Star Wars: Han Solo – Review
Marvel’s five issue Han Solo mini-series, written by Marjorie Liu, was not only the first Marvel Star Wars series written by a woman, but it also rocked. Check out our review of the series over on FANgirl Blog!
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Adaptation – Review
Adaptations can serve two purposes, but usually only one or the other. An adaptation can present a well-known story from a new perspective, be it more descriptive or different visually, or it can genuinely serve as the consumer’s first interaction with a story in a medium familiar to the reader. Given the incredible success of…
Marvel Comics’ Darth Vader: Series Review
We reviewed Marvel’s Darth Vader series over at FANGirl Blog. Just click here to find out what we thought of the Sith Lord’s titular comic! (It’s fantastic, but click through to find out why!)
Hints toward L’ulo’s Fate?
The new ongoing Marvel series, Poe Dameron, has not only brought us new adventures of the dashing Resistance pilot Poe Dameron, but also a new mystery concerning a close family friend and veteran of the Rebel Alliance, the Duros pilot, L’ulo. As we have previously discussed, L’ulo was introduced in Star Wars: Shattered Empire as…
Star Wars: Kanan, Vols 1 – 5, Review
After Disney’s acquisition of the Star Wars franchise, it immediately launched a new television show under its banner, Rebels. Rebels has since completed two full seasons with a third currently in production. Much of the show’s emotional gravitas has focused on one of its heroes, Kanan Jarrus. A padawan who survived Order 66, the infamous…
Star Wars: Star Wars, Vol. 7 – Review
A void exists in the life of Obi-Wan Kenobi. From The Phantom Menace to Revenge of the Sith, we follow Kenobi from Jedi Knight to Jedi Master, as he sought to train Anakin Skywalker and fight as a general in the Republic’s clone armies. At the end of Revenge of the Sith, we see Kenobi…
Star Wars: Star Wars, Vols 4 – 6, – Review and Summary
If the first three issues of Marvel’s Star Wars were intended to simply introduce our characters, the next three push our main heroes, Luke, Han, and Leia, off onto paths which come to define them in the following films of the Original Trilogy. Luke continues his path to becoming a Jedi, while the building blocks…
Star Wars Special: C-3PO – Review
The Force Awakens returned many of our favorite characters from the Original Trilogy back to the screen, but not without the obvious changes to their outward appearances as evidence of the thirty some years since Return of the Jedi. For those characters who would not necessarily age, at least if properly maintained, and of course,…
The Women of Disney’s Star Wars
On April 7, the first trailer for the first non-sequential Star Wars film, Rogue One, was released to great fanfare. Focused on the main character Jyn Erso, played by Felicity Jones, and the trailer featured her recruitment by the Rebel Alliance to uncover and stop the Empire’s new super weapon. The trailer is just over…
Star Wars: Star Wars, Annual 1 – Review
The first annual issue for Marvel’s Star Wars line introduces a new character to the Star Wars Expanded Universe, Eneb Ray, among other spies on Coruscant, and then promptly wipes them out (the spies, not Ray), in a story set to portray the duplicitous nature of Emperor Palpatine via a failed assassination attempt. It’s also…
