November 20th, 20180213Fresh of the heels of being deemed too obscure for the Star Wars Celebration podcast stage (Q: Who reads Star Wars comics anyway? A: About 200,000 do, every month.), we're looking at last week's Star Wars comics this week, including a rather stirring start of a new story arc in Doctor Aphra #26 and a thoroughly entertaining chapter of...
November 6th, 20180185Five weeks after it began, the frightful final issue of Star Wars Adventures: Tales From Vader's Castle #5 provides a resonant endsong to the mini series, keeping the suspense and chills on a steady course from start to finish. We're quite happy with how this weekly experiment played out and impressed how it not only kept its all-ages...
October 30th, 20180171Readers are treated to what is arguably the first true Greek tragedy of modern Star Wars comics in the pages of Marvel's Doctor Aphra #25, a deftly executed -- in more ways than one -- conclusion to "The Catastrophe Con" story arc that left us agog because of the impact of the story. In the pages of IDW Publishing's Star Wars...
October 13th, 20181137Star Wars Canon: A Galaxy Far, Far Away Explored Outside of the Live-Action Films -- A Guest Blog by Neil Harrington The Star Wars universe surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds the galaxy together -- Well beyond the big screen. For Star Wars junkies such as myself, the 10 live-action blockbuster films don't entirely quench my...
October 5th, 20181255Charles Soule said the second volume of Marvel's Star Wars: Darth Vader will end with issue #25, concluding what has been a character-defining arc for the character. The news, revealed at the Lucasfilm publishing panel at New York Comic Con on Oct. 5, was softened by the reveal that Aftermath trilogy author Chuck Wendig is writing a...
September 3rd, 20182690When Maul was first brought back during The Clone Wars, I immediately thought it was such a cop-out. Bringing back another dead character because why? Can’t they think of anyone original to bring in? First, it was The Emperor in the Dark Empire comics, and then it was Boba Fett. Didn’t he die when he fell into the Sarlacc pit?...
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August 7th, 20181274*This review of Thrawn: Alliances contains minor spoilers.* Thrawn: Alliances by Timothy Zahn is a follow-up to Star Wars: Thrawn, published in May 2017. (You can my review here.) In Thrawn, Zahn laid a thread that the Chiss had once worked alongside General Anakin Skywalker, during the time of The Clone Wars. In Alliances, that thread...
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July 27th, 20181468"For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Before the dark times... before the Empire." -- Obi-Wan Kenobi Since Obi-Wan's famous line in the original Star Wars, fans have been wondering what these "dark times" actually were. Since the Lucasfilm purchase by Disney...
