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Troubled by Asajj Ventress’ growing prowess with the dark side of the Force, Darth Sidious commands Count Dooku to eliminate her. But Ventress survives Dooku’s assassination attempt, and the jilted former apprentice vows to take revenge, enlisting the aid of her kinswomen – the mystical Nightsisters of Dathomir – in her sinister scheme. Evil clashes with evil and sparks fly – igniting the fuse for the launch of the explosive second half of Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season Three. Darkness falls and the end begins with “Nightsisters,” an all-new episode debuting at an ALL-NEW TIME – 8:30 p.m. ET/PT Friday, January 7 on Cartoon Network.The first of a three-part story arc, “Nightsisters” pulls back the curtain to reveal bitter rivalries, seething resentments, shattered alliances and more – including the revelation of a dark sorcery as mystical and powerful as the Force itself. Wielded by the witches of far-off Dathomir, this sinister magic poses a threat to both the Jedi and the Sith, and a challenge to the delicate balance of the Force.
“We’ve still only seen a small sliver of what’s possible,” says Dave Filoni, supervising director of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. “Not only are we seeing stories from different points of view, but we are constantly learning about new perspectives that shift the paradigm entirely.”
One of those new perspectives comes from Ventress herself. Previously represented primarily as Dooku’s grim shadow and an agent of evil, her secret history is revealed when she is forced to re-examine her allegiances. The hunter becomes the hunted, but she is quick to demonstrate that she is no ordinary prey. She strikes back with a vengeance, returning to the offensive as she responds to the insult and injury of her former master’s betrayal.
“Things are changing in The Clone Wars – permanent changes that will affect the whole Star Wars universe,” says Filoni. “We are about to start seeing some significant shifts, starting with the power structure of the Separatists and the Sith. We’re shaking things up for them, and you’ll see that our bad guys are going to react strongly to that. They don’t take it too well. What we’re seeing is the start of a chain reaction. Things are really about to pick up – and this is just the beginning.”
The Daily P.O.P. 
Hello everybody,
Wishing you all a belated New Year. I am hoping to watch the first of the three episodes of this amazing story arc today.
I am glad that this site is still going from strength to strength. Keep up the good work lovely people!
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King Hulk, I wanted to respond to your thoughts on here if it is ok with you and Dailypop.
You said Marvel chose to ignore everything before Mantlo. I would say it included almost everything pre issue 300. A good portion of Mantlo’s run. It seems to me that after the child abuse origins they wanted to reboot the character. Basically it was isssues 102-299 that they took out.
Starting with the ghost of the Future late in 95 Peter David story we saw the nephew of Talbolt. The story even mentions the death of the Glen Talbolt in the volcano from 260. The first time anything was directly related that those issues.
What is odd is in that storyline,someone wrote mentioning a bunch of stories from way back in the letters page. The editor’s comment was something to the effect of “We and Peter David prefer to deal with more recent characters”. Odd considering this was the first time that a story was directly related to those issues.
2-3 years later they did the retro Hulk series Glen Greenberg did. Talbolt was a main character in that. It toos place during the time period of those ignored issues. Sort of a Hulk version of Untold Tales of Spider-Man. It only lasted 6 issues was canceled. I will post a link to a interview with Greenberg if you are interested.
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Hi Zeno,
Apologies for the lateness of my reply. My system as gone down again. I am using someone else’s IT System. In answer to your questions :-
Well it seemed to me that Marvel had chosen to ignore former character’s (and former story arc’s) before Mantlo’s run.
It was Bill Mantlo who set things up for PAD to use later down the line (Bruce’s childhood for example)and it was PAD that went back to Jarella’s world. I think Marvel honcho’s wanted to try some new things and PAD eventually brought things back onto an even keel.
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The other thing is that two other Peter David stories used events that were from those issues. The first story is where the Grey Hulk returned to Jarella’s dimension and the second are the issues where Jim Wilson appeared. The difference is no events in those earlier issues are mentioned.
The Ghost of the Future on the other hand involves Talbolt’s nephew getting revenge for the events in 260.
One exception is a story with a new Glob that mentions the original. This was not by David but a fill in written by a man named Tom Field.
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I know the Glob story to which you refer to.
I remember contacting Marvel at the time giving them my theories regarding the character and giving Marvel a wish list of whom I wanted the Hulk to fight next.
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