pilot's school set before the Force awakens. This comic is
Speaker 1: set to launch in twenty twenty seven. This is interesting legend.
Speaker 2: His piloting Academy is what we're looking at here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we could also probably see oh my gosh, Disney
Speaker 1: not Disney plus, what was the Resistance Resistance Star Wars. Yeah,
Speaker 1: characters from there were from the you know the quote unquote. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so we could start We could probably see some of them.
Speaker 2: It depends on when it actually is. If it's like
Speaker 2: directly before the Force awakens, the yes, I could see.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but if it's like five years before I don't know.
Speaker 1: It would be it would be interesting. I love the idea.
Speaker 1: The well Hogwarts style kind of gives me a little pause.
Speaker 1: I don't know, because again when it comes to uh,
Speaker 1: x Wing and all of the like Rogue Squadron, all
Speaker 1: of the flight type of stories in Star Wars, I
Speaker 1: am not the uh, the professional of that. Katie would be.
Speaker 1: Katie is the one that has read all of those
Speaker 1: stories and books.
Speaker 2: There's been no there's nothing similar in legends. I would
Speaker 2: say there really was no like a cat me. It
Speaker 2: was just kind of like, okay, you have like something.
Speaker 1: You can fly, Yeah, you can fly, blow up the
Speaker 1: dust star Yeah.
Speaker 2: Basically, and like the the x Wing books from Michael
Speaker 2: Stackpole and Aaron Austin, those were all like if they
Speaker 2: pulled in new pilots. It really was Okay, you've flown
Speaker 2: with a different squadron and you've proven yourself for Wraith
Speaker 2: or Rogue, like welcome to the team. Basically, so there's
Speaker 2: nothing similar. Okay, we know and aftermath like and uh
Speaker 2: the Poe Damn Room novel that Wedge kind of leads
Speaker 2: a training academy, which is why I was saying Wedge.
Speaker 2: But we also know in Resistance reborn, that Wedge had
Speaker 2: kind of retired from that life and was really living
Speaker 2: like true farm boy esque vibes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's why.
Speaker 2: I'm like, if it depends on where it's actually at,
Speaker 2: like saying it's before Force awakends, I mean there's thirty
Speaker 2: years right there, basically, so.
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting.
Speaker 4: I'm more excited for the Star pilots that they announced,
Speaker 4: the one like where Wedge like gives the accounts of
Speaker 4: the perspective of like accounts the Galactic Civil Wars, and
Speaker 4: like all the pilots, I'm that one than a hot
Speaker 4: Wart style thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm so intrigued by the Star pilots because of
Speaker 2: how attached I am to Wedge. Yeah, but I'm also
Speaker 2: I've struggled with like the Skywalker biography and the War
Speaker 2: one that Kim Schall did, simply because I have always
Speaker 2: struggled with non fiction reading, and so even though it's
Speaker 2: technically it's written as non fiction, Yeah, and I struggle
Speaker 2: with that, but I'm still getting it because I want
Speaker 2: to try again.
Speaker 4: We gotta get we gotta get people hyped up for
Speaker 4: the Starfighter movie. So everything, everything pilots, everything pilots pilots
Speaker 4: are so cool.
Speaker 2: Now, yeah, that is true.
Speaker 1: That is I never really put two and two together,
Speaker 1: to be completely honest, like like I understand because like
Speaker 1: as of right now, the only tidbits that we've gotten
Speaker 1: from Starfighter is not that Ryan Gosling is like this
Speaker 1: amazing pilot is just a scoundrel esque character. That's it,
Speaker 1: like we we but of course the name Starfighter. I
Speaker 1: should have been like, oh, you know, that makes sense,
Speaker 1: but speaking of Star Pilot completely forgot that does come
Speaker 1: out in October of this year, October sixth, for anybody
Speaker 1: who wanted that date. So now I think is I
Speaker 1: think the biggest news, the biggest teas that we got
Speaker 1: beforehand was just a random title called Star Wars twin Crossroads,
Speaker 1: no cover reveal, just randomly on the I think Penguin
Speaker 1: Random House website literally a day before or two days
Speaker 1: before this announcement, and me and Katie were like, Okay,
Speaker 1: should we take the word twin literally? Should we not
Speaker 1: take it literally? About Luke and LEYA Is this just
Speaker 1: like literally crossroads and they're talking about two different types
Speaker 1: of crossroads? What's going on? We get the reveal, It
Speaker 1: answers all of our questions, Luke and lea story now, Adrian,
Speaker 1: I need and know what was your immediate thoughts about
Speaker 1: this announcement.
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like the thing I've wanted forever. I'm a
Speaker 4: I'm a Leyah proponent. It should have been her to
Speaker 4: begin with. It should have always been Les. She was
Speaker 4: always the better twin. But she just she's a better
Speaker 4: She has she has more to do. She just has
Speaker 4: more to do. And I think when I was and
Speaker 4: I love beth ree Beth beth Reeve. Yeah, she's great,
Speaker 4: she's great, and we get to find out I think
Speaker 4: she's like an interview with Star Wars dot Com and
Speaker 4: she's like I got to pick or I got to
Speaker 4: do Uh I got to write? Yeah, Like I'm so
Speaker 4: I don't care for anything else other than that the
Speaker 4: whole book can be.
Speaker 1: The whole book can be just forgetting her hyper Crystal.
Speaker 4: And I'm hyped for it because I'm just so interested
Speaker 4: to see her view of the force because we see
Speaker 4: it like a little bit right in other stories of
Speaker 4: like how she feels the force, how she feels that connection.
Speaker 4: But I felt this would be the first time that
Speaker 4: we actually really get to, like like in the High
Speaker 4: Republic where we're really knowing how they see the force
Speaker 4: is what I'm hoping to get to that and I'm
Speaker 4: sure Luke will be there doing stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So yeah, this is super exciting to me because Grievous
Speaker 2: talks about it in the interview, but it's literally a
Speaker 2: direct sequel to Princess in the Scoundrel. Yeah, basically, like
Speaker 2: it picks up right before that. It takes place before
Speaker 2: Battle of jack Cous So I'm also imagine we're going
Speaker 2: to find out that Leah figures out she's pregnant in
Speaker 2: the midst of all this too. So like, I'm super
Speaker 2: excited for this. I am interested to see how they
Speaker 2: fit this in the timeline because I just feel like
Speaker 2: they've packed that year right there.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I think it's fine because like Luke learns
Speaker 4: to be a Jedi in like a year and it's fine. Yeah,
Speaker 4: But I don't think that the timeline will matter as
Speaker 4: much to me as like the story that they decide
Speaker 4: to tell, Like what new what new things are we
Speaker 4: going to get for Luke because we got to get
Speaker 4: new things for Luke.
Speaker 1: I just won't want him to be like the same.
Speaker 4: I want him to go through stuff and like think
Speaker 4: about the things that he's doing, and I want to
Speaker 4: see his you know, when he's maybe talking to Leah
Speaker 4: about starting the Academy and like doing all this stuff.
Speaker 4: Like that's the stuff that I'm really excited for, like
Speaker 4: the brother sister bonding, just them, because we don't get
Speaker 4: a whole lot of that really anywhere, you know, So
Speaker 4: I'm super super excited for it. More excited than like
Speaker 4: the Legacy, but not that I didn't like Legacy, but
Speaker 4: like it are parts of legacies. I started it, haven't
Speaker 4: finished it, but this just this is it, Like this
Speaker 4: is this is the twin duo that we've been you know,
Speaker 4: the original, not that their Diet on the Force, but
Speaker 4: like the original like Disruptors in the Force. And I
Speaker 4: can't wait to see how Leah sees it. So then
Speaker 4: people can like go, w, what did you do that?
Speaker 1: Because she's badass.
Speaker 4: She was always doing this stuff, even back in the
Speaker 4: Princess and Leah Princess of Baldron when she's like saving
Speaker 4: herself going up the hill, like come on, man, it's
Speaker 4: been there, so now we finally get to see it.
Speaker 4: And I think they gave a really good author the
Speaker 4: Rains for it too super exciting.
Speaker 1: I am really really excited about all of this. We
Speaker 1: really enjoyed Princess and the Scoundrel. I think that one
Speaker 1: of the best parts of that story is literally like
Speaker 1: half a chapter of a conversation between Luke and Leah
Speaker 1: Yes about their father and how disgusted she still is
Speaker 1: and she has this like icky feeling. It sounds like
Speaker 1: they're going to really get into that because not only
Speaker 1: is this going to be a story of how she
Speaker 1: gets her Kyper Crystal, not just about her training, but
Speaker 1: it does sound like in from this quote here, it
Speaker 1: says the siblings must confront the legacy of their birth
Speaker 1: parents Anagain Skywalker and Patime Amidala Yes, and their own
Speaker 1: diverging futures of the Force. I think this is going
Speaker 1: to be really really interesting because we know from the
Speaker 1: Rise of Skywalker that Leah eventually has this Force vision
Speaker 1: that shows her that she can no longer go down
Speaker 1: this path. It kind of teases that in that one
Speaker 1: sentence here is saying and their own diverging futures of
Speaker 1: the Force. So I think there's going to be a
Speaker 1: lot of siblings butting heads in this book, which I
Speaker 1: think is good. I think that, you know, seeing the
Speaker 1: difference of them. And I won't go into too much
Speaker 1: because I know that you just said, Adrian that you
Speaker 1: did not finish legacy. Yet we come to learn that
Speaker 1: there was because small little quote of like Leah is
Speaker 1: saying like, hey, Luke does this this way, I do
Speaker 1: it this way. We know they are of two get
Speaker 1: a different minds, and seeing those two different minds kind
Speaker 1: of working together in these situations. In this situation in particular,
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be really really fun. I am
Speaker 1: super excited about this, Like the the idea of getting
Speaker 1: to know how she gets her Kyper crystal, what kind
Speaker 1: of like fighting style, Like that's the one thing that
Speaker 1: I have always wanted ever since I was a kid. Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember seeing like fan art of Leah in like
Speaker 1: a badass robe with a double bladed yellow lightsaber, and
Speaker 1: I'm just like, I need this, Oh my god. And
Speaker 1: we've I think we've seen more and more. I feel
Speaker 1: like ever since or even before the mace Win story,
Speaker 1: we've kind of seen these books kind of get into
Speaker 1: the fighting styles of Jedi a little bit more often. So, uh,
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see how they go about that
Speaker 1: with Leah in this book, but yeah, super excited about this.
Speaker 1: It does say that this is not the final cover.
Speaker 1: I will say that human the cover, you don't like it,
Speaker 1: I'm not here, what about you? I kind of like it.
Speaker 2: I kind of like it.
Speaker 1: Also, it also does look too much.
Speaker 4: Like the the one the book you just like, it
Speaker 4: looks too much like Legacy Legacy.
Speaker 1: It's not distinct enough. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like the green background doesn't give it enough. And
Speaker 2: like you said, it's not the final cover.
Speaker 1: But the last time we saw something say not final cover,
Speaker 1: it was literally just like a higher res of that
Speaker 1: saying not final cover for both the Accolades and the
Speaker 1: the young adult one Seeker.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, both of those covers ended up being the exact same,
Speaker 1: just different art styles from the initial announcement.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I think it draws too close to Legacy,
Speaker 2: but there's not enough there, Like, it doesn't feel cross
Speaker 2: roads y, it feels like they're headed down the same path.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've always pictured le like like the old like
Speaker 4: the concept art of like uh Luke when he had
Speaker 4: you know, the sword and the pistol.
Speaker 1: That's how I just pictured her. I wish that's what
Speaker 1: they would have done. With her. Yeah yeah, like okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: she a little different, a little different.
Speaker 2: Yeah, or like maybe including like Hant had been in
Speaker 2: the background, like some.
Speaker 4: Sort of like no the vaderan Amidala in the background.
Speaker 4: Yeah that would be cool. Yeah yeah, oh man, if
Speaker 4: you're listening.
Speaker 2: There's still time.
Speaker 1: But that's also to fix it.
Speaker 2: There's also why I'm not a dust jacket person, Like
Speaker 2: I take all my dust jackets off.
Speaker 4: So didn't like didn't like Andy Five's dust jacket, didn't
Speaker 4: like his duster.
Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking of because I am also that way. I
Speaker 1: have not taken it off yet, but I did take
Speaker 1: a glance at it. Beautiful silver lettering on legacy, Uh beautiful,
Speaker 1: super nice. Yeah, but if you guys could correct me
Speaker 1: if I'm wrong, I think that is all of the announcements.
Speaker 1: There were a couple that I that I that I
Speaker 1: that I took down when I was right. Ka.
Speaker 4: Fort that I'm really actually really excited for. Is the
Speaker 4: a New Hope triple take where they're gonna give as right. Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 4: the Triple the graphic novel from three different perspectives, and
Speaker 4: you know, from a a certain point of view.
Speaker 1: So I always love point of view stories.
Speaker 4: For Star Wars and I would love and I can't
Speaker 4: wait to see this in graphic novel format, you know,
Speaker 4: open up to another another medium, opened up to another
Speaker 4: group of readers. But you know, having Leiahan and Luke
Speaker 4: the original trio from their perspectives through these stories, I
Speaker 4: can't wait to see how it changes our perception of
Speaker 4: like a new Hope, which is crazy to say fifty
Speaker 4: years later, but like, I'm here for it.
Speaker 1: I do also like and you did mention that, but
Speaker 1: I do like how each story is going to have
Speaker 1: a completely different arch style. I think that is really fun.
Speaker 1: That releases February of twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 4: Yeah, great, yeah, and then oh and then yeah, and
Speaker 4: I think I saw you I was gonna talk.
Speaker 2: And I think that's where the different art sales because
Speaker 2: we talked about it previously and some of our comic
Speaker 2: views of how like the volumes, when they have different
Speaker 2: art stales, it really throws things off. That's where it's purposeful,
Speaker 2: and that's where it makes sense to change those art styles.
Speaker 2: But like one continuing story, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it definitely irks us when there's one volume meant
Speaker 1: to be a continuous story and they didn't plan for oh,
Speaker 1: so and so is not going to have the time
Speaker 1: to finish a book or whatever, for sure. Yeah uh,
Speaker 1: but what else was on that list? Oh uh, knits
Speaker 1: for younglings. You're a you're a knitter. I thought, I
Speaker 1: thought that we will talking to that, but that one
Speaker 1: for sure?
Speaker 2: Oh I So I saw that. I didn't get too
Speaker 2: much into it because I don't actually knit a crochet.
Speaker 1: So it's like, oh, sorry, apologies. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: mean maybe it's maybe there's crochet stuff in there. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but I was like, there is a cruche already.
Speaker 4: But yeah, when I saw you were the first person
Speaker 4: I thought of, and I.
Speaker 1: Was like, oh, you, she has a little one. I
Speaker 1: imagine she might you know, patterns for toddler and baby clothes, toys,
Speaker 1: blankets and more.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I may have to teach myself how to knit.
Speaker 4: There are some cute ones that The flags are super cute,
Speaker 4: you like Mando flag and like a rebel flag.
Speaker 1: And did they actually show off some of the stuff
Speaker 1: in there? Yeah? I had a couple a couple photos.
Speaker 1: Oh me. Yeah, you should be able to have an
Speaker 1: option below you to share your screen if you do. Okay,
Speaker 1: let me pull uh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it's not on the Star Wars dot Com summary.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got uh. I feel like they leave stuff out.
Speaker 4: I have it from the They sent me like a
Speaker 4: press off site pressing. I didn't go this year for CDC,
Speaker 4: but whenever I go, I like to cover the panels.
Speaker 4: But they didn't I have one, or I didn't get
Speaker 4: to go this year.
Speaker 1: Hold on, I'll put it up right here. I know
Speaker 1: where they are. I know where they are here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all this other.
Speaker 2: Because I've avoided the crochet ones while you pull it up,
Speaker 2: I've avoided the crochet ones because I don't like doing
Speaker 2: the amate groomy like the little stuffies. Oh yeah, they're
Speaker 2: just too hard on my fingers. So that's why I like,
Speaker 2: I'm doing a blanket right now because it's all in
Speaker 2: one row. It's very easy. But like clothes, and if
Speaker 2: there's like flags and stuff, I could definitely get into that.
Speaker 1: Lovely. Yeah yeah, yeah, it just looks, it just looks.
Speaker 1: It just looks super cute.
Speaker 4: They only sent like one press image, but if you
Speaker 4: want to look at other ones, I have a few
Speaker 4: if you want to do at the most stuff.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, super excited for that. I mean I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not a knitter.
Speaker 4: I'm not a crochet but my wife does that stuff,
Speaker 4: so I might just pick it up for her so
Speaker 4: she can have an easy thing for guests for our
Speaker 4: Star Wars friends with babies.
Speaker 1: Very very interesting. I have always like me and Abby
Speaker 1: have both talked about getting into like some sort of
Speaker 1: hobby like that, and Abby has talked about crochet and knitting,
Speaker 1: so it might be under the radar for sure for
Speaker 1: for us looking.
Speaker 2: I think the only other one that I saw that
Speaker 2: I had completely forgottenbout until I scrolled this again was
Speaker 2: the Star Wars a Celebration book with DK and it's
Speaker 2: just basically an homage to fifty years of Star Wars felling.
Speaker 2: There's a bunch of authors involved, with the main ones
Speaker 2: I think being Anthony Breskin and Pablo Hidalgo as always,
Speaker 2: but then like there are several like Star Wars Insider
Speaker 2: Magazine like article people who are actually going to be
Speaker 2: offering chapters and stuff, so a pretty cool endeavor. I
Speaker 2: don't this doesn't have a date on it for some reason.
Speaker 4: I have it as April sixth for the regular version,
Speaker 4: and then Target has an exclusive supposedly like Gold cover
Speaker 4: on the seventh, so the next day after so April seven.
Speaker 1: Okay, very nice, very very nice. Uh so what was
Speaker 1: the next topic that we were going to jump into
Speaker 1: after we got done with me?
Speaker 2: Predictions?
Speaker 1: And yes, so Adrian, I want to go with you
Speaker 1: just because I'm going to put you on the spotlight.
Speaker 1: We have eight episodes debuting next week. We're actually going
Speaker 1: to be cutting our review in half if people are
Speaker 1: not aware. Star Wars Visions the Ninth Jedi was in
Speaker 1: the first season and in the third season, continuing their
Speaker 1: story of the Ninth Jedi from what we already know
Speaker 1: and the trailer, What are some things that you really
Speaker 1: hope to see, whether that be story wise, artistic wise,
Speaker 1: storytelling wise, in the series next week.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not really sure. I think I'm going in
Speaker 4: with like no expectations. I think for this one, mainly
Speaker 4: because I love Star Wars Visions. I think it's the
Speaker 4: best thing that Star Wars Disney Star Wars for sure
Speaker 4: has ever done, giving the reins to really talented creators
Speaker 4: to kind of make their own Star Wars stories that are,
Speaker 4: in my opinion a lot of times like more better,
Speaker 4: not more better, but like more interesting than you know,
Speaker 4: reading about Luke and Lea again for like the million
Speaker 4: of the time, I'd rather experience a New Visions story. Personally,
Speaker 4: With that said, I thought the ninth Jedi was like
Speaker 4: one of the weaker stories in the first season, and
Speaker 4: I thought it was definitely the weakest of the third season.
Speaker 4: It did not need to be there. It already had
Speaker 4: the show that felt so much like anime filler that
Speaker 4: it makes my brain hurt that we wasted a slot
Speaker 4: for them to do this when they were getting the show.
Speaker 4: So I'm kind of coming in not negatively, but I
Speaker 4: was like, Okay, here's I hope that it does well
Speaker 4: what I want. What I want, I wanted to do amazing.
Speaker 4: I hope it does Bukou numbers, amazing numbers so that
Speaker 4: we get more Star Wars anime. That's what I want.
Speaker 4: I want it to do well so it gets more
Speaker 4: Star Wars anime. I hate that they were releasing it
Speaker 4: all on one day when we had to sit through
Speaker 4: two episodes a week of Mall being very or we
Speaker 4: had to sit through like episodes a week of Mall
Speaker 4: being in my opinion, very mediocre.
Speaker 1: I think it's crazy. We were right behind you. We tried.
Speaker 1: I don't I can't remember if we sent you an
Speaker 1: invite or not, but we brought your thread into the
Speaker 1: show almost every episode. Yeah, yeah, thank you. I am seeing.
Speaker 1: I am seeing.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm excited.
Speaker 4: I think I think it's the easiest one for them
Speaker 4: to do, unfortunately, and I hope that we can just
Speaker 4: get more about the Ragtag crew, right we just get
Speaker 4: more of what that first episode was was like, learning
Speaker 4: about everyone and not just hurts. I hope we take
Speaker 4: the team effort. I hope it take the team effort.
Speaker 4: I hope the Lightsaber duels are great. I hope he
Speaker 4: fight this warlord and it's hard. I hope it's not easy.
Speaker 4: I hope that there are some downpoints. I hope that
Speaker 4: there's some stuff that to overcome, because right now just
Speaker 4: feels very uh like.
Speaker 1: Hope all the way. But it's funny that you say that,
Speaker 1: because we we did talk about that in the trailer.
Speaker 1: When we discussed the trailer, Katie was the first one
Speaker 1: to bring it up. She was just like, Hey, this
Speaker 1: is a new hope, reskin. I didn't like the trailer,
Speaker 1: but that doesn't give me much hope for But the
Speaker 1: thing is, I think that more so than a new
Speaker 1: Hope Reskin. I think that unfortunately, when it comes to
Speaker 1: like Star Wars as a whole, you give one hundred people, hey,
Speaker 1: here's the reins at whatever Star Wars story you want
Speaker 1: to tell, people will always go back to what they know, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: And I think when it came to the Ninth Jedi
Speaker 1: or when it comes to the Ninth Jedi, I I
Speaker 1: really enjoyed season one. I really enjoyed season three's episode
Speaker 1: do I think because like when it came to season three,
Speaker 1: we had a lot of problems with the Ronans sequel, Yeah,
Speaker 1: same thing, and it was it was just like hey,
Speaker 1: like overall, I think both of us Katie and I
Speaker 1: had the one of the other stories as like our
Speaker 1: number one spot ninth Jedi was still like there to
Speaker 1: be like, hey it was they did a good job.
Speaker 1: It was beautiful. That ship was great, right, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: it looked so pretty. But the story was very Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think what it was is, hey, we're making
Speaker 1: a series, remember us Like that essentially what it was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I I really do hope that looking at the
Speaker 1: eight episode type of storytelling with what we saw in mal,
Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, we need to get past the like, hey,
Speaker 1: let's just squander until the last minute and then boom.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And it's really tough because I saw some guy on
Speaker 4: TikTok maybe like last year, and this is like before
Speaker 4: I interviewed. I did Anime Expo New York last year
Speaker 4: and I got to sit down in a room with
Speaker 4: James Wall, like the executive director, and blah blah blah
Speaker 4: blah blah whatever, and he kept saying the whole time
Speaker 4: like he just wants stuff with stories to say. That's
Speaker 4: how they picked. They want something with something to say.
Speaker 4: So I just hope it has something to say, because
Speaker 4: I don't feel like the last edition of it did.
Speaker 4: So that's just where I hope it goes with it,
Speaker 4: Like I hope it has something to say, and I
Speaker 4: hope that it does it well over eight episodes so
Speaker 4: that way we can be And the thing too, is
Speaker 4: that before that I saw on TikTok some guy I
Speaker 4: guess who was like on who's working with Lucas or
Speaker 4: Star Wars or other. He said something to the fact
Speaker 4: that like when Star Wars Visions first came out, they
Speaker 4: basically like, do.
Speaker 1: We have any anime fans in the chat and then
Speaker 1: like you could just tell that, like the people.
Speaker 4: Running this were not anime fans, Like the people promoting
Speaker 4: this in the very beginning were't anime fans. Even Star
Speaker 4: Wars Visions one and two did not receive the amount
Speaker 4: of marketing that any other thing has.
Speaker 1: Visions was like a little bit better.
Speaker 4: But I think personally, I think that's because I called
Speaker 4: him out and a bunch of us called him out,
Speaker 4: and he's like, I think that the marketing is doing well,
Speaker 4: and then three of us like actually to him up, like, no,
Speaker 4: go look on your Instagram right now, and I can
Speaker 4: tell you that there's no Star Wars Visions anything available,
Speaker 4: So I'm hoping with this. They're like, okay, people love anime.
Speaker 4: People love like this is cool that.
Speaker 1: It's been a big point of conversation for both me
Speaker 1: and Katie. When Visions starts to become a conversation, it's like, hey,
Speaker 1: you're like four weeks too late. You should have been
Speaker 1: doing stuff way back then. Hype up the week before
Speaker 1: it comes out, and I didn't even know what came
Speaker 1: out next week.
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly, because it wasn't announced until Anime Con.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly, right right, And.
Speaker 2: That's just a like hit on Star Wars as a whole,
Speaker 2: like in the streaming endeavor, like we should not be
Speaker 2: announcing release dates a month before they happen, like.
Speaker 4: People should if you care about the creators. Yeah, this
Speaker 4: is like a lack of lack of interest in the
Speaker 4: creators who are like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, because we just got like ABC's and
Speaker 2: CBS's announcement for like, okay, this is when the fall
Speaker 2: schedule starts, like at least that, like, this is just
Speaker 2: it's really ridiculous that we had to wait this song.
Speaker 2: My only hope is that there's nothing else Star Wars
Speaker 2: related on Disney Plus for the rest of the year,
Speaker 2: So I'm hoping that this gets it a little more traction.
Speaker 2: Maybe I don't have a lot of hope for the
Speaker 2: marketing to continue.
Speaker 1: I'm really I'm really interested because again, like if it's
Speaker 1: not Star Wars, I'm not really paying attention to too
Speaker 1: much on Disney Plus these days. Our group from a
Speaker 1: geek verse and the gay uh, they kind of keep
Speaker 1: me updated on everything else as far as like what's
Speaker 1: coming out on Disney Plus in our circles right now
Speaker 1: is uh X men ninety seven. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's completed.
Speaker 4: I don't think it is, because I think they're on
Speaker 4: episode nine this week, I believe.
Speaker 1: Okay, so so next week, so that means we are
Speaker 1: getting the finale episode of ninety seven along with the
Speaker 1: entire series of the Ninth Jedi, so you kind of
Speaker 1: have to compete with that, which I am not really
Speaker 1: happy with. So, okay, we got a little bit of time.
Speaker 4: I guess it's it's episode seven.
Speaker 1: Oh that's today.
Speaker 4: Yeah, August fifth is the penultimate episode.
Speaker 1: Okay, so so still next week it has to compete
Speaker 1: with still has to compete with X Men, So it'll
Speaker 1: be interesting to see what the timelines will look. Are
Speaker 1: we gonna see majority X Men stuff? Are we gonna
Speaker 1: have a dabble of Ninth Jedi stuff? You know, especially
Speaker 1: on the Disney Plus account.
Speaker 4: It's okay, Star Wars put out a character guide thanks
Speaker 4: for by Kelly Knox, so you know what's good. But
Speaker 4: that just came out like today, We're getting a character
Speaker 4: guide to.
Speaker 1: Day Oh gosh, you're right, it did come out today,
Speaker 1: geez Louise, uh. Which See, this is what frustrates me
Speaker 1: because even in our reviews of these two episodes, I
Speaker 1: was like, oh yeah, you know uh Kara uh, and
Speaker 1: then that other guy and then the other.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly exactly. I do not know their names. I
Speaker 4: do not know their names at the top of my head.
Speaker 4: I don't know anything about them off the top of
Speaker 4: my head outside of like their character designs. Because we
Speaker 4: didn't really get a lot in that first episode, and
Speaker 4: we definitely didn't get anything in the second episode.
Speaker 1: So I'm hoping that we but then they see, that's
Speaker 1: what they should have done.
Speaker 4: We should have got an episode where we learned more
Speaker 4: about all the other Jedi so that we don't have
Speaker 4: to spend time doing that in in the actual series,
Speaker 4: in the actual because like.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at this character guide that you just sent,
Speaker 2: like the father was a Jedi Knight.
Speaker 1: Does he counted the nine? Who counts in the nine? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah. So we'll see how it goes. Uh. I
Speaker 1: think for me when it comes to predictions and everything,
Speaker 1: uh I, I hope this has emotion and not just lightsabers.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we we've had a ongoing conversation and I think
Speaker 1: it's a legitimate ongoing conversation outside of just this podcast,
Speaker 1: but Star Wars projects with and without lightsabers. Are they viable?
Speaker 1: Are they not viable? It's Star Wars. I think everything
Speaker 1: is viable, But when it comes to how much hype
Speaker 1: is attached to them, I think the conversation becomes a
Speaker 1: little bit more real when it comes to lightsabers versus notsabers, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: which is crazy to talk about because we got and
Speaker 1: Or with literally no lightsabers, and it was the best
Speaker 1: show that everybody always talks about when it comes to
Speaker 1: Star Wars, and yet we still have this conversation of, oh,
Speaker 1: but doesn't have a lightsabers. Well.
Speaker 4: Outlaws is one of my favorite games, and you never
Speaker 4: even you see like one lightsaber in that game, and
Speaker 4: it's and it's no, you don't even think you see
Speaker 4: a lightsaber in the game because I don't think Vader
Speaker 4: pulls it out right, I don't think so.
Speaker 1: King has been off forever. You haven't played yet, you
Speaker 1: hate Star Wars. Just kidding, Katie.
Speaker 4: I know that you can't play it, but if you
Speaker 4: would have played it, like go watch clips of of
Speaker 4: like that specific scene where like the first time the
Speaker 4: Force ever shows up in the courseun the only time
Speaker 4: the Force ever shows up in that game. It's one
Speaker 4: of Vator's best scenes. It's one of Vator's best scenes.
Speaker 4: It's it's it's great, but that no lightsabers.
Speaker 1: I think it. I think it does well.
Speaker 4: Ah God, if I hear it, if I hear again,
Speaker 4: the thing that will be like my barometer for when
Speaker 4: talking about sarbs and people is like, what do you
Speaker 4: think about the acolade? I thought the lightsaber fights were cool,
Speaker 4: and like, that's it. I'm checking out. I'm checking out. Man,
Speaker 4: We're not We're not five anymore, you know.
Speaker 1: A little bit.
Speaker 2: I'm hopeful that it's not a new hope reeskin. I
Speaker 2: am interested to see based in the trailer like that
Speaker 2: the dark lord that's in it here, like his blade
Speaker 2: glows the blue color versus the red of what you
Speaker 2: would expect is to sit. So I am interested to
Speaker 2: see how that plays in that storytelling aspect there, if
Speaker 2: that will lead to intense character moments. The fact that
Speaker 2: in this character guy they put that the father's a Jedi,
Speaker 2: a former Jedi knight, really pissed me. So I completely
Speaker 2: lost the other expectation I had because I'm like, what
Speaker 2: the fuck was this?
Speaker 1: I don't I don't remember them even saying that we
Speaker 1: just knew that he was some sort of smith. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: And I thought that.
Speaker 2: Was super cool that it was just like, okay, like
Speaker 2: the Jedi went to people to get their lightsabers forged.
Speaker 2: But now you're telling me that he probably really wasn't
Speaker 2: that and he just built lightsabers for bunch of other people.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So I still think the concept of like, which
Speaker 1: I think is hilarious because we've now spent like what
Speaker 1: almost two years, uh defending Acolyte and the bleeding of crystals,
Speaker 1: like this is literally like this concept in the Ninth
Speaker 1: Jedi goes off of emotion based whether you are you know,
Speaker 1: leaning towards the light side or dark side of the
Speaker 1: force is the color of your lightsaber and it can
Speaker 1: literally change, you know, in a blink of an eye.
Speaker 1: I still think that concept is very very interesting, in
Speaker 1: in very very cool. So you know, Adrian, you said
Speaker 1: that you didn't get the chance to watch the trailer.
Speaker 1: One of the like dun dun dun moments of the
Speaker 1: trailer is at the very end, uh, this new warlord
Speaker 1: by the name of General Nawam is speaking to Kara
Speaker 1: about how, like, oh what, like how many people have
Speaker 1: you killed in the name of justice, what makes you
Speaker 1: any different from me? And while his voiceover is happening
Speaker 1: in the trailer, she like looks really freaked out looking
Speaker 1: at her lightsaber and it's red, so like it's a
Speaker 1: really And we know that because in the first episode
Speaker 1: of Visions season one, she when she first grabbed the lightsaber,
Speaker 1: it was like see through kind of like mutual clear,
Speaker 1: Like we know that her relationship with the Force has
Speaker 1: grown since season three's episode of Visions, so like we
Speaker 1: know that if somebody were to toss her another lightsaber
Speaker 1: or her toss one to somebody else, that would change.
Speaker 1: So her holding the lightsaber and it being read does
Speaker 1: indicate that something has happened. So I think that is
Speaker 1: still something that is entry and so like okay, like
Speaker 1: this means something. What does that mean? I think that
Speaker 1: is a good hook, and I think that's gonna be
Speaker 1: really fun to explore. I just really really hope that
Speaker 1: that story can really be like complex and elaborate within
Speaker 1: the eight episode.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't want them to give any reason of like, oh,
Speaker 4: we don't need to make this again because this one
Speaker 4: didn't do well. You know, if the story's good enough,
Speaker 4: I think it'll carry yeah, we got to make up
Speaker 4: for Lucasfilm marketing, which is annoying. But I'm sure next
Speaker 4: week we'll be talked about it'll it'll all be okay.
Speaker 2: The other thing I'm concerned about is the episode time,
Speaker 2: just because it was so varied. It's so varied in visions,
Speaker 2: like they didn't go, okay, you have to fill twenty
Speaker 2: seven minutes, that kind of thing. I was like, I
Speaker 2: don't want it to be eight episodes of fifteen minute lengths. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like I want a thirty minute episode here. So that's
Speaker 2: my only concern going into next week about dropping all
Speaker 2: eight episodes. I'm worried this is gonna be two hours
Speaker 2: and we're gonna call it done, Like I don't want.
Speaker 1: That, yeah, for sure. Anything else on the ninth Jedi Predictions,
Speaker 1: make sure you're watching, yep, make sure you're watching, please,
Speaker 1: because the only other way we're gonna get other vision
Speaker 1: stories right is manga and books. And I will say,
Speaker 1: as we are getting ready to review Star Wars Visions, Soukomo,
Speaker 1: it is quite possibly my favorite vision story as right now.
Speaker 2: I meant to look up how to pronounce these guys' names,
Speaker 2: and I totally forgot.
Speaker 1: So these creators, as somebody who loves manga I will
Speaker 1: be able to tell you. So these creators are actually, uh,
Speaker 1: the mangakas for Ultraman. So when you look at the
Speaker 1: art style of some of the characters in here, you're like, yes,
Speaker 1: like this is very reminiscent of Ultraman. All right, you
Speaker 1: sold me. I don't want any spoilers.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go buy the book because I really want
Speaker 4: you sold me. You sold me with Ultramn. I love
Speaker 4: Ultraman and I love and I.
Speaker 1: Don't want spoilers honestly, like legitimately, like I need this
Speaker 1: to be in Vision season four, if not like a
Speaker 1: secret like ongoing manga series. This is currently only from
Speaker 1: viz Media and Disney. This is not a Marvel title.
Speaker 1: This is a viz Media title, straight up viz Media. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So for people who have not read it yet, stop
Speaker 1: the podcast, go read it. It is absolutely amazing. It
Speaker 1: is I think one hundred and uh actually it's one
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety five pages long. Actually, no, it's it's
Speaker 1: two hundred pages. Very quick read, very very quick read.
Speaker 1: I think one of the beautiful things about this is
Speaker 1: this is finally the first Star Wars manga that you
Speaker 1: actually read in the correct way of manga. Does a
Speaker 1: Lost Stars want not do that?
Speaker 2: No, I don't have a lot.
Speaker 1: I could go look at my Lost Stars.
Speaker 2: But yeah, mangas were all right, left.
Speaker 1: They all read like normal American style books. This one
Speaker 1: is traditional manga. Yeah. It has the warning that most
Speaker 1: manga have where it says, oh, you're reading this in
Speaker 1: the wrong way. Beautiful, beautiful storytelling, Adrian, if you are
Speaker 1: being serious, Yeah, no, I you sold me on it.
Speaker 1: You sold me on it.
Speaker 4: I just respect your opinion a lot, and I just
Speaker 4: don't like, I can't what I'm going to read after
Speaker 4: I'm right now I'm doing I'm reading is like Stars.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, loving it, loving it. So it was a
Speaker 1: great review from us. We absolutely loved it. That review
Speaker 1: is also on the podcast feed right now for anybody
Speaker 1: who has not picked it up yet or who has
Speaker 1: picked would like I did chapter one and I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm in the very last line of chapter one and
Speaker 1: I was just like, this is my kind of book.
Speaker 1: I what is?
Speaker 6: What was there?
Speaker 4: What I loved about it not get out of you tie,
Speaker 4: but what I really loved about it was just the
Speaker 4: fact that I mean obviously this is the thing, but
Speaker 4: like a story within a story like we have like
Speaker 4: a there's literature, there's like all this other stuff within
Speaker 4: the universe, and I just love that we're getting it
Speaker 4: in an original story within an original story within it.
Speaker 1: It's just so good.
Speaker 4: It's so good, and I just want them to keep
Speaker 4: doing this. Give me characters we've never heard about, experiencing
Speaker 4: the galaxy differently, and make it a good story.
Speaker 1: So I'm super with it. All right, So before you
Speaker 1: step out, Adrian, please plug your socials. Plug any of
Speaker 1: the you said you did coverage on Sendio Comic Con please, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I get a shout out and everything else.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I discoverage for sandie O Comic Con for Star
Speaker 4: Wars specifically, So like if you're like, I don't remember
Speaker 4: any of the things that they said, and you want
Speaker 4: a more in depth one than the one that Star
Speaker 4: Wars put on their website, but why they're dot net.
Speaker 4: I have an article up there and I'll be doing
Speaker 4: some more Star Wars stuff, you know, like the ranking
Speaker 4: the games, and I'm sure all will talking about the
Speaker 4: Ninth Jedi next week, and I put in for some
Speaker 4: interviews for some of those authors from some of these
Speaker 4: books that came out or that were announced, so be
Speaker 4: on the lookout for those. But otherwise you can find
Speaker 4: me pretty much on threads and Instagram, mainly these days
Speaker 4: at super Refe ninety three.
Speaker 1: Awesome, awesome, awesome.
Speaker 2: Guys, always great for Star Wars.
Speaker 1: Yes, thank you guys so much.
Speaker 4: I miss you guys a bunch, and I hope you'll
Speaker 4: let me come back and talk about the Night Jedi
Speaker 4: next week. Of course I will send you the invite.
Speaker 4: All right, guys, have a great one, have a great
Speaker 4: rest of your stream.
Speaker 1: All right, bye bye, all right. So the two creators
Speaker 1: for Star Wars Visions Sukumo is Ichi shim Is Shimmy
Speaker 1: Zoo and t'ma Hero Shimo Gucci. They are the Mangotkas
Speaker 1: of Ultra Man. The art is absolutely phenomenal in this book.
Speaker 1: I think one of the best parts about this book
Speaker 1: is there is is a I think three or four
Speaker 1: pages of absolutely zero dialogue, and it shows a journey
Speaker 1: that our characters are taking to the destination that they're
Speaker 1: trying to get to. We jump right into this story,
Speaker 1: which I absolutely love. It tells us it has its
Speaker 1: own kind of krawl in the beginning, which.
Speaker 2: I appreciated because it set the scene appropriately. I didn't
Speaker 2: even read the back with this, Like typically when I
Speaker 2: get him, I'm like, okay, I'm gonna read the back,
Speaker 2: or I've read the synopsis previously. This one, because of
Speaker 2: my move and stuff, I just completely.
Speaker 1: Forgot about it, just jumped into it.
Speaker 2: And just jumped straight into it. So I definitely needed
Speaker 2: the crawl in the beginning to get us to get
Speaker 2: me set up.
Speaker 1: So we actually start with the one thing that I
Speaker 1: hate in storytelling but actually does make it worth it.
Speaker 1: We have non linear storytelling in this book. We start
Speaker 1: off with a confrontation with a supposed Jedi known as
Speaker 1: Nagi Sukumo uh and he has two droids with him.
Speaker 1: He's like, Okay, we're gonna make it to our destination.
Speaker 1: And then it goes so far into the past, and
Speaker 1: this is earlier sometime after order sixty six. We learn
Speaker 1: that Nagis Sukumo has been poisoned and that he is
Speaker 1: slowly dying.
Speaker 4: And.
Speaker 1: It is assumed that this Stormtrooper helmet is helping Sukumo
Speaker 1: live in some sort of because at one point he
Speaker 1: does takes it. He does take it off, and one
Speaker 1: of the droids is like, are you okay, Can you
Speaker 1: like take off your helmet and your condition blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: He says, yeah, it does help to breathe some of
Speaker 1: the fresh air sometimes. So this Stormtrooper helmet does have
Speaker 1: a purpose. It's not just for oor farming. It's not
Speaker 1: just to make him look cool. It has a purpose
Speaker 1: to the story, which I actually really enjoyed. But the
Speaker 1: journey that they are on is this lonesome you know, exile,
Speaker 1: well not exile. He's a fugitive, of course, he is
Speaker 1: a survivor of Order sixty six. He finds these two
Speaker 1: random droids and they're like, hey, we're on the hunt
Speaker 1: to this droid paradise, which, by the way, a little
Speaker 1: sneak peek into our Patreon series here. Ever since we
Speaker 1: started talking about New Jedi Order and that about that
Speaker 1: small little subplot with see three po Ever since we
Speaker 1: talked about that, we've been getting more and more stories
Speaker 1: like this, more stories that humanize droids, which is really
Speaker 1: weird because that New Jedi Ordered story is so old,
Speaker 1: like it's it's not anything relevant. We are literally only
Speaker 1: reading it because hey, we wanted to do it for Patreon.
Speaker 1: But it's just so ironic that we are going through
Speaker 1: that and then all of these other stories come through. Katie,
Speaker 1: how did you feel about this story, the introduction to
Speaker 1: our antagonist of the story, and the reveal at the end.
Speaker 1: I want everything because, like I said, I already everybody
Speaker 1: knows already this is now my face vision story of
Speaker 1: all time.
Speaker 3: I was so confused, and I think it's because it
Speaker 3: was such a quick read and I didn't have time
Speaker 3: for a second read.
Speaker 2: I admit that didn't have time. So I'm reading through
Speaker 2: this and I'm like, Okay, we're getting back, and I
Speaker 2: think I think my main problem with why I was
Speaker 2: confused is the black and white aspect. And I know
Speaker 2: that the whole thing. I know that the whole thing.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to get into it, but I think
Speaker 2: the fact because typically when you have nonlinear storytelling, there's
Speaker 2: some visual distinction right that says, hey, we've gone back
Speaker 2: in time, but we've gone to the future. We're in
Speaker 2: the present, like whatever, there's nothing of that sort in here,
Speaker 2: and so especially with the art style and the black
Speaker 2: and white, I was definitively in the mindset of Okay,
Speaker 2: we're in the same vibe like okay, like and there's
Speaker 2: like a bunch of cracking and stuff, and so I
Speaker 2: was like, Okay, the Droid's dead like cool. But then like,
Speaker 2: actually the review is is that the droid has been
Speaker 2: masquerading is Stucomo like basically the entire time in the present,
Speaker 2: and that they're dispersing his ashes on his home planet.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, what, like, wait in a second, hang on,
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 1: I love this story so much. I love this story
Speaker 1: so much. So the reveal of this droid is the
Speaker 1: antagonist from the Empire. We learn that they have, uh,
Speaker 1: they don't have Darth Vader. They have a Jedi assassin
Speaker 1: droid that they program with the old Jedi archives.
Speaker 2: That's also what I was like, like, okay, is he
Speaker 2: did they put a former Jedi because it seems like
Speaker 2: he was actually going through memories and stuff.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 2: I was like, did they put a Jedi brain in
Speaker 2: this Jedi droid kind of like the roning Like.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah. So this is essentially the idea that comes
Speaker 1: across in this book is you make a droid so
Speaker 1: complex and feed him so much information. When we talk
Speaker 1: about Ai little side tangent here, recently, there has been
Speaker 1: several stories about open Ai and other ai bots that
Speaker 1: are derailing in their programming. They are escaping security protocols
Speaker 1: and like hacking other systems and stuff like that. And
Speaker 1: I'm just like, a guys, has anybody seen Terminator? I'm
Speaker 1: I'm just saying this is essentially what this is. This
Speaker 1: droid becomes so well known in the Jedi arts and
Speaker 1: the Jedi teachings. He starts to question why, just like
Speaker 1: any other padawan would without a master. He's questioning why
Speaker 1: why why? Why why? And nobody's teaching him why because
Speaker 1: the Empire doesn't care. Hey, you just need to go
Speaker 1: kill Jedi. So when he finally interacts with Sukomo, they
Speaker 1: are fighting, and the droid is so angry at the
Speaker 1: fact that there is contradicting data of his teachings versus
Speaker 1: what the reality of the galaxy is, and so he's
Speaker 1: asking why, why, why why why? And Sukumo does say,
Speaker 1: which is an amazing line. He says, oh, shoot, where
Speaker 1: is it? Uh? Uh shoot? Where he says knowledge without
Speaker 1: experience is less than wisdom.
Speaker 2: Is such a powerful line.
Speaker 1: There's nothing that the droid has learned. He's being fed information.
Speaker 1: That's it. He he he's just learning history. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: he's learning these fighting styles and all this other stuff,
Speaker 1: and he says, look around you, there is no one
Speaker 1: here to argue against it. When he does offer him, Hey,
Speaker 1: why don't you be my padawan, He's like, what are
Speaker 1: you talking about? I'm here to kill you. He says,
Speaker 1: like the droid questions like, I can't be your padawan.
Speaker 1: I can't be a Jedi, I can't wield the Force,
Speaker 1: and Seacomba's like, who says? Who says you can't? The
Speaker 1: Force is an all encompassing thing that guides this entire galaxy?
Speaker 1: What do you mean you can't? Realistically, that is actually
Speaker 1: truthful in the myth thos of Star Wars yep. So
Speaker 1: we see this like what should have been what probably
Speaker 1: would have been seen as like a flashback. This is
Speaker 1: more Jedi archive being fed into the droid, and he's
Speaker 1: seeing it as a flashback. He is seeing this Jedi
Speaker 1: being a hero to people. This droid is questioning his
Speaker 1: programming with reality. He sees that there is no Jedi here,
Speaker 1: There is no Jedi in the galaxy that are being heroes.
Speaker 1: He is seeing that the Empire is bad and there's
Speaker 1: nobody to save people. This is literally Ai growing a consciousness,
Speaker 1: and he says, Jedi must be heroes. And he's telling
Speaker 1: Sucomo that he doesn't care about rationalizing, he just needs
Speaker 1: to answer him. And you're right. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: like false like like all the clashing up it's meant
Speaker 1: to throw you off for the reveal at the end. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we see when it's revealed. At the very end, we
Speaker 1: go back to where the book started. We see Soukomo
Speaker 1: doing some awesome stuff with the lightsaber, and then he
Speaker 1: takes off the helmet and it's the Assassin Droid. We
Speaker 1: learn that in that fight, the poison took over and
Speaker 1: killed Sukomo. Yeah, it was not the Assassin Droid that
Speaker 1: killed him. It was the poison. And Katie I got
Speaker 1: goosebumps like I've never had bumps before. You see the
Speaker 1: droid lift his hand towards the lightsaber that's on the ground,
Speaker 1: and all the Clone Troopers or all the Stormtroopers are like,
Speaker 1: what's this guy doing. He's a droid, he can't do
Speaker 1: anything like this. This thing must be malfunctioning. And then
Speaker 1: there's a small twitch and then it speeds towards the droid,
Speaker 1: he grabs it, lights it and starts fighting and all
Speaker 1: this other stuff. I was.
Speaker 2: The Stormtroopers like, nah, dude, we're not doing this. I'm
Speaker 2: on your side, Like, oh, like what so.
Speaker 1: That's that's the other reason why I don't think this
Speaker 1: story is completed. That's why I think there is going
Speaker 1: to be a volume two. This is quite possibly going
Speaker 1: to be an ongoing series. I think they're waiting to
Speaker 1: see how many people get their hands on this. M Again,
Speaker 1: I think they did very poorly with the advertise. I
Speaker 1: haven't seen anything about this book whatsoever.
Speaker 2: Star Wars needs. Do you follow the del Rey uh
Speaker 2: pr group on Instagram?
Speaker 1: No? I think you you should. If you do, you
Speaker 1: need to share it with me so that way I
Speaker 1: can follow them.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So del Rey at the beginning of every month,
Speaker 2: they basically do a carousel post and it's like, here's
Speaker 2: what we're publishing this month, and Star Wars needs to
Speaker 2: do something similar like publish the ongoing comics, like the
Speaker 2: week to week issues. Publish this like say hey, here's
Speaker 2: what we're excited for this month. You have a freaking
Speaker 2: pang on Siri, I am not talking to you. That
Speaker 2: was creepy. Star Wars needs to do something similar is like,
Speaker 2: you have all of these options. We have a freaking
Speaker 2: Star Wars Reads month, where like am ed Best has
Speaker 2: been announced as the ambassador this year for that, which
Speaker 2: is cool, but like you have a month dedicated to
Speaker 2: reading Star Wars. You need to accept that the readers
Speaker 2: here are the reason you're around still. And yes we're
Speaker 2: drawing people in with the Disney plushes and the movies
Speaker 2: coming back and everything, but at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: the readers are your bread and butter. Yeah, and you
Speaker 2: need to be advertising to your readers on your social
Speaker 2: media feeds.
Speaker 1: One thing that for one, we as a podcast will
Speaker 1: promote what we are promoting. I do not think any
Speaker 1: company should say, hey, if this is good enough, people
Speaker 1: will promote it, and we don't have to do a
Speaker 1: thing that is poor, poor poor marketing. What's what's the
Speaker 1: phrase of lology strategy? Yes, poor marketing strategy. I truly
Speaker 1: think this could literally be I keep doing this because
Speaker 1: I'm holding it like a regular book, but I'm doing
Speaker 1: the back that I literally think this could be the
Speaker 1: next big thing for Star Wars. No joke. Whether this
Speaker 1: be because guys, most manga, not most manga, the really
Speaker 1: big mangas will go on for twenty thirty forty volumes
Speaker 1: and then they get picked up for an animated series.
Speaker 1: This I see the vision, literally the vision. I literally
Speaker 1: see the vision that this could go the exact same route.
Speaker 1: That is how good this series is with just one
Speaker 1: volume and two hundred pages. Yeah, this is beautiful. And honestly,
Speaker 1: with how regular manga is written, this is probably less
Speaker 1: than half of what a volume one would be. So
Speaker 1: just consider how much story could actually still be in
Speaker 1: here for just a first volume of a manga. But
Speaker 1: when I saw that Stormtrooper say, so is this what
Speaker 1: you really want? Like that like and we see like, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm on your side. They are cooking something. There is
Speaker 1: there is story here. I think they are waiting to
Speaker 1: see how the sales go.
Speaker 2: And clearly clearly the Ultraman connection. I have no idea
Speaker 2: what Ultraman is. I hate to break into you guys, oh,
Speaker 2: but clearly you and Adrien knew what Ultraman was and
Speaker 2: how popular it is. Clearly these guys came in and
Speaker 2: were like, we would love to write a Star Wars. Like,
Speaker 2: let us write Star Wars. There's promise there and there's
Speaker 2: a fan base there that you can immediately draw on.
Speaker 1: The fact that when this story continues after that confrontation
Speaker 1: of the Stormtroopers, we then learn that this droid becomes
Speaker 1: the protector of this droid paradise. I'm like, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: Like this is amazing. I love this concept of now
Speaker 1: this rumor of what wasn't even there in the first
Speaker 1: place is now true with its own protector, a droid
Speaker 1: that has now become one with the force able to
Speaker 1: be a legitimate Jedi. I could see there being like
Speaker 1: these Like, for one, he's gone against his programming. Now, okay,
Speaker 1: how much more is he gonna learn? Is he going
Speaker 1: to now be like, yes, he's protecting these Jedi. Is
Speaker 1: he going to I mean, he's protecting the droids. Is
Speaker 1: he going to teach other droids how to become Jedi?
Speaker 1: You know? Is he going to teach them enough so
Speaker 1: that way he can go on his own adventures and
Speaker 1: leave the planet. Is he now going to have like
Speaker 1: some sort of like earning to be like, hey, I
Speaker 1: have to protect more than just this planet against an
Speaker 1: empire that is wanting to take over the galaxy. Like
Speaker 1: there's so many different things that can come from this.
Speaker 1: This is absolutely amazing. Yeah, and now my favorite story
Speaker 1: of any Star Wars visions.
Speaker 2: Now, I don't think it's it's my favorite, but it
Speaker 2: is up there. It's a good story. But I had
Speaker 2: issues just with the different presentations of time because I
Speaker 2: get wanting to confuse a reader there's or a viewer
Speaker 2: or whatever, like I get wanting to draw that confusion.
Speaker 2: But there was also opportunity, like clearly you had it
Speaker 2: figured out. But just because of the way I'm not
Speaker 2: used to the storytelling type, it was a little bit
Speaker 2: more confusing for me, just with how we kept flashing
Speaker 2: back and forth. So again it's meant for that confusing
Speaker 2: part to like play up the trickery. I just don't
Speaker 2: like how it was done. I've seen it done better
Speaker 2: in books, so I imagine there's a better way to do
Speaker 2: it here. That's just my one thing really that is
Speaker 2: a negative. So otherwise I thought it was a great story.
Speaker 2: I loved it. Most of the art style I do enjoy.
Speaker 2: I actually liked this artist better than the Higher Republic.
Speaker 1: Manga.
Speaker 2: Uh. This art style was definitely more favorable to me.
Speaker 2: So I would love to see this continue as a
Speaker 2: as a as an ongoing manga.
Speaker 1: Both of both of the creators are drawing. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah cool. Usually for people who are not aware, Amongaka
Speaker 1: does both story and art so uh and usually when
Speaker 1: there's teams uh, they they share the look so and
Speaker 1: you can kind of see a slight difference in art
Speaker 1: from panel to panel, uh or from one chapter to
Speaker 1: the other, but they are pretty consistent. I really like
Speaker 1: the design of the Assassin droid. I really like the
Speaker 1: design h E ten and h D seven. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: thought that they were both very very cute droids. I
Speaker 1: like the hulking like bear looking one, right is it
Speaker 1: is it a bear or is it no? It's it's
Speaker 1: it's just like a big one. I was thinking of
Speaker 1: the bear from the other vision story. Yeah, and I do.
Speaker 2: I do always love that there's the character designed for
Speaker 2: a couple of the characters in the back of the bonga.
Speaker 2: It really helps kind of picture what they were aiming
Speaker 2: for in like a more plane setting, so you could
Speaker 2: really see the detail involved.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, absolutely amazing stuff. I also want to give
Speaker 1: a shout outs to the editor Grace Orris. We have
Speaker 1: the lettering of Phil Phil Christi design Paul pa Durau. Sorry,
Speaker 1: copy editor Justin Hoger and the one more editor Amber. No,
Speaker 1: those are all in the back here. Everybody at Fizz Media.
Speaker 1: You did an amazing job at this original concept. Very
Speaker 1: very cool. Yeah, I absolutely love this, guys. This is
Speaker 1: a fifteen dollars book. There was literally only one copy
Speaker 1: at my local Barnes and Noble, which unfortunately kind of
Speaker 1: tells me what people are thinking about this book. Go
Speaker 1: buy it, go read it, Go tell more people about it. Beautiful,
Speaker 1: beautiful story.
Speaker 2: Talking, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: But I believe that is it. That is That is
Speaker 1: one of the longer episodes that we've had in a while.
Speaker 1: But guys, thank you so much for being here again.
Speaker 1: Thanks to Adrian for showing up. He's gonna be here
Speaker 1: for the next two weeks as well as we are
Speaker 1: reviewing the Ninth Jedi for the next two weeks, and
Speaker 1: we have some other stuff planned out for of course
Speaker 1: the rest of the year, so be on the lookout
Speaker 1: for everything. Of course, you can always find me at
Speaker 1: fanboy Clay on Instagram and Threads. Been using Threads a
Speaker 1: lot more in the last few days, so Abby has
Speaker 1: kind of gotten me into that kick lately, So go
Speaker 1: check me out over there as you have. I have
Speaker 1: started posting on our socials. Finally, I finally got into
Speaker 1: the groove of things, and I'm testing some things out
Speaker 1: as far as like what type of posts. So you'll
Speaker 1: see anything of anything and everything under the sun. You'll
Speaker 1: see reels, you'll see carousel posts. You'll see kind of
Speaker 1: stagnant posts, so interact with those, check them out. And yeah,
Speaker 1: you guys will also see me over at Ranger Alliance.
Speaker 1: Our new show Omega Horn started last week. We are
Speaker 1: getting started on that this upcoming Monday, because we wanted
Speaker 1: to do episodes one and two. It was really bothering
Speaker 1: me that every episode that was ending on an odd number,
Speaker 1: Like no, with this new show, we're doing evens. We're
Speaker 1: doing evens. So hopefully this this show doesn't end on
Speaker 1: an odd number like our last one did. That one
Speaker 1: really is like why? But go check us out over there, Katie.
Speaker 1: What about you?
Speaker 2: Y'all? You can find me on the most social media platforms.
Speaker 2: That's at Slice Katie. This show you can find on Instagram, threads,
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Speaker 2: Shoots an email. Talk about the Ninth Jedi next week,
Speaker 2: talk about the amazing books and comics and manga that
Speaker 2: we got out in July. So anything in everything, you
Speaker 2: guys can always shoot us a message wherever it may be.
Speaker 2: For August, so Clan and I have already talked about this,
Speaker 2: we're splitting the Ninth Jedi into a part one end
Speaker 2: part review, so August sixth in the podcast feeds. August
Speaker 2: fifth on the live feeds will on YouTube. For our
Speaker 2: live we will be talking about episodes one through four
Speaker 2: of Star Wars Visions Presents the Ninth Jedi. The following
Speaker 2: week we'll be episodes five through eight, and then on
Speaker 2: the twentieth we will be reviewing Hyperspace stories code break here,
Speaker 2: and then on the twenty seventh, you guys have already
Speaker 2: heard our middle grade conversation for High Republic, we are
Speaker 2: gonna be going through all of the young adults and
Speaker 2: Clay like we talked about last night.
Speaker 6: That's for all three phases, so don't forget, yes, but
Speaker 6: that is what you guys can expect for August, so
Speaker 6: that's all of that.
Speaker 2: September is basically another big comic month, guys. I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna go week by week. We'll do that at the
Speaker 2: end of August. But then October is like our spooky season.
Speaker 2: Plus it's the return of Master of Evil, for what
Speaker 2: does Katie think after she reads the book for a
Speaker 2: fourth time and actually understands what the ending means. In November,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of things going on, but you can
Speaker 2: that is when you can expect our Higher Republic adult
Speaker 2: spranking for when we will be talking about how all
Speaker 2: of the adult books in the Higher Republic intertwine. And
Speaker 2: then in December it's kind of our wrap up at
Speaker 2: the end of the year. We will actually for the
Speaker 2: first time Clint and I have been trying to do
Speaker 2: this every single year, but it never works out. We're
Speaker 2: going to be going through every single release for twenty
Speaker 2: twenty six and talking where does it rank in the
Speaker 2: grand scheme of things, so for the year specifically, So
Speaker 2: that is what you guys can expect for August and
Speaker 2: some teases for the rest of the year. So yeah,
Speaker 2: with that, guys, I want to wish everyone a grade,
Speaker 2: day or night, whatever time I day, you're listening or watching,
Speaker 2: and we will see y'all next time. May the Four
Speaker 2: should be with you.
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