‘Star Wars’ Thrawn Trilogy makes jump to comics (1995-98)
‘Star Wars’ flashback (Comic book reviews): Timothy Zahn’s famous Thrawn Trilogy gets adapted to comics by Mike Baron and various artists in 1995-98.
‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘The Thrawn Trilogy Volume 3: The Last Command’ (1993) (Book review)
“The Last Command” (1993) is a rich, rousing final chapter to Timothy Zahn’s Thrawn trilogy, but looking back on it through the lens of the prequels, it’s perhaps most notable for what the author doesn’t include. Although clones provide a major backdrop to the story, we don’t actually get to know any clones other than Dark
‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘The Thrawn Trilogy Volume 2: Dark Force Rising’ (1992) (Book review)
Obi-Wan Kenobi’s offhand mention of the Clone Wars in “Star Wars” set off years of speculation that was finally, officially brought to rest with 2002’s “Attack of the Clones.” But it’s easy to forget that Timothy Zahn tackled the idea of clones in 1992’s “Dark Force Rising,” the second book of the Thrawn trilogy.
‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘The Thrawn Trilogy Volume 1: Heir to the Empire’ (1991) (Book review)
I was able to find last year’s 20th anniversary edition of “Heir to the Empire” for about six bucks, so it gave me a perfect excuse to re-read it. I wrote about my memories surrounding the book last year, so for this post I’ll dig more into my impressions from re-reading it.
‘Heir to the Empire,’ the book that jump-started the ‘Star Wars’ Expanded Universe, celebrates 20 years (Book commentary)
Sometime in the late 1990s, I was at Paradox Comics in Fargo, N.D., talking with the proprietor about “Star Wars.” I mentioned Timothy Zahn’s novels, and he said, “To me, those have nothing to do with ‘Star Wars.’ “