- John Hansen
- September 6, 2016
What John thought about ‘Revenge of the Sith’ in 2005 (Movie review)
To round out the “Star Wars” film reviews on my blog, I thought it would be fun to look back at my review of “Episode III:
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- John Hansen
- September 5, 2016
What John thought about ‘Attack of the Clones’ in 2002 (Movie review)
Just for fun — and to round out the “Star Wars” film reviews on my blog – I decided to look back at what I
- John Hansen
- September 2, 2016
‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Revenge of the Sith’ novelization (2005) (Book review)
Among the films, the original trilogy is clearly better than the prequel trilogy, but among the novelizations, the opposite is true. It’s not because of
- John Hansen
- August 31, 2016
‘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
- John Hansen
- August 30, 2016
‘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
- John Hansen
- August 29, 2016
‘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
- John Hansen
- August 28, 2016
‘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
- John Hansen
- August 27, 2016
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 –
- John Hansen
- August 25, 2016
‘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,
- John Hansen
- August 23, 2016
‘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