Comic Books

‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Dark Empire II’ and ‘Empire’s End’ (1994-95) (Comic book reviews)

“Dark Empire II” and “Empire’s End” (1994-95) are the comics where the Emperor turns into a cartoon. But while “The Clone Wars” is currently doing a great job

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Dark Empire’ (1991-92) (Comic book review)

“Dark Empire” (1991-92) has always been in the shadow of the “Thrawn Trilogy” novels (1991-93). Both came out about the same time, and both are spot-on

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Tales of the Jedi: Redemption’ (1998) (Comic book review)

In this “Star Wars” re-reading project, I encounter some stories that are exactly as I remembered them and some that offer pleasant surprises. As I

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: The top 8 short stories from ‘Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina’ (1995) (Book review), and ‘Tales from Mos Eisley’ (1996) (Comic book review)

Like so many “risky” concepts, “Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina” (1995) ultimately proved to be a brilliantly obvious one. Up to this point on the “Star

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Golden Age of the Sith’ and ‘Fall of the Sith Empire’ (1996-97) (Comic book reviews)

Similar to following evolutionary theory backward to the Big Bang, “Star Wars” stories always seem to have a backstory, no matter how far back on

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘The Freedon Nadd Uprising’/‘Dark Lords of the Sith’/‘The Sith War’ (1994-96) (Comic book reviews)

When I first saw “Episode I — The Phantom Menace,” I was a bit disappointed that the Emperor was already, for all intents and purposes,

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‘Buffy’ Season 9 titles picking up momentum with mix of old and new (Comic books commentary)

There are no spinoff TV series, movies or books, but almost nine years after “Angel” aired its final episode, the Buffyverse is thriving in comics.

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9 reasons why the ‘Star Wars’ sequel trilogy will respect, not ignore, the Expanded Universe (Commentary)

As I kind of expected — but don’t really understand — the consensus in the world of fans and punditry in the wake of the “Star

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Tales of the Jedi’ (1993) (Comic book review)

For the sake of simplicity, “Star Wars” stories can be divided into four eras. The classic trilogy era started with the movie “Star Wars” (1977),

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Han Solo at Stars’ End’ (1979-80) (Book and comic review)

In an interview with Star Wars Insider, Jeff Grubb (author of the new novel “Scourge,” which I’ll review in a future post), separates “Star Wars”

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