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Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 5:55 pm
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VileZero Master Joined: 21 Mar 2010 Posts: 813 Location: Maryland If you've taken a look at EUCantina's Review section today (or found the announcement on Twitter), you may have noticed that we've posted a review of Omnibus: Early Victories. Starting with this review, and continuing through the summer season, we'll be running at least one Omnibus review a week until we've got them all reviewed. These are pretty cool collections, but it seems that these large (and slightly more expensive) collections have been known to make fans question whether the material included is what they're looking to read. Well, these reviews aim to solve that problem completely. I won't be reviewing any Omnibus collection overall (since they're all worth purchasing given the amount of content included), but I will be reviewing each story individually in each review to let readers see what they will experience in each collection. None of these reviews delve into spoiler territory, so you won't have to worry about that. Hope you all enjoy, and this thread will get updated each time a new review is posted. Reviews: Omnibus: Early Victories Omnibus: Shadows of the Empire Omnibus: At War with the Empire: Volume 1 Omnibus: Boba Fett Omnibus: Droids Omnibus: Tales of the Jedi: Volume 1 Omnibus: Tales of the Jedi: Volume 2 Last edited by VileZero on Wed Aug 03, 2011 5:33 pm; edited 7 times in total

Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 8:04 pm
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wookie_inked Knight Joined: 13 Apr 2011 Posts: 397 Location: western NY ahhhh sweet! this will be a very cool feature to keep up with!

Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 3:38 pm
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Lord Ree'dius Master Joined: 11 Apr 2011 Posts: 700 Location: The Unknown Regions Indeed a cool feature! I'm buying all the omnibusses anyway, but I always like to hear other peoples' perspectives on these stories. And of course it's a great way to introduce new readers and show them the way into these great collections. _________________ "Strong you are with the dark side, young one. But not that strong. Still much to learn, you have. Surrender, you should." "You're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view." http://www.reedius.deviantart.com/

Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 10:44 pm
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Darth_Henning Knight Joined: 12 Apr 2011 Posts: 386 Location: Canada So far I've found the omnibusses quite useful. Interested to see your take on them.

Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 2:32 pm
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VileZero Master Joined: 21 Mar 2010 Posts: 813 Location: Maryland Today's review is for Omnibus: Shadows of the Empire

Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 4:37 pm
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wookie_inked Knight Joined: 13 Apr 2011 Posts: 397 Location: western NY I didn't realize until today that SOTE had been collected into an Omnibus so I must pick it up. It's been a long time since I lost my trade paperback of the Shadows limited series so this is a good excuse to get it back. Yeah, okay, I'll take the pointless sequel too. I'm confused why the Emperor's Hand series is in the book. The review didn't unveil any connection between Mara Jade and anything/anyone in SOTE... I missed that series before so I'm happy to get it here to finally read it, I just don't get why this particular omnibus is where they chose to include it. Geez, if anything the Jix story from "Early Victories" should have been saved for this volume due to Shadows being his only other role in the EU.

Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 5:42 pm
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VileZero Master Joined: 21 Mar 2010 Posts: 813 Location: Maryland wookie_inked wrote: I didn't realize until today that SOTE had been collected into an Omnibus so I must pick it up. It's been a long time since I lost my trade paperback of the Shadows limited series so this is a good excuse to get it back. Yeah, okay, I'll take the pointless sequel too. I'm confused why the Emperor's Hand series is in the book. The review didn't unveil any connection between Mara Jade and anything/anyone in SOTE... I missed that series before so I'm happy to get it here to finally read it, I just don't get why this particular omnibus is where they chose to include it. Geez, if anything the Jix story from "Early Victories" should have been saved for this volume due to Shadows being his only other role in the EU. There really isn't a connection between the Mara Jade collection and the Shadows of the Empire stuff. I do point out in the second paragraph that the villain of each collection are enemies hidden by the shadows of the Empire, meaning the Black Sun (which I don't want to spoil outright in the review). SOTE gets Black Sun, SOTE:E gets an attempted resurgent Black Sun, and Mara Jade fights against a knock-off Black Sun called "Black Nebula." Otherwise, no connection! And I agree, I'd have loved to see Jix's story in this collection instead too.

Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 7:00 pm
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wookie_inked Knight Joined: 13 Apr 2011 Posts: 397 Location: western NY VileZero wrote: There really isn't a connection between the Mara Jade collection and the Shadows of the Empire stuff. I do point out in the second paragraph that the villain of each collection are enemies hidden by the shadows of the Empire, meaning the Black Sun (which I don't want to spoil outright in the review). SOTE gets Black Sun, SOTE:E gets an attempted resurgent Black Sun, and Mara Jade fights against a knock-off Black Sun called "Black Nebula". I went back and re-read the review and caught the commonalities there. The connections are "thin" as Murtaugh and Riggs would say but I'll go with it. I can understand the ripoff that is Black Nebula... if you can;t be the greatest most feared criminal enterprise on Coruscant, might as well be a cheap imitation. Seriously I hope Mara Jade kicked all their asses

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 4:18 pm
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VileZero Master Joined: 21 Mar 2010 Posts: 813 Location: Maryland Today's review is for Omnibus: At War with the Empire: Volume 1

Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 2:40 pm
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VileZero Master Joined: 21 Mar 2010 Posts: 813 Location: Maryland We've got a few additional reviews that have been written and are in the pipeline. Estimated time of arrival is "pretty dang soon."

Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 4:08 pm
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VileZero Master Joined: 21 Mar 2010 Posts: 813 Location: Maryland Today's review is for Omnibus: Boba Fett

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 4:04 pm
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VileZero Master Joined: 21 Mar 2010 Posts: 813 Location: Maryland Today's review is for Omnibus: Droids.

Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 9:37 am
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Lord Ree'dius Master Joined: 11 Apr 2011 Posts: 700 Location: The Unknown Regions Another great review! _________________ "Strong you are with the dark side, young one. But not that strong. Still much to learn, you have. Surrender, you should." "You're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view." http://www.reedius.deviantart.com/

Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 3:52 pm
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VileZero Master Joined: 21 Mar 2010 Posts: 813 Location: Maryland Today's review is for Omnibus: Tales of the Jedi: Volume 1 A must-read, IMO, if you're getting ready for The Old Republic!

Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 5:07 pm
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Lord Ree'dius Master Joined: 11 Apr 2011 Posts: 700 Location: The Unknown Regions VileZero wrote: A must-read, IMO, if you're getting ready for The Old Republic! A must-read period, if you ask me. Great review VileZero. _________________ "Strong you are with the dark side, young one. But not that strong. Still much to learn, you have. Surrender, you should." "You're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view." http://www.reedius.deviantart.com/

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