They've revealed a ton of new book covers and descriptions at Comic-Con today.
I always like backstory stuff so Cobalt Squadron could be interesting, and The Visual Dictionaries are usually pretty cool.
My wallet is going to suffer this fall. On my list are all comics (save for the Thrawn adaptation), the movie's novelizations, the Canto Bight anthology, the the Cobalt Squadron book (I also understand that this one has a guide book attached to it), the Phasma novel and comic, and possibly the Luke and Leia biographies, Stormtrooper book, and Rebel Files (when it's not in the spendy gift pack). I'll probably have to make choices for sanity's sake (not to mention to afford other comics and stuff, much less life's bare necessities), but we're sure not in the dark times of no
Star Wars anymore.
The Mace Windu comic and Thrawn adaptation look interesting.
I want to read the former, not the latter so much (I'm not sure how retelling the novel in comic form would add to the story.)
Of course this being Disney we get no adult books announced, except for another showing of Phasma and the (I'm starting to assume legally mandated) Episode VIII novelization...
If I read the announcement correctly, that novelization is being written by Jason Fry, so there a good bet that it'll be a good novelization, if you're like me and collect that sort of thing.
Wasn't the Stormtrooper book an adult thing, though.
...although that recent Star Wars/Aphra crossover was hot garbage, hopefully a rare misstep for the Marvel SW comics).
Sad to hear that, since I love
Doctor Aphra. (I guess, considering that the main
Star Wars series is hit and miss, that a crossover with it might be more likely to be a weaker story?)
Unrelated to ComicCon, I just finished Rebel Rising. It was pretty good. I really wish they'd focused on her post-teenage years more (they ended up skipping from basically her 18th year until she was arrested, which was about 3 years) but what we got was interesting.
I wonder if they want to have space for future storytelling (like how Jyn is appearing in mini stories set in that era in the current
Forces of Destiny TV show)?
The book definitely makes her relationship with Saw more clear, although it makes her desire to see her Dad in the movie make less sense.
She didn't originally wanted to see him. When recruited, she was blackmailed into helping ("We're up against the clock here, girl, so if there's nothing to talk about, we'll just put you back where we found you"). When Saw asks what she wants from all this, it's not to see her dad ("They wanted an introduction, they've got it. I'm out now. The rest of you can do what you want").
Rebel Rising is building up to a subplot in the novelization where we learn that Jyn hated her father for abandoning her and was trying to distance herself from him (hence why she says in the movie: "I like to think he's dead, makes things easier"). All she literally wanted was to finish the job she was being forced to do, so that she could take the fresh start the Rebels were offering her, make a new identity, and disappear from the whole thing. Her change of heart regarding her father happens over the course of the story as she learns more details about what really happened.
The book could have used a bit of streamlining, a few things were a bit repetitive, but overall it was a good book. Not as good as Ahsoka when it comes to non-general audience books, but pretty good (although I had to laugh when Jyn got the most YA of YA romances which then ended exactly as I expected, but I found it funny more then annoying).
Yeah, while I liked the idea of the family adopting her, that relationship didn't work that well. I did like how it showed us in part what Jyn was thinking of when she commented that the Rebels cause has brought her nothing but pain.
If only Disney cared enough to give the other Rogue One cast members something like this. They were all older then Jyn and seemed to have interesting lives, epsecially Donnie Yen and his friend
There is the aforementioned
Guardian of the Whills book (which I will admit that I'm not interested in). Cassian Andor and K-2SO are also getting a one-shot comic in the near-future (which I'm marginally interested in).