Reading Materials

I've been on vacation this whole week for Thanksgiving, which has been great! Towards the beginning of vacation, I finished Tatooine Ghost and read A Forest Apart (which is included in the paperback edition of TG), which I was quite pleased about -- after all, that let me return to my Clone Wars reading, which I am determined to finish before Episode III comes out. (I'm also determined to read Labyrinth of Evil, which takes place just before ROTS, before that fateful May 19, even though that book is technically a "prequel novel" and not "a Clone Wars novel.") Anyway, due to that wish I read MedStar II: Jedi Healer next. I finished that a day or two ago (extremely quickly, for me).

I especially liked the appearance of the Resolution at the end -- that really made it seem like something was happening in the Clone Wars (i.e. new ships types being developed), instead of endless battles that accomplish NOTHING, which is how I've felt about the CW novels I've read so far (Shatterpoint, The Cestus Deception, and the MedStar Duology). Hopefully, more things will start happening towards the end of the war -- I'm very much looking forward to reading Jedi Trial and Dark Rendezvous.

There's currently four comic strips running at StarWars.com for subscribers to Hyperspace, and one of them (the only one that's really of interest to me) takes place in the weeks before Revenge of the Sith. That makes it extremely interesting -- people are going places where they're seen at the beginning of ROTS, and we get a look of some of the warriors and battlefields we'll be seing in the final Star Wars movie.

Speaking of comics, I've read none, mainly because I have no idea where to start. I wish I was caught up on them, though, because from what little I know of them I do know that they make up more of the Clone Wars project than do books. It's in comics that Tarkin, AT-ATs, new clone troopers, new ships, new enemies, and new characters first appear. For example, I know nothing of what happened on Jabiim, I have virtually no idea who Alpha is, I can't figure out how Tarkin fits into it all (I'm very interested in him due to his importance later on), and I'm still wondering when this rumored first appearance of All Terrain Armored Transports occurs.

Oh well. Eventually, if ever there comes a lull in Star Wars publishing (which I sincerely hope there never will be, and fully expect there not to be -- not the slightest bit -- for at least another five years), I'll make sure to go back and read all those... somehow. Sadly, I hear it can be rather difficult to find all the past issues. It would be nice for thus-far-no-comics fans like me if they would compile them all in nice big books. (Who knows. Maybe they do!)

Speaking of the coming years for SW publishing, starwars.com has recently released a ton of information about the Episode III-related books coming this April. Needless to say, I'm really excited! :-)