To celebrate the 20th anniversary of “Independence Day” and the release of the sequel, “Resurgence,” this week I’m looking back at the various spinoff comics and novels. All of these spin-off materials were recently released […]
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of “Independence Day” and the release of the sequel, “Resurgence,” this week I’m looking back at the various spinoff comics and novels. All of these spin-off materials were recently released […]
On one hand, it seems unlikely that “The Force Awakens” screenwriters Lawrence Kasdan and J.J. Abrams read the “Legacy of the Force” series. But on the other hand, Jacen Solo’s arc in “Bloodlines” (2006) is so starkly […]
I wasn’t a huge fan of the nine-book “Legacy of the Force” series on my first read, not because of the quality of the writing – Aaron Alliston and Karen Traviss are my two favorite […]
“Independence Day: Resurgence” is what a summer blockbuster should be: the kind where after watching futuristic aerial dogfights (in 3D if you pay a couple extra bucks), you drive home as if your Honda Civic is […]
Troy Denning wraps up his bridge trilogy between “The New Jedi Order” and “Legacy of the Force” in mostly satisfying fashion with “Dark Nest III: The Swarm War” (2006). But the reader doesn’t get a sense of […]
TV review: Eight years after the last film, “The X-Files” returns to TV for six episodes that are much more than a nostalgia trip.
While the first volume set the groundwork and featured philosophizing about the Jedi Order’s relationship to the Galactic Alliance, “Dark Nest II: The Unseen Queen” (2005) puts its ideas into action in an uncharacteristically tight 333-page novel […]
Call him the Stephen King of “Star Wars” authors. No other scribe has a bigger gap between his lows and highs than Troy Denning. I recently criticized his debut effort, “Star by Star” (2001), in […]
The “New Jedi Order” closes out its 19-book run with James Luceno’s epic “The Unifying Force”(2003), which feels every bit of its 527 pages and must be read over several sittings. In the end, it’s a […]