The Galaxy’s Greatest Heroes–A look at Star Wars heroes in a new way
Review by C.J. Bunce When I was a kid in school, periodically we were given book orders, full of discount versions of books, but also posters and popular magazines like Dynamite, and lots of tie-ins...
View ArticlePreview–Star Wars Insider’s second volume of The Mandalorian Season 2 arrives
Back in the 1970s if you wanted to see more of your favorite movies, you went to the grocery story with a couple of quarters and bought Topps trading cards. If the thrill of seeing photographs from...
View ArticleSpend your holidays with the Mandalorian and Baby Yoda… er… Grogu
Since we first saw Baby Yoda–the well-established fan nickname for our favorite green-eared Star Wars friend Grogu–we knew this kid was the future of Star Wars. But it took Bryce Dallas Howard...
View ArticlePlanet Comicon Kansas City returns this weekend for 23rd year
For twenty-three years Planet Comicon Kansas City has been one of the Midwest’s biggest comic book and pop culture conventions and that was no less so in 2014 when it became the largest attended event...
View ArticlePlanet Comicon Kansas City 2023 cosplay and more
Planet Comicon Kansas City wrapped its 2023 pop culture convention yesterday, another great show this time leading into next year’s 25th year for the event. The event was well-attended each day,...
View ArticleDon’t buy refurbished droids–The Mandalorian delivers the best Star Wars...
Review by C.J. Bunce With two episodes left in its third season, the Disney+ series The Mandalorian delivered a powerhouse episode this week that may be the best episode of Star Wars television yet....
View ArticleAt last! Aardman stop-motion meets Star Wars in anthology series
The trailer for the second season of the animated Disney+ streaming series Star Wars: Visions looks a bit like the first season. It has a lot of Old Republic-era looking dark Sith bad guys facing off...
View ArticleStar Wars: Visions is the spark the galaxy far, far away is ready for
Review by C.J. Bunce This year for its annual Star Wars Day (May the Fourth) Lucasfilm upped its game for the second season of the animated anthology series Star Wars: Visions, tapping some incredible...
View ArticleStar Wars: The Legends of Luke Skywalker–The Manga: The best SW comics since...
Review by C.J. Bunce Which is more intriguing: C-3PO wielding a lightsaber with the power of a Jedi, or Luke Skywalker masquerading in a C-3PO droid suit? How about Luke experiencing his own space...
View ArticleDark Horse Comics–Back with Star Wars in Hyperspace anthology
Back in 2014, with the acquisition of Lucasfilm by Marvel Comics’ parent Disney, Disney pulled the plug on 23 years of continuity created by Dark Horse Comics writers and artists. But happily for fans...
View ArticleA Galaxy of Stickers–Star Wars book collects 45 years of promo art
On the Big Wheel. On the bedroom wall. On the Trapper Keeper. On the toy box. On the dresser. Everywhere your parents didn’t want you to put ’em. Since 1977 kids have been putting Star Wars...
View ArticleZack Snyder’s Rebel Moon–The next big sci-fi franchise is coming
Who was the #1 action movie actress of the last decade? You’ll be hard-pressed to find someone more worthy than Sofia Boutella, who dazzled in front of the camera in more box office wins than any...
View ArticleOpening weekend review–Snyder makes his Cameron sci-fi flick with Rebel Moon
Review by C.J. Bunce The first part of writer-director Zack Snyder’s well-advertised sci-fi movie series has landed on Netflix this weekend. Rebel Moon: Part One–A Child of Fire is a serviceable...
View ArticleHouse of the Bloodaxe–Rebel Moon prequel arrives today
Review by C.J. Bunce Fans of the world and characters of Zack Snyder’s new multi-film franchise Rebel Moon can get an eye into some of the backstory for the sci-fi saga beginning today with a new...
View ArticleDig into a new adaptation–The Mandalorian: The Manga
Review by C.J. Bunce It only wrapped its third season less than a year ago and the Disney+ TV series The Mandalorian is still delivering exciting content for the Star Wars brand. The latest takes us...
View ArticleNow streaming–MI: 7 or Top Gun 2? A Tom Cruise twofer
Review by C.J. Bunce After enjoying the unseasonably good weather on its way to what the groundhog promises as an early spring, what are you going to watch on the TV when you get home? Paramount+ has...
View ArticleThe Bad Batch strikes back one last time this season on Disney+
If you got behind last season on The Bad Batch, you may not realize all of the key players who returned to the Star Wars mythos. Omega, the young female clone of the Jango Fett era, and the small...
View ArticleNetflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender–A great epic fantasy
Review by C.J. Bunce A story of heroes that takes over from a strong line of storytelling including the land of Oz, Middle-earth, Narnia, His Dark Materials, and Star Wars, Avatar: The Last Airbender...
View ArticlePlanet Comicon Kansas City celebrates 25 years this weekend
Planet Comicon Kansas City has been one of the Midwest’s biggest comic book and pop culture conventions and that was no less so in 2014 when it became the largest attended event in the history of the...
View ArticleTales of the Empire arrives for May the Fourth 2024
If you blinked you could have easily overlooked 2022’s Tales of the Jedi, six animated Star Wars episodes from Dave Filoni that continued the style and substance of his Star Wars: The Clone Wars...
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