You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! It’s here once again, like Christmas in May for comic-book lovers; it’s Free Comic Book Day, Saturday May 3rd! And if that wasn’t enough, the very next day is Star Wars Day, on May the 4th (be with you.) Join our heroes and heroine and special
In a news post on the official Star Wars site, Lucasfilm has announced that the Expanded Universe – the books, comics and video games that have been produced in the past 35 years – are no longer part of the official Star Wars canon. While Lucasfilm always strived to keep the stories created for the EU
You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! The Throne of Geekdom rages on this month and your heroes and heroine are here to throw out their reactions to the thrilling upsets and the disappointing defeats. Listen in as the crew make their Round 2 picks and see who’s already
You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! The day we knew was coming is finally here, after the acquisition of Star Wars by Disney it was only a matter of time until every aspect of the company would be controlled by the mouse; including the comic rights. Announced just
This series is based on a great idea: take George Lucas’s unpublished rough draft of Star Wars, and turn it into a “What If” story. There are a few familiar concepts and a lot of familiar names, but the Star Wars universe you know has been turned upside down and made into a completely different
With souped-up graphics and processing power, Playstation 4 and Xbox One will bring us one step closer to truly “cinematic” video games. But could game developers’ long quest to emulate silver-screen cool actually limit the creative potential of next-generation console titles? This question came to mind after the recent burst of publicity for Destiny and
When I first saw the cover for this book, I thought it was just someone’s clever illustration of Darth Vader drawn in Shakespearean clothing in a wood-cut style. I thought it was very pretty. Then I noticed the amazon link and realized that it’s a real book. Ian Doescher rewrote Star Wars, the entire movie, in
When Walt Disney executives refused to release new Star Wars: Episode VII details during last weekend’s D23 conference, millions of (fan) voices suddenly cried out in terror. In the audience, there were boos and moans of disappointment; on social sites like Twitter, there was an outpouring of indignant rage. “How are they not even announcing
Thanks to The Latino Review, the Internet is running rampant with rumors that Emperor Palpatine is retuning for the new Star Wars movies, due to start 2015. And if it is true that pure evil is coming back to fight our heroes, it’s said that he will not be a clone, but rather perhaps a