Darth Vader is dead! The New Republic lives! Moff Adelhard (you all remember him, right?) is defeated! For the first time, Marvel’s second run of Star Wars comics drops the Star Warriors into an ongoing series set in the post-Original Trilogy era in Star Wars #1, written by Alex Segura, drawn by Phil Noto and…
May the Fourth and Revenge of the Fifth may have passed for this year, but that doesn’t mean we, or the pop culture landscape, are done with Star Wars. With a new volume of Marvel’s Star Wars ongoing launching this past Wednesday, writer and Star Wars fan Matt Lazorwitz was able to sit down with…
The Bad Batch is back for another high-octane adventure set during the Clone Wars. Their mission: to hunt down the mysterious Separatist ghost agent who executed a daring heist on Coruscant. The thief’s trail leads Hunter, Wrecker, Crosshair and Tech to the seediest corners of the galaxy, where kingpins and thugs threaten the clones’ mission,…
Star Wars: Legacy of Vader #1 is a story about clenched fists in want of something to punch. In a medium that often feels predicated on the punch-as-commodity, the punch as hi-hat clap, the punch as money-shot, it’s remarkable how ineffectual Charles Soule and penciler Luke Ross make these trembling, tightly clenched hands look. The…
The really bad news first: it has somehow, implausibly, gruesomely, been 10 years since 2015. I know. This means it has been just shy of 10 years since The Force Awakens inaugurated a whole new era of things for Star Wars fans to be apoplectically upset about, and 10 years since Marvel began publishing Star…
In a tale set before the downfall of the Jedi and the rise of the Empire, Jedi Mace Windu plunges into the criminal underworld to safely retrieve a secret formula that risks upending the galactic status quo in Mace Windu #1 written by Marc Bernadin, pencils by Georges Jeanty, inks by Dexter Vines, colors by…
The Schism Imperial rises as Vader deals with the fallout of “Dark Droids” in Darth Vader #42, written by Greg Pak, drawn by Adam Gorham, colored by Federico Blee and lettered by Joe Caramanga. With “Dark Droids” behind us and the title character past the weird “my Force powers are broken so I’m going to…
Ahsoka, Sabine, and Ezra march on Thrawn as the season concludes in Ahsoka part eight, “The Jedi, the Witch and the Warlord” written by Dave Filoni and directed by Rick Famuyiwa. Austin Gorton: Sean! Welcome to the Ahsoka finale review. I assume you’ve watched all the previous episodes and are deeply versed in all the…
In a galaxy far, far, FAR away, our crew of villains and the captive Sabine arrive on Peridia in search of their respective old friends in Ahsoka Part Six, “Far Far Away,” written by Dave Filoni and directed by Jennifer Getzinger. Austin Gorton: Last week’s episode was fun and fan service-y and had tons of…
Ahsoka goes on a journey through her past and emerges with a new outlook (and new color scheme) in Ahsoka episode five, “Shadow Warrior”, written and directed by Dave Filoni. Austin Gorton: Adam! I see you’ve followed the map I left in an orb buried in a temple activated by a stone plinth, and found…
All kinds of stuff hits the fan as Ahsoka and Sabine cross blades with Baylan and Shin as they attempt to thwart Morgan’s reunion with Thrawn in Ahsoka episode four, “Fallen Jedi,” written by Dave Filoni and directed by Peter Ramsey. Reaching the halfway point of the season by the end of the episode, “Fallen…
Hot on the trail of the stolen hyperdrive engine, Sabine renews her Jedi training regime to frustrating results while Hera discovers the New Republic has a lot of the same problems as the Old one in Ahsoka episode 03, “Time to Fly”, directed by Steph Green and written by Dave Filoni. “Time to Fly” is…
The titular star of LucasFilm’s latest streaming series, Ahsoka, has a rich cross-media history in Star Wars. She debuted in The Clone Wars animated series (the canonical Dave Filoni one, not the earlier Genndy Tartakovsky one), made a smattering of appearances in the animated followup Rebels, starred in a few novels and comic book stories,…
A new linewide crossover kicks off as an ancient consciousness awakens in Dark Droids #1 by Charles Soule, Luke Ross, Alex Sinclair and Travis Lanham. Then, Lando has to make some tough decisions when Lobot is targeted by that consciousness in Star Wars #37, by Charles Soule, Madibek Musabekov, Rachelle Rosenberg and Claytin Cowles. The…
There’s twists and turns aplenty as Sabé finds herself in a pickle while her fellow handmaidens make a deal with the devil in Star Wars: Darth Vader #30 written by Greg Pak, art by Luke Ross, colored by Federico Blee and lettered by Joe Caramagna. Generally speaking, Darth Vader isn’t a series which relies too…