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Darth Maul’s ‘Clone Wars’ storyline continues in ‘Son of Dathomir’ (Comic book review)

“Darth Maul: Son of Dathomir,” a four-issue comic series now available in trade paperback, is both very cool and kind of disappointing. It’s the first continuation

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Gideon Crew series kicks into high gear with ‘The Lost Island’ (Book review)

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

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The top 10 ‘Star Wars’ song parodies of all time

With Nerdist’s “All About That Base” seemingly locking up the title of best “Star Wars” song parody of the year, I thought it’d be a

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Sergio Aragones Stomps Star Wars’ (2000) (Comic book review)

“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

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Podracing Tales’ (2000) (Comic book review)

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

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‘22 Jump Street’ mocks sequels while also being a decent sequel (Movie review)

“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

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Dark Horse’s ‘The Star Wars’ gives fascinating insight into Lucas’ writing process (Comic book review)

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:

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘The Cestus Deception’ (2004) (Book review)

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

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Heart of Fire’ (2001) and ‘Poison Moon’ (2002) (Comic book reviews)

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

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‘Walking Dead’s’ ‘Slabtown’ delivers perfect treatise on evils of taxation (TV commentary)

“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

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