Tag: Star Wars (comic)

Mynock Manor Suggests: Sana Starros Expanded Content

Mynock Manor Suggests Sana Starros Expanded Content

Staying at hotels, B&Bs, and even Airbnb’s there are often concierge services available about what to see and do in the area you’re visiting, so we’ve opened the concierge desk at the Manor to offer suggestions on what to read, watch, and enjoy when wanting to find out more about your favorite Star Wars characters now that you have the free time to do so! One of the most popular characters to come out of the Marvel comics line is Sana Starros: bounty hunter, smuggler, con-woman, and potentially, an ex-wife?? Creating an extra wrinkle for our heroes very early in the canon reset, Sana Starros took a starring role in the comics as her backstory was fleshed out, and we’re happy to share with you the best places to get acquainted with her!

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A Star Wars Short Story: Retrospective on Greg Pak and Phil Noto’s Star Wars Comics Run (Issues #68-75)

Greg Pak and Phil Noto Star Wars Comics Retrospective

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The flagship Star Wars title comes to its end as “Rebels and Rogues” race across the galaxy in a last ditch effort to find a base, disrupt the Empire, and save some rebel lives!

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Canon Comic Review: Star Wars #75

Star Wars #75

– Spoiler Review –

Since 2015, the Star Wars series has been a constant for Marvel comics, exploring the three year time span between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back with different writers and plenty of different artist teams. With Star Wars #75, the series can’t avoid TESB anymore, bringing the series (for now) to an end, and what an epic, fun, and endearing end it is. Continue reading “Canon Comic Review: Star Wars #75”

NYCC 2019: Marvel Goes Post-TESB with Relaunches, More Doctor Aphra Promised, New Thrawn Trilogy Incoming, and More!

NYCC 2019 Publishing Panel

The Lucasfilm Publishing Panel at NYCC 2019 was ripe with announcements, reveals, and intriguing hints of what’s to come. Marvel’s Star Wars comics head post-The Empire Strikes Back, the next Alphabet Squadron novel gets a release date, The Clone Wars gets an anthology book, some very scant details about Project Luminous, and much more so head below to learn what all happened! Continue reading “NYCC 2019: Marvel Goes Post-TESB with Relaunches, More Doctor Aphra Promised, New Thrawn Trilogy Incoming, and More!”

Star Wars Comics December 2019 Solicitations

Star Wars Comics December 2019 Solicitations

December is full of endings: the end of the 2019 calendar year, the end of the Skywalker Saga with The Rise of Skywalker, and the end of Phase 1 of Marvel’s Star Wars comics??!!!!??? That’s right, with the announcement of Empire Ascendant one-shot earlier today, the beginning of the end for Marvel’s first Phase, as it were, has arrived. And that includes Doctor Aphra, much to this fan’s giant dismay, though it’s not all endings, as December sees the start of The Rise of Kylo Ren miniseries! Continue reading “Star Wars Comics December 2019 Solicitations”

Comic News: Star Wars: Empire Ascendant One-Shot Closes Series and Current Era of Star Wars Comics, Including Doctor Aphra

Star Wars Empire Ascendant End Marvel Star Wars Phase 1

I’d say this news comes out of nowhere, but the writing’s been on the wall, and panels, for some time now. With December’s Star Wars: Empire Ascendant #1, a 56 (!) page one-shot, not only will it wrap up the Star Wars series proper, it signals the end of the current era of Star Wars comics which started back in 2015, while it’ll also reveal the fate of Doctor Aphra (I am SO not ready to hear that phrase) too. More thoughts below on the end of “Phase 1.” Continue reading “Comic News: Star Wars: Empire Ascendant One-Shot Closes Series and Current Era of Star Wars Comics, Including Doctor Aphra”

Canon Comic Review: Star Wars #71

Star Wars #71

– Spoiler Review –

In Star Wars #71, a dark presence arrives to muck with Chewie and Threepio’s mission, Leia and Han consider alternative ways to tackle theirs, and…Luke Skywalker robs a freaking bank?!!? The final arc of the series,* by writer Greg Pak and artist Phil Noto, continues to ensure the series will go out with a Death Star-sized bang. Continue reading “Canon Comic Review: Star Wars #71”