With just a few more days until his origin story blasts into theaters, let's delve back into the lost lore of Han Solo and Chewbacca. Tonight's transmission concerns one of the first stories in what would later be known as the Star Wars Expanded Universe; Marvel Comics' Star Wars #7 - "New Planets, New Perils!" … Continue reading The Exploits of Han Solo: “New Planets, New Perils!” (Marvel Star Wars 7)
Welcome to the Summer of Solo! We're just a few days out from the release of Solo: A Star Wars Story, which looks surprisingly decent. Until recently my level of enthusiasm for this film (and other proposed "origin" Star Wars movies) could best be described as "wet bantha fart," but the trailers hit me like … Continue reading The Exploits of Han Solo: “Routine” (Star Wars Tales 2)
(spoilers for The Last Jedi ahead! It's been...months. If you haven't seen it yet I can only assume you've been waylaid by bounty hunters on Ord Mantell, or have been prospecting out on Subterrel) Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi is a Star Wars movie like none other...now with that hook, am I about … Continue reading SpaceStationWagon Movie Review – Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Star Wars Fever is in the air, as Episode VIII bears down upon us like a Star Destroyer chasing a Rebel Blockade Runner. I was pumped when they announced the film would be titled The Last Jedi, but also had a slight "nerdier than thou" smirk. You see, there is already a Star Wars tale … Continue reading Bargain Bin Bounty: Marvel’s Star Wars #49 – THE LAST JEDI!
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets hits theaters this weekend. Since Space Station Wagon is a survey of scifi and a conspectus of comics, I thought I'd clue any curious cats in. Valerian and Laureline is a French comic strip written by Pierre Christin and illustrated by artist Jean-Claude Mezieres, first published in … Continue reading What the Hell is Valerian? – A Brief Background of the Comic Strip
Star Wars comic books were first published by Marvel, and since Disney now owns Marvel AND Star Wars, they are being produced at The House of Ideas once more. But in the 1990s and early 2000s, Dark Horse Comics was the home for Star Wars sequential art. The company was founded in the 80s and … Continue reading Star Wars Dark Horse Deep Cuts – Droids: the Protocol Offensive
Disclaimer: I read these novels back in middle school (when I should have been discovering actual literature), so I'm going on memory for this entry (with some help from the friendly folks over at Wookieepedia, which is where you can go for more in-depth and un-biased information on these devices). *header image by Bill Hughes, … Continue reading Attack Rundown – The Superweapons of the Star Wars Universe Part III: The Sun Crusher
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Welcome back! Finally worked up the courage to venture out of your hidden Rebel bases, or have you simply realized there is no escape from a superweapon that can annihilate an entire star system from the other side of the galaxy? In our last installment we learned how any large starship can be used to … Continue reading Attack Rundown – The Superweapons of the Star Wars Universe Part II: Starkiller Base
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is just days away, and unless you've been watching the trailers through the lenses of a stormtrooper helmet you're probably aware that it's going to feature the Death Star. The Death Star is one of the most iconic elements of the Star Wars universe, everyone knows about it even … Continue reading Attack Rundown: The Superweapons of the Star Wars Universe – Part 1
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