Here it is, I’ve just seen this show up on the internet over at Rebelscum.com, so I figure I can now share it with public eyeballs. This is probably my favorite cover of our whole upcoming Star Wars: Blood Ties series. This spent a long time as my background image when the brilliant Chris Scalf first sent it my way.
The cover to Star Wars: Blood Ties Boba Fett is Dead #2.
Boba Fett is dead… in April.
Seriously. It’s good to be a comic book writer.
As if having Chris Scalf’s covers and interiors on this book wasn’t incredible enough, Star Wars: Blood Ties ‘Boba Fett is Dead’ was solicited today with this striking variant cover from David Palumbo. Add this to these two covers already released from Chris Scalf and, for once, I’d be happy if this series WAS judged by its covers.
Tell your local comic store to order now for April. You’ll be glad you did.
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STAR WARS: BLOOD TIES—BOBA FETT IS DEAD #1 (of 4)
Tom Taylor (W), Chris Scalf (A/Cover), and David Palumbo (Variant cover)
On sale Apr 25
FC, 40 pages
$3.50
Miniseries
The news spreads from one end of the galaxy to the other like wildfire: Boba Fett, the galaxy’s most feared bounty hunter, is dead.
But when members of the team that killed Fett are themselves picked off one by one, Connor Freeman—the son of one of Jango Fett’s clones—gets pulled into the action in a most unexpected way!
• Writer Tom Taylor brings Blood Ties back with Boba Fett!
• Interiors and covers by Chris Scalf!
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I’ve now seen this in a few places on the intertubes, so I figure it’s safe to post here.
Darth Vader is squeezing your heart with the force on the cover of Star Wars: Blood Ties – Boba Fett is Dead #3.
The time-lapse video of this cover being made by Chris Scalf can be viewed right here. It’s well worth a watch. Chris Scalf’s time-lapse videos are a kind of magic.
As brilliant as this cover is, I have to say the cover to issue #2 is my favorite. I can’t wait until people get a look at that one.
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“The Stan Lee Excelsior Award is an exciting new book award for graphic novels and manga – where kids aged 11-16 choose the winner by rating each book as they read it!”
I received this in an email earlier this week from the organizer of the Stan Lee Excelsior Award.
“I am pleased to inform you that STAR WARS: BLOOD TIES has been nominated for the final shortlist of eight titles and, as such, will be winging its way into over 60 secondary school libraries across the UK!”
Forbidden Planet and Comic Book Resources started reporting it overnight and I thought this was a good note from CBR.
“Here’s what’s interesting about this shortlist: It reflects what tweens and teens are actually reading, as opposed to what the adult gatekeepers think they should be reading.”
I’ve also been invited to the Awards Ceremony in Sheffield next year. I don’t think I’ll be able to make that… but it’s very nice to be invited.
I think this is a fantastic initiative.
“The overall goal of this scheme is to encourage reading amongst teenagers. However, its secondary target is to raise the profile of graphic novels and manga amongst school librarians and teachers. This storytelling medium has been a largely underused resource within education for many years. The Stan Lee Excelsior Award attempts to highlight some of the amazing books that are out there - books that fully deserve to be in our school libraries alongside regular fiction!”
Using Graphic Novels to promote literacy is an absolute no-brainer. Providing subject matter that young people actually find engaging, obviously encourages reading. This was in my thoughts during the creation of The Deep: Here be Dragons and I’ve had a number of parents let me know that they’ve bought this book to encourage reading skills in their children.
Thank you to everyone involved in this Award. Star Wars: Blood Ties is a book that Chris Scalf and I are very proud of, and we’re both very happy to see it’s inclusion in such a worthwhile program.
Boba Fett and literacy. What a combination.
You can get Star Wars: Blood Ties through Amazon right here. And you can check out the Stan Lee Excelsior Award Nominees here – ‘Nuff said.
And here’s a picture of me and Stan from the Lucasfilm party in San Diego earlier this year.
I chat to The Sci-Fi Block. Star Wars, Rombies and a very special sneak peak at The Deep. Click the pic for the interview.
The amazing reviews continue for Star Wars: Blood Ties Jango and Boba Fett #1.
Starting with a four-and-a-half star review and some damn fine words from COMIC BOOK RESOURCES.
“This issue is the near-perfect beginning of the story of an assassin and his son.” “Taylor’s story summarizes every complexity in literary father-son relationships from Abraham and Isaac to Mufasa and Simba.” “Chris Scalf has poured a lot of work onto these pages, in storytelling, layout, and detail. Jango and young Boba look astonishingly like Temuera Morrison and Daniel Logan, respectively. While there has been much ballyhoo made of photo-tracing in comics, Scalf’s artwork crosses over from photo-tracing to portraiture” “The story has “Star Wars” moments, such as when the Atzerri Traffic Control asks for proof of identification from Jango Fett. In accordance with the request, Jango gives it to them. There are holographic messages, chase scenes, and action across multiple planets, just as with all of the films. This issue, however, ends with a surprise on the final page that sets the story on its ear.”
“This is, hands down, the best of the “Star Wars” comics from Dark Horse that I have read.” - CBR
A ‘five out of five’ from, UK website, STAR WARS BOOKS.
“It must seem as if every other Star Wars comic story released recently has been written by Tom Taylor and judging by his previous stories (Invasion: Refugees, Luke Skywalker and the Treasure of the Dragonsnakes, Invasion: Rescues, The Will of Darth Vader) this is no bad thing. Just as his previous releases enthralled us with Taylor’s storytelling abilities, this new story promises to do the same.” “Chris Scalf’s art is, quite frankly, unbelievably awe inspiring and if you have been put off reading a Star Wars comic story because of black pen lines traced around characters’ features or overuse of monotonic colours, then fear not because Scalf’s capture of near photo-realism in his paintwork doesn’t require pen lines while his colour palette is a blend of natural tones and shades. However beautiful the artwork is, the real test of any artist is their ability to capture facial expressions and in this Scalf succeeds wonderfully. Blood Ties #1 is a worthy addition to any fan’s Star Wars comics library and is particularly recommended to fans who have yet to experience Star Wars stories in comic form. “ - SWBOOKS.CO.UK
COMIC BOOK JESUS and COMIC ATTACK also have nice things to say.
A huge thank you to everyone who picked up this book. Thanks also for all the kind emails, messages and forum postings.
Chris Scalf and I couldn’t be happier… well, until issue #2.
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I’m back from San Diego and still insanely jet lagged. It was a very fun, eventful con, which I may or may not remember to write about, but one of the bigger pieces of news to come out of the con is that Blood Ties is no longer just four issues…
“Randy Stradley and Darth Vader came on stage to discuss “Star Wars: Blood Ties,” which stars Jango and Boba Fett and written by Tom Taylor. It will now be a series of miniseries, each focusing on characters with blood ties.”
Yep, that’s what’s coming. Blood Ties will be a series of Mini Series and I’m already writing the second one.
The Jango and Boba Fett tale will be hitting the shelves this month and finally the rest of the world will see Chris Scalf’s incredibly work on this series.
Me… trapped with Fett.
Dark Horse Comics have a new blog, and they have posted a sneak peek of a simply stunning page from my upcoming Jango and Boba Fett miniseries by artist Chris Scalf. I’ve seen all of Chris’ pages for the first issue and people are in for a real treat come August. I think, next time we work together, I’ll have to write an entirely silent book, so my words don’t get in the way.
And Westfield Comics recently interviewed me about the upcoming Jango and Boba Fett miniseries – check it out to find out more about the book, how the series came about, and my thoughts on lettuce.
I’m always amazed while watching gifted artists work. Sitting next to Colin Wilson at cons (and in his study) I’ve been able to watch a true master do his stuff many times. It really is a kind of magic.
Here’s another piece of magic. Watch as the amazing Chris Scalf shares his process for the cover to the first ‘Blood Ties: A Tale of Jango and Boba Fett’ and pulls a Jango Fett… out of thin air.
For more, check out Chris’ Youtube channel – http://www.youtube.com/user/cgsbgs.
Something I’ve been secretly, and furiously, working on for a couple of months has been announced today and it comes with quite the epic cover by interior artist Chris Scalf. The pages Chris has been turning in have been incredible and the script (featuring not one, but two, big-time bad-asses) is one that I hope can match the stunning art.
Star Wars: Blood Ties — A Tale of Jango and Boba Fett #1 (of 4) Written by Tom Taylor; Art and cover by Chris Scalf On sale August 25; 40 pages
Here begins a multigenerational tale of honor and redemption, starring two of the heaviest hitters in the Star Wars galaxy — the father-and-clone team of Jango and Boba Fett!
Shortly before the start of the Clone Wars, Count Dooku sends Jango Fett on a mission that will affect the course of Boba Fett’s life some twenty years later. But for now, neither of them knows what the future holds in store, and besides, they have their schedule filled dodging monsters and fighting bad guys! It’s Jango Fett and Boba Fett together in a series featuring fully painted art by Purge artist Chris Scalf!
