Ah, Dark Horse Comics! How do I love thee? Let me count the ways!
I'm still miffed beyond belief about the whole Star Wars license being pulled from Dark Horse Comics and given to Marvel Comics (egad!) when George Lucas sold the property to Walt Disney. I've penned a handful of smaller treatises about the whole affair with other websites, so I won't belabor the issue here except to say that it's a crying shame. For over two decades, Dark Horse's stable of writers produced some amazing, amazing work in the realm of that galaxy far, far away; and now it's all being dismissed as non-canon by some suits who probably wouldn't know a Solo from a Rolo.
In any event ...
On this day in 2013, Dark Horse Comics released a massive hardcover collection for Star Wars: Legacy, scribe John Ostrander's look at the future of the Skywalker family about 100 years after the days of Luke, Han, and Leia. If you haven't explored it, check it out while you can as it's very highly rated by the fans!
I'm still miffed beyond belief about the whole Star Wars license being pulled from Dark Horse Comics and given to Marvel Comics (egad!) when George Lucas sold the property to Walt Disney. I've penned a handful of smaller treatises about the whole affair with other websites, so I won't belabor the issue here except to say that it's a crying shame. For over two decades, Dark Horse's stable of writers produced some amazing, amazing work in the realm of that galaxy far, far away; and now it's all being dismissed as non-canon by some suits who probably wouldn't know a Solo from a Rolo.
In any event ...
On this day in 2013, Dark Horse Comics released a massive hardcover collection for Star Wars: Legacy, scribe John Ostrander's look at the future of the Skywalker family about 100 years after the days of Luke, Han, and Leia. If you haven't explored it, check it out while you can as it's very highly rated by the fans!
SCI-FI BIRTHDAYS
Born on this day back in 1942, Nick Tate has had a rather impressive acting career contributing to sci-fi. Of course, he's probably best known as Alan Carter from Space: 1999, but he's also had guest appearances in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, The X-Files, and Farscape, to name but a few. He even holds the distinction of providing the voice to the dastardly Prince Xizor from the Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire video game.
Thanks for all you've done, Nick, and Happy Birthday!
Thanks for all you've done, Nick, and Happy Birthday!
Most folks know Richard Boone as the man who played Paladin of Have Gun - Will Travel (a truly awesome show in its own right if I do say so myself) fame from the glory days of television, but I remember his appearance in the 1977 actioner The Last Dinosaur. He was a big game hunter who found himself in a prehistoric world, and he was the only man with the smarts to track (you guessed it) the last dinosaur. Though he's no longer with us, Boone was born on this day in 1917.
That grim-faced Imperial officer from Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back is none other than actor Michael Sheard. As Admiral Ozzel, he offended the Dark Lord of the Sith one too many times, and I believe he was the first one Force-choked to death in TESB, though he certainly wasn't the last. Sheard also had several appearances as several characters in the long-running BBC juggernaut, Doctor Who. Though he's no longer with us, Sheard was born on this day in 1938.
Veteran character actor Ralph Brown had the good fortune to appear alongside Sigourney Weaver in Alien 3; and, in 2000, he had a brief recurring stint aboard the sci-fi oddity that was Lexx. Brown was born on this day in 1957.
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