‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Jedi vs. Sith’ (2001) (Comic book review)
“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
‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Chewbacca’ (2000) (Comic book review)
Although the propaganda in conjunction with Disney’s “Star Wars” reboot would have us believe that the Expanded Universe was licensed fan fiction, the reality is that readers saw EU stories as being the true continuation of the saga. As such, we were hit hard by the death of Chewbacca – which was approved by George
‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘X-Wing Rogue Squadron’ Issues 1-12 (1995-96) (Comic book reviews)
Around the same time that Michael Stackpole was writing his “X-Wing” novels in the late 1990s, he was also providing the stories for the 35-issue “X-Wing Rogue Squadron” comic series from Dark Horse. It was quite a juggling act, because all of the comics take place before all of the novels, but many characters appear in both
‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Vader’s Quest’ (1999) (Comic book review)
Although I’m not religious, I can see the appeal of Bible study — scouring a massive, sometimes contradictory text in order to better understand it. This is because I’m a “Star Wars” Expanded Universe fan. After reading Marvel’s “Star Wars” No. 35, where Darth Vader discovers that a kid named Luke Skywalker destroyed the Death