May the 4th be with you!

Happy Star Wars day everyone!
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Exhibition - "Founding Myths. From Hercules to Darth Vader"

If by chance you´re visiting in Paris or you live there, here´s a great opportunity to see Darth Vader (Dark Vador in french) in Le Musée du Louvre.

The exhibition "Exposition Mythes fondateurs - D’Hercule à Dark Vador", opened its doors on the 17th of October and it will run until the 4th of July of 2016. So there´s still plenty of time to enjoy it and to see how Darth Vader is depicted in one of the most iconic museums of the planet.

Here´s a bit of what can you experience: 

"What are myths? And how are they portrayed? How are myths passed on to us? How have artists appropriated them? Told, sung, written, and illustrated, myths are a part of all cultures and civilizations, including contemporary popular culture."

And pop culture is what Star Wars is about!

If you go there, let me know, I would love to see some pictures of it.

We have the villain´s face

This is awesome news!

Red eyed, a hood, a metallic face, those fingers and... Vader´s mask! Darth Vader´s mask! Or what´s left of it.

About a week ago, Indie Revolver revealed a piece of concept art about (what appears to be) the main villain of Star Wars: Episode VII!

Here´s a brief description of the character:

"A Sith Inquisitor: He's tall and thin and terrifyingly creepy, with glowing red eyes to match his red light saber. He's got some robotic upgrades, like Vader - but no mask. The cybernetic bits weave in and out of him. He's got a human upper lip, a steel jaw... and the robotic hand that JJ Abrams posted an image of."

Two weeks ago J.J. Abrams twitted a picture of a cybernetic hand, and now everyone believes there´s a connection between these two revelations.

What are your main thoughts?

Do you really think this hand belongs to The Inquisitor or to a 3-CPO unit?

Death Star novel

At the moment, I´m reading my first Star Wars novel, "Death Star", a great piece of work by writers Michael Reaves and Steve Perry.

As a fan, without any particular reason, I must confess that I never read a single novel of the greatest saga of all time. True... but, it´s never too late and here I am, with "Death Star" by my side and loving every single page of it.

In the EU of Star Wars, I was always a comic book explorer. I follow almost every single one of them, have a huge collection, I know the release dates, but I always left the novels aside. Until now. Now I´m "doomed", as 3PO says, I have a loooooooot to catch up!

Back to the book, so far I´m at page 72, starting chapter 11. But there was a passage that I particularly enjoyed and I want to share, ´cause talks about hyperspace and a condition named "hyper-rapture". And Darth Vader is part of it...

"IMPERIAL-CLASS STAR DESTROYER DEVASTATOR, EN ROUTE TO HORUZ SYSTEM

Darth Vader stood on the bridge of his warship, staring out through the forward viewport at the kaleidoscopic chaos of hyperspace. The effect, even moving at the relatively stately speed of a Star Destroyer, was akin to tumbling down an endless tunnel of amorphous, whirling patterns of light—starlight and nebulae smeared into impressionistic blotches by the ship´s superluminal speed. He knew that even experienced spacers and navy personnel often hesitated to look out at it. Standard operating procedure was to keep the thick slabs of transparisteel opaqued while traveling through the higher-dimensional universe. There was something profoundly wrong about hyperspace, composed as it was of more than the three spatial and one temporal dimensions that most sentient species were used to. Looking too long into hyperspace promised madness, so the stories went. He had never heard of anyone actually succumbing to "hyper-rapture", as it was called. Nevertheless, the legends persisted.
Vader enjoyed staring into it.
(...)"

Illustrations by Liam Brazier

Yesterday I discovered 2 artists, Boneface and Liam Brazier, much by fault of the new QOTSA video. And its the second one that brought me to this post, because of his amazing illustrations of Star Wars, among many others.

I hope you enjoy to this aproach to the Force!

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Descobri ontem 2 artistas que desconhecia completamente, Boneface e Liam Brazier, muito por culpa do novo vídeo dos QOTSA. E é este segundo nome que me trouxe até este post, devido às suas excelentes ilustrações do universo Star Wars, entre muitas outras que são igualmente fenomenais.

Espero que gostem desta abordagem à Força!

Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Ghost Prison

Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Ghost Prison graphic novel is available for pre-order and will be released in 32 days, almost here for the fans to enjoy its art.
In the meanwhile, the publisher has put together a new trailer, using 3D images rendered straight from Agustin Alessio's original interior artwork. Watch it here.

The truth was found...

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Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Lost Command

Still haunted by the death of Anakin Skywalker's beloved Padmé in Revenge of the Sith, Darth Vader is tasked with a mission to locate a lost Imperial expeditionary force--led by the son of Vader's rising nemesis, Moff Tarkin. But the perils of Vader's journey into the unexplored Ghost Nebula are compounded by traitors among his crew and the presence of the system's religious leader, Lady Saro. Collects the five-issue miniseries.

Already available to Pre-Order here.


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Never forget to turn off your phone...

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VW seduces Darth Vader

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I´m not your father

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Vader wants Hollywood

Thanks Filipe ;)


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