Han Solo once got in a dogfight with Darth Vader and then flew an X-Wing!

Han Solo once got in a dogfight with Darth Vader and then flew an X-Wing!

The main Star Wars comic line is currently telling the stories of what happened to our heroes in-between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back.  One of the major moments came in the "Hope Dies" arc of the series, released in 2018, as the Empire traced the Rebellion to the Mako-Ta Space Docks. The [...]

Lucasfilm should make an animated Star Wars feature film

Lucasfilm should make an animated Star Wars feature film

At the Oscars on Sunday night, Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse rightfully won in the category of Best Animated Feature. It's a terrific and incredibly enjoyable film, and it deserves to break out of the assumption that animated films are automatically only for kids.  And that's actually something that Star Wars has been trying to do [...]

Latest Galaxy of Adventures short shows the Battle of Yavin from Han’s perspective

Latest Galaxy of Adventures short shows the Battle of Yavin from Han’s perspective

One of the most iconic moments in Star Wars happens in A New Hope, when the tiny Rebellion launches an attack against the massive Death Star in the desperate Battle of Yavin.  It ends with - spoiler alert - Luke Skywalker making the shot to destroy the battle station, but with a key assist from [...]

Only one Galaxy of Adventures short has been getting backlash. Predictably, it’s the one in which a woman is the hero

Only one Galaxy of Adventures short has been getting backlash. Predictably, it’s the one in which a woman is the hero

Recently, the Star Wars Kids Youtube page has been incrementally releasing lots of animated shorts that are absolutely fantastic.  This series, Galaxy of Adventures, adapts moments from the films and turns them into animation. These have been incredibly well-received... until recently.  And the reasoning for that is so blatantly horrifying and sexist that it's disappointing [...]

Breaking down the second batch of Star Wars: Galaxy of Adventures shorts – and they’re even better than the first group!

Breaking down the second batch of Star Wars: Galaxy of Adventures shorts – and they’re even better than the first group!

In early December, several new Galaxy of Adventures shorts were released on the Star Wars Kids Youtube channel.  I watched them at the time, but for whatever reason I didn't get around to writing about them until now. But here's the reality: these shorts are absolutely amazing.  Seriously, they're great.  If you haven't seen them [...]

Five things I’d love to see from Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode IX!

Five things I’d love to see from Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode IX!

It can now officially be said that Star Wars: Episode IX comes out this year!  So as we continue to approach the film, I'll be writing a bit about some things I'd love to see in it.  This time, I want to look at what I hope to see from Luke Skywalker, inspired by the [...]

The final issue of Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith is stunning and amazing!

The final issue of Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith is stunning and amazing!

On Wednesday, the 25th and final issue of the popular Star Wars comic series, Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith, was released.  Written by Charles Soule and illustrated by Giuseppe Camuncoli, the series has explored Vader's transformation into the feared and iconic Sith Lord we know him to be. It began with Vader's "no!" [...]

A year later, The Last Jedi remains one of the best Star Wars films ever made

A year later, The Last Jedi remains one of the best Star Wars films ever made

It has now been a year since the release of The Last Jedi, the eighth installment of the Skywalker saga. Directed by Rian Johnson, the movie was met with near universal acclaim from critics, earning high praise as one of the best films in the saga.  That reaction was contrasted a bit by a very [...]