When is a Book Not a Book?

When it’s still a tree? When it’s just some sheets of paper stuck together? Well for some people the answer is actually “When it’s a graphic novel”. Now I’m not going to get into a rant about the difference between comics and graphic novels but before we start let me just make a quick distinction [...]

It’s That Day Again

Happy Intergalactic Star Wars day everyone, and I can’t let May 4th go by without making some form of Star Wars related post. This one will be on something that probably doesn’t count as an entirely canon part of the Star Wars expanded universe, and that is the content of two books that aren’t often [...]

So Vader’s ’saber is blue…

So, one of the brand new pieces of book information to come out of SDCC (San Diego Comic-Con) is that there is a publishing date for the new edition of the Star Wars Encyclopedia.
Now, I have a copy of the original, in fact it is actually just next to my desk as I write [...]

Remember us

“Should any free soul come across this place– In all the countless centuries yet to be– May our voices whisper to you you from the ageless stones. Go tell the spartans, passerby: That here, by spartan law, we lie.”
A nice package arrived for me this morning, in it was the graphic novel of 300 [...]