May 4th, 2021056Star Wars: The Bad Batch debuts on May the 4th and is a terrific companion piece to Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The seventy-minute debut is not a direct sequel (nor should it be), but organically follows the exploits of Clone Force 99, known as the Bad Batch, whom we first met in the first four episodes of season seven of The Clone Wars....
August 27th, 2017166Force Friday II is less than a week away. It is a time of much rejoicing for Star Wars fans world-wide. It is our first chance to see what sort of secrets await us this upcoming December when we flock to the theater to see The Last Jedi. What else is it about this event that gets all so hot and heavy? They're only toys after all.......
March 5th, 20170242Mercurial Swift And Narrative Layers in Aftermath Please note, the following contains minor spoilers for Aftermath, Aftermath: Life Debt, and Aftermath: Empire's End. When Aftermath first came out, it was met with mixed reviews. The narrative structure, the density of the story, and the style employed by Chuck Wendig did not always...
February 27th, 20170260Chuck Wendig's Aftermath trilogy came to a thrilling conclusion this past week (February 21st) with Empire's End. The novel completes the story of a group of all new characters following the Battle of Endor, and the destruction of the second Death Star. One of those characters in particular had the largest, and most important arcs of...
February 23rd, 2017195Chuck Wendig's final entry in the Aftermath trilogy, Aftermath: Empire's End has been released, and completes the adventures of Norra Wexley and her mismatched group of miscreants. The reader journeys with Norra Wexley and bounty hunter Jas Emari in their pursuit of Grand Admiral Rae Sloane, but that is only one focal point of the...
February 23rd, 20172334With Chuck Wendig’s Empire’s End arriving this month, I decided to review Aftermath and Aftermath: Life Debt. After my first read, I found these post-Return of the Jedi stories entertaining and engaging. For one, getting some details on how the galaxy evolved after the death of the Emperor and Darth Vader was fascinating. The new...
August 5th, 20161430 #starwarscanon – Assembling the Pieces: Interludes of Aftermath and Life Debt Please note, this article contains spoilers for Aftermath and Aftermath: Life Debt. Star Wars canon novel releases have become an event unto itself, with many of us running to the book store on release day and devouring them as quickly as...
July 23rd, 2016099 Fortunately for me, Dan Z has provided a wonderful review of Chuck Wendig’s Aftermath: Life Debt, which you can read here. That leaves my task at hand to discuss Marc Thompson’s reading of this novel and the production value of the audiobook itself. In full disclosure, I have not listened to an audiobook in many years, so this...
July 21st, 2016368 Aftermath: Life Debt is the second novel in Chuck Wendig's post Return of the Jedi trilogy, which continues the story of what happened to the galaxy once the second Death Star was destroyed by Lando Calrissian and the Rebel Alliance. As with the first novel, Aftermath, Life Debt follows the exploits of Norra Wexley and her assortment...
September 11th, 2015273 Aftermath is the long awaited novel from Chuck Wendig that boldly seeks to explore questions Star Wars fans have been clamoring for ever since Return of the Jedi hit theaters in 1983. Wendig has the incredibly arduous task of re-introducing fans to the Star Wars saga post ROTJ; a unique challenge, since it seeks to retread...
