For Light and Life! We are all the Republic! On Thursday afternoon at Star Wars Celebration, the authors and executives behind the massive The High Republic publishing initiative took to the stage to reflect on phase one of the project as well as look forward to phase two, subtitled "Quest of the Jedi," which begins [...]
When Luke Skywalker mentions the name "Obi-Wan Kenobi" in A New Hope, the wizened hermit Ben Kenobi thoughtfully remarks, "that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time." He then reveals that he's Obi-Wan, but he had gone by the name of Ben ever since the end of the Clone Wars, [...]
In a line in Revenge of the Sith, early in the film after surviving the Battle of Coruscant, Anakin Skywalker tells Obi-Wan Kenobi that he owes him for saving his skin for the tenth time. To this, Kenobi counters by saying that it's only the ninth time, since that business on Cato Neimoidia doesn't count. [...]
Star Wars publishing wasn't going to let Disney+ have all the fun when it comes to Obi-Wan Kenobi, as Del Rey recently published Brotherhood, by Mike Chen, which explores the relationship between Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker in the very early days of the Clone Wars. Without delving into many big spoilers, the book takes place [...]
In The Rise of Skywalker, we saw Rey's parents for the first time, glimpsed only briefly in a flashback appearance. It was revealed that her father was the son of Palpatine, who sent the Sith assassin Ochi of Bestoon to hunt them down in order to bring the young Rey to him, seemingly necessary to [...]
It's clear from the interactions between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Asajj Ventress in The Clone Wars that they've met before, but we haven't read of that first meeting in any canon material... Until now, that is. The first excerpt from Mike Chen's upcoming novel Brotherhood was recently released, and in it we read about Obi-Wan meeting [...]
Shadow of the Sith is my most anticipated Star Wars book in a long time, and among my most anticipated Star Wars projects of the year, period. The book, written by Adam Christopher, releases on June 28 and tells a story I've been waiting for. Luke Skywalker senses a growing disturbance in the Force on [...]
In celebration of Valentine's Day, Star Wars today announced a new novel that is coming this year, telling a love story about Leia Organa and Han Solo. The Princess and the Scoundrel is written by Beth Revis wrote Rebel Rising) and releases on August 16, and in it readers will experience Han and Leia's wedding [...]
In a now-deleted tweet, author Delilah S. Dawson wrote that she has a pitch ready to go for a sequel to her novel Phasma - with one catch, that is: it would be set after the events of The Last Jedi. Which, of course, would mean that Phasma survived those events, after falling through the [...]
"What happens when the light of the Jedi goes dark?" That question permeated much of the lead-up to the release of the highly-anticipated end of the first phase of the High Republic storytelling initiative, Claudia Gray's The Fallen Star. The era kicked off a year ago with Charles Soule's Light of the Jedi, a triumphant [...]
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