It wasn’t until about a year and a half ago that I went from being a casual comic book fan to a serious collector. I recently looked back at my large collection on my books and comics from this year, and I tallied it up. I suddenly realized how much I had spent this year on comics and books alone. More than four hundred dollars. While that might not be much to some people, to me, a more low-budget collector, this is a substancial amount of money.
While there are a lot of Star Wars comics, when you break it down, only two or three, sometimes even less, come out every month. Other than a few issues of Knights of the Old Republic and Legacy that have slipped through my fingers, I’ve picked up almost every single issue.
As for books, this year I’ve bought and read up the first four Legacy of the Force books, Allegence, Destiny’s Way, Outbound Flight, X-Wing: Isard’s Revenge, and X-Wing: Starfighters of Adumar. As usual, these are in addition to re-reading older books with the Star Wars Action News book club.
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Posted in Star Wars Books, Star Wars Comics on December 18, 2007| Leave a Comment »
Comic Book Review: Splinter of the Mind’s Eye
Posted in Comic Books, Dark Horse, Splinter of the Mind's Eye, Star Wars, Star Wars Book News, Star Wars book reviews, Star Wars Comics on November 9, 2007| Leave a Comment »
Originally published in comic book series in 1996, this volume of the 30th Anniversary Comic Book Collection contains the entire series of comic adaptions of the book Splinter of the Mind’s Eye. Originally written and released in 1978 by Alan Dean Foster, it was re-adapted by comic book writer Terry Austin.
The art was reminiscent of the old days of Marvel, but overall Chris Sprouse did a good job portraying our original characters. It fit the feel of the story perfectly, and Sprouse does a wonderful job designing the world origanally created in the novel.