I’ll probably always be more partial toward the mystery-oriented Pendergast series than the action-leaning Gideon Crew series, but Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child step up their game in a big way with the third Crew entry, “The Lost Island” (August, hardcover). And it looks like there’s more good stuff to come in this series.
Music commentary: After the prequels wrapped, YouTube burgeoned with parodies and original “Star Wars”-inspired songs.
“Sergio Aragones Stomps Star Wars” (2000) is one of those comics that inspires mixed feelings: On one hand, with all the unexplored corners of the actual lore, why is Dark Horse spending time on a parody comic? On the other hand, I did read the comic (as it’s in “Wild Space” Volume 2, which I […]
Although we never got a “Tales of the Podracers” anthology of short stories in the vein of “Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina,” “Tales of the Bounty Hunters” and “Tales from Jabba’s Palace,” we got the next-best thing: “Podracing Tales,” a collection of webcomics published on StarWars.com in 2000.
“22 Jump Street” has its cake and eats it too: The film’s not-veiled-at-all running joke is that sequels are bloated and not as good as the original, but it’s also just as fun and funny as the original. And really, the “21 Jump Street” TV series probably followed a formula from week to week also, so […]
When I first heard Dark Horse was doing an adaptation of George Lucas’ May 1974 rough draft of “A New Hope,” I had two reactions: 1) How cool!, and 2) In retrospect, how obvious! Laurent Bouzereau gave insights into the various drafts of the original trilogy in his 1997 gem “Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays,” […]
Like “Shatterpoint,” its predecessor in the “Clone Wars” series, “The Cestus Deception” (2004) takes place on a single planet that’s in dispute between the Republic and the Separatists. But while “Shatterpoint” is an epic cost-of-war novel, Steven Barnes’ lone “Star Wars” book is a political morass, with readers invited to wade into it with Obi-Wan Kenobi, Kit […]
Sometimes it seems like no matter how many “Star Wars” stories I read, I’m missing something. Part of this is because there are many unexplored areas of lore in the Legends timeline, but part of it is because some plot and character points were chronicled off the beaten path.
“The Walking Dead” (8 p.m. Central Sundays on AMC) rarely gets mentioned when lists of “most libertarian TV shows” are compiled, but that might change when the series ends and we see the full picture. Season 5 in particular seems to be embarking on multi-episode vignettes about various forms of government that could arise in makeshift […]
Disney’s cancellation of the Expanded Universe earlier this year marked the first complete reboot of “Star Wars” lore, but there had been plenty of disagreements about canon among various media throughout the years. In 1997, with the release of the Special Editions in theaters, Lucasfilm aimed to draw a new generation of fans through Star Wars […]