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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Knight Errant’ (2010-12) (Comic book reviews)

“Knight Errant” (2010-12), John Jackson Miller’s second “Star Wars” saga after “Knights of the Old Republic,” has one of the darkest possible premises: Lone Jedi Knight

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Ewoks: Shadows of Endor’ (2013) (Comic book review)

Ewoks are notoriously controversial among “Star Wars” fandom. The reason, as a famous episode of “How I Met Your Mother” outlined, is simple: They were

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Jedi: The Dark Side’ (2011) (Comic book review)

Part of Disney’s argument for why the “Star Wars” timeline had to be rebooted was that a new movie on the original timeline couldn’t be

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: Ranking the 6 ‘Adventures’ digests (2009-11) (Comic book reviews)

Dark Horse’s “Star Wars Adventures,” a series of six comic digests from 2009-11, seems like a good way to experience character-focused stories set during the time of

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Kahn’s ‘Return of the Jedi’ novelization (1983) hints at backstory

The original trilogy wraps up in book form with James Kahn’s “Return of the Jedi” novelization (1983), which – mostly for better, sometimes for worse –

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ novelization (1980) (Book review)

As I noted in my review of the “Star Wars” novelization, adaptations of movies give insight not only into the authors’ interpretation of the material,

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Star Wars’ novelization (1976) (Book review)

Before the internet age, knowing that Alan Dean Foster ghost-wrote the “Star Wars: A New Hope” novelization (December 1976) for George Lucas was the mark of a

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Blood Ties’ (2010-12) (Comic book reviews)

George Lucas’ revelation in 2002’s “Attack of the Clones” that Boba Fett was the clone son of Jango Fett opened up a new vein of

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Legacy of the Force: Invincible’ (2008) (Book review)

The “Legacy of the Force” series – which often featured excellent writing despite the flawed central premise of Jacen Solo turning evil – goes out

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Legacy of the Force: Revelation’ (2008) (Book review)

With “Revelation” (2008), the eighth book in the nine-book “Legacy of the Force” series, Karen Traviss again delivers a novel that’s so well-written that it overcomes the

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