*** This post includes minor spoilers for Light of the Jedi*** The High Republic is here! The first three books of the massive new publishing initiative were released earlier this week, as well as the first comic. I'll be reviewing all of them, but we begin today with the novel that kicks everything off, Light [...]
We're focusing a lot on the High Republic this week, as the brand new era of Star Wars storytelling has officially launched! And it's an era that we're going to be exploring for a while, as it's a multi-year publishing initiative across books and comics that will even venture into the TV side of things [...]
Today is the day!!! A brand new era of Star Wars begins today, as the High Republic publishing initiative kicks off with the release of the first three books: Charles Soule's Light of the Jedi, Justina Ireland's A Test of Courage, and Cavan Scott's The Great Jedi Rescue. Then tomorrow, the first issue of Cavan [...]
There's a lot of talk about live-action Star Wars shows these days, but the animated shows have featured some of the very best content we've ever gotten in a galaxy far, far away, so they shouldn't be forgotten! We know that The Bad Batch is an upcoming animated series that will release in 2021, but [...]
There are many, many iconic things about Star Wars. One of them is the opening crawl, which right from the start throws you into the middle of a story already unfolding. All nine saga films have begun with it, and it looks like the High Republic is following suit. In October, the Star Wars website [...]
The High Republic publishing initiative will be launching in January, but it certainly won't end there! In a panel promoting the project yesterday, it was revealed that second wave will include Cavan Scott writing a novel, the second one in the era! There's no title, cover, or plot synopsis yet, but it will be releasing [...]
The massive Star Wars publishing initiative exploring The High Republic will officially begin in January, with Charles Soule's novel Light of the Jedi. Soule recently did an interview with The Hollywood Reporter about the novel and the launch of The High Republic, and it's a really good read. But here I'm going to pull out [...]
We knew it had to be coming at some point, but today was the day: we got our first look at Yoda in The High Republic! The new publishing initiative that is launching in January is set 200 years prior to the events of The Phantom Menace, so we knew that Yoda would have been [...]
Back in April we got our first look at some of the new characters who will feature in The High Republic, and on Thursday Star Wars unveiled another one We are introduced to a Trandoshan Jedi named Sskeer, who sounds like a more complicated Jedi than we're used to. Here's the way that author Cavan [...]
As a result of general marketplace delays stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic and the related fallout, the launch of the new era of Star Wars storytelling, The High Republic, has been delayed. Originally set to launch this August, it will now launch in January of 2021. On Tuesday, January 5, 2021, both Light of the [...]
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