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A MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR
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WELCOME... Editor / Chris Cooper
MARCH 2020
TITAN EDITORIAL
Managing Editor / Martin Eden
Editorial Assistant / Pheobe Hedges
Art Editor / Andrew Leung
The very first clip I ever saw of Star Wars was on a children’s
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television quiz show called Screen Test. There was some cool Senior Editor / Brett Rector
guy in an orange spacesuit flying a cool space plane, with that Art Director / Troy Alders
bleeping robot I’d seen on The Donnie and Marie show sitting Creative Director / Michael Siglain
Asset Management / Tim Mapp,
right behind him. I didn’t know the correct terminology was Erik Sanchez, Bryce Pinkos,
“droid,” or that the cool guy was the coolest space hero and Nicole LaCoursiere, Sarah Williams,
Shahana Alam
future Jedi, Luke Skywalker. In fact, at that point I’m not Story Group / Pablo Hidalgo,
even sure I knew the title of the movie. What I did know Leland Chee, Matt Martin
was that there were laser blasts, whizzing stars, a sense of
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thrilling urgency, and that I was excited. Kristin Baver, Tara Bennett,
To this day, it’s the space battles that put the star war Megan Crouse, Mark Newbold, Tony A. Rowe,
Jay Stobie, Dan Wallace, Pat Jankiewicz,
into Star Wars for me—not that zinging lightsaber blades,
and Bryan Young.
AT-AT attacks, and angry Ewoks don’t float my boat almost
as much, it’s just that I get the biggest rush from dogfighting SPECIAL THANKS TO
Lucy Goldsmith, Erich Schoeneweiss
starfighters. And of all the saga’s space battles, it’s the at Random House, Holly McIntosh, Joseph
original that still gets me the most. That dizzying dive into Taraborrelli, Andrea Towers and Jim Nausedas
the Death Star trench was the first time a film had physically at Marvel Comics, Lizzy Draeger, Tracy
Cannobbio and Chris Argyropoulos
disorientated me, and I look forward to that feeling every at Lucasfi lm. Chris Troise and Eugene
time I watch A New Hope. For very different reasons, I Paraszczuk at Disney.
experienced a similar sense of discombobulation watching TITAN MAGAZINES
The Mandalorian, right at the end of Chapter One. You know Production Controller / Peter James
the scene I mean. Suddenly, I didn’t know up from down. Senior Production Controller / Jackie Flook
Art Director / Oz Browne
I love that Star Wars continues to do that to me. Sales & Circulation Manager / Steve Tothill
This issue, not only do we revisit ways to destroy a Publicist / Imogen Harris
Death Star, we discover more about The Mandalorian from Press, Publicity & Marketing Assistant /
George Wickenden
showrunners Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni, and star Pedro Pascal, Commercial Manager / Michelle Fairlamb
and celebrate the return of The Clones Wars—amongst other Advertising & Marketing Assistant / Bella Hoy
Editorial Director / Duncan Baizley
delights. So, lock S foils in attack position and get reading. Operations Director / Leigh Baulch
And remember, the Force will be with you, always. Executive Director / Vivian Cheung
Publisher / Nick Landau
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