‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Republic’ Issues 0-12 and ‘Aurra’s Song’ (1998-2000) (Comic book reviews)
As with the first series simply titled “Star Wars” (Marvel’s, from 1977-86), the second series by that name (Dark Horse’s, from 1998-2006) also gets off to a slow start. (To avoid confusion, I’ll call this series “Star Wars: Republic,” although that title didn’t appear on the cover until Issue 46.) But to be fair, Jan Strnad, the
Image ‘TMNT’ goes out strong in Issues 17-23 (1998-99)
‘TMNT’ flashback (Comic book reviews): Image’s “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” Vol. 3 ends with Gary Carlson’s best stories yet in Issues 17-23.
‘TMNT’ meets Image heroes in Issues 9-16 (1997-98)
‘TMNT’ flashback (Comic book reviews): The “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” start to meet Image heroes in Gary Carlson’s Vol. 3 Issues 9-16.
‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Jedi Academy: Leviathan’ (1998-99) (Comic book review)
Michael Stackpole and Timothy Zahn are the two authors who introduced the most important and iconic EU characters in the 1990s, but ranking a close third is Kevin J. Anderson. While he’s not in the same league as the others as a writer, there’s no denying that his creation of Luke’s Yavin IV Jedi Academy
‘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 the timeline they take place. 1993’s “Tales of the Jedi,” which takes place 4,000 years before “A New Hope,” aimed to give some historic flavor to the Force. But writers
‘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, the Emperor — he was already evil. As the prequels went on we learned how he gained power over the galaxy, but not why he sought that power. Certainly, the