“We have a problem…” Remember the ending of Return of the Jedi, with the Ewok celebration (and in the re-release, the footage of liberated cities pulling down statues of Emperor Palpatine)? Star Wars: Aftermath starts just a few seconds after that, right when things start to go wrong. Imperial troops fire indiscriminately into
I’ll be the first to admit it, I may have a slight gadget addiction. To make matters a little worse, or dare say interesting, I’m slowly trying to make a smart house, the goal of which is to find the best tech out there and integrate it in a way where it’s almost seamless. Meaning that you
Continuing our month of Star Wars reviews, I wanted to take a look at 1994’s The Crystal Star by Vonda McIntyre, which picks up five or six years after Return of the Jedi. There’s a lot of Expanded Universe books that got into some very deep subjects; topics that questioned the nature of morality, power, responsibility, and
The Wreckers Return! Somebody’s kidnapped Prowl… but does anybody want him back? A lifetime of messing with everyone’s lives comes around to haunt him. Fortunately, he’s always got a plan and in this case… the one team of brutal, broken heroes… the Wreckers!
Gregory Maguire has gotten pretty good at giving a voice to minor characters of major fairy tales; witches and stepsisters get a little more to say in books like Wicked, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, and Mirror Mirror. Now he’s taking another look at Alice in Wonderland, and instead of following Alice, we follow someone who’s following
“You’re not the last of the old Jedi, Luke, you’re the first of the new.” After twenty-four years of Star Wars books, it’s hard to put into words just how excited fans were when the first Star Wars novel post-Return of the Jedi was announced. Sure we’d had comic books and TV shows set in the
You don’t need to have seen a Star Wars movie, or played the Battlefront game, to read Star Wars Battlefront: Twilight Company. It’s a story that could be set in any universe. Alexander Freed has done such a good job of setting the scene and introducing the characters, you could be completely ignorant of all things
In terms of animation there are very few studios that I will absolutely watch anything they produce. Studio Ghibli has certainly earned it, with countless films over the years that have touched the heart. I have the same rule with Directors – and the list has been getting shorter and shorter as prequels and remakes
Conquerors, part 3! It all comes down to this… the fate of the Autobots, the survival of the human race, and the existence of a post-war Cybertron depends on the two greatest heroes in Transformers history: Buster the dog and D.0.C. the drone. Click the jump for a review of Transformers #48!