“Jedi vs. Sith” (2001) is the second of three pieces to the puzzle that tell the story of arguably the most important pre-movie event on the “Star Wars” timeline: The end of the Sith (or so the Jedi think), leading Ki-Adi-Mundi to note in “Episode I” that “The Sith have been extinct for a millennium.” This […]
Everyone knows about the “Robot Chicken” and “Family Guy” parodies on the boob tube, but the “Tag & Bink” comics are arguably even better. They are written by Kevin Rubio, who broke onto the “Star Wars” parody scene with the short film “Troops” and brought his talents to comics with “A Death Star is Born” in “Star […]
Dark Horse Comics bookended its 2002-06 phase of “Clone Wars”-era stories with issues that couldn’t be found in comic shops. Four 10-page stories were packaged with Hasbro/Toys R Us “Episode II: Attack of the Clones” toys in 2002, and the 10-page Free Comic Book Day issue, “Routine Valor” (2006), closed out Dark Horse’s first phase of “Clone Wars.” It […]
If you’ve read Dark Horse’s reprints of the 1979-84 newspaper strips – “Classic Star Wars: The Early Adventures” (writer and artist Russ Manning), “Classic Star Wars: Han Solo at Stars’ End” (writer Archie Goodwin and artist Alfredo Alcala) and “Classic Star Wars” (Goodwin and artist Al Williamson) – you can knock most of the newspaper strips off your checklist. […]
After imaginative “Infinities” yarns from Chris Warner (“A New Hope”) and Dave Land (“The Empire Strikes Back”), the series concludes with Adam Gallardo’s relatively disappointing four-issue “Infinities: Return of the Jedi” (2003-04). Despite the two previous installments going beyond the constraints of the film in each title, Gallardo’s “Infinities” entry is constrained by the narrative structure […]
The original “Star Wars” trilogy was, above all, Luke’s story, especially after “A New Hope.” The beautifully told romance between Leia and Han gave them a significant presence in “The Empire Strikes Back,” but they were still a plot device for Luke. They were reduced to Rebel soldiers in “Return of the Jedi,” while Luke’s […]
Dark Horse’s “The Star Wars,” an adaptation of an early draft of “A New Hope,” caused quite a buzz this past year, but it wasn’t the franchise’s first foray into “Infinities” – alternate stories of what could have been, similar to the old Marvel “What If?” comics. But while “The Star Wars” shows us characters, […]
‘Star Wars’ flashback (Comic book reviews): Timothy Zahn’s famous Thrawn Trilogy gets adapted to comics by Mike Baron and various artists in 1995-98.
“Shatterpoint” (2003) has a number of firsts to its credit: It was the first published “Clone Wars” novel and the first story to explore Mace Windu in-depth. Now, with the publication of “A New Dawn,” it has the ignominious distinction of being the first great work of the Expanded Universe to be erased by the new […]
“Gracepoint” (8 p.m. Central Thursdays on Fox) is not in the same league as “The Killing.” But as it invites us to uncover “Who killed Danny Solano?,” it is tapping into some of the “Who killed Rosie Larsen?”-style fun in that delicious, age-old pastime of figuring out who murdered an innocent kid.