Star Wars

With less than a day away from its premiere, Andor season 2 has been certified fresh by Rotten Tomatoes. At the time of writing, with 55 reviews aggregated, the show currently sits at a 98% positive rating. Plenty of reviewers and journalists had high praise for the second season of Andor, with many putting it above the first season. Emily Zemler of the Observer remarked on how the story of rising oppression has remnants and ideas that could be related to today:  Another positive review from Kelly Lawler of USA Today said that the show is a beautiful story about “love” and “sacrifice” that can go into dark places — a sentiment shared by many of the cast and crew of Andor:  For comparison, the first season of Andor still stands remarkably high on Rotten Tomatoes with a critic rating of 9...

The second piece of Downloadable Content (DLC) from Ubisoft/Massive Entertainment’s Star Wars: Outlaws has been in the pipeline for a few months. While a release date has not been set yet, the game’s social media account have confirmed that a special preview of the new adventure will be part of Star Wars Celebration next week, in Japan. Titled A Pirate’s Fortune, we know that it will feature Hondo Ohnaka. He will presumably partner with the game’s protagonist, Kay Vess (Humberly González), but the specific plot and gameplay details are to be revealed. There is no dedicated panel at Celebration for the game, so the most likely scenario is that it happens as part of the Live show that is streamed on YouTube. This is also how the teaser for Jedi: Survivor was revealed back in 2022. Tune in...

The Rise of Skywalker #2 arrived last week to an exceptionally quiet reception. Once again, this issue is a passable comic adaptation of the film with basically nothing in it to write home about. In its defense, most screen-to-comic adaptations are not going to wow you. And why should they? It’s a story we know and know well. The purpose of the exercise is to see the narrative in a new medium and, if it’s done particularly well, perhaps glean some new and surprising contextual details that weren’t privy to the audience in the story’s original form.  Unfortunately, so far for The Rise of Skywalker, we haven’t learned anything new. I was somewhat critical of the writing in the first issue, bemoaning the predictable inner monologue of Rey and Kylo Ren. However, in a departure from that fir...

This new era of Star Wars comics is the gift that keeps on giving. Marvel has added another ongoing series to its ranks with the unsurprising return of its Doctor Aphra line. Coming this June is Cherise Chen’s Doctor Aphra: Chaos Agent. Also on the way, the First Order attacks Naboo, Luke goes on a dangerous mission, the Bad Batch must outwit Asajj Ventress, and The Rise of Skywalker‘s Battle of Exegol. Meanwhile, the biggest story of the month has been over four years in the making. The High Republic publishing initiative ends in June. Assuming the ever-changing Dark Horse schedule holds, The High Republic Adventures closes with issues #19 and #20. Marvel wraps its High Republic run with a climactic Fear of the Jedi #5. The comics seem to be coalescing around the Battle of Eriadu, and ...

For as little effort as Disney-Lucasfilm Press has put into marketing these Star Wars Audible originals, they have quickly become something worth looking forward to. Last year’s Padawan’s Pride was a nice Obi-Wan and Anakin story. Then the High Republic publishing initiative came in and released Seeds of Starlight. That was the first part of a two-part story, revealing the dark secrets hidden inside the sunken wreckage of Starlight Beacon. In case you missed the Phase 3 memo, the Drengir are back. The recently released Haunted Starlight is the second half of this “audio-saga.” Writer George Mann has been on a tear lately, and he’s once again left his mark. Seeds of Starlight was a tightly crafted story that had several noteworthy moments. Haunted Starlight takes a little while to get go...