- John Hansen
- October 22, 2014
‘Star Wars’ Thrawn Trilogy makes jump to comics (1995-98)
Somewhat surprisingly, only five “Star Wars” books have been adapted into comics: “Han Solo at Stars’ End” (adapted as a comic strip and later reorganized
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- John Hansen
- September 23, 2012
‘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,
- John Hansen
- September 10, 2012
‘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
- John Hansen
- August 31, 2012
‘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
- John Hansen
- August 29, 2011
‘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,