Episode #452 -- Heartlight

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Star Wars Splash Page Comics and Review.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
This is episode number four hundred and fifty two. Jeff,
It's Memorial Day. I hope you spent that somberly. As
we record this.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Day, I'm gonna as Befo.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Park once running the gas seas.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
You know, I'm born Matt because yes, I always on
a Memorial Day, because those who have fought and died
for our freedom absolutely deserve to be remembered. But should
it not be more of a celebration.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
I don't know. I'm on the fence line. I me too.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
I guess I guess. I guess a celebration of what they.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Lived for, celebration of their lives.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yeah, and again, either way, I'm fine with it. I
just I'm like you, I'm kind of kind of torn
both ways. But obviously you're not listening to this I
Memorial Day. But obviously we do want to acknowledge and
thank all of those who have given the ultimate sacrifice
and their families who have had to go on without them.

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And with that, we have one book. This week we
have the issue number is it?

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Issue number four four of the Rise of Skywalker adaptation,
The penultimate issue.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
The penultimate issue. All right, that's all we have this week.
So but we do have some news to talk about.
We'll talk about the solicits, and we do have rec
Room is making its triumphant return this week. So man,
tell me about the news. What have we got to
talk about this week?

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Well, the big news is we got the Marvel's August
solicits and dark Horse of September solicits. Both solicits were
the first in a long time that did not contain
any the High Republic era titles, which is a milestone.
So still no word on what the next step in
the High Republic is. I don't see lucasfilm stepping away

(02:13):
from that era anytime soon, so I'm pretty confident there's
there are plans of foot probably you know, plans already
long in motion that will be revealed to us over
the summer, especially with the Comic Con coming up and
other industry events set to unferral. But the Dark Horse

(02:34):
September Solicits, there was a slight little change the fourth
and final issue of Hyperspace Story's Codebreaker, which is the
podammer and mini series that is being written by Ethan
Sachs and illustrated by Mark Yarza and Jose mars On
Junior in a letter by Comic Craft, with amazing covers
by Diego Galindo. Well, it is now now going to

(02:56):
be out in September instead of August sixth, so there,
but that same month we also get the Tales from
the night Lands three issue mini series, which is the
one that's being written by Cabin Scott, and of course,
you know, it's a it's in the vein of you know,
Tales of Vader's Castle, et cetera, et cetera, so it's
very you know, creepy and and horrrific, as well as

(03:19):
the third issue of the four issue Hyperspace Stories Hides
of Terror, which is being written by George Mann and
illustrated by Luis Morocho and le Beau Underwood and Michael
Attia as well as Comic Craft, And of course that
one centers on Kitchisto, and gosh, the cover of that
one is just so cool. It's this obviously underwater, but

(03:39):
it's so beautiful blue. I just I saw the cover
and I was like, oh, I feel very placid and tranquil.
Despite the there's a very large, enormous creature trying to
eat a ship. So but of course you can see
all those on the Facebook page and the Blue Skypeed
Marvel's August illicits well, guess what. To me, the most

(04:00):
interesting thing was Doctor Afra Chaos Agent number three, in
which the Star Wars Indiana Jones finally pairs up with
the Indiana Jones I e Han Solo. So fun, and
of course it's got a great variant covered by Bengal
as well as David Lopez. The main cover is by Ijakuri,
and of course it's it's pretty cool. The Doctor and

(04:22):
the Smuggler meet again. You know, the Dagger Agency teams
up Doctor Afra with rebel hero and former Smuggler to
Han Solo for a life or death mission. So and
it's interesting because a prized piece of art must be
returned to a gangster from Hans past. So that right there,
that's got me intrigued. You know, obviously we know it's

(04:42):
not Dryden Voss since Dryden Voss is dead. So but
you know, there's so many gangsters and Job of the
Hutt is dead, so I wonder if there might be
a little callback to the events of the Han Solo
Chewbacca mini series that we had last year. Yeah, you
never know, you never know. So, but you can see
all the solicit details on the Facebook page as well. Uh.

(05:05):
And then we did get our first look at some
unlettered pages via comicbook dot com of Star Wars Doctor
Afra Chaos Agent number one. Uh. Looks pretty good. I'm
intrigued by the art. It's it's very busy and cinematic
and detailed. Obviously, there's already some people complaining about, you know,

(05:26):
the way some of the characters faces are depicted, including
some some people who you know who whose reflexive reply
is to say tracing when in fact it's not tracing.
But you know, that's just you know, neither here nor there.
And you can see those pages on the Facebook page
as well as a link to an interview with that
series writer Cherish Chen, so you can, you know, do

(05:49):
definitely check those out. And that, Jeff, it's literally all
the news that we have.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
All right, So we're going to take a short break,
can well be back to discuss the Rise of Skywalker.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
So we will dive right into Star Wars The Rise
of Skywalker number four of five. Of course, this is
a movie adaptation written by Jody Hawser with art by
will Sliney, colors or by Guru E. Effects. Letters are
by Virtual Calligraphies. Travis Lanham Phil Noto has the main
cover and then Luke Ross and Nolan Woodard have a

(06:35):
variant cover. There is also a movie variant cover as well.
The book designer is Carlos Lau. The assistant editors on
this book that's Drew Baumgartner, Mikey J. Basso and Tom Groneman.
Mark Paninzia is the supervising editor and cb Sebalski is
the editor in chief. This is based on the screenplay
by Chris Terrio and JJ Abrams. The story is by

(06:55):
Derek Connolly and Colin trevorro and JJ Abrams and Chris
Terrio from Lucasfilm. We have an editor editor Grace Harris,
Senior editor Robert Simpson, Creative director Michael Siglane, Art director
Troy Alders. From the story group, we've got Pablo Hidalgo,
Matt Martin, James Waugh and Emily Kokhani and the creative
art manager is Phil Showstack. Now, as we've said before,

(07:18):
this is an adaptation of the film and it does
a great job of adapting the film. But thankfully we've
also gotten a little interesting details that were not in
the film. For example, we open up and we're on
agent class and Leah is talking to mas Kannada. Uh,
you know, while you know, surrounded by members of the
Resistance and and and you know, it's it's interesting because

(07:41):
le Leahs is Maz. I can feel it. I don't
have much time left. And then Mazy as well have
like any good leader you make, you want to make
sure you don't waste it or I'm just an old fool.
Even Luke couldn't bring Ben back, and if the Jedi
Master couldn't pull him away from the dark side, to
which Moz says, you fear you are not strong enough,

(08:03):
but you are so much stronger than you know, Leah.
All of these people are here because of you. You
are the haunt of the Resistance. You are the one
who was strong enough to stay. Uh So, and that's
a that's a very interesting, you know, oblique reference because
you know, you know, they could be referring to both
Han and Luke and perhaps someone else. And then we

(08:24):
cut to this wonderful two page spread. Uh. You know,
we are on kef Beer Uh you know with ray
and Uh and and uh and and and Ben Solo
Kylo Ren are dueling atop the ruins of the second
Desk Star and it is beautifully frayed because it's it's
framed by the lightsabers as an x uh and you know,

(08:47):
in left hand side we see Kylo Ren. You you
kind of win with an instead of fending Janna going
you know, we we we we, I can't leave her,
you know, when Janna is like, no, you can't get
over there. And on the right side is is ray U,
you know, saying I'll never lose to you, you know,
with an inset of Leah uh, you know, and and
you know back on Age on Closs and then you know,

(09:08):
on the top we see the two of them dueling,
and on the bottom we see the two of them dueling,
and then you know, just we But what's an interesting
panel at the bottom is that's it's at the resistance
headquarters and we see what looks like Rose comforting Leah
and you know, and and sort of like you know,
it's walking her away. But as the duel continues, this

(09:30):
is where we get something that's very interesting that's not
in the movie. Uh, you know, Kylo is parrying Ray's thrusts.
Ray is doing likewise with Kylo, and then all of
a sudden we get you know, Kylo gets a message
from his mother Ben and it throws him and perhaps
Leah is force projecting. Perhaps this is in Kylo's mind.

(09:53):
Then how how is she It's not too late to
come home. I won't give up on you. I'll be
with you until the end. And you know this is
and as she's saying this, you know, this is where
we see her in the movie of lying back on
on on her plinth, and she dies, and of course, uh,

(10:18):
you know, Ray is able to take advantage unknowingly and
stab Kylo in the stomach with her life with his
with his own lightsaber. But then Rays buffeted Leah and
we get this dual narration from the two of them
side by side with with Kylo and Benguin. She's she's
and there's an image of Leah in her her new

(10:41):
Republic finery while Ray sees General Organa gone. She's gone,
And so of course Ray stops looks to Kylo and
he's like, what what are you undoing? What I did?
And she heals him, and Ray looks at Kylo and says,
I did want to take your hand, Ben's hand, and

(11:04):
she runs to his interceptor and Lee's as as Finn
watches from behind. Then we cut to Agun class and Fenn,
Chewy and Poe have returned and they get word of
Leah's passing and that emotional scene from the movie which
still makes me kind of tear up and tighten a little,
you know, Chewyo. And then we cut back to keff

(11:25):
Beer and it's the scene from the movie, you know,
where Han appears to Ben. And then what what essentially
follows is just it's a it's what we saw in
the movie. You know, the Resistance finds out that Kajimi
has been destroyed.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
You know that the Sith Fleet has planet killing weapons
on board. Uh, and you know, you know, how are
they going to get through? You know. Poe meanwhile, has
been buffeted by having to take leadership, and he seeks
solace and comfort from Lando.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
You know, it's a nice nice way to bridge in
the past and and and the present and the future
and back on you know, kept Beer. You know, Kylo
is talking to the vision of his father of Han,
your mother's gone. But what she stood for what she
fought for. That's not going man. I know what I
have to do, but I don't know if I have

(12:21):
the strength to do it. You do, Dad, I know
you always did. And Kylo tosses his saber into the water,
And then we returned to Achto and Ray has given
up and starts to hurl her Luke's lightsaber, and Luke
catches said, what are you doing? And you know she's
concerned about falling to the dark side. She's concerned about,

(12:44):
you know, her bloodline. And Luke says, no, no, no,
don't worry about all that. You know, Confronting fear is
the destiny of the Jedi, your destiny, and if you
don't face Palpatin, it will mean the end of the
Jedi and the war will be lost. There's something my
sister would want you to have. We cut back to
Agent Claus and I find out, you know where Finn
tells Poe that Dio has all this information about Exegal,

(13:07):
and we get you know, a nice, a nice repeat
of what happened, you know, with Luke training Leah and
Leah deciding not to walk the path. But you know,
knowing full well that somebody would come and pick up
her saber to continue the path, and that's what we see,
and it just sort of rolls in and you know,
as we as we turn through the pages of each

(13:29):
each of this book, you know, we see Leah making
her way to Exagal and you know, sending the markers
back to the resistance and the plan is formed, you know,
to make the attack. And you know, so we end
with Ray arriving to Exagal and we have this view

(13:50):
from the back of Luke's X wing that she's piloting
and it's just wall to wall star destroyers. So we
we are barreling to the end. This adaptation, this one
was interesting. Again, you know, a lot of it was
what we had seen in the movie, but some of
these details are pretty good, especially you know, the the
interaction between Lea and Ben Solo. So we'll we'll see

(14:12):
how it goes.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
And that's it, Okay, Matt, Before we dive into rec room,
what do we have to look forward to next week
from a Marvel and or dark Horse.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
We got three books total, and they're all from Marvel.
On Tuesday, we get the Battle of Jaku trade paperback
and that collects the twelve issue Battle of Jaku MAXI series,
which is Insurgency, Rising Republic under Siege, and Last Stand.
All of those are four issues apiece. And then on
Wednesday for single comic books, we get the fifth and
final issue of The High Republic Fear of the Jedi,

(14:45):
and then we get Jedi Night's number four.

Speaker 1 (14:48):
So awesome. So we'll have two books to review next week. Yeah,
and we'll be back in just a couple of minutes
to discuss our rec room for the week. Sweet all right, Matt,
time for rec room. I know we have at least
one or two listeners who are enjoying this. So this

(15:09):
week I have the music recommendation and you have the
movie recommendation. Would you like me to go first? Would
you like to lead us off?

Speaker 2 (15:18):
Lead us off? Jeh, chick us out?

Speaker 1 (15:19):
All right? So the album that I am am hyping
this week is available on band camp. It's by an artist,
a singer songwriter named Darren Hanlon, who is on the
honestly one of my favorite singer songwriters. He's from Australia
and I was hipped to him probably about fifteen years
ago or so. My ex wife's best friend was living

(15:42):
in Australia. And went to see him in concert and
sent her Burned a couple of his CDs and sent
to her because they weren't available over here at the time,
and said, I think you guys will like this, and
of course I just fell in love because the album
that she sent us was an album called Little Chills
that has a song called There's Just Not Enough Songs
about squash, and he's talking about the sport, not the gourd,

(16:04):
so I of course went, you know, whole hog into
his discography. His first album is one I'm hipping to
hyping today. It's called Hello Stranger, and it recently got
re released or got released on vinyl for the first time,
and so of course I bought it. It's ten songs.
It originally came out January fourth, two thousand and two,
which happened to be my mother's birthday January fourth, so

(16:27):
even better connection there. And he describes his music as
urban folk. But don't let that scare you, because when
I think of folk, I always think of really slow,
sort of middle of the road acoustic music, and that
is not him at all. A lot of it is acoustic,
but to me it sounds it's a little more like
if the Ramones went acoustic to me only it's much

(16:51):
more melodic. I'm not really explaining it well so but
I would just say go listen to Hello Stranger. The
first song is called Hiccups, which has a instructions in
the bridge for how to cure someone of having the hiccups.
And the next song is called the Kickstand Song, which
is an ode to the Kickstand and what a wonderful

(17:11):
and wonderfully simple invention it was, so you can kind
of see how his mind works. Track number five is
another favorite, is called Operator Getting Me Sweden. He's trying
to get in touch with his love and I really
just love the way that one is produced. Song number eight.
Track number eight is called Punk's Not Dead, which is
about a roommate that is terrorizing everybody in the house

(17:31):
and the chorus is Punk's not dead, She's just gone
to bed. So it's very witty.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
Man.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
I've sent you some of his stuff, and if you
haven't haven't listened before, I know you will. You will
love it.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
Oh no, I know. I've listened to it and it's
very entertaining.

Speaker 1 (17:46):
And the last song on the album is probably my
favorite song of his. It's called the last night of
not knowing you. And I can't tell if it's haunting
or wistful, because when you listen to this song, it's
either the best night of his life or the worst
night of his life when he met this person. And

(18:07):
I love it and just the way again, the way
the song is instructed, it just it just moves me,
and it makes me feel wistful, but it also kind
of makes me feel a little melancholy at times. So
I just the guy's a genius. I cannot recommend his
music enough. So start with Hello Stranger, and after that
just just just go off, just listen to everything he's got.

(18:30):
We'll put the link in the show notes for the link,
the band camp link to Hello Stranger, so you can
go listen if you're on Spotify, He's on Spotify, any
any of the streaming services he's available. So Darren Hanlon,
I highly recommended, one of my favorite songwriters. I hope
to someday see him live, but I don't think he
tours America often, if at all.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
And you know, when you come from another country, especially
in current climate, you may not want to come exactly.
So we will say, well, my recommendation is a of
a film and it's from nineteen eighty seven. It's called
Batteries Not Included. Uh, and it was presented by Steven
Spielberg but not made by him. But the story is

(19:13):
is that it was actually brought to life as an
early potential story idea for Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories TV
series that I believe aired on NBC. I could be wrong,
but I loved Amazing Stories. It was just, you know,
it was it was like a you know, at a time,

(19:34):
a modern day Twilight Zone. So but you know, and
and of course it's famous obviously because like one of
the one of the episodes featured Mark Hamill, so you know,
as a as a collector, you know, who went through
life collecting things and uh, you know, finally, you know,
saw his collection collecting payoff at the end, you know,
towards the end of his life and the twilight of
his life. So but but this one is it stars

(19:57):
the excellent husband wife team of Hume Krona and Jessica Tandy.
Hume Cronin of course, you know, I believe he's a
Canadian actor. Jessica Tandy is a British actor. Jessica Tandy
actually I believe she won the Tony Award for the
first run of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof on Broadway.

(20:17):
I believe so many many years ago.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
So but uh, and won an Oscar for driving Miss
Daisy that too.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
That too. The other cast members include Frank McCrae, the
Wonderful character actor, the late Elizabeth Pania, as well as
Michael Carmine, Denis Blutsakaris, John Pankow, and Michael Green. Uh.
It's set in the East Village in New York City. Uh,
It's and it's this tenement apartment complet apartment building that

(20:48):
a developer is trying to buy out and unfortunately the
rest of the block has basically been reduced to rubble
because this developer wants to put up you know, brand
new condos and high rises that are way too, way
too pricey. And Hume Cronin and Jessica Tandy's characters are
are our elderly and you know they had been running
a diner on the first floor of this tenement and

(21:11):
the other occupants of the building all have their quirks
and foibles. Elizabeth Pania plays a woman who is with child,
but you know her her the father of her child
has skipped town. I believe it's Dennis pits Acarus plays Mason,
who's an artist whose night not quite on the custom

(21:31):
of success. Uh, matter of fact, he's very far from it. Uh.
And it details and Frank McCrae had placed the building
super and he's very quiet, and he's a retired boxer
and most people don't really know anything about him. But
what happens is, you know, is it details their struggle
to fend off this developer. And then one night, two

(21:53):
little tiny alien ships show up to the building and
it turns out that they are they're living machines. Uh.
And you know, they are a maated pair, and they
need a place to crash, so to speak, uh, to
to restore and rejuvenate, and in the process they have babies.

(22:16):
And it's all about how how these little spaceships uh
go through and start repairing everything in the tenement, you know,
bring I mean just you know, just bringing it back
up to absolute you know, the way it was when
it was first built in the twenties and thirties, all
of which of course drives the developer wild. I mean
he's hired at coon to try to force everybody out.

(22:36):
You know, you know, to do arson, you know, and
you know anything's accidental fire. Uh and uh you know
they you know, and it causes uh, the you know,
the building to to to to blaze up and burn down.
Uh and of course, you know. But what's interesting is, uh,

(22:59):
you know, ruin it for everybody is the developer is
very thrilled because, you know, he's finally got everybody out,
he's got the building down, and he didn't even have
to pay the demolish it. So he's getting ready to
come back the next day because the crew he had hired,
out of respect for the occupants of the building, you know,
refused to work for a couple of days. And then
they come back the next day and the little ships
have built everything back up like it never burn down.

(23:24):
And so it's just a it is acute story. It's
a lot of fun. It's very character driven. And what
one of the things I really enjoyed about when I
went to see it the first time in the theaters
back when I was a senior in high school was
the fact that it's there's no cgi, it's it's all
practical effects. So these little ships that you see and
they are intricately detailed. They were all built, uh, you

(23:49):
know for this movie. Alas, I've never been able to
find reproductions of them. I mean I've seen reproductions of
them on Etsy, you know that are custom made and
you know, thousands of dollars. But but it's just it's
a wonderful little story and you know it it really
I think, you know, aside from driving Miss Days, it
really gave a platform for new audiences to see Hume

(24:15):
Cronin and Jessica Tandy working together and just working, you know,
because you know, there's such wonderful actors, you know, and
you know, Hollywood is full of amazing actors and you
know who are often forgotten by time and tide. And
so it's always it's always a pleasure, you know when
you see a movie or a TV show where some
former big name or even you know, some former mid

(24:37):
name comes back and you know, gets all these new plaudits.
So and so, you know, but you know, the movie
holds up. It's it's very entertaining. It's good for you,
it's good for family viewing. You know, if you've got
a if you've got some small kids, you're looking for
someone for a movie night, it's a great movie. Uh.
You know, if you are an adult with no kids

(24:58):
and you enjoy a good story, it's a great movie.
And I believe you can pretty much, you know, I
think you can rent it streaming. Uh it's I believe
it's still in print on DVD and Blu ray, you know,
so if you really want to check it out, you can.
You know, as always, i'd recommend you check it out
your local library first, you know, or even you know,
go to your go to your local secondhand story. You
might find, you know, the used DVD for two or

(25:19):
three bucks.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
Absolutely, yeah, that's a good good call out there. And yeah,
you can rent it on every platform for about four dollars.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
Yeah, yeah, so yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:27):
Very nice, very nice.

Speaker 3 (25:28):
Good.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
So I have some some trivia for you. This was
This was the final jeopardy question at Trivia last week.
Producers of this film had planned to call it this
horror film had planned to call it Batteries Not Included
until they learned of a movie in production that was
about to be released with that exact name. Do you
know what the movie that was almost called Batteries Not

(25:50):
Included that would have come out after Batteries Not Included
ended up being called So.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
This wasn't that would have come out in eighty seven
or eighty eight.

Speaker 1 (25:59):
You now have all of the information that I had MM,
and we'll say our team did get it right. We
just didn't answer in time.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
You got me. What is it.

Speaker 1 (26:14):
Child's play?

Speaker 2 (26:15):
Oh? Chucky?

Speaker 1 (26:16):
Okay, yeah, that makes it makes sense. Yeah, my my
my best friend leaned over. He's like, is it child's play?
I said, oh, it might be, and it was got
do us?

Speaker 3 (26:27):
There you go?

Speaker 1 (26:28):
All right, Well, thank you all for joining us this week.
Four Star Wars splash page. I'm Jeff, I'm Mat made
a force Be.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
With you always.

Speaker 3 (26:40):
The Star Wars splash page theme song is markm can
handle About Chris Cape. Check Chris out at chriscape dot
com and on song po, on Twitter at Chris Cape,
and on Facebook.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
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