- John Hansen
- June 14, 2013
‘Star Wars’ flashback: Marvel Issues 24-30 and Annual 1 (1979) (Comic book reviews)
Before May 1999, we heard a lot about how the prequel era was off-limits to Expanded Universe writers since George Lucas was saving it for
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- John Hansen
- June 11, 2013
‘Star Wars’ flashback: Marvel Issues 18-23 (1978-79) (Comic book reviews)
“The Wheel” arc, issues 18-23 of the “Star Wars” Marvel comics run marks the first time the series truly feels like “Star Wars.” Writer Archie Goodwin and
- John Hansen
- June 8, 2013
‘Star Wars’ flashback: Marvel Issues 11-17 (1978) (Comic book reviews)
After an inauspicious beginning under the auspices of Roy Thomas and Howard Chaykin, the “Star Wars” Marvel comics run gets a bump up in quality with issues
- John Hansen
- June 7, 2013
‘Star Wars’ flashback: Marvel Issues 7-10 (1977-78) (Comic book reviews)
The “Star Wars” Marvel comics run has the distinction of offering the very first Expanded Universe stories. After the six-issue movie adaptation, the next four issues (7-10) were
- John Hansen
- June 4, 2013
‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ boldly goes … where the saga has already gone before (Movie review)
Like director J.J. Abrams’ 2009 “Star Trek” film, “Star Trek Into Darkness” gets all the Trek-isms correct. Everyone is still spot-on as alternate-universe versions of the iconic
- John Hansen
- May 30, 2013
‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘X-Wing: Isard’s Revenge’ (1999) (Book review)
“Isard’s Revenge,” the eighth book in the “X-Wing” series (and Michael Stackpole’s last), came out in April 1999, one month before “The Phantom Menace.” Overshadowed by
- John Hansen
- May 23, 2013
A look at the ‘Firefly’ stories beyond the TV series and movie
Interviews with “Firefly” staffers often include the question of “What story ideas were never produced?” As such, we know they were kicking around episodes about
- John Hansen
- May 21, 2013
30 reasons ‘Return of the Jedi’ rocks (and no, ‘Jedi Rocks’ is not one of them) (Movie commentary)
“Star Wars: Episode VI — Return of the Jedi” turns 30 on Saturday, and it’s still looking good. So much so that George Lucas recently gave
- John Hansen
- May 18, 2013
‘Serenity’ (2005) compresses unmade ‘Firefly’ Season 2 into a solid film
Like a lot of “Firefly” fans, I have mixed feelings about “Serenity,” the 2005 movie that continued the saga. It’s a solid movie by every important metric
- John Hansen
- May 15, 2013
‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘X-Wing: Solo Command’ (1999) (Book review)
Between the premature end of the “The Clone Wars,” rumors of a new animated series and a mysterious Facebook post of a TIE fighter from Dave Filoni, there’s been