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Tag: Star Wars

January 12, 2023 by J. Caleb Mozzocco

Star Wars: Tales from the Rancor Pit | Review

After getting on Jabba the Hutt's bad side, a story-teller bargains for his life: Scary stories in exchange for mercy. Vader's Castle writer Cavan Scott leads the creative team behind new Star Wars anthology Tales from the Rancor Pit.

February 3, 2022 by J. Caleb Mozzocco

Star Wars Adventures: Ghosts of Vader’s Castle | Review

Star Wars Adventures: Ghosts of Vader's Castle presents another anthology of scary Star Wars stories embedded within a narrative. This time the theme is nightmares, giving writer Cavan Scott and his collaborators a great deal of freedom with what they put the characters through.

December 8, 2020 by J. Caleb Mozzocco

Elizabeth Brei on Star Wars Adventures | Interview

Star Wars Adventures Editor Elizabeth Brei explains how the relaunched title has and hasn't changed, and how the all-ages anthology balances a universe of characters and settings.

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Review: Star Wars: Leia, Princess of Alderaan

November 20, 2020 by J. Caleb Mozzocco

Claudia Gray's YA Star Wars novel Leia, Princess of Alderaan receives a manga adaptation thanks to manga-ka Haruichi and Yen Press, giving fans yet another option for high-quality comics adventures starring their favorite characters.

Review: ‘Star Wars Adventures: Return to Vader’s Castle’

April 20, 2020 by J. Caleb Mozzocco

Writer Cavan Scott and a half-dozen artists spin spooky stories starring Star Wars' scariest villains in Return To Vader's Castle

Review: ‘Rey and Pals’

September 25, 2019 by J. Caleb Mozzocco

Cartoonist Jeffrey Brown gives the new generation of Star Wars heroes and villains the Vader and Son treatment in Rey and Pals.

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Review: ‘Star Wars: Lost Stars’ Vol. 1

May 30, 2018 by J. Caleb Mozzocco

Star Wars: Lost Stars Vol. 1 Writers: Claudia Gray and Yusaku Komiyama Artist: Yusaku Komiyama Yen Press; $13 Rated T for Teen This is a manga adaptation of Claudia Gray’s 2015 prose novel of the same name, and as I read, I couldn’t help but wonder if Crossed Stars might not have been a better […]

Review: ‘Star Wars Forces of Destiny: Princess Leia’

January 9, 2018 by J. Caleb Mozzocco

Star Wars Forces of Destiny: Princess Leia Writers: Elsa Charretier and Pierrick Colinet Artist: Elsa Charretier IDW Publishing; $3.99 While the original Star Wars trilogy has always had many female fans, little girls who looked to the space opera for characters that looked like them had Leia and…that’s about it, unless you really wanted to […]

Review: ‘Star Wars Adventures Vol. 1: Heroes of the Galaxy’

November 15, 2017 by J. Caleb Mozzocco

Star Wars Adventures Vol. 1: Heroes of the Galaxy Writers: Landry Q. Walker, Cavan Scott, and others Artists: Derek Charm, Jon Sommariva and others IDW Publishing; $9.99 IDW Publishing was apparently pretty excited to get the license to publish new comics based on the Star Wars franchise, and who could blame them? The fact that […]

Review: ‘Jedi Academy: A New Class’

January 26, 2017 by J. Caleb Mozzocco

Jedi Academy: A New Class By Jarrett J. Krosoczka Scholastic; $12.99 When it comes to Star Wars, three has always been something of a magic number, with the film franchise conceived as a trilogy of trilogies. It makes sense then that cartoonist Jeffrey Brown would stop at three Jedi Academy books, following his original with […]

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