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Riffing on Star Wars: #34 -The Madness of Saw Gerrera

The life of Saw Gerrera is one that has primarily been told in bookend form.  Saw was introduced in Season Five of The Clone Wars as a partisan fighter taught the ways of insurrection against Separatist occupiers by the Jedi Order.  The partisans succeeded in driving out the Separatists, but not without the loss of…

January 13, 2017 in Riffing on Star Wars.

Star Wars Propaganda: A History of Persuasive Art in the Galaxy – Review

The author of Star Wars Propaganda: A History of Persuasive Art in the Galaxy is an expert in the field whose knowledge of the subject extends back decades.  Wonderfully, this applies to both the fictitious author of the tome, Jaynor of Bith, and to the writer behind Jaynor, Lucasfilm Story Group member, Pablo Hidalgo.  The…

November 13, 2016 in book review.

Riffing on Star Wars: #4 – Droids, Slaves or Machines?

“We don’t serve their kind here!”  Uttered by Wuher, the barkeep in the Mos Eisley cantina, those words establish the peculiar place that droids inhabit within the Star Wars galaxy.  At a glance in any visual medium in the franchise, comic book, animation, or film, droids are omnipresent.  You see them in the service of…

July 15, 2016 in droids, Riffing on Star Wars.

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…

July 8, 2016 in Characters of Star Wars, Star Wars comics, Uncategorized.

Why The Return of the A-Wing for Episode VIII Isn’t Surprising, But Could Hint at the On Screen Appearance of an EU Character

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…

April 20, 2016 in Star Wars News and Speculation.

Star Wars Battlefront: Twilight Company by Alexander Freed – Review

In the modern day of franchise management, whenever a product such as a movie is released, one can always expect multiple merchandising extensions of that product, be it clothes, spin offs, and even novels.  The video game Star Wars Battlefront was released in 2015 as part of Disney’s 2015 push to assert itself as the…

March 16, 2016 in book review.

Book Review: Tarkin – by James Luceno

Tarkin. The title of James Luceno’s recent novel on the life of the infamous Grand Moff best known for destroying Alderaan with the first Death Star is straight forward and to the point: much like the man that Luceno describes within it.  Tarkin was released as one of the first entries into the ‘new’ Expanded…

August 24, 2015 in book review, Characters of Star Wars.
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