Club Jade

Yup, that’s about it.

Some of Darren Tan’s artwork for The Essential Reader’s Companion. Gorgeous.

(Check out the lightsaber in the Mara Vong painting vs. the version we debuted back in August! He fixed it!)

Holy crap I just realised something…

I got a nagging feeling when I saw Loki in Jotun form, that I’d seen something similar before. Then I remembered: he’s a dead spit for Grand Admiral Thrawn from the Star Wars Expanded Universe novel Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn. Thrawn is a Chiss, who have dark hair, blue skin and red eyes. He’s also a tactical genius who’s been exiled from his home planet. He’s on the side of the Empire and is in charge of an army (unfortunately, the Rebels do not have a Hulk).

If they ever make Zahn’s rather brilliant Thrawn Trilogy into a movie series (not likely, alas, as it also has Luke, Leia and Han and the respective actors would be to old - it’s set just after the Original Trilogy), Tom Hiddleston would be a pretty good choice for Thrawn, if only for the “Hee, Loki in Star Wars!” angle.

Huh. Good point.

Also, I surprisingly don’t hate this fan-casting (I hate fan-castings 99.9% of the time) despite being rather neutral on the Hiddles.

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A is for Ackbar: An alphabet from a galaxy far, far away by Brandon and Emma Peat.

When my wife Emma and I found out we were pregnant with our first child, Tycho, we began thinking of fun ways to decorate a baby boy’s room. Since we live in an apartment and aren’t allowed to paint the walls, that meant posters or prints of some kind. And, being artists, we naturally wanted to create those prints ourselves. In the end, we decided to illustrate an alphabet of characters from one of our favorite franchises – Star Wars.

Selecting each letter was a lengthy process. The characters who made the cut are primarily from the Original Trilogy (no Prequel characters here!), with a few from the Expanded Universe of books, comics, and video games. We also tried to keep the illustrations as non-violent as possible (in the words of Wuher, “No blasters!”) for maximum kid-friendliness.

I sketched the basis for each character in pencil, which Emma then rendered and colored in Illustrator – it was very much a collaborative process. The project was her idea, even…man I love having a nerdy wife.

See them all at BrandonPeat.com.

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