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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”
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Spark of the Resistance is a middle grade novel released as part of the Journey to Star Wars: The Rise Skywalker program, which follows Rey, Rose, and Poe on a mission to help those in need as they try to rebuild the Resistance after the events of The Last Jedi. Written by Justina Ireland, the reading level is easy to look past thanks to complex, intriguing character portrayals, the depth of history involved in the new world, and the absolute fun of the adventure with sequel trilogy leads. Continue reading “Canon Middle Grade Novel Review: Spark of the Resistance”
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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”
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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”
Don’t mind me, over here in the corner, breathing painfully into a brown paper bag, worrying about what these November 2019 Star Wars comics solicitations are pointing towards: the potential end of the Doctor Aphra series?!!!!!??? But let’s not focus on endings and look forward to…wait, now the Star Wars mainline series is ending (for now)?! I’ll be in the corner again, so you go ahead and check out the solicits below…I’ll be fine. Probably. Continue reading “Star Wars Comics November 2019 Solicitations”
Since 2015, the Star Wars comic series has been following the exploits of Leia, Luke, and Han between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back, where we’ve gotten everything from the reveal of Han Solo’s ‘wife,’ Obi-Wan’s Journals, Han Solo shirtless, to Rogue Squadron forming and so much more, and in November 2019, 75 issues later, the current era of the series will come to an end. It will return in some capacity and sometime in October, probably NYCC, we’ll learn just what that means. Some thoughts on the series “ending,” where it could go/I hope it could go, and the Manor’s plans for reviewing the entire series. Continue reading “Star Wars Mainline Series Ends with Issue #75 in November”
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Star Wars #70 is another riveting and fun entry in Greg Pak and Phil Noto’s takeover of the series, as it has everything from Han and Leia honeymoon humor, a debate on sentience, and Luke searching for Force-related help from a untrustworthy swindler; and it’s only getting better every issue! Continue reading “Canon Comic Review: Star Wars #70”
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