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As December 2019 comes to an end, it doesn’t just signal the end of the decade or the end of the Skywalker Saga, it also brings the first phase of Marvel’s various Star Wars comics to an end, which is where Empire Ascendant #1 comes in, a coda for what came before and a slight tease of what’s to come in 2020. Continue reading “Canon Comic Review: Empire Ascendant #1”
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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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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”
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In the series’ penultimate issue, Star Wars #74 barrels towards an epic-sized ending, giving the characters we usually see as sidekicks and secondary characters the center stage. Continue reading “Canon Comic Review: Star Wars #74”
Focusing on Heroes and Villains from all three current eras, with different writers and artists for each Age, the Age of Star Wars maxiseries was an ambitious and interesting project from the start. While it didn’t always live up to expectations, it brought deep explorations of fan favorites and little glimpses into unseen moments Continue reading “Canon Comic Maxiseries Review: Age of Star Wars”
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Star Wars #73 brings the heroes and their chaos-filled missions on a collision course in the latest installment of the series’ final arc, “Rebels and Rogues.” Continue reading “Canon Comic Review: Star Wars #73”
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!”
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Star Wars #72 feels and acts like the mid-point of the series’ final arc, propelling each storyline with our heroes into their next and final phases. Continue reading “Canon Comic Review: Star Wars #72”
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”
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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”
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