Hot
damn, the outspoken criticism for
Blorba Fatt is really starting to pile up....and not by random nobodies, either; we're talking people who have worked on Star Wars as a franchise to some capacity.
First, and arguably the most savage, is Steve Perry--who some of you EU stalwarts may recognize as the author of the
Shadows of the Empire novel.
Now, I'm not going to pretend that
Shadows of the Empire is Pulitzer-winning material, or that it doesn't have some weird ideas of its own, but as a story about bounty hunters and the criminal underworld? It
deflowers this terrible new Boba Fett show. So I think Perry has plenty of authority when it comes to dumping all over this show, considering he did a far better job tackling this show's subject matter in the 90's.
Other new detractors include Simon Williamson, pupeteer of Max Rebo in ROTJ, as well as playing the unfortunate Gamorrean Guard that gets thrown into the Rancor Pit with Luke, and subsequently eaten.
Here's him poking fun at the shitty new Gamorrean designs:
Then you have Toby Philpott, one of the puppeteers for Jabba the Hutt abandoning all pretenses of cordiality and outright shitting on the new Hutt designs:
And finally, the most significant voice where I'm concerned, Jan Duursema. For those that need reminding, Jan is the superbly talented comic artist whose brilliant work I've spotlighted in my coverage of the
Star Wars Legacy comics, and also spearheaded the likes of
Republic, Dawn of the Jedi, designing and co-creating countless iconic EU characters from Quinlan Vos to Ayla Secura to Darth Talon.
It's important to note that Duursema has been far less harsh towards the Disney SW Era, which I would imagine stems from her getting the occasional gig drawing covers for their crappy Marvel outings. As such, she's probably the least harsh voice of this lot.
However...she still says what a lot of us are thinking:
And yes, Duursema is 100% qualified to pass this criticism, given how she specialized in churning out designs to match with the rundown, weathered look of Star Wars locales herself:
It really is something to see all these veterans of SW film and media production coming out of the woodwork to comment on how garbage
Blorba Fett is. I think it speaks volumes of how far the quality has dropped, where now big voices in the industries feel emboldened enough to come forward to collectively laugh--and groan--at how bad the latest Star Wars tripe is.
And on that note:
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By the way, meet Vader and Orochi's new diversity task force in the comics, the
Revengers™! (this is actually their name...) Together they will fight that evil Crimson Dawn that Maul started!
Are you fucking serious? The
Revengers?
What clinically-diseased, creatively-bankrupt chimp in the Marvel office came up with that retarded name?
Jesus FUCKING Christ, I didn't think anything could surpass Claudia Gray naming her rock character "Geode", but this takes the fucking cake.
Nobody writing the supplementary material can come up with a good name for anything anymore.