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First Saga Edition Sourcebook Update - Starfighters! - Mon, June 30th, 2008 - 9:26 pm PDT |
Well, it's finally here. We've managed to churn out our very first Saga Edition update for our Clone Wars Fan Sourcebook. This update goes into detail on the Starfighters used during the Clone Wars. With the help of our newest contributor, Eric Allen we have presented pictures of every starfighter in the chapter.
Also, co-founder and writer at Fandom Comics, Keith Kappel (NarCranor), has been nominated for a variety of categories in the Saga Fan Fiction Awards. Show your support by registering and voting for Keith for his short story Cheedak's Last Hunt. |
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Fandom Comics Receives PFA Award - Wed, April 2nd, 2008 - 5:23 am PDT |
Fandom Comics is pleased to report that it has been awarded the Project Fanboy Award for the month of March.
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OmegaCon 2008 Report - Mon, March 31st, 2008 - 7:46 pm PDT |
updated this article on Mon, March 31st, 2008 - 9:44 pm PDT with:
For those who don't know, Dawn Gallagher (our PR girl) and myself went down to Birmingham, Alabama over the March 14-16 St. Patrick's Day Weekend 2008 to introduce Fandom Comics to the south. The following is my account of the days leading into the convention, as well as my jumbled memories of the convention itself.
The night before OmegaCon was frantic. I had a bit of Saga Edition RPG material left to write, a presentation to rehearse, and packing to do. Just prior to ten in the evening, I had finished. What a relief. Now just to burn all of the files to CD and throw it in my backpack. Naturally, the CD-ROM decided to take the day off. Something internally had physically snapped, and it refused to open, close, or load/read/write CDs.
Fortunately, I did have a backup plan, a Zip Drive. I fished around my storage closet, ripping it apart until I located the savior of my evening. Then, as if this were some far-fetched movie, the Zip Drive decided it didn't want to work either. By now my stress levels are starting to peak, knowing that in a matter of hours, I would have to be on a plane. My roommate, who is slightly more computer savvy than myself, as well as my ride to the airport, was not at home, making things a bit more tense.
My computer was an inherited HP off the shelf. This is significant because it means it is not an easy matter to crack the case open and remove components. They built that case as if the Mongol hordes might invade at any moment, and it'd be best to keep them out. I spent most of the wee hours of that evening with a hammer and chisel, chinking away at the numerous solder/screw fastening points, desperately trying to access my hard drive with all my work on it.
Thankfully, my roommate did finally get home about four hours before we had to leave for my flight. He took his computer, popped my newly liberated harddrive into it, and I hastily copied a much larger than necessary chunk of my harddrive to disk. I would certainly have to buy an entirely new PC when I returned home, which was going to pose a problem financially, but at least I was now set for OmegaCon, even if I wouldn't be starting the weekend out with much sleep.
 Dawn and I had planned to arrive on Thursday early evening, hoping to have an extra day to catch up on sleep and set up the Fandom Comics booth, get a schedule, and generally familiarize ourselves with our surroundings. We met up at the airport quickly and easily, as our flights were only a mere ten minutes apart. We had the long-separated friends greeting and then began bemoaning the loss of TJ Colligan from the convention, who was sadly unable to attend.
The Redmont Hotel is the oldest operating hotel in Birmingham, Alabama, and we stayed there hoping for something a bit more classy than the Days Inn. Expedia failed to mention that the place had not been renovated since construction, and the hotel itself soon became a bit of a running gag. The most interesting part of the hotel seemed to be the elevator status board just outside the elevator bank in the lobby, as the numbers were out of sequence and the lights appeared to show an elevator on a few floors at once. Despite all of that, some of the hotel staff would later prove to be exceptionally friendly, showcasing some of that southern hospitality they are rumored to have.
In any case, we ultimately chose the hotel because it was only a ten minute walk from the Sheraton which is where OmegaCon was to begin the following day. Dawn and I decided to pay the location a visit, complete with our booth decorations, in hopes of an early set-up. We wandered the hotel without success, unable to find either the convention floor or anyone in the Sheraton staff that had heard of OmegaCon. We dejectedly resigned ourselves to lugging our gear back to to Redmont and calling it a night in what I can only describe as one of the worst starts I have ever had for any trip.
However, as low as things were at the start, the rest of the weekend turned around and was fantastic. Dawn and I arrived at 9:30 am or so at the Sheraton, where convention decorations and the like were in full swing. We quickly found our table and proceeded to set up. We were directly across from a very busy booth for the Southeastern Browncoats, a FireFly fan club. Our table experienced some minor setbacks in that we could not get an internet connection to have people view the site and sign up at the forums at the table, which was basically our entire plan for the booth. Luckily, after abusing the Sheraton's business center color printer for a bit, we had a fair amount of the Clone Wars Sourcebook material as well as some comic pages printed out for people to flip through.
Dawn and I spent the majority of the convention in separate areas. She was a trooper and spent most of her time at our booth, attracting new readers and letting people know about the site. Meanwhile, I was busy running around the entire Sheraton, trying to find the Star Wars Program Track Room. It ended up being on the opposite side of the hotel, but at last I located Cathy Bowden, the woman in charge of the program track.
As a first year convention, OmegaCon had a lot to improve on for next year, but the Star Wars staff did a fantastic job of making sure I knew where I had to be, in one case even physically grabbing me by the hand and dragging me there. Unfortunately, if the speaker has no idea where hes speaking, odds are the listeners don't know where it is either, or even that it is taking place. Scheduling and awareness of events were the two primary problems at OmegaCon, and I was not at all shocked when my first talk, Friday's Character Creation for Star Wars Fan Fiction, didn't draw much of a crowd. I still enjoyed the small handful of people that came, and they were extremely attentive and seemed geniunely interested in what I had to say, which was a bit of a trip.
My second talk was about Fandom Comics specifically, and it drew triple the crowd that my first talk had. Perhaps this was because the Fandom Comics presentation was on Sunday, when things had started to get a bit organized, or perhaps people were just interested. Either way, while I was disappointed to find that of all the things I had copied to disk, my presentation was not one of them, I still managed to wing it and feel comfortable giving the talk.
The much worked on RPG campaign was never run, because it was misnamed on the schedule as Clan Wars RPG with Keith Kappel instead of Star Wars Clone Wars Saga Edition RPG. Despite doing my best to recruit some players, the game just never got off the ground. With our short staff for the convention, this was just fine by me, since it meant I didn't have to be away from my booth for an additional four hours a day.
The highlight of the convention didn't take place at the convention, but between and afterward. I managed to catch Richard LaParmentier (Admiral Motti from Episode IV) at the hotel bar, and proceeded to introduce myself and buy the good Admiral a cocktail. From that point on, it seemed like I couldn't take two steps without bumping into him, and we became buddies for the weekend, spending much of Saturday and Sunday hanging out between events and after the convention. Richard was great to hang out with, and he told me about a number of projects he was working on, (one of which Fandom Comics MAY have a tangential part in) as well as a number of stories from conventions past.
The best single moment of the weekend for me was Sunday evening, where Richard had invited Dawn and I to join him for a drink at the Tutweiler, a hotel between the Sheraton and Redmont, to celebrate the end of OmegaCon. Dawn had a plane to catch, and was only able to stay for a brief time, and not twenty minutes after she left, author Alan Dean Foster walked in (A New Hope novelization, Splinter of the Mind's Eye, The Approaching Storm). Neither men were aware of the connection they shared, and I was able to introduce them. Sitting between these two gentlemen as they traded stories was a fantastic time, and both kindly suffered me to interject my own tale now and again.
Alpha and Omega are a form of shorthand for "the beginning and ending." I suppose, since it is OmegaCon, it is fitting that the Alpha side of things didn't go so well, and the Omega side of things went great. In all, the entire weekend was much more a thrill ride than I am accustomed to, but the event went incredibly well. I had a blast doing the convention, and I hope to be invited to more in the future. Dawn and I learned quite a bit from doing OmegaCon, and at future conventions we will be certain to apply those lessons to making our next appearance even more fun and successful. Thank you to Cathy Bowden for inviting us, and all those who attended and stopped by the booth!
As for updates this month, I was interviewed by the fellows at WarpCast.net . Download Episode 17, where I take up the second half of the podcast. Also, we are featured in the OmegaCon 2008 breakdown by the Sandtroopers.com folks. Finally, both Cracken's Crew and Tales of the Chu'unthor have been added to DrunkDuck.com which is a web-comic list site. Help support Fandom Comics by creating a free account and voting for both our comics! |
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Chu'Unthor Page 13, Cracken's Crew & More - Mon, March 17th, 2008 - 9:32 pm PDT |
| Well, I tried to get our normal 15th of the month update posted on time but there was a small matter I had to attend to before I was able to focus on the update. Fortunately, I was able to get this update out within a reasonable amount of time to provide you with Page 13 of the Tales of the Chu'Unthor. Additionally, I've posted both in both CBR Format and PDF Format the first completed comic issue from Fandom Comics - Cracken's Crew: The Invisible War - Issue #1. Finally, Keith and Dawn should be back from OmegaCon any time now to give their report on the event. Enjoy. |
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Final Page for Issue 1 of Cracken's Crew - Fri, February 15th, 2008 - 9:33 pm PST |
| Well, it took us almost three years but at least we finally reached this milestone. Issue #1 of Cracken's Crew: The Invisible War is finally finished. Sometime in the near future I'll be taking the entire issue and combining it into downloadable CBR and PDF files. Enjoy! |
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Chu'Unthor Page 12 - Tue, January 15th, 2008 - 7:48 pm PST |
| It's chugging right along and we're passed the half-way mark on our second comic. This time we bring you the Tales of the Chu'Unthor Page 12. Definitely check it out. Enjoy! |
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2008: Getting Back On Track - Wed, January 2nd, 2008 - 3:38 am PST |
So we kind of dropped the ball during the last few months of 2007. Tron and myself have been taking a small break so we can start doing some big things in '08. We have a lot of projects that we have been working on that I really hope we will be able to get on the site this year, both in terms of new comics and RPG material. For more details on the various projects, please visit the thread on our forums.
In any case, I hope everyone had a happy holiday season! |
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Cracken's Crew Page 21 - Sat, December 15th, 2007 - 6:14 am PST |
| Only one more page to go and we're finally finished with our first issue. The 21st page of Cracken's Crew is posted and ready for everyone to read. Enjoy! |
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Chu'Unthor Page 11 - Sun, October 21st, 2007 - 9:56 pm PDT |
| Well it may be a few days late but the newest page of Keith Kappel and TJ Colligan's Tales of the Chu'Unthor has been posted for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy! |
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Fandom Comics RPG Plans For The Future - Mon, October 1st, 2007 - 10:45 am PDT |
Hey everyone. Its no national secret that we haven't exactly been putting out our monthly Clone Wars D20 Fan Sourcebook chapters with the speed you are all accustomed to as of late. October 1st marks another month we will not be posting one. For this I apologize. The release of the Saga Edition Star Wars RPG has forced Tron and myself to rethink our RPG release strategy and come up with a new plan to keep things fun and current around here.
As a result of those talks, Tron and myself have decided to cease D20 Revised statting and focus instead on converting existing stats to Saga Edition standards and continue with the Clone Wars Fan Sourcebook in the Saga format. Our first chapter of Saga material should release Jan or Feb 1st, at which point we will make our future publishing schedule more clear. Thank you all for your support, and note that the current D20 chapters will remain available for download on the website for the foreseeable future. |
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Cracken's Crew Page 20 - Sun, September 16th, 2007 - 10:22 am PDT |
| Only two pages left and our first issue of our very first comic will be completed! Enjoy! |
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Clone Wars Sourcebook - Equipment - Sat, September 1st, 2007 - 9:31 am PDT |
| I finally managed to crank out the entire completed equipment chapter, containing armor, devices and weapons. Enjoy! |
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Tales of the Chu'Unthor Page 10 - Sat, August 18th, 2007 - 12:00 pm PDT |
I know we missed our update on the first of this month but I've been busting my hump trying to polish up the equipment chapter for final release on September 1st. I think everyone will really enjoy the chapter. Keith has been working on our October 1st release which will be the first segment of the Clones chapter.
Plugging right along, today we bring you the latest page of the Tales of the Chu'Unthor. TJ did an awesome job on this page, and the story is really starting to heat up. Enjoy! |
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Cracken's Crew Page 19 - Sun, July 15th, 2007 - 1:19 pm PDT |
| Only three more pages remain before Fandom Comics' first comic book issue is finally completed. With this update we bring you the the 19th page of Cracken's Crew: The Invisible War. Enjoy! |
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Clone Wars Sourcebook - Equipment (Part 1) - Sun, July 1st, 2007 - 6:09 pm PDT |
| Well, Keith is without internet connection right now and he wasn't able to send me his half of the armor and equipment chapter. Fortunately I still have my half completed so I'm presenting it to you all now. I've omitted a couple of the items I've completed because they go hand-in-hand with one or more of Keith's entries (such as the Mk II clone trooper armor) but there are still dozens of items for you to browse through. Next month we'll release the completed equipment chapter combined with weapons. Enjoy! |
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Tales of the Chu'Unthor Page 8 & 9 - Fri, June 15th, 2007 - 4:50 pm PDT |
It's time again for our mid-month update. This time we're pleased present our viewers with pages eight and nine of our second comic series Tales of the Chu'Unthor. The series' artist TJ Colligan did a great job on this month's addition to the issue.
Additionally, for those who missed it, our very own TJ Colligan was interviewed by Fanboy TV by Oliver Tull and Scott Hinze during their June 7th, 2007 live webcast. Check the link to view the archived version and while you're there have a look around the site. Lots of great stuff over there. |
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Clone Wars Sourcebook Update - Archetypes & Prestige Classes - Sun, June 3rd, 2007 - 6:58 pm PDT |
I know that armor and items was on the agenda for this update, but Keith was a slacker all last month and didn't get his half of the chapter completed. I on the other hand had mine finished with a week to spare... (BURN! :P) Anyway, rather than releasing half of the armor/items now and the other half next month I decided to release an updated version of the Archetypes & Prestige Classes chapter of our Clone Wars Fan Sourcebook.
On a whim, on a particularly boring day at work I went through the chapter and picked out about 200 grammatical, spelling and typo errors in addition to the half a dozen errors that our readers had brought to our attention. To my surprise, no one managed to catch the complete omission of the Election Rules referenced by the Political Advisor prestige class. So those have been written and added as well. Hopefully this will be the last update of this particular chapter until we do the final recompile when the entire book is finished some time in the (probably distant) future.
Oh, and by the way. Everyone get on Keith's case about slacking with the armor/items chapter last month. |
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Star Wars Outsider Issue 1 - Thu, May 24th, 2007 - 1:14 am PDT |
updated this article on Fri, May 25th, 2007 - 4:14 am PDT with:
For those who haven't been checking Star Wars Outsider Website daily, I'm pleased to announce that Star Wars Outsider Issue 1 was finally released. Our very own TJ Colligan of Tales of the Chu'unthor fame contributed two pinup pieces for the Vob Bitas fiction, written by friend of the site and all around good guy Bob Vitas, maintainer of the Unofficial Star Wars Encyclopedia. Be sure to check the magazine out, and let the Outsider guys know how much you loved it. Look forward to more contributions to this wonderful fanzine from Fandom Comics in the future! |
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Cracken's Crew - Page 18 - Mon, May 14th, 2007 - 10:45 pm PDT |
| It's the 15th and time for a new comic page. This time we offer you the next installment of our first comic series, Cracken's Crew: The Invisible War written by Keith Kappel with artwork by Steve Criado. Enjoy! |
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Clone Wars Sourcebook - The Republic Military - Mon, April 30th, 2007 - 8:26 pm PDT |
For this update we bring you the the second half of the Republic chapter in our Clone Wars Sourcebook. Already combined with the political half of the Republic chapter, this update details all of the military personnel of the Grand Army of the Republic that were not in fact clones. In addition to the military characters we have also made several corrections caught by our fans, included new material for existing political characters, and included several political characters that were accidentally omitted from the last Republic chapter release.
Don't forget to check back on May 15th for the next page in our flagship comic series Cracken's Crew: The Invisible War. |
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Tales of the Chu'Unthor - Page 7 - Sat, April 14th, 2007 - 9:24 pm PDT |
| We've been kind of slow producing the comic pages recently, but I'm glad to say we won't be missing a comic update this month. TJ has produced the next page in Tales of the Chu'Unthor issue number one. This page begins a new scene between two of the key players in the Hutt syndicate of this story arc. Enjoy! |
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Clone Wars Sourcebook - Weapons - Sun, April 1st, 2007 - 9:05 pm PDT |
This update we bring you the next chapter to our Clone Wars Sourcebook. This chapter details the weaponry used by both the Confederacy and the Republic during the Clone Wars.
Also, be sure to check out the first issue of Star Wars Outsider due to be released any day now. Artwork has been contributed to this issue by myself and Fandom Comics' own T.J. Colligan. |
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Clone Wars Sourcebook - The Republic - Thu, March 1st, 2007 - 7:45 pm PST |
| After several delays, Keith and I have finally managed to finish the first half of the Republic chapter in our ongoing Clone Wars Sourcebook. Next month we're changing things up a bit by releasing the Weapons chapter, followed by the second half of the Republic chapter. Enjoy! |
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Dark Side Update - Thu, February 1st, 2007 - 4:34 pm PST |
| Well, we're slowly picking up the pieces after last month's delays. While Keith and I are still working on the release on the Republic chapter, I felt we couldn't miss another update. Therefore, we spent a couple of days thoroughly going through our first chapter release, The Dark Side, and made massive corrections to both write-ups and stats. We've also added a considerable amount of new content including a whole new character, and a brand new piece of original artwork by Tim Sullivan. Look for the first half of the Republic chapter next month, and a new page of Tales of the Chu'Unthor for the next update. Enjoy! |
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A Death in the Family - Mon, January 1st, 2007 - 9:23 pm PST |
| I am deeply saddened to report that Ryan Brooks, my friend and co-founder, has experienced the tragic and sudden loss of his father-in-law this holiday season. Understandably, Ryan has decided it best to take a bit of time off from the site to get through this turbulent time with his loved ones. As a result, the Republic Politician NPC Chapter for our Clone Wars D20 Fan Sourcebook we had planned to release today will be delayed. I apologize to our fans for the delay, but I am certain you can all be understanding, and I would encourage each of you to send Ryan your condolences and sorrow for the loss in his family. |
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Happy Holidays - Fri, December 15th, 2006 - 3:07 pm PST |
While I wish we were forward-looking enough to give you a GIFT for the holidays, a lot of schedules are a bit muddled as a result instead. So, unfortunately, we have no mid-momth update for December.
On the brighter side, our next RPG update is going more or less on schedule, and expect a new chapter for the Clone Wars D20 Fan Sourcebook on the 1st of the year. The chapter? Republic Political NPCs. Mostly senators and their aides and what have you.
Happy Holidays from Fandom Comics! |
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Clone Wars Sourcebook Update. - Fri, December 1st, 2006 - 8:37 pm PST |
| On this December 1st and after considerable feedback and discussion with our viewers, we here at Fandom Comics are pleased to offer you an updated and polished copy of our largest chapter to date from our Clone Wars Sourcebook. In this update, almost a dozen new pieces of artwork have been added from artists such as Duanne Barbour, Fritz Aldrin Casas, TJ Colligan, HAI!, Holly Laing, Sean Vrabel, Noel Ward, and Greg Woronchak. We've also made several additions, alterations, and corrections. I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season, and we'll see you again on December 15th. Enjoy! |
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Chu'Unthor Page 5 & 6 - Wed, November 15th, 2006 - 9:08 pm PST |
| This update we bring you two brand spankin' new pages for our second comic series: Tales of the Chu'Unthor by Keith Kappel and T.J. Colligan. Enjoy! |
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Archetypes & Prestige Classes....finally - Sun, November 5th, 2006 - 7:35 pm PST |
updated this article on Mon, November 6th, 2006 - 12:16 pm PST with:
Well, after 2 days of getting my computers back up to spec, and three days of working on the file I finally managed to crank out our latest installment of the Clone Wars Sourcebook. This edition brings you the archetypes and prestige classes that saw battle during the Clone Wars. Enjoy!
Also, check out our new MySpace page at http://www.myspace.com/fandomcomics send us a friend request and get bulletins about site updates and other site news! |
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I dun messed up now... - Wed, November 1st, 2006 - 9:03 pm PST |
| Just wanted to let everyone know the update is going to be a late. I had planned on coming home today and finishing the chapter for release tonight but as fate would have it I had some pretty big computer problems today and I had to reinstall Windows. I just now got the OS and drivers reinstalled but I need to install all of my software and fonts so I can work on the chapter. I'll do my best to have the chapter released on Friday. Sorry everybody. |
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Fandom Comics Around the Web - Tue, October 17th, 2006 - 2:27 am PDT |
| Hey everyone, I know I don't post too many of the news articles, but I was just browsing around and found something to get a little excited about. Dan Wallace (writer of many of the Essential Guides) just stuck me on his Blog Roll on the official site http://blogs.starwars.com/danwallace/60 . A true honor, considering you only get to choose ten fellow blogs for your roll. Most are VIPs, but there are three other fans on his blog; Bob Vitas of the unofficial encyclopedia (www.cuswe.com), the webmaster of Nerf-Herders-Anonymous.net and one fan who is an archaeologist, so thanks Dan! Be sure to check his homepage here: http://danwall88.googlepages.com/ |
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Cracken's Crew Page 16 & 17 Double-page Spread - Sun, October 15th, 2006 - 3:00 pm PDT |
| We're nearing the end of our very first Fandom Comics issue. Pages 16 and 17 have been posted for your enjoyment, and we have 5 more pages to go before issue 1 of Cracken's Crew: The Invisible War comes to a close. Enjoy! |
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Clone Wars Sourcebook - Alien Species - Sun, October 1st, 2006 - 10:00 am PDT |
This update we bring you a brand new chapter in our Clone Wars Sourcebook. This chapter delves into the various alien species that were introduced into the Star Wars mythos during the three-year long Clone Wars.
Be on the look-out this month for two more pages in our original comic series Cracken's Crew: The Invisible War. Then next month, it's still a toss up as to whether we will be releasing a new chapter involving the personalities of the Republic, or Prestige Classes. Either way, stay tuned. Enjoy! |
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Chu'Unthor Page 4 - Thu, September 14th, 2006 - 8:47 pm PDT |
| This update we bring you the latest addition to our newest comic series, Tales of the Chu'Unthor. Enjoy! |
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Clone Wars Sourcebook - The Confederacy - Sun, September 10th, 2006 - 9:19 pm PDT |
| Extremely late being released, I know, but things came up that couldn't be helped (mainly me being very sick and not working on the final compile). "Better late than never" seems to be our mantra as of late, but we're working on taking care of that. So, with that I bring you our latest chapter of the Clone Wars Sourcebook - The Confederacy. Enjoy! |
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Cracken's Crew Page 14 & 15 - Tue, August 15th, 2006 - 4:21 am PDT |
| Allright, this time around we bring you two brand new pages of Cracken's Crew: The Invisible War. Only 7 more pages before our first issue is completed. Enjoy! |
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Dark Side Chapter v1.2 - Mon, July 31st, 2006 - 8:57 pm PDT |
| For this update we bring you a second revision to the Dark Side chapter of our Clone Wars Sourcebook. Enjoy! |
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Chu'Unthor Page 3 - Fri, July 14th, 2006 - 9:20 pm PDT |
updated this article on Sun, July 16th, 2006 - 9:32 am PDT with:
This update we bring you the third page of our new series: Tales of the Chu'Unthor. Additionally, I've tossed in a few more pieces of artwork into our Clone Wars Sourcebook. Enjoy!
Also, we just had an interview posted at www.lightsabre.co.uk so make sure to give that a read and check out the rest of their site! The interviews section is loaded with lots of people with official connections to star wars as well as a lot of the big names in the fan community. They have also been a great help promoting our site and getting our name out there. |
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Clone Wars Sourcebook - The Jedi Order - Mon, July 3rd, 2006 - 9:01 pm PDT |
Well, it's finally completed. We here at Fandom Comics are very pleased to bring you the completed Jedi chapter of our ongoing Clone Wars Sourcebook. This chapter weighs in at 154 pages and includes information and stats on 150 Jedi who participated in the Clone Wars. It also includes a little information on nearly a hundred other Jedi. Most importantly, in its pages, you'll find almost a dozen pieces of original artwork from the amazing talents of, Steve Criado, TJ Colligan, Chris Chaisson, Tim Sullivan, Matt Skilton, Holly Laing, and last but not least, our newest contributor, Sean Vrabel.
I've also added a good bit of artwork into the Clone Wars Sourcebook Sketchbook. Enjoy! |
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Cracken's Crew Page 13 & More - Wed, June 14th, 2006 - 7:55 pm PDT |
For this update, Steve Criado brings us the thirteenth page of our Cracken's Crew: The Invisible War.
Also, we've added Tim Sullivan to our list of contributors. I've also added a new sketchbook showcasing the original artwork submitted by our contributors for the Clone Wars Sourcebook. Finally, Steve has added more artwork to his Cracken's Crew: The Invisible War Sketchbook. Enjoy! |
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Clone Wars Sourcebook - Jedi Masters Part 2 - Sat, June 3rd, 2006 - 12:35 am PDT |
| Well, better late than never I suppose. We're finally nearing the end of the Jedi chapter of our Clone Wars Sourcebook, the latest of which is the second half of the Jedi Masters. We also began adding bios for our biggest contributors, and there will be more to come in the days and weeks ahead. I've also added a news archive at the bottom of the page. Stay tuned, next month we'll be compiling all the Jedi subchapters into one big chapter, including around a dozen new Jedi and a few we missed or didn't have time to include, as well as a bunch of other goodies. Enjoy! |
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Tales of the Chu'Unthor Launches & FC One Year Old - Sun, May 14th, 2006 - 8:24 pm PDT |
Well, it seems May 13th has come and gone, meaning that we here at Fandom Comics have been at it for a year now. In that time we've brought you twelve pages of the Cracken's Crew: The Invisible War comic series, two CCIW RPG supplements, three short fictions, a slew of original artwork by a variety of extremely talented artists, and several chapters of our Clone Wars Sourcebook.
Now, Keith Kappel and TJ Colligan bring you an all new fan-comic series entitlted: The Tales of the Chu'Unthor. In this series, we follow Jedi Master Fin-So Rowan and his fellow Jedi as they embark on the Chu'Unthor's missions throughout the galaxy. We hope that you enjoy this new comic series, and look forward to bringing you future additions to Cracken's Crew, Tales of the Chu'Unthor, the Clone Wars Sourcebook, and much, much more! |
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May The Fourth Be With You! - Thu, May 4th, 2006 - 7:26 am PDT |
Just wanted to wish all of our readers a happy "Star Wars Day." I also wanted to remind everyone to check back here on May 15th for our 1 year anniversary update, which should include a launch of our new comic book title, Tales of the Chu'Unthor. Cracken's Crew will also continue as our flagship title, and the two books will rotate updates.
Happy Star Wars Day! |
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Clone Wars Sourcebook Part 5: Jedi Masters - Sun, April 30th, 2006 - 7:35 pm PDT |
updated this article on Mon, May 1st, 2006 - 1:40 am PDT with:
Changing our release schedule a bit - instead of releasing a comic chapter like we normally do, we're bringing you our next installment of the Clone Wars Sourcebook. This time we delve into the Jedi Order once again, detailing the Jedi Masters who served the Republic during the Clone Wars. Next month we'll be bringing you the second half of the Jedi Masters sub-chapter. So until then, enjoy!
Also, help support our comic, Cracken's Crew: The Invisible War by linking from, commenting, faving, and ranking us appropriately at The Web Comic List. The CC:IW profile can be found here. we are currently ranked 1,866 out of 6,347. Also support The Bullet Angelica (Chu'Unthor Artist TJ Colligan's other web project), which is also on the site. |
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Clone Wars Sourcebook Part 4: The Jedi Council - Fri, April 14th, 2006 - 7:06 pm PDT |
| Well...I finally finished this monster of a chapter. For this update we bring you our fourth installment of the Clone Wars Sourcebook. This time we visit the spires of the Jedi Temple and have a look at the members of the Jedi Council who served during the 3 years of the Clone Wars. Enjoy! |
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Cracken's Crew Page 12 - Fri, March 31st, 2006 - 8:03 pm PST |
This update we bring you the 12th page of our flagship comic series Cracken's Crew: The Invisible War. It seems Steve has been pretty busy with his job lately so we may continue to see a slow-down in the release pace of the comic, but you have our word that it will continue to be worked on and released as fast as we can. Steve has continued to do an excellent job on the artwork of the comic, and I think you'll enjoy this action-packed page.
Don't forget that next update, April 15th, we'll be releasing our next installment of the Clone Wars Sourcebook. This time we'll be presenting the members of the Jedi Council, and if everything goes smoothly enough, we'll also be updating one or more of our previous releases. |
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Clone Wars Sourcebook Part 3: Jedi Knights - Wed, March 15th, 2006 - 9:03 pm PST |
| Well, better late than never I suppose. The third installment of our Clone Wars Sourcebook is now available for download. In this sub-chapter you will find a slew of Jedi Knights, a few new feats, and a new prestige class. Last but not least we have some exceptional original artwork by Matt Skilton (Durnar and T'bolton). Enjoy! |
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Clone Wars Sourcebook Dark Side Revision and New FC Staffer TJ Colligan! - Tue, February 28th, 2006 - 9:17 pm PST |
This update we release a revised and updated version of our first Clone Wars Sourcebook chapter, the Dark Side. This revision fixes various problems with the document, adds bookmarks, and most importantly includes brand new original artwork by the very talented artists Holly Laing, T.J. Colligan, and Tim Sullivan!
In addition to our update we'd like to give a warm welcome to our newest Fandom Comics member - artist T.J. Colligan! With his induction we have added a new sketchbook featuring his work on our future title: Tales of the Chu'Unthor. Welcome T.J. and everyone enjoy the update! |
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Welcome TFN Readers! - Wed, February 15th, 2006 - 6:07 pm PST |
Greetings and welcome to Fandom Comics! You may have heard about us before back in May 05, when TFN did their first article on us. However, we have nearly an entire year's worth of content up now, including 5 D20 sourcebook supplements, 11 pages of our comic book, and 6 fan fics that give origins on characters from the comic!
We also have a huge year ahead of us. We plan on adding a few additional comic titles, and we will of course continue to produce D20 supplements in our Clone Wars series and fan fics related to our comics.
Take a look around and let us know what you think in our forums! |
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Clone Wars Sourcebook Part 2 - Padawan Learners - Tue, February 14th, 2006 - 4:58 pm PST |
| Fandom Comics is very pleased to announce that our second chapter in our Clone Wars Sourcebook is now available for download. We're also ecstatic to inform you all that contained within this 27 page Jedi Order sub-chapter are three pieces of exclusive artwork by the very talented TJ Colligan (pin-up: Etain Tur-Mukan), our very own Steve Criado (pin-up: Olee Starstone) and Holly Laing (pin-up: Ydra Kilwallen Sibwarra). So what are you waiting for? Download the new chapter already! Enjoy! |
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Cracken's Crew Page 11 - Tue, January 31st, 2006 - 9:20 pm PST |
| Steve has really outdone himself this time. We here at Fandom Comics are very pleased to bring you the latest installment in our Cracken's Crew: The Invisible War comic series. In page 11, Cahira Donn gets into a little bit of trouble. We hope you enjoy this latest release that marks the mid-point of our first issue. |
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Clone Wars Sourcebook Part 1: The Dark Side - Sun, January 1st, 2006 - 12:21 pm PST |
| I hope everyone is having a happy New Year's Day so far. Hopefully this will make it even better. We're very pleased to bring you the first chapter of many in our massive project - The Clone Wars Sourcebook. This chapter focuses on the Dark Side; the Sith and their Force-wielding followers. This book will continue to be a living document in that as new source material is released, we will be adding that material to these chapters. Enjoy! |
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Invisible War Page 10 - Wed, November 30th, 2005 - 10:14 pm PST |
| Well, it's that time again. Steve did a great job on this month's page. Also be on the lookout for another preview of our upcoming Clone Wars Sourcebook coming up in the next few weeks. Enjoy! |
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Sneak Preview - The Clone Wars Sourcebook - Tue, November 1st, 2005 - 5:31 pm PST |
This was something I was planning on releasing today but it wasn't ready for the update this morning. I'm glad to say that it's finished and I'm making it available now rather than waiting until the next update. In the Sourcebooks section you'll find a sneak preview to a project Keith and I have been working on - Fandom Comics Presents: The Clone Wars RPG Sourcebook. I hope you enjoy it!
Also don't forget about Page 9 of Cracken's Crew: The Invisible War that was posted earlier today. |
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Cracken's Crew Page 9 - Tue, November 1st, 2005 - 3:49 am PST |
| Hope everyone had a good Halloween yesterday, and if you haven't already obtained your copy of Revenge of the Sith...shame on you. Anyway, this update we bring you page 9 of Cracken's Crew: The Invisible War. |
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Cracken's Crew Page 8 and new Downloads section - Fri, September 30th, 2005 - 9:04 pm PDT |
| For this update we bring you a whole bunch of goodies. First we present to you page 8 of Cracken's Crew: The Invisible War. In this page we see a bit more on our heroes and how they interact with eachother - particularly Reeto and Sadorssk. Secondly, I've put up a download section on the site where we can offer things like wallpapers. Inside you'll find two wallpapers available in two resolutions each illustrated by Steve Criado and compiled by myself. Enjoy! |
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Cheedak's Last Hunt - Sun, September 18th, 2005 - 1:44 am PDT |
| Better late than never, Nar has posted this month's short story entitled Cheedak's Last Hunt - a story about Reeto and his father, illustrated by Steve Criado. Enjoy! |
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Cracken's Crew Page 7 and New Links Section - Wed, August 31st, 2005 - 9:02 pm PDT |
| Well, the time has finally come. The much anticipated "Page 7" of our leading series Cracken's Crew: The Invisible War is now posted for your viewing pleasure. This is the first page in a new sequence where we get to meet all the heroes of the series. I've also added a Links Section to the nav bar on the left that we've filled with high-quality resources that we'd like to share with our fans. Enjoy! |
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Welcome SWRPGNetwork Viewers! - Sat, August 27th, 2005 - 5:25 pm PDT |
| Moridin over at SWRPGNetwork has posted a flattering report about us so I'd just like to give him a big thank you and welcome all of the SWRPGNetwork viewers to our site. I invite you all to take a look at all the material on our site. We currently have six pages of our Cracken's Crew: The Invisible War comic, several short stories, two RPG supplements based on the comic, and a variety of discussions and content posted on our forums. I also urge you all to stop back on the 1st and/or 2nd of September for our next update which will include Page 7 of our Cracken's Crew comic. We all hope you enjoy! |
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New chapter, Battle of Heg - Mon, August 15th, 2005 - 11:56 pm PDT |
Well, it took me a while, but I got another chapter done for the Battle of Heg novella. The image is something drawn from an official source by Douglas Shuler. Douglas was kind enough to give us his blessing to use the image as a placeholder until Chris or Steve find the time to create an image for the chapter. For more of Mr. Shuler's work, check out his website here.
Today's update also includes a new forum mod, which allows you to choose if you want to have your forum rank badge be Imperial or Rebel themed. Choosing this can be done in the profile section of the forums. Note that you will only receive a rank badge if you achieve an officer ranking, but the rank title will change depending on which side you choose.
Speaking of the forums, there has been a LOT of activity on the boards since our last update, including a detailed dissertation by Ryan Brooks on the organization of the Grand Army of the Republic. Several posts have been added to the initial one, and the finished post can be read here. There have been several other updates on the forums as well, including research papers, short fiction, another fan comic book by one of our readers, and a lot of general discussion. Click on the "forums" link at the bottom of the navigation menu on the left to join, and let us know what you think of today's update. |
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Cracken's Crew Page 6, Extra Large Format, and more. - Mon, August 1st, 2005 - 7:13 pm PDT |
| Allright, it's August 1st and time for a new update. I tried to fill this update out with a little more meat to it since we're updating less often. So this time we have page 6 of Cracken's Crew - the final page of the "silent film" scene. I've also added extra large versions of all the current pages: meant to be viewed at 1600x1200 resolution so they're pretty huge - but they can be viewed at any resolution because I made the pop-up scrollable. Last but not least I wanted to point out that I've been posting some interesting stuff on the forums lately, specifically a reference document all about the Grand Army of the Republic for those who want to write fan fiction set in the Clone Wars era. For the RPG enthusiests I've also been doing a write-up on the Kalee species (General Grevious' species) that seems to be pretty well received on the Wizards forum and the SWRPGNetwork Forum. So jump into the conversations and provide some input. |
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Battle of Heg Chapter 3 and EU Sketchbook - Mon, July 11th, 2005 - 9:08 pm PDT |
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Alright, I finally got it up, give it a read and let me know what you think on the forums! Also Steve has added a new Expanded Universe sketchbook, character images will start posting tomorrow. |
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Battle of Heg Chapter 3: Celebration and the new Update Schedule. - Sat, July 9th, 2005 - 1:30 pm PDT |
Alright guys, the story still isn't ready. I WILL get it posted Sunday evening. Work has just been precluding me from making my editing pass. I could post the unedited version, but that just wouldn't be fair to you guys.
On a different note, Tron and I feel that Fandom Comics has produced a lot of high quality fan material since we started almost two months ago, but we may have been a bit rash in our launch date. It would have been much smarter for us to have more material in the can prior to our launch, but we did want to beat out Episode III in theaters.
This, coupled with the fact that our Cracken's Crew artist, Steve Criado, has requested a leave of absense for personal reasons, has caused us to decide to reduce the update schedule from every Friday to only the 1st and the 15th. The next update will not be until August 1st. This new update schedule will last until mid October, by which point we plan to return to our "full steam ahead" publishing schedule of every Friday.
Thank you all for your continued support of our fan project, and I hope you guys will enjoy what we have coming for you in October! |
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Cracken's Crew Page 5 - Fri, July 1st, 2005 - 12:29 am PDT |
updated this article on Fri, July 1st, 2005 - 9:56 am PDT with:
Following Pierce Tun's little operation continues in page 5 of Cracken's Crew: The Invisible War located in the comics section. Don't forget to check out our short fiction area, the various sketchbooks posted by Steve Criado, our sourcebooks based off of the Cracken's Crew story, and our forums where we partake in discussions and provide updates and creative progress on our working titles. Finally, check out our own Keith Kappel's blog on the Star Wars official site at Holochronicles |
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Battle of Heg: Chapter 2 - Sat, June 25th, 2005 - 12:53 am PDT |
| Alright, I know it was late, but here is the second chapter of the novella we are posting a chapter at a time called the Battle of Heg. This particular chapter introduces the Imperial element. Enjoy! |
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Cracken's Crew Page 4 - Fri, June 17th, 2005 - 9:27 am PDT |
| The latest page of The Invisible War has been posted in the comics section. Also don't forget to sign up for our forums and take part in the various discussions we have going on. We have two d20 role-playing game supplements based off of the Cracken's Crew comic series written by our Keith Kappel located in the sourcebooks section, two short stories that give some insight to some of the characters from The Invisible War written by Keith Kappel and illustrated by Christopher Chaisson , and finally we have some great sketches created by the artist of our comic series: Steve Criado. |
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Second Cracken's Crew RPG Web Supplement - Fri, June 10th, 2005 - 12:09 am PDT |
Well it's Friday again and this week we bring you another RPG web supplement. This new document goes into detail about the operatives of the Rebel Alliance. It's 15 pages long but I have good news: after some tinkering around and some help from John L. - creator of the Knights of the Old Republic fan sourcebook, our RPG supplements are now much smaller in file size with no noticeable quality loss. Thanks John!
Our first web supplement has also been updated again, this time a few stats of the characters have been updated and obviously it's not a 4.5MB document anymore - it's now closer to about 800KB. Both supplements can be found in the Sourcebooks section as usual.
Finally, Steve has been toying around with our sketchbook area. He's taken down a few albums but he's posted a new album with a very sweet scheme to the picture featuring sketches of some of the Cracken's Crew characters of their evolution, along with Steve's thoughts and creation process. Keep your eyes peeled, he's going to be adding to the sketchbook area as much as possible. |
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New Short Fiction - Thu, June 2nd, 2005 - 11:46 pm PDT |
| This week we offer you a new short story that is available in the short fiction area written by Keith Kappel and illustrated by Christopher Chaisson. It's about a squad of stormtroopers exploring the mines on Af'El and getting into a little bit of trouble. |
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New Comic Page and Updated RPG Supplement - Thu, May 26th, 2005 - 9:26 pm PDT |
Page three of Cracken's Crew: The Invisible War and an updated version of the RPG supplement for the comic has been posted. In this updated version we have addressed a few problems that we missed the first time around. Here are the changes you can expect.
- Corrected low-level Storm Commando NPC specialization calling for removal of 2 ranks of Bluff when they only had 1 rank to begin with.
- Corrected mid-level Storm Commando NPC specialization removed 10 ranks from various skills and only replaced them with 6 ranks of other skills.
- Corrected all NPC Storm Commando not meeting the requirements for the prestige class.
- All Human characters did not have the additional 4 skill points at level 1 and additional 1 skill point each additional level added into their stats.
- Various syntax and spelling errors.
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Cracken's Crew RPG Web Supplement - Fri, May 20th, 2005 - 10:15 am PDT |
| The first d20 RPG web supplement for Cracken's Crew is now available in our sourcebooks section. It's a 12-page PDF Document (Adobe Acrobat Reader 7 and your favorite archive utility required) full of original back stories, stats and artwork. It's a tad on the heavy side - weighing in at just under 4.4MB; but I think the quality of the document should make it well worth the download. If you're interested in the Star Wars d20 role-playing game, this should be right up your alley. Even if you're not a fan of it, the artwork and character information alone should make it a worth-while read. Enjoy! |
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Welcome to Fandom Comics! - Fri, May 13th, 2005 - 6:37 am PDT |
Thank you for visiting Fandom Comics. Today - Friday, May 13th is our official launch date. We here at Fandom Comics will do our very best to ensure that we only release quality fan material. We'll be doing our best to maintain a consistent schedule by updating every Friday.
Browsing around you should notice a few newly posted items. The beautiful cover artwork created by Steve Criado as well as pages one and two of our first comic mini-series Cracken's Crew: The Invisible War are up, the first chapter of The Battle of Heg written by our Keith Kappel is also posted. Last but definitely not least you will find a few scrap books loaded with all kinds of great pictures by our artist Steve Criado in the sketchbook area.
Just a reminder that if you want to stay up-to-date on the happenings of Fandom Comics you can subscribe to our RSS Feed with your favorite RSS program. Plus don't forget to sign up for our forums where you can discuss Fandom Comics material and receive insight on our creation process as well as information on projects currently in production.
I'd like to thank Moridin over at swrpgnetwork.com for expressing such an interest in our work and for his ongoing support. We'll be giving him some great RPG content based on Cracken's Crew which should be up some time before the day is through. Be sure to stop by his site and check it out.
Special thanks go out to author Patricia Jackson for offering to do some translations for our script. Finally it should go without saying but I'll mention it anyway: a very big thanks to George Lucas for creating such a great universe for us to play in.
Again thanks for visiting, we hope you enjoy the site!
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Website is Now Fully Armed and Operational - Fri, April 1st, 2005 - 6:57 pm PST |
| Allright! The website is now completely finished after three weeks. Not too shabby from concept to reality I suppose. From here on out we'll be gearing up for our big launch day on May 13th. I hope you like what you see so far - it's only going to get better from here on out. |
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