December 11th, 20180117Marvel's ambitious, 27-issue Age of... maxi series begins its run with a potent yet divisive first issue, Age of Republic -- Qui-Gon Jinn, while in Star Wars #58, readers are enveloped with some seriously solid character development that has us rethinking our long-conceived notions about Han, Leia and Luke.From IDW comes the second...
December 5th, 20180120More Darth Vader comics are coming from Marvel in 2019, with Dennis Hopeless penning a five-issue mini series, Star Wars: Vader -- Dark Visions, that aims to show a different side to the Dark Lord of the Sith.The series launches in March and issue features art by Star Wars: Lando: Double or Nothing and Star Wars: Rogue One...
December 4th, 2018057Just one issue this week, but it's left a searing impression on Jeff and Matt.Darth Vader #24 is setting up the series' conclusion with an unusual vista that may change the reality and perception of Darth Vader and, by extension, Anakin Skywalker, too, with consequences that could potentially resonate down the Star Wars timeline.A...
November 27th, 2018065Well this episode is certainly ab-solutely ab-tastic and utterly f(ab)ulous without being at all pec-uliar.It's a double dose of Han Solo without a shirt as we discuss the second part of "The Escape" in Star Wars #57 and focus on the budding feelings of ... er ... attachment between Princess Leia and the scruffy looking nerf...
November 20th, 2018070Fresh 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 16th, 20181118The Star Wars: Shadow of Vader five-issue mini series Chuck Wendig was writing won't be published at all, despite his having written the first three issues.Bleeding Cool reported, citing retailers, that Marvel had started informing them that the series, which was due to debut in January, wouldn't be replaced or resolicited,...
November 13th, 2018078Heavy hearts as we mark the passing of Stan Lee, who co-created some of Marvel's most enduring characters and, thankfully, reconsidered his position against adapting a yet-to-be released sci-fi film that was to be called Star Wars by Marvel (thank you, Roy Thomas, for convincing him otherwise!).We remember Lee for the visionary that...
October 30th, 2018066Readers 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 23rd, 2018074Art is murderously misunderstood as readers, finally, get some details as to the origin of Lord Momin, the Sith Lord whose helm was introduced way back in the pages of the first Lando mini series, in the pages of Darth Vader #22, while the horror is sublime in the pages of IDW's Star Wars Adventures: Tales From Vader's Castle #3....
October 16th, 2018077It was a quiet week in Star Wars comics until it wasn't.Jeff McGee and Matt Moore discuss Chuck Wendig's reveal that he's been "fired" by Marvel, the implications it may have and the reactions it's drawn.Also discussed? The solid and deft debut of Robbie Thompson and Will Sliney's first issue of the Solo: A Star Wars Story...
