For a little less than a year following Return of the Jedi, Luke Skywalker took on his first apprentice: his sister, Leia Organa. He trained her in the ways of the Force, teaching her to be a Jedi until she voluntarily gave up this path to focus on her son, Ben, and her political career. [...]
At the end of The Last Jedi, master met apprentice one last time, as Luke Skywalker appeared to Kylo Ren (a.k.a. Ben Solo) on Crait, stalling to give the Resistance enough time to escape. Luke told his former apprentice, "I'll always be with you. Just like your father." This prompted an outburst of rage from [...]
Star Wars' fan favorite rogue archeologist, Doctor Chelli Aphra, is returning with a brand new comic series set after the events of Return of the Jedi, which will see her team up with Luke Skywalker. The new series, Doctor Aphra - Chaos Agent, is written by Cherish Chen with art by Gabriel Guzman. It's set [...]
For a man wanting to let the past die, Kylo Ren sure is obsessed with it. The troubled grandson of Darth Vader was conflicted, having both a reverence for his grandfather as well as a desire to disengage from his past entirely. It's in that turbulent period that Charles Soule's Legacy of Vader comic series [...]
With Star Wars launching into the new Legacy of Vader comic series exploring Kylo Ren's character arc in-between The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker, we are taking a look at some other notable moments from his life that the films didn't explore. Today, we're looking at a pivotal moment in New Republic politics [...]
With Star Wars launching into the new Legacy of Vader comic series exploring Kylo Ren's character arc in-between The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker, we are taking a look at some other notable moments from his life that the films didn't explore. Today, we're looking at when Kylo first met the Knights of [...]
In the lead-up to The Force Awakens a decade ago, Star Wars began telling the story of the Battle of Jakku - the fight that finally and decisively ended the Galactic Civil War, one year after Return of the Jedi. Since then, the Battle of Jakku has been explored heavily in books (like the Aftermath [...]
When Disney first opened Galaxy's Edge at their theme parks, it was designed to be a fully immersive experience in the Star Wars universe, thrusting park-goers right into an adventure in the galaxy far, far away. It's an amazing experience, but it also meant that the park was going to be set in a specific [...]
Stories about Luke Skywalker in the period after Return of the Jedi have been pretty scarce to come by over the last decade, but it seems that is slowly beginning to change. And in the recent Battle of Jakku comic, Luke is more involved in the New Republic efforts than we previously knew - which [...]
Though the Empire suffered a crippling defeat at the Battle of Endor in Return of the Jedi, the Imperial forces continued fighting against the rebels for another year, until their decisive loss at the Battle of Jakku. In that year, the rebels re-organized into the New Republic, but they faced tumultuous days. The Battle of [...]
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