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The Battle of Eriadu is no longer avoidable, as forces collide in the fight for the key planet behind the Stormwall, and as always, writer Daniel José Older doesn’t lose sight of the characters, surprisingly on both sides, in the fracas of The High Republic Adventures #14 – Phase III! Continue reading “Canon Comic Review: The High Republic Adventures #14 – Phase III”
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An emotionally strong check-in with Ty Yorrick, and several other Cavan Scott mainstays, makes for an excellent send off to the miniseries, and set up for what’s to come as the era closes in on the end, in The High Republic Adventures: Dispatches from the Occlusion Zone #4! Continue reading “Canon Comic Review: The High Republic Adventures – Dispatches from the Occlusion Zone #4”
While there are much bigger worries in the world, I still found myself a little anxious over the coming cover reveal from Charles Soule’s High Republic grand finale novel, Trials of the Jedi. Not concerning its content, but rather the bittersweet fact it’s the last (as we know, for now…) novel cover reveal for the era. It’s been an incredible journey these four years and seeing this cover, well…it’s really settling in the end isn’t just near, it’s practically here. January 29 has a big High Republic comic release, with endings to a few miniseries, the first Annual issue in a while, and the beginning of the big Battle of Eriadu storyline, so the ending has never felt more unavoidable until now, something I’m not sure how to process just yet. But enough about my melancholy, how about let’s see this gorgeous full cover?! Head below for the whole thing by Grant Griffin, as well as some additional minor details! Continue reading “High Republic News: Trials of the Jedi Cover Revealed!”
I could open this up with a variation on the joke about ‘April showers’ but I feel like I’ve done it before and done it dirty already, so no need to put you, or me, through that again. But I can say April 2025’s Star Wars comics aren’t full of bad jokes, rather intriguing moments like the canonization of a cancelled action figure, the big finale to the Battle of Eriadu, a new adventure for Poe Dameron and BB-8, and Kylo Ren being Gradulla the Hutt’s prisoner, among other things! So you know, quite the showering of weird comic moments (had to make a joke there somewhere)! Check out April 2025’s Star Wars comics solicitations below.
Continue reading “Star Wars Comics April 2025 Solicitations”
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With The Battle of Jakku: Last Stand #4, the maxiseries comes to a heartfelt yet unessential end. Continue reading “Canon Comic Review: The Battle of Jakku – Last Stand #4”
While it might have some returning artists and characters, Marvel’s 2025 Star Wars Women’s History Month variant cover still have plenty of style, it’s just a shame there aren’t more comics and issues to showcase more of the galaxy far, far away’s vast collection of women! Check out the covers from Betsy Cola, Jan Duursema, Ema Lupacchino, and Yasmine Putri below!
Continue reading “Check Out Marvel’s 2025 Women’s History Month Covers!”
After the past five years of heavily connected comics, with a bunch of big crossovers about Qi’ra’s return as the head of Crimson Dawn and even a spooky droid virus, Marvel has already shown their 10th Anniversary year would be a little more diversified, timeline-wise. There’s the Sequel Trilogy era Legacy of Vader or the pre-Prequel Era Jedi Knights, but this latest announcement shows they will continue their tradition of having a Star Wars series set in the successive era from the last: Alex Segura and Phil Noto will bring Marvel into the post-Return of the Jedi era with their Star Wars (2025 aka Vol. 3) in May! Head below for the full covers and some scant details from the first solicit. Continue reading “Comic News: Star Wars (2025) Goes Post-Return of the Jedi In May”
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The penultimate issue of The Battle of Jakku maxiseries, Last Stand #3, finally begins the eponymous battle, but it’s still trying to pack too much in too little space. Continue reading “Canon Comic Review: The Battle of Jakku – Last Stand #3”
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Skeleton Crew’s season one finale “The Real Good Guys” is a rousing good time, which helps obscure some shortcomings, and a delightful showcase of the characters’ growth with some themes and ideas everyone could benefit learning. Continue reading “Skeleton Crew Season One Finale Review: “The Real Good Guys””
June 2024 was the Manor’s 10th Anniversary and January 2025 marks 10 years since Marvel began its run of canon comics and when I started covering them on the site, which both feels not too long ago and somewhat exhaustingly long ago. Compared to the previous 9 years, 2024 felt the most different in the sense it was clear Marvel was setting up to close out all its current runs and stories, while Dark Horse spent 2024 solely focused on carving out their own piece of the larger High Republic storyline, and 2025’s announcements by both publishers pointing to a wider variety of timeline approaches in an attempt to bring something different to the table. Between the ending of the current era of stories and the High Republic initiative set to end mid-2025, it certainly left me thinking about the Manor, its future, and my own goals and plans going forward. While we certainly won’t be closing the Manor’s doors anytime soon (thanks everyone for making 2024 our biggest year yet!), my coverage of the comics and various content will be changing going forward, with less per issue comic reviews and more focus on arc/miniseries reviews, though the door is open for you, dear reader, to join our ranks if you want, not only for comic reviews, but other coverage and opinion pieces too. I’m still very excited for the future of the comics and Star Wars in general, even if the film part of the Saga struggles to make the jump to hyperspace like it’s the Millennium Falcon, but I’m looking to take more time for my family and myself, sitting back a bit more to simply enjoy what’s to come instead of going full critique mode. So as the comics transition into their future, and so does the Manor, let’s look back at the state of Star Wars comics thanks to, for better and worse, 2024’s output.
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