September 17th, 20190135We got some answers, yet more questions, as readers learned about the tenuous and relationship between Snoke and Kylo Ren in the pages of Age of Resistance -- Supreme Leader Snoke #1. As for other Star Wars comics, we weigh in on what the two new series that are expected to start in December may encompass as we parse the August sales...
May 23rd, 20181287Over the past two months, I have examined the portrayal of evil in the Star Wars saga. First, I looked at evil in the prequels and how the concept of evil was a little more ambiguous. Next, I turned to the movies of the original trilogy and Rogue One. While the films of the original trilogy largely treated evil as a black and white...
March 18th, 20180344This is a review of the novelization for by Jason Fry. There may be some spoilers for both the book and the film. An effective novelization of a film not only helps you relive certain moments, but also goes deeper into character motivations and development, world-building, and more minor details that can't be explored within the time...
January 27th, 20182148With the release of The Last Jedi we are introduced to many new things to ask questions about. Will we get our answers for them? Probably some point down the line. But I think it's interesting to look at why we ask those questions in the first place. Is it just a drive for knowledge? An incessant need to know everything related to the...
November 10th, 20171129In which two fans -- or possibly two sides of my own brain -- debate which of the new crop of movies is better: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, or Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens POINT: Rogue One is better than The Force Awakens. COUNTERPOINT: How can you even possibly say that? POINT: Rogue One has a beginning,...
April 30th, 2017042Can you feel it? There’s an energy pulsing through the air. It’s palpable. It’s electrifying. It’s so strong I can feel it coursing through every pore of my being. Spring has sprung! You might argue that I am a little behind the times. After all, the calendar marked the beginning of the season last month. But for those...
March 31st, 2017085A couple of days ago, I stopped into our local financial institution to do a bit of banking, and since there were no other customers waiting in line, I took a little extra time to chat with the friendly teller. The course of our discussion took us down the path of musing about change and how open to it people are. About 35 years my...
February 22nd, 20171103The Star Wars community tends to boil things down to a lowest common denominator. While we all have Wookieepedia bookmarked and a vast knowledge TIE fighter models, we find the conversations being whittled down to likes or dislikes, goods or bads. We polarize our conversations instead of finding deeper levels of understanding through...
June 18th, 20162703Jay's Galactic Espressions Once upon a time, the Expanded Universe (EU) of Star Wars opened up an outlet for me that helped sate my unyielding desire for all things in a Galaxy Far, Far Away. I consider myself a relative newbie to the now-titled Legends category of knowledge and stories, having only come into it about 10 years...
May 23rd, 20163341 I’ve seen a lot written and I’ve heard a lot said about Lor San Tekka lately. The leader of the Church of the Force seems to have captured the imaginations of Star Wars fans. I recently watched The Force Awakens again (thank goodness for Blu-ray) and one of his lines caught my attention. “Without the Jedi, there can be no...
