Tatooine is probably one of the most iconic locations in all of Star Wars. Just reading the name likely reminds people of the opening of A New Hope, with its two setting suns. It’s a location full of turning points for the Skywalker family – where Anakin stopped being a slave and Luke began his [...]

This week my sons and I will give you a look at Death Star Battles, another DK Readers level 3 book – meant for children who are reading alone. As mentioned last time, this book was a much bigger hit with my sons than Join the Rebels had been, and after the break I’ll give [...]

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…

I started reading these books. The Star Wars Expanded Universe has gone through numerous upheavals since the its inception in 1978. None of these were more seemingly important at the time while becoming nearly irrelevant years later than the 20th Star Wars Anniversary spectacular event, Shadows [...]

Welcome back to another edition of This Week In Star Wars!!  After the break you can find out what’s coming out this week and what we have planned for the site!!
 

Role-play in the Star Wars Universe can take on many forms, not just traditional role-playing games, there’s also immersive character role-play on dedicated websites, to playing with action figures, and even dressing up in themed costumes. This column will be devoted to all things role-play, from highlighting upcoming products, reviewing role-playing books, or introducing readers [...]

Following directly out of Secret Invasion, was the beginning of a new age for the Avengers – a Dark Age, and a new team is formed to follow this new vision, led by Norman Osborn (formerly the Green Goblin) and made up of some of the Thunderbolts (reformed supervillains) and other undesirables – all ready [...]

Blood Ties #1: A Tale of Jango and Boba Fett comes out today, written by Tom Taylor and drawn by Chris Scalf.
Techland interviews Tom Taylor about his Star Wars comic work, and they have an interview with Matt Higby, lead designer on Clone Wars Adventures (Techland is doing a whole Star Wars month).
Learn about The Clone Wars [...]

I had been seeing this book for awhile without really knowing what it was, but finally decided to give it a try and check it out with my sons. As it turns out, my sons have had books out of the library like this before – I just didn’t know it was called Scanimation. I’ll [...]

Going to try something new this week. Instead of a summary of “In Case You Missed It” at the end of the week, a daily briefing updated with the latest Star Wars news as it might pertain to readers of this site. Feel free to provide feedback at the link below to this addition/replacement to [...]

This is the kind of book that even if you haven’t read it, you’ve actually been quoting it for a long time. The stories that are in this book, about the creation of the Shadows of the Empire event have shaped much of what we know about how things are run in the various licensees [...]