Earlier versions of the awards usually focused on the most mainstream portrayals, and often only credited writers, but this has changed of late.The winner of this year's award, just announced, and accepted by Si Spurrier was Star Wars: Doctor Aphra by Simon Spurrier, Emilio Laiso, Andrea Broccardo, Wilton Santos, Caspar Wijngaard, Marc Deering, Don Ho, Walden[...]
Unfortunately, she's surrounded by far too many people for any of them to distinguish themselves. [caption id="attachment_1204057" align="aligncenter" width="600"] The cover of Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #1 published by Marvel Comics with a creative team of Alyssa Wong, Marika Cresta, Rachelle Rosenberg, and Joe Caramagna.[/caption] For example, there is a newly introduced sniper here called "Just Lucky."[...]
Anyway, tomorrow will see Marvel Comics release the digital copy of the delayed Star Wars: Doctor Aphra comic on Monday May the Fourth, as opposed to the print copy landing on Wednesday, May the 27th Looks like DC Comics bringing their titles forward to Tuesdays encouraged Marvel Comics to ask them to hold their blue[...]
As a result, the US are going mad about whether they can or cannot get on Disney + and whether or not the original Muppet Babies is on it or not, upstanding British members of the community are wondering how they can watch the new Star Wars TV show, The Mandalorian, exclusive to Disney + [...]
Follow along with our MCMLondon tag for this and many other new stories being announced today.And here we have the launch of a new Star Wars: Doctor Aphra series, featuring the character co-created by Kieron Gillen in Marvel's Darth Vader series, the archaeologist who plays Empire against Rebellion and vice versa, and has escaped from[...]
They’ve been hired by Doctor Aphra to hunt down an ancient mythical beast protecting a treasure in an ancient temple Aphra is working on behalf of a crime lord who wants their own giant monster pet (think like Jabba the Hutt’s Rancor) However, Nokk and Winloss quickly notice that they are far from the first[...]
We also got a look at the new blind bag Deadpool chimichanga figures, complete with PandaPool!
Star Wars fans can check out carded photos of the second wave of Vintage Collection figures, with Enfys Nest, Doctor Aphra, and more joining the line There will also be one more wave released before the end of they[...]
Doctor Aphra and her droids BT-1 and Triple 0 are coming to San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) this year Hasbro will have them at their booth at SDCC for sale in a Vintage Collection three-pack, modeled after the classic Kenner three-packs of old All three are super-articulated and the set will run $50 Not only will[...]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"]Lieutenant Magna Tolvan awaits her sentencing as she continues to have the mysterious Doctor Aphra stuck in her head.Elsewhere, Doctor Aphra continues her mission for the new Son-Tuul crime lord and former ally Triple-Zero In his sadistic power trip, he has sent Aphra on a trip to retrieve something for him, keeping her hostage[...]
Ever since their first appearance, we have followed the comedy double act of the evil C-3PO and R2-D2, the torture protocol droid and battle droid from the Darth Vader comic book created by Kieron Gillen and Salvador Larocca as they followed Doctor Aphra over to her own Star Wars solo title.Jeeves And Wooster meets Jay and[...]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"]For their first Annual, the creative team behind Doctor Aphra gives some insight into the background of the doctor’s dangerous sometime ally, the Wookie bounty hunter known as Black Krrsantan.A pair of free press-championing reporters tracks down Aphra and Krrsantan for an interview They ask the Wookie about his past, the bulk of which[...]
Sure he’s cocky and maybe even a bit whiny, but what drives him as a character? I guess it’s time to mention that I haven’t read all of Jason Aaron’s Star Wars series, so maybe the revelation Kieron Gillen gave me in Doctor Aphra #7 will seem a bit obvious to many of those reading[...]
While much of their super hero output is still quite good, one cannot ignore the high quality of their Star Wars family of titles, especially Star Wars, written by Jason Aaron.With Screaming Citadel, their mainline Star Wars title is tying in with the also-good Doctor Aphra, written by Kieron Gillen (former writer of Darth Vader)[...]
presidential election, Kieron Gillen has successfully used the internet to rally voters to make Doctor Aphra the next action figure in the Hasbro's Star Wars Vintage Collection While fake news and stolen emails were the hackers' tools of choice, Gillen took to Twitter to ask fans to vote for the character he created with Salvador[...]
2, Kieron Gillen writes the Star Wars: Doctor Aphra comic for Marvel So when Gillen found out that Doctor Aphra, who he co-created with artist Salvador Larroca during their Darth Vader comic, could be the next character to get a 3.75-inch toy release with Hasbro's Vintage Collection retro packaging, as reported yesterday by Bleeding Cool,[...]
This pissed a lot of people helping run the fan-poll for Hasbro, and also served to shoot themselves in the foot.[gallery columns="2" size="large" ids="644978,644977,644974,644979,644981,644975"]The top six figures receiving votes for each collecting site were tabulated, and in the end, it seems Hasbro left out the Ben Skywalker votes entirely and came up with the following[...]
New variant covers have been revealed today for the big Star Wars/Doctor Aphra crossover event in Star Wars: The Screaming Citadel The whole shebang starts on May 10 with The Screaming Citidel one-shot, which is what these variants are for I have to admit, it is pretty cool to see Luke Slywalker and Aphra together[...]
[gallery columns="2" size="large" ids="621385,621380"]Anyone who has read Marvel's Darth Vader comic or the follow-up series Doctor Aphra can pretty much agree that the breakout characters would be the murderously funny pair of droids 0-0-0 (Triple Zero) and BT-1 (BeeTee) Expertly written by Kieron Gillen, these two became fast fan-favorites as soon as they were introduced[...]
[gallery size="large" ids="608525,608524,608520"]It looks like Luke Skywalker and Doctor Aphra are going to spending quite a bit of time together The next big Star Wars crossover from Marvel is entitled Star Wars: The Screaming Citadel, according to StarWars.com Starting in May, the five-part story will kick off with a one-shot The Screaming Citadel by Kieron[...]
Last week we ran an article about how sets of Ashley Witter variant covers of Doctro Aphra #1 for Legend Comics / Brain Trust were being auctioned and sold to raise money for the Hero Initiative. I got word from Steven Finkel from the Comic Mint yesterday that with the help of the push by Bleeding Cool […]
