The Disney Channel's Star Wars Resistance animated series has been on a collision course with the timeline of Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens ever since the show premiered this season. In this week's episode "The Core Problem," Kaz (Christopher Sean) and his friends on the Colossus find themselves smashed on the windshield of the events […]
Everyone please buckle your seat belts and make sure that your seat-backs and tray tables are in their upright and locked positions! Believe it or not, Disney Channel's Star Wars Resistance is getting ready to crash land into the events of Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens. Fans have known all season that Resistance takes place in […]
The Disney Channel's Star Wars Resistance has always been a bit of a mystery. Set six months before Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens, the relatively peaceful life on the Colossus seems out of place given our knowledge of what havoc the First Order is about to wreak. https://youtu.be/yGdkg3WcqQI One of the big questions […]
Disney's latest Star Wars animated television show – Disney Channel's Star Wars Resistance – has gotten positive reviews by critics but a mixed response from viewers. Many fans of Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels have been turned off by the show's much younger target audience. I will admit that I was ambivalent about the show […]
Anakin Skywalker is getting a SDCC exclusive Dark Side figure from Hot Toys. This is a variant of their previous Anakin figure, this time with Sith eyes and full of attitude. A Mustafar panning droid is included as a base, with built-in LED lights. A blue lightsaber with multiple blades are also inside the package. […]
Darth Vader has been alerted to the infiltration of former Jedi Archivist Jocasta Nu. The Jedi has already confronted the Grand Inquisitor, whom is intent on slaying her. Vader cannot allow this on the orders of the Emperor himself. The Dark Lord must intervene, but Jocasta may have some tricks up her sleeve. The Jocasta […]
Star Wars: The Last Jedi finally comes out in three weeks. There was little doubt what the theme of the latest Funko Smuggler's Bounty box would be. Especially since it was coming so close to release. At this point with these boxes, they have have started to surprise folks who order by changing up the […]
Former Jedi Master Archivist Jocasta Nu has returned to Coruscant in search of an important entry in the Jedi Archives. Despite her best efforts, her arrival does not go unnoticed by the forces of the Empire. Before long, Darth Vader himself is made privy to an intruder. This issue provides a new lesson in restraint […]
For centuries, true believers from around the world would make pilgrimages to their places of worship to lay tribute as proof of their faith and devotion; and to insure good tidings for the next seasonal cycle. Thankfully, we've evolved as a society (umm…at least in some ways) over time: Metrocards took the place of walking […]
I greatly enjoyed Kieron Gillen's Darth Vader run, which started when Marvel first got the rights back to produce Star Wars comics once again. The first issue was incredible; I read an issue here or there after it started, and I am now collecting the trades, which have brought great enjoyment to me in the […]
The first Darth Vader series from Marvel Comics' Star Wars line is a tough act to follow. Kieron Gillen had such an amazing handle on how to write not only Vader himself, but also the Emperor, and his wonderful creations Doctor Aphra, Triple-Zero and Beetee, Cylo, and many more. It felt like a natural ending when […]
Why are the light sabres, as used by the Sith in Star Wars films, red in colour? The Star Wars wiki tells us, While the Jedi used natural crystals, the Sith mostly used red-hued synthetic crystals. In today's Darth Vader #1 comic book by Charles Soule, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Cam Smith and David Curiel, and published by Marvel Comics, […]
