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A Star Wars #34 Micro-Review – Lightsaber Stories
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TITLE: Star Wars #34
AUTHOR: Charles Soule
ARTISTS: Madibek Musabekov, Rachelle Rosenberg (Colorist), Clayton Cowles (Letterer). Cover by Stephen Segovia & Rain Beredo.
RELEASED: May 3, 2023
By Rob Siebert
Fanboy Wonder
One complaint I’ve had since the beginning of this series is how lightsaber-centric some of the stories have been. Luke has to go back to Cloud City to find his blue lightsaber, Luke has to find a new lightsaber, Luke’s new lightsaber gets destroyed, etc. Now, we’ve got Luke looking for a kyber crystal to construct the green lightsaber we see in Return of the Jedi.
I’ll say this much, at least it was established in Jedi that Luke had to construct a new lightsaber. So we’re not just making up lightsaber stories for the heck of it.
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A Star Wars: Yoda #6 Micro-Review – “Always Present, the Dark Side is.”
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TITLE: Star Wars: Yoda #6
AUTHOR: Jody Houser
ARTISTS: Luke Ross, Nolan Woodard (Colorist), Joe Caramagna (Letterer). Cover by Phil Noto.
RELEASED: April 19, 2023
By Rob Siebert
Fanboy Wonder
There’s some good dark-side related stuff in here. Namely about how the dark side is part of the Force itself, and always there as a temptation. I like that notion. It rings true to how certain temptations work in the real world.
At the risk of harping on, I really can’t say enough good things about how Luke Ross and Nolan Woodard render Yoda. There’s so much detail there that he almost looks drawn from life. It’s a big selling point for this series, as far as I’m concerned.
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A Star Wars: Ewoks #1 Micro-Review – Silent Teddy Bears
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TITLE: Star Wars: Return of the Jedi – Ewoks #1
AUTHOR: Alyssa Wong
ARTISTS: Various. Cover by Ryan Brown.
RELEASED: April 12, 2023
By Rob Siebert
Fanboy Wonder
Is this a bad time to say I haven’t seen the ewok movies in many, many years?
But that’s alright, as I suspect many would consider what we get here to be better than said movies. A silent issue (as the ewoks don’t speak English) showcasing different artists as they tell different ewok stories with different styles and tones. It’s a nice window into how versatile the ewoks can be from a storytelling standpoint, despite them often being written off as cuddly teddy bears.
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A Star Wars: Jabba’s Palace #1 Micro-Review – “…Disintegrated?”
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TITLE: Star Wars: Return of the Jedi – Jabba’s Palace #1
AUTHOR: Marc Guggenheim
ARTISTS: Alessandro Miracolo, Dee Cunniffe (Colorist), Clayton Cowles (Letterer). Cover by Ryan Brown.
RELEASED: March 29, 2023
By Rob Siebert
Fanboy Wonder
It’s always fun to come back to Jabba’s palace. It’s one of those classic Star Wars locations that rarely disappoints. This issue delivers in that respect, with a story about the protocol droid in Jabba’s palace who we see being tortured in Return of the Jedi.
I always get a kick out of how writers are able to mine story ideas from extras in these now 40-year-old movies. Case in point, this robot that was only on screen for a few seconds.
Tremendous cover by Ryan Brown. The best I’ve seen on a Star Wars book recently.
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A Star Wars: Sana Starros #2 Micro-Review – Family Connections
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TITLE: Star Wars: Sana Starros #2
AUTHOR: Justina Ireland
ARTISTS: Pere Perez, Dono Sanchez-Almara (Colorist), Travis Lanham (Letterer). Cover by Ken Lashley & Juan Fernandez.
RELEASED: March 8, 2023
By Rob Siebert
Fanboy Wonder
This issue ties Sana to her ancestor Avon Starros, who we’ve seen in some of the High Republic books. That’s not a coincidence, as Justina Ireland has written her.
I appreciate that Thea Starros, Sana’s grandmother, is in this story. It feels like we don’t see a lot of characters like her in Star Wars. Meaning in terms of both her age and her general look.
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A Star Wars: Yoda #5 Micro-Review – A Planet of the Apes Vibe
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TITLE: Star Wars: Yoda #5
AUTHOR: Jody Houser
ARTISTS: Luke Ross, Nolan Woodard (Colorist), Joe Caramagna (Letterer). Cover by Phil Noto.
RELEASED: March 15, 2023
By Rob Siebert
Fanboy Wonder
Luke Ross is a tremendous Star Wars artist at large, beyond simply drawing an amazing Yoda. There are a lot of wookiees in this issue, and Ross does a fine job making them distinct from Chewbacca. I get a little bit of a Planet of the Apes vibe, which works for me.
As a longtime Star Wars geek, I appreciate Houser incorporating the feud between wookiees and Trandoshans into this story. That’s been a part of Star Wars lore for a long time, dating back to a feud between Chewbacca and Bossk.
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A Star Wars: Han Solo & Chewbacca #10 Micro-Review – A Jumbled Conclusion
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TITLE: Star Wars: Han Solo & Chewbacca #10
AUTHOR: Marc Guggenheim
ARTISTS: David Messina, Alex Sinclair (Colorist), Joe Caramagna (Letterer). Cover by Phil Noto.
RELEASED: March 1, 2023
By Rob Siebert
Fanboy Wonder
This issue contains an origin story for the remote that was on the Falcon in the original Star Wars movie. Because that’s something everyone was calling for, right?
We also get the equivalent of a post-credits scene in this issue. Which is kinda neat, but also odd considering Star Wars movies don’t do them.
I wasn’t enamored with this issue. But it brought the “Dead or Alive” story to a reasonable conclusion, albeit a bit of a jumbled one.
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A Star Wars: Yoda #4 Micro-Review – A Young Christopher Lee
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TITLE: Star Wars: Yoda #4
AUTHOR: Jody Houser
ARTISTS: Luke Ross, Nolan Woodard (Colorist), Joe Caramagna (Letterer). Cover by Phil Noto.
RELEASED: February 22, 2022
By Rob Siebert
Fanboy Wonder
For Count Dooku, this issue’s artistic team do a nice job evoking a young Christopher Lee, all while giving him a look (i.e. hair and beard style) he apparently never adopted in his real life.
By virtue of a young Dooku being present, this story might make a nice companion to some of those Tales of the Jedi shorts that came out on Disney+ awhile back.
Luke Ross draws an absolutely amazing Yoda. The level of detail he injects into the character is stellar.
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A Star Wars #31 Micro-Review – …Slutty?!?
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TITLE: Star Wars #31
AUTHOR: Charles Soule
ARTISTS: Andres Genolet, Rachelle Rosenberg (Colorist), Clayton Cowles (Letterer). Cover by Stephen Segovia & Rain Beredo.
RELEASED: February 15, 2023
By Rob Siebert
Fanboy Wonder
There’s a big moment in this issue where Lando makes out with another one of the characters for no apparent reason. In a vacuum, it makes sense for Lando, but it’s not motivated very well as far as the other character is concerned. It actually makes her look…well…I’ll just say it: Slutty.
Luke makes a comment in this issue about how he doesn’t need a lightsaber to be a Jedi. Well damn, I wish he’d felt that way when this series began. Then we wouldn’t have the stupid gold one.
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