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Loved the Wolfman story in Tales from Mos Eisley Cantina. Such a delicate touch to finish off the book with, and really touched the heartstrings too
November 10, 2024 at 7:49 PM
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Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith #4 (1995) - swelmo.ca/2024/10/02/t...
Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith #4 (1995)
Legends Timeline – 3997 Years before the Battle of Yavin Dark Lords of the Sith is unsurprisingly becoming darker by the issue, with ‘Death of a Dark Jedi’, the fourth issue in the series, deliveri…
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October 3, 2024 at 2:00 AM
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Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith #3 (1994) - swelmo.ca/2024/09/28/t...
Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith #3 (1994)
Legends Timeline – 3997 Years before the Battle of Yavin The last issue of Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith showed us the outbreak of conflict between the Jedi and the Sith-worshipping fa…
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September 28, 2024 at 10:08 PM
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The Crystal Star (1994) - swelmo.ca/2024/09/22/t...
The Crystal Star (1994)
Legends Timeline – 14 Years after the Battle of Yavin After experiencing the rollercoaster ride of Kevin J. Anderson’s Jedi Academy trilogy, The Crystal Star by Vonda N. McIntyre is an abrupt change o...
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September 22, 2024 at 7:10 PM
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Dark Empire II Issue #1 (1994) - swelmo.ca/2024/09/16/d...
Dark Empire II Issue #1 (1994)
Legends Timeline – 10 Years after the Battle of Yavin Dark Empire II starts in a similar way to the initial run of the comic, dropping readers into the middle of events and expecting them to catch up ...
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September 17, 2024 at 12:40 AM
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Star Wars: TIE Fighter: Defender of the Empire (1994) - swelmo.ca/2024/09/13/s...
Star Wars: TIE Fighter: Defender of the Empire (1994)
Platforms: PC, Macintosh Having already written about the base game of Star Wars: TIE Fighter, I’m not going to discuss the foundations of the Defender of the Empire expansion here, as the experience ...
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September 14, 2024 at 12:48 AM
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Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith #2 (1994) - swelmo.ca/2024/09/11/t...
Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith #2 (1994)
Legends Timeline – 3997 Years before the Battle of Yavin The Dark Lords of the Sith miniseries of Tales of the Jedi has surprised me with how excited it has made me over only two issues, particularly ...
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September 11, 2024 at 9:16 PM
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Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1994) - swelmo.ca/2024/09/02/s...
Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1994)
Platforms: SNES, Game Boy, Game Gear The Super Star Wars series comes to an end, predictably, with Return of the Jedi, releasing on SNES, Game Boy and Game Gear in late 1994. I had a mixed experience ...
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September 2, 2024 at 7:13 PM
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Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith #1 (1994) - swelmo.ca/2024/08/31/t...
Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith #1 (1994)
Legends Timeline – 3997 Years before the Battle of Yavin The Tales of the Jedi series returns with a new subtitle, Dark Lords of the Sith, and with it comes a returning cast of familiar characters, as...
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August 31, 2024 at 10:35 PM
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Droids: Artoo’s Day Out (1994) - swelmo.ca/2024/08/24/d...
Droids: Artoo’s Day Out (1994)
Artoo’s Day Out, a short comic featured in the pages of Star Wars Galaxy Magazine, is only a few pages long, but returns the reader to the world of Kalarba with C-3P0 and R2-D2 still in the service of...
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August 24, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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Droids Issue #6 (1994) - swelmo.ca/2024/08/20/d...
Droids Issue #6 (1994)
Issue #6 of the 1994 run of Droids is certainly the end of this particular chapter of C-3P0’s and R2-D2’s story, and sees at least a temporary end to their time with the Pitareeze family on Kalarba, b...
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August 21, 2024 at 2:13 AM
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Tales of the Jedi – The Freedon Nadd Uprising #2 (1994) - swelmo.ca/2024/08/18/t...
Tales of the Jedi – The Freedon Nadd Uprising #2 (1994)
Legends Timeline – 3998 Years before the Battle of Yavin This second, and final, part of the Freedon Nadd Uprising story feels simultaneously like the end of the first chapter of Tales of the Jedi, bu...
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August 18, 2024 at 5:06 PM
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Champions of the Force (1994) - swelmo.ca/2024/08/17/c...
Champions of the Force (1994)
Legends Timeline – 11 Years after the Battle of Yavin Champions of the Force is an interesting conclusion to Kevin J. Anderson’s Jedi Academy trilogy, as rather than delivering any further narrative d...
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August 17, 2024 at 3:34 PM
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Tales of the Jedi – The Freedon Nadd Uprising #1 (1994) - swelmo.ca/2024/07/22/t...
Tales of the Jedi – The Freedon Nadd Uprising #1 (1994)
Legends Timeline – 3998 Years before the Battle of Yavin There’s a lot happening in this first of two issues outlining the Freedon Nadd uprising, with characters both new and familiar enacting their p...
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July 23, 2024 at 12:52 AM
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Droids Issue #5 (1994) - swelmo.ca/2024/07/20/d...
Droids Issue #5 (1994)
A new issue of Droids brings another new artwork style for the series, but it also comes with an interesting structural change in terms of the presentation of the story. There’s a lot less dialogue in...
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July 20, 2024 at 2:35 PM
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Star Wars: TIE Fighter (1994) - swelmo.ca/2024/07/17/s...
Star Wars: TIE Fighter (1994)
Platforms: PC, Macintosh I don’t mean to give away the tone of this summary of Star Wars: TIE Fighter in its first sentence, but I’m pretty confident in saying that this semi-sequel to X-Wing takes ev...
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July 18, 2024 at 2:16 AM
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Droids Issue #4 (1994) - swelmo.ca/2024/06/18/d...
Droids Issue #4 (1994)
Every time that I open a new issue of Droids I wonder if this will be the one that veers too closely to the feeling of the 1980s comic of the same title and undoes the solid work that has been shown i...
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June 19, 2024 at 1:11 AM
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Droids Issue #3 (1994) - swelmo.ca/2024/06/15/d...
Droids Issue #3 (1994)
If there was ever an indication that this incarnation of Droids is different from the previous run, then the cover of Issue #3, ‘The Saga of C-3PX’ would be it. Featuring a droid with an identical bui...
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June 16, 2024 at 2:48 AM
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Dark Apprentice (1994) - swelmo.ca/2024/06/05/d...
Dark Apprentice (1994)
Legends Timeline – 11 Years after the Battle of Yavin Considering how much I remembered enjoying Kevin J. Anderson’s Jedi Academy trilogy when I was younger, I was surprised by my disappointed reactio...
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June 5, 2024 at 8:29 PM
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The Courtship of Princess Leia (1994) - swelmo.ca/2024/06/03/t...
The Courtship of Princess Leia (1994)
Legends Timeline – 8 Years after the Battle of Yavin I realised while reading The Courtship of Princess Leia just how much I must have forgotten about this book, particularly regarding the introductio...
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June 3, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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Droids Issue #2 (1994) - swelmo.ca/2024/05/11/d...
Droids Issue #2 (1994)
I was surprised to learn that the second issue of Droids doesn’t move all that far away from the previous story, especially considering that C-3P0 and R2-D2 were seemingly released from serving the Pi...
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May 11, 2024 at 6:25 PM
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Droids Issue #1 (1994) - swelmo.ca/2024/05/04/d...
Droids Issue #1 (1994)
It’s relatively safe to say that I didn’t have the best of times with the Droids releases from the later 1980s, either in comic or cartoon form. There were the occasional highpoints that delivered som...
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May 4, 2024 at 9:18 PM
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Tales of the Jedi Issue #5 (1994) - swelmo.ca/2024/04/21/t...
April 22, 2024 at 1:14 AM
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Jedi Search (1994) - swelmo.ca/2024/04/15/j...
April 16, 2024 at 2:15 AM
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Tales of the Jedi Issue #4 (1994) - swelmo.ca/2024/04/02/t...
April 3, 2024 at 12:34 AM