Haden Blackman

‘Star Wars’ flashback: The 10 best ‘Clone Wars Adventures’ digest stories (2004-07) (Comic book reviews)

The Genndy Tartakovsky “Clone Wars” TV microseries (2003-05) delivered bite-size kinetic tales that served as a testing ground for “The Clone Wars” (2008-14). Its comic-book

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Purge’ (2005-13) (Comic book reviews)

As a kid, I imagined the Jedi Purge consisted of Darth Vader going from planet to planet slaughtering Jedi Knights. That’s what naturally springs to

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Darth Vader and the Lost Command’ (2011) and ‘Ghost Prison’ (2012) (Comic book reviews)

Disney is delving heavily into the dark side in its early “Star Wars” projects, from the novels “Tarkin” (2014) and “Lords of the Sith” (April)

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘The Force Unleashed II’ (2010) (Book and comic review)

Out of all the Legends stories that went unfinished due to Disney’s rebooting of the timeline, none is more of a cliffhanger than the “Force

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘The Force Unleashed’ (2008) (Book and comic reviews)

“The Force Unleashed” (2008) – the multimedia project highlighted by a video game, novel and comic — despite being a fairly recent endeavor, is among the first Legends material

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘X-Wing Rogue Squadron’ special issues (1995-2005) (Comic book reviews)

If you’ve devoured Michael Stackpole’s 35-issue “X-Wing Rogue Squadron” comics series but are a completest who wants to gather up all the ancillary stories, you’ll

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: The top 25 dramatic stories in ‘Star Wars Tales’ (1999-2005) (Comic book reviews)

Earlier this year, Disney announced that its Lucasfilm Story Group would make sure every new story fits with the new Disney timeline. The opposite approach

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Obsession’ (2004-05) and ‘General Grievous’ (2005) (Comic book reviews)

The 2008-14 Clone Wars contradicted some things from the 2003-06 Clone Wars, and some of those things were retconned – for example, Lucasfilm’s Leland Chee

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Republic’ Issues 60-71 (2004) (Comic book reviews)

The 2004 run of “Republic” marks some of the finest ongoing “Star Wars” storytelling. Primary writer John Ostrander balances his long-running Quinlan Vos saga – taking the

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Republic’ Issues 49-59 (2003) (Comic book reviews)

Begun, the Clone Wars did, in Dark Horse Comics with “Star Wars: Republic” Issues 49-59 in 2003. This the start of what I call Phase I of

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