Below are posts associated with the “Star Wars Expanded Universe” franchise.
📚 bookblog: Tag & Bink Were Here (❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤)
This comic is dumb, but mostly the funny kind of dumb, but still not quite enough to get more than a middling review.
📚 bookblog: Rogue Squadron (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)
It’s not great literature, but I don’t remember ever having read it, and it felt like the kind of escapist fun I could use right now. I think the Alphabet Squadron series is a superior successor in terms of having something to say beyond escapism, but Corran Horn is a fun Mary Sue to read about, and I think I’ll keep reading.
🎙️ radioblog: Star Wars: The Original Radio Drama (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)
I think I got this in an NPR Humble Bundle, and I’ve been meaning to relisten to it for a while. It’s a real mix of good and bad: Thanks to John Williams and Ben Burtt, it’s got some great audio to work with; however, it does a lot of awkward “tell since we can’t show.” It sometimes feels like it’s reaching to fill in an extra four hours, but also it maybe demonstrates that Star Wars could maybe be a miniseries with some better writing? It’s not great, but it’s good for what it is, and I enjoyed it:
📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤 for Star Wars: Heir to the Empire, by Timothy Zahn
This book is one of the mainstays of the old Star Wars EU. I hadn’t read it in years, but after exploring some of the new canon and hearing the news about a likely remixing of it into a Dave Filoni movie, it seemed like a good time to revisit. The audiobook production was great, and even if I’m not planning to finish the trilogy, I enjoyed checking this title out again.