Not been staying current on Marvel Comics’ Star Wars titles? No problem! Over at FANGirlBlog I wrote about what’s been happening in the first half of 2018. In brief, good times! Check out the article here for details on what you’ve been missing!
In Riffing on Star Wars #6, we discussed the most well-known ship in the Star Wars galaxy, the Millennium Falcon. Today, we will talk about one of the most identifiable, the X-wing, the star fighter debuted in the final act of our favorite film from 1977. Revealed in the rebels’ hangar bay inside a vine…
Here at Brown’s Review, we have decided to start an ongoing project connected to our writing on Star Wars, Riffing on Star Wars. With this project, we will pick a topic or another related to the Star Wars franchise and offer a short thought, opinion, or simply coverage. It can or will cover anything in…
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…
Yesterday, Star Wars fans were delighted at the release of photos of the royal visit to Pinewood Studios by Princes William and Harry. While there are most definitely Star Wars fans who adore the scions of the English monarchy, most of the excitement had to do with the reveal that the A-wing star fighter had…
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,…
Depending on whom you asked, one of the flaws of the Prequel Trilogy, and to an extent, the Legendary Expanded Universe, was this proclivity for every Star Wars character somehow knowing every other Star Wars character. The worse example of this would likely be Yoda knowing Chewbacca or Anakin Skywalker being the creator of C-3PO. …
Buoyed by the popularity that undoubtedly resurrected his character from death as originally scripted for The Force Awakens, Poe Dameron is the latest Star Wars character to be handed his own self-titled comic by Marvel. Unlike Princess Leia, Chewbacca, or Lando Calrissian, Poe has the special honor of being gifted an on-going series, a first…
Warning: The following post is replete with spoilers for The Force Awakens. One of the chief complaints which initially arose following the premiere of The Force Awakens was a distinct lack of answers. What was the First Order? Why did it exist? What’s the Resistance versus the New Republic? If there is one thing which…
The gap between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens is vast in two different ways. In-universe, it’s a time period of approximately 30 years, and for Star Wars fans, it exists as a great mysterious gulf filled only with question marks concerning the lives and adventures of our heroes following the victory at…
