Monday Morning Coffee is the weekly news roundup for Wookieepedia’s Discussions forum. I'm your host this week, and I'll be going over literature releases and television hype, a few birthdays, as well as some excellent original pieces of writing, so let's get started!
Never thought I’d see a reversible mug (two fused end-to-end), but there’s no better concept to inspire it. It also doubles as an excuse to drink twice as much coffee!
STAR WARS NEWS
New Releases
Here are the new releases from the week. Feel free to create discussion threads for any of these, and they’ll be added to this post!
The seventh issue of IDW’s Star Wars Adventures released on Wednesday.
That same day, the eleventh issue of Marvel’s Bounty Hunters series was released, and it’s all about Bossk!
Also, just today, IGN released an article with an excerpt for Greater Good, the second book in Thrawn’s Ascendancy trilogy. @WarlordGrandAdmiralThrawn will be thrilled!
From The Feed
These are stories that came to us on our main feed in the Star Wars News category.
@IronStain98 caught wind of the week’s first huge news, on the next wave of High Republic Era books.
@Gerbil16 found an online vote for collectors to decide on a new vintage figure to be released.
Diving into the shady underworld of Star Wars news, @ArtooD2 found a rumor that the long-lost Detours series could come to Disney+. Here’s to our respective hopes and dreads!
A new short story based on The Old Republic was published on the game's website on Tuesday, much to @Legends Lover’s delight.
Finally, @IronStain98 capped off this week’s news threads with a post about the new poster for The Bad Batch, as well as an emoji of Hunter’s helmet for Twitter users.
Also, I'd like to give a shout-out to some proper forum work here by @Ajjviolin96, @Liverpool92 and @Vaderson for all knowing exactly what to do with a repeat post. Thanks for making the mods' jobs easier!
From The Newsroom
Not familiar with the Newsroom? Clearly not, because nothing was posted there this week. It’s where we organize MMC and sometimes news stories are linked there as well. Click the link above to see more.
Again, don’t hesitate to create a discussion for any of these news announcements and it will be linked here! Some news that could have been put in that thread are the television awards The Mandalorian received: an Annie Award, two Motion Picture Sound Editors Awards, a Cinema Audio Society Award, and a win among the America Society of Cinematographers.
FORUM NEWS
General Business
If you’re joining the forum for the first time, check out our welcome message for new users!
In wiki news, the Knowledge Bank forum—originally used among editors to answer people’s Star Wars questions—has closed for inactivity. Seeing that most of those questions now come to this forum, @Jade Moonstroller and I worked to create a new permanent thread for all answerable Star Wars questions: Ask A Nerd A Question.
@Ajjviolin96 announced this Essay of the Week winner: @EChootah, with an excellent economic analysis of the San Tekka Clan’s exploits during the High Republic Era.
@Givinname announced the Meme of the Week—or two weeks, in this case—a classic high ground meme from @Legends Lover and another by @Master Coleman Fisto about all the forgotten sacrifices made by our beloved television characters.
⭐️ 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!
@Joupena kicked off the week with a dive into his extensive knowledge of a unique family dynamic in Legends.
@IronStain98 showed us just how Boba Fett survived the juices of the Sarlacc’s belly.
@Revival Stories2020 struck home with a thread about how we share Star Wars with our families.
@1433023rk lit the birthday candles for Hayden Christensen this week.
Other birthday threads include those for Gina Carano, as well as two of Palpatine’s voice actors: Clive Revill and Tim Curry.
Finally, @CreaBird showed us all the marvelous forms of architecture in Star Wars and how they reflect their respective locations in the galaxy.
☀️ 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 or against it.
@Jonax Frostwalker started and finished this week with two posts summarizing and reviewing the final three episodes of The Mandalorian.
This week, @El Clon Renegado posted about the infamous Jeby…and you can imagine how that thread turned out.
@Skylord11235 went big this week and asked us what our favorite Imperial Star Destroyers are.
@Chrisgross14 went into winter sports this week. Congratulations, now I actually want to visit Hoth!
Hosted by @Darth Joako, this week’s round was won by @Master Coleman Fisto and his good use of category pages.
@WarlordGrandAdmiralThrawn announced that @KaspaDS won the most recent round with an excellent Mandalorian display!
@Revival Stories2020 continued his pet project with a look into the distribution of military spending across the regions of the galaxy.
@Vaderson explored the heart of the Ilum arc of episodes, highlighting what were some of the first glimpses into lightsaber lore.
That’s it for this week. As always, if we missed anything or you have something to promote please leave a link to it in the comments.
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Next week’s edition will be written by @ArtooD2. I found some awesome droid-themed mugs while searching for this post’s photo, so hopefully one of those will show up.
Everyone have a great week, and may the Force be with you!
