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!)
Riffing on Star Wars: #23 – A Week for Women
(For those not wishing to be spoiled for events in Darth Vader #25, you’re advised and warned to skip this Riffing on Star Wars! Feel free to contact us if you want to know the nature of the spoiler, however.) In the final act of A New Hope, Darth Vader ominously intones, “Today will be…
Starter’s Guide to reading Marvel’s Star Wars Comics
Remember the time Princess Leia picked up a lightsaber to fight off Imperial troops? What about when Darth Vader began his ruthless hunt for the identity of the X-wing pilot who destroyed the Death Star? Not even the moment Han Solo earned the nickname ‘nerf herder’? If the answer is no, then most likely you…
Riffing on Star Wars: #3 – Luke Skywalker and the Post-Jedi Expanded Universe
Earlier this week, Star Wars Aftermath: Life Debt by Chuck Wendig was released, constituting the third novel in the Star Wars Expanded Universe taking place after Return of the Jedi not directly tied into The Force Awakens. While written by two different authors, Wendig and Claudia Gray (read her Bloodline, it’s good), the three books…
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, 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: Darth Vader, Annual 1 – Review
Among the fresh wave of Star Wars comics released under the Marvel Comics banner, there is near universal agreement that Darth Vader is one of the best of the bunch, if not the best. The quality boils down to not just the writing, but to the artwork, as well. It takes considerable care to render…
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,…
Familiar Faces and a Hint on the Future of an Aftermath Character
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…
Star Wars: Star Wars, Vols 1 -3, – Review
Until 2015, there were probably three types of comic book readers when it came to Star Wars on the illustrated printed page. Those who first dove into the new adventures produced by Marvel from the release of A New Hope through to the late 1980s, those who first experienced it with the titles released by…
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