Monday Morning Coffee is the weekly news roundup for Star Wars Discussions. This week: Aphra, High Republic, SDCC, and more!
Hello there once again caf lovers! Got your cup full? If not, here comes plenty from last week to top off your mug!
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STAR WARS NEWS
•New Releases
Here’s the new releases from the week. Feel free to create discussion threads for any of them that don’t have one and they’ll be added to this post!
The Doctor Aphra Audiobook came out on Tuesday adapting the story told in the 2015 Darth Vader comics. An open discussion was posted by @Liverpool92
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Also on Tuesday, the Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: Legacy Vol. 3 was released collecting issues 37-50 of the Legacy comics plus all six issues of Legacy - War:
Wednesday saw Episode 8 of the kids game show Jedi Temple Challenge:
And rounding out the week’s new releases was more Aphra with Doctor Aphra 2. Once again it was @Liverpool92 with the open discussion for the issue:
•From The Feed
These are stories that came to us on our main feed in the Star Wars News category. Check ‘em out!
Rumor has it that Donald Glover will be appearing as Lando Calrissian either in a stand-alone tv show or one that is already in the works. Check out this post from @Roger Murtaugh
@Jade Moonstroller brought us a look at the Jedi of The High Republic in part two of a series by Star Wars journalist Dan Brooks:
In another rumor @Skyguy246 posted about delays in the scheduled release of future Star Wars films:
And reporting on this year’s at-home version of San Diego Comic-Con, @Tigerlegos posted a look at the Lucasfilm publishing panel:
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FORUM NEWS
•General Business
This section is for any forum related business that comes up during the week like PSAs, etc. But even when there’s not much to report like this week you know I’ll always link this one for the new users:
⭐️ FEATURED POSTS
Here are the threads from the Featured category this week. If you know of a post that should be featured please leave a link to it in the comments of this thread. Come jump into any of the following!
In this post @UndyingSoldier tackles the issue of so many known characters that might have an appearance in Season 2 of The Mandalorian:
@Octology gave us a great review of the novel Thrawn: Alliances:
@Jade Moonstroller began a new project taking a deep dive into “The Mission of a Jedi”. First installment is on Qui-Gon Jinn:
This spectacular post from @DarthBella celebrates the awesome final duel between Obi-Wan and Maul:
The Ralph McQuarrie concept art that inspired parts of Rebels was the topic of this post from @Liverpool92
☀️ COMMUNITY PROJECTS
Here are all the latest updates from our Community Projects category. The [Bracketed Links] in this section will take you to that project’s archive or hub post. If you would like to nominate a recurring project for CP status leave a link in the comments and we will vote by upvoting for it against it.
This week @Liverpool92 spotlights Legacy Rogue Squadron pilot Monia Gahan:
@Revival Stories2020 talks about the cultural shift in the Mandalorians that happened between the New Sith Wars and the Mandalorian Civil War:
Here’s the latest poll from @DarthGatorade27 narrowing down the community’s favorite Leia quote:
@Jedi Sarith LeKit returned to his project with this edition concerning the titles of the trilogy films:
A good NJO Leia quote is this installment’s topic in the long running series by @Spooder-Man777
New from Planet Cup creator @Mantelian Prime is this project about the planet Ord Mantell. Check out the link below for details and be in the lookout for polls for the series!
On top of trivia and Chaos Rising news, @WarlordGrandAdmiralThrawn focuses this week on the latest chapter of the Heir to the Empire animation:
Narrowed down from a record 13 entries in this round of our biweekly LEGO building competition, @Traiterr took home first place. Posted by @WarlordGrandAdmiralThrawn
Another long-standing project from @Skylord11235 . This week asks for your favorite clone battalion/legion/corps:
The Book Club is returning in August for a discussion on the Revenge of the Sith novelization:
Here’s the week’s recap of this series posted by @TacFroggy753
And @Revival Stories2020 has the wrap up for the week’s progress of the Wook Fleet project:
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And so goes the Star Wars news from the week! As always, if I missed anything or you have something to promote please leave a link to it in the comments!
Everyone have a great week and MTFBWY!
