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STELLAR ACTIVITY 18 AS ENTERED A a PE PEED BUS (nx Ss Eli IS Lowe 10 twat rer lel a 4 rt aa AT ENE TIME SHE aE A ame) Fume BL" ee BUT HER PARENTS WERE KILLED IN THB REBELLION ON KIRRER ZORING OE UNIFICATION WARS. } OTHER Gav STILL Hal THEle SHIP AND THEN PWELL 1 PREAME., ie lt LIKE £019 18 OTHER euerLY ‘APS wr ForPOTENTIAL 2 \ ~ ae . \ eR S NOU MEAN sonore actual NX] Fe Soe ne taney opera, * act a a ste te ; y » CONCENTRATION WE We Wy —_—— t RIL QUILK, | Seer - \ oun ) cat e \ (oe " \ \ ‘af ) |Welcome to a new run of Jedi Journals! I'm assistant editor Dave Land, and I'll be your host for the next few issues. I just want to take a second to thank editor Bob Cooper for giving me the chance to lead this discussion. I'm looking forward to hearing from all of you Jedi fans. Hopefully, together we'll be able to stir up some decent conversation regarding The Golden Age of the Sith, the Star Wars series, and life in general. The Jedi Journals mailbag has been a little vacant recently, but I did manage to find a few letters from diligent Golden Age readers. Let's take alook... Sees Jenner [email protected] Ijust got myself a copy of The Golden Age of the Sith #0 this morning, I must say, it’s not what I'd hoped. The story of the Sith on the first two pages was confusing, and I don’t understand the significance of Gav & Jori Daragon. The sketches at the end (the best part, in my opinion) gave me the impression that Gav is a Jedi. Master Ooroo was cool. What kind of creature is he, and why is he in that crystal thing? [He comes from a wise and ancient race, and that thing is his house] I thought the Koros system could have been done better, even though it is good to see it without Krath influences. Aarrba the Hutt is just another ina long string of Hutts, with one difference: he’s not evil. In fact he may be the first good Hutt we've ever met in Star Wars. 6 SE MAIN ST., MILWAUKIE, La eee ECO eS [What about the beautiful Anachro from Boba Fett: Bounty on Bar-Kooda and Boba Fett: When the Fat Lady Swings?| I didn’t like Memit Nadill. He looked too much like some Kind of stupid-looking demon. ‘The explanation of the principles of battle meditation was very nice, and I liked Memiit’s lightsaber. Now, on to the sketch liked Gav Daragon as a Jedi, with the lightsaber with a hip- mounted battery pack. I thought they would have needed something like that back when lightsabers first came about (I have been tossing around some ideas for a fan-faction story about the first Jedi and a backpack generator for the lightsaber was one of my concepts), and I also liked the exposed jewel. These lightsabers look even neater than the Sith War sabers. Most of the characters are complete mysteries, like Ssk Kahorr, ‘Tk'lokk, Tuknatan, Sonam-Ha‘ar (wow, does he look stupid!), and Simus. I didn’t like Odan-Urr's clothes in the story, but what he's wearing on the cover and in the sketches is awesome! The Massassi Warrior looks like a more evolved Massassi, which is bad, but the Crystal Ax is a nice touch. Naga Sadow’s Mothership looks pretty dumb, although it will be nice to see him again. Will we be seeing Freedon Nadd at any time during this series? Are there plans to continue this series in another title after it’s over, like you did with the Sith War chronicles? I Jenner, I'm glad you liked Dario’s sketches. He’s done a great job, and we get to enjoy him for the rest of this series! He did a nice job on all the character designs. I particularly like the way he ‘was able to take a fantastic piece of Jeditechnology like | the lightsaber and make it Jook rustic. There is one thing about Jenner’s letter that I want to point out to future Jedi Journals writers. I’ve got no problem running letters that are critical of the hard work we do here, but if you're going to slam something, please, I beg you, back up your statement. Anyone can write in and say “Naga Sadow sucks!” What I want to know is why you think he sucks. Capice? On to the next letter. .. eeoe Vincent Money Brooklyn, NY Dear Jedi Journals, With a steady and confident hand, I pen my first letter ever to a comic-book letters column. Never before had I felt the need to clarify my feelings concerning any single book ... until now, [have been meaning to write to Tales of the Jedi for quite some time, and I have finally decided to, hot off reading Golden Age of the Sith #0. Thave mixed feelings about this book. I enjoyed the nutshell introduction of the various characters, packing quite a bit of action and insight into a mere twelve pages. I find it strange that Star Wars can accomplish in a twelve-page intro book what it takes other comics one or more issues to do (Prepare to go, Solo! — yeah, whatever). The art for the book had a very relaxing and stylistic approach to it, reminiscent of Tatsuya Ishida’s work on the current Gl Joe series you guys are doing. It is so nice to have such simple, yet effective, artwork that doesn’t give you a headache to look at. Kudos, Chris Gossett! And the cover . . is Chris Moeller a God? It was beautiful. If I didn’t make $3.25 an hour at a sweatshop, I'd try and purchase a piece of his work. Believe it or not, lam not some cheesy, lifeless fanboy or Star Wars geek who writes in every month to discuss differences between the CD- Rom Star Wars stuff and the comic books. I just focus mostly on the work you guys in Oregon are doing, a few of the novels, and of course the movies. With this in mind, I ask a simple question: #0 takes place 5,000 years before the birth of Luke Skywalker — yet the technology in Star Wars: A New Hope does not appear to have advanced much since GAOTS. Why is that? Could it be that the Star Wars universe experiences some form of Dark Ages akin to the one that afflicted Europe in the middle of the current millennia? I must admit, however, I was rather disappointed in the gimmick deal surrounding #0 issues (Image has made it infamous). I think that it’s a great idea to put out a small introduction before the release of the series, but it’s just so... tacky. I mean, slapping together a 12-page comic [Vincent, my friend, if you only knew. .. ] and selling it for $.99 has nothing but money and cheap, promotional bait written all over it. For shame! Granted, it worked on me, but that’s still no excuse. Dark Horse, Lucasfilm, everyone involved is better than that, Otherwise, keep up the fantastic work. I can’t wait for the revamped Star Wars rerelease this winter — I'll be the first in line! Vincent, thanks for your engaging letter. I'm glad you enjoyed Golden Age #0 despite the fact that you feel it was merely a promotional ploy. I thought it worked rather well as a prequel to the series. It set up the story of Gav and Jori being alone and facing an uncertain future — we've all been there, haven‘t we? Hopefully, it connected you to them enough that you'll want to hang around and see how their future turns out. Your question about technology not advancing much in 5,000 years is a good one. You've got to remember that there have been some advances like the lightsabers becoming more compact and starship pilots no longer having to rely on beacons to mark hyperspace jump points. These are just two of many technical advances that were made. You also should remember that there was a lot of activity getting in the way of scientific progress during those 5,000 years, such as the Clone Wars. It's kind of hard to come up with a better hyperdrive when someone is waving a lightsaber in your face. Know what I mean? SOU"e ‘Tyler Wilson White Rock British Columbia, Canada Dear Jedi Journals, After experiencing the Tales of the Jedi saga, | finally decided to write you guys. All Tcan say is wow. Give my regards to the staff at Dark Horse. [Thanks, Tyler!] I'd like to see Dario Carrasco back for the next series. I met him at a comics convention, and he is a great guy. I'm looking forward to the new series The Golden Age of the Sith. [I hope you've liked it so far.] ‘Are you going to do more stories after this series? [You can look forward to The Fall of the Sith Empire early next year!] If you do, wouldn't it be great to see a story of a female Dark Lord of the Sith? [Hmmm. . .] Not along the lines of Aleema, but a sterner character who wants to bring the galaxy to its knees. I know it sounds familiar, but I'm sure you guys can think of a great plot. ‘And the one question I’m sure you guys are asked a lot, Why don’t you make Tales of the Jedi into one of those Japanimation videos? I know I'd buy it. Thanks for your time. Tyler, the main reason we don’t do a Japanimation video is because we aren't in Japan, and we don’t do animation. Sorry. Although I do agree, an animated Jedi story would be cool if it was done right. Seve Well that’s all for now! Hope you all enjoyed this issue, and remember to send in those cards, letters, and e-mails! Oe eect ey Rare Et when Gav and Jori’s ship comes out of hyperspace Pepe SER mre aa Dark Lord Marka Ragnos’ Peer NR ect sa Deacon oe tas Tenement Tee Rete catty Pernice “Funeral for a Dark Lord eon? ene