Tom Veitch

‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Dark Empire II’ and ‘Empire’s End’ (1994-95) (Comic book reviews)

“Dark Empire II” and “Empire’s End” (1994-95) are the comics where the Emperor turns into a cartoon. But while “The Clone Wars” is currently doing a great job

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Dark Empire’ (1991-92) (Comic book review)

“Dark Empire” (1991-92) has always been in the shadow of the “Thrawn Trilogy” novels (1991-93). Both came out about the same time, and both are spot-on

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: The top 8 short stories from ‘Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina’ (1995) (Book review), and ‘Tales from Mos Eisley’ (1996) (Comic book review)

Like so many “risky” concepts, “Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina” (1995) ultimately proved to be a brilliantly obvious one. Up to this point on the “Star

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘The Freedon Nadd Uprising’/‘Dark Lords of the Sith’/‘The Sith War’ (1994-96) (Comic book reviews)

When I first saw “Episode I — The Phantom Menace,” I was a bit disappointed that the Emperor was already, for all intents and purposes,

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Tales of the Jedi’ (1993) (Comic book review)

For the sake of simplicity, “Star Wars” stories can be divided into four eras. The classic trilogy era started with the movie “Star Wars” (1977),

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