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io9Books & ComicsPadmé Amidala’s Literary Star Wars Trilogy Will Conclude With Queen’s Hope
Originally, author E.K. Johnson wanted to call the third book in her Star Wars Padmé trilogy Queen’s Gambit. You can probably guess why she had to change it, settling on Queen’s Hope as her second choice. “There was that thing on Netflix and, you know, we couldn’t name it Queen’s Gambit anymore,” Johnson told Star Wars.com. … Continued
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io9MoviesStar Wars Goes Hunting With New Online Arena Combat Game
Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Padmé had to fight their way out of an arena in Attack of the Clones, and now fans will have a chance to go wild in a Star Wars arena of their own. Coming later this year to Nintendo Switch (and iOS and Android) is a new game called Star Wars: Hunters. … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsThe High Republic‘s Jedi Should Be Living in a Golden Age of Attachment
“Attachment is forbidden. Possession is forbidden. Compassion, which I would define as unconditional love, is essential to a Jedi’s life. So you might say, that we are encouraged to love,” Anakin Skywalker tells Padmé Amidala in one of his many excruciatingly clumsy forays into foreplay in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones. … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsThrough the Ghosts of Revenge of the Sith, Darth Vader Finds a Semblance of Peace
The third run of Darth Vader at Marvel Comics has done a grand job building on its predecessor’s examinations of the titular Dark Lord. It’s looked at him both as the fascinating figure of power we’ve admired across Star Wars’ long history, but also as the equally intriguing bridge between Star Wars’ original and prequel … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsPadmé Is Darth Vader‘s Most Fascinating Phantom Menace
The last issue of Marvel’s Darth Vader gave us, arguably, the moment Anakin Skywalker became Darth Vader—if not physically, spiritually. The Dark Lord gave into the lie the world told him and accepted that this new, villainous being killed the heroic knight of the Old Republic. But if Darth Vader is willing to let his … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsDarth Vader Is Letting the Past Die
When Ahsoka Tano faces Darth Vader in Star Wars Rebels, there is a moment when the Dark Lord growls to his former apprentice “Anakin Skywalker was weak, and I destroyed him.” But for all his confidence there, Marvel Comics is telling a much longer, more tragic tale of how Darth Vader pushed aside his former … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsThe Best Star Wars Reads of the Disney Era
One of the biggest joys—well, beyond “More Star Wars than any reasonable person would know what to do with, for better or worse”—since Disney’s acquisition of Star Wars has been watching Lucasfilm’s publishing initiatives thrive in a rebooted world of interconnected stories. Some of the best Star Wars in years is happening in pages of … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsDarth Vader’s Hunt for the Past Just Got Tragically Complex
Darth Vader’s latest ongoing comic series has seen the Dark Lord of the Sith, burned by his son’s rather literal exit from his life in Cloud City, angry and on a quest to find vengeance for the present his unfortunate past has wrought him. That quest has an unlikely new ally, and it’s only going … Continued
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io9MoviesCelebrate the 61 Looks of Padmé Amidala in This Fashionably Specific Star Wars Video
Forget blasters. Forget lightsabers. Forget navies and flotillas, and armies of clones and droids alike. Padmé Amidala’s wardrobe is the deadliest weapon in the galaxy far, far away, because these looks are killer. The Star Wars Kids Channel’s “By the Numbers” series is one of the weirdest, most specific bits of official ephemera Lucasfilm puts … Continued
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io9MoviesThe Best Things The Phantom Menace Brought to Star Wars
Say what you will about The Phantom Menace, but it’s crucial to what makes Star Wars great. Sure, it introduced lots of not-so-popular characters and concepts, but it balanced that out with even more things that, in the 20 years since its release, have aged quite gracefully. Things that improved and expanded the franchise drastically. … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsPadmé’s New Novel Is a Star Wars Story I Didn’t Know I Needed
Although it has come in fits and starts, Disney’s total reboot of the Star Wars canon—five years after it began in earnest—is still decidedly light in fleshing out the events between the prequels. So E.K. Johnston’s new novel promising to reveal Padmé’s life as she transitioned from Queen to Senator of Naboo seems like a … Continued
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Mark Hamill Has Never Met Natalie Portman, Which Is Hilarious, Considering
Luke Skywalker never met his mother. Neither did Leia, retcons included— are we saying her memories of her were the Force? We’re gonna go with The Force, right? Well, neither, it turns out, has Mark Hamill. Yesterday was Natalie Portman’s birthday, and in response Hamill shared a rather entertaining fact on Twitter: He’s never met … Continued
By Julie Muncy