Star Wars

The first issue of Hyperspace Stories: Codebreaker reintroduced us to a young hotshot Poe Dameron who was about to be tested on a mission outside his comfort zone, perhaps in a way that would have him learn lessons and mature as a soldier. The twist that he was breaking a young Muun hybroid out of prison rather than retrieving a simple device offered some intriguing possibilities for how the rest of the mission would play out, though you can probably guess what happens from there. That’s not to say this second issue isn’t fun. Poe’s story is all action from start to finish as the First Order immediately realize there’s an intruder in the base and Poe’s disguise fails the first time he encounters a stormtrooper. Thankfully Poe is good in a shootout and has plenty of luck on his side to c...

The wait is over. Trials of the Jedi is available now! We have two non-spoiler reviews up on the site (mine and Colin’s) if you haven’t had a chance to dive in yet. In both cases, we praised Charles Soule for crafting an impressively satisfying finale to the High Republic saga. But with so many memorable and iconic moments, we need another chance to discuss. That’s where this piece comes in. Who lives? Who dies? Who finally brings down Marchion Ro? What exactly are the Nameless? And is a secret Sith now lurking in the shadows post-Nihil? There’s a lot to unpack — especially the things I couldn’t touch on in the spoiler-free version. That includes the characters Soule absolutely nailed, and the ones I think he could’ve utilized better. Trials of the Jedi takes a while to bake in the oven...

Andor has given us oppression, revolution, spy craft, politics, heartache, and romance. Strongly hinted at in Season 1, Cassian and Bix’s relationship fully blossoms in Season 2, even providing one of the biggest payoffs of the entire series. This now retroactively helps justify (explain?) the absolute lack of romance in Rogue One between Cassian and Jyn Erso. Aside from a furtive look in an elevator shortly before they both died at the end of that film, the characters at no point explored anything romantic between them. Series creator and writer Tony Gilroy (he also did re-writes on Rogue) addresses this with Collider: “I knew very well what had happened with Jyn and Cassian in Rogue One and what had happened in the elevator. I knew that scene very, very well. I probably went back and ...

While it is not completely clear how the future of the Skywalker saga will be handled in upcoming films, whether or not those potential films will include Luke Skywalker seems to be resolved. Speaking with ComicBook.com while promoting his new film The Life of Chuck, Mark Hamill said that it is time to move on from the legacy characters first introduced in the original trilogy and later returning in the sequel trilogy. Hamill first appeared as Luke in 1977’s Star Wars, later titled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope as well as its first two sequels. He returned in 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens as well as that film’s two sequels. He’s also been involved on the Disney Plus side of things, assisting with the motion capture in The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, and later voici...

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, the museum founded by George Lucas and his wife, Mellody Hobson, laid off 15 full-time employees last week, the Los Angeles Times reported, including people from the education and public programming team. Moreover, seven part-time, on-call employees had their roles “eliminated”, the paper added. The layoffs amount to 14% of the staff. The scene, which took place last Thursday morning, was described as “shocking and chaotic” by two sources to the LA Times. One of the people laid off was the museum’s curator of film programs, Bernardo Rondeau, who was not at the premises when it happened. Instead, the news was brought up to him while at the Cannes Film Festival. He posted on LinkedIn: “As of today, my role as Curator, Film Programs at the Lucas Museum of...