The first dozen issues of the Topps “X-Files” Comics featured Stefan Petrucha’s conspirators-within-the-conspiracy, the Aquarius group. But at the same time, the TV show’s mythology was becoming more complicated. Perhaps in response, the Topps writers – Petrucha […]
Kevin J. Anderson’s trio of “X-Files” books ends on a weak note with “Antibodies” (1997). Despite having a core story that would make for a good monster-of-the-week episode, the narrative is thin, padded and sloppily structured. There’s […]
Just as Kevin J. Anderson’s “Ground Zero” was a step up from Charles Grant’s books, Anderson’s “Ruins” (1996) is a step up from “Ground Zero.” Unlike his first book, I didn’t know precisely where the story was […]
After two mediocre novels from Charles Grant, the “X-Files” book series turns things around in a big way with “Ground Zero” (1995). Remarkably, this book is by Kevin J. Anderson, who around the same time was writing […]
“The X-Files” returned to comics in 2013, it will return to the small-screen for six episodes starting on Jan. 24, and last year it returned to bookshelves with “Trust No One,” a collection of short stories published […]
Even though he died in 2012, it seems Ralph McQuarrie’s influence will be felt on the 2014 animated series “Rebels” more so than on any “Star Wars” project since the original trilogy. Artists on the […]
Michael Stackpole and Timothy Zahn are the two authors who introduced the most important and iconic EU characters in the 1990s, but ranking a close third is Kevin J. Anderson. While he’s not in the […]
Having been swept up by the Luke-Callista romance introduced at the end of “Children of the Jedi,” it was with some optimism that I gave Kevin J. Anderson’s “Darksaber” (1995) another chance, despite my negative opinion of the “Jedi Academy […]
I tried to be an apologist for some aspects of the first two books of Kevin J. Anderson’s “Jedi Academy Trilogy,” but that becomes harder to do with “Champions of the Force” (1994). As the plot ratchets up to […]
“Dark Apprentice” (1994), the second book in Kevin J. Anderson’s “Jedi Academy Trilogy,” is quite a page-turner. About the only thing slowing me down was that I stopped to roll my eyes every chapter or so. For all […]