Mark Heike

‘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

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Image ‘TMNT’ goes out strong in Issues 17-23 (1998-99)

Writer Gary Carlson and penciler Frank Fosco (who inks the final issue, showing us what his art was supposed to look like all along) end “Teenage

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‘TMNT’ meets Image heroes in Issues 9-16 (1997-98)

Back when “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” Volume 3 was hitting the shelves, I didn’t understand the concept of “universes” within comic publishing – the Marvel Universe, the

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‘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

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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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