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The 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…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Star Wars Day Brings the End of The Clone Wars and a Fresh Mandalorian Documentary

The Mandalorian, a show you might have heard about, is currently off-season, but Disney knows that the nerds are eagerly awaiting to see what the space dad and his Force-sensitive gremlin son are in for next. The next season isn’t dropping just yet, but the studio is about to invite everyone to revisit the story…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

Star Wars’ Final Clone Wars Trailer Is an Incredible, Emotional Ride

We took a long road to get here, but we’ve arrived. The beginning of Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ final end is here, and it’s a battle set to change the fate of heroes and villains alike. Disney and Lucasfilm just dropped a new TV spot for the four final episodes of The Clone Wars,…

Trailers James Whitbrook

Daisy Ridley Has Some Diplomatic Thoughts About the Backlash to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Comments about quality aside (those are for a different type of post entirely), it can be readily agreed that a lot of people really did not like Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, and it is also clear that those people were very vocal about their opinions. As an actor working on a film with…

Movies Julie Muncy

In This Exclusive Star Wars Short, It’s Droids Who Save the Galaxy

Who helped fly the X-Wings that destroyed the Death Stars and Starkiller Base? Who saved icons of the Rebellion from being smushed in a trash compactor? Who secured the map to the missing Luke Skywalker? Who knows over six million forms of communication, including bocce? That’s right: droids are the real MVPs of Star Wars,…

Movies James Whitbrook

Star Wars: The Clone Wars Drags Ahsoka Back to the Front Lines, Even If She Doesn’t Want It To

The past three episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars have seen Ahsoka Tano wrestle with her sense of identity in a time of crisis. What is she without the Jedi Order? What is the Jedi Order in a time of war? What has become of a galaxy of beings pushed to the brink? This…

io9 James Whitbrook

Star Wars‘ Ashley Eckstein Doesn’t Care for Your Clone Wars Filler Complaints

The current arc of Clone Wars’ final season has lead to some fascinating developments for Ahsoka Tano, further examining the emotional and societal ramifications of the Jedi Order’s waning relationship with the citizens they’re meant to protect. But there are some fans who just want her to jump right to lightsaber-filled, Maul-y action…and Ashley Eckstein…

io9 James Whitbrook

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker‘s Lightsabers Are Holding Some Incredible Design Secrets

A lightsaber is a part of a Jedi, a defining tool that reflects their personality, their goals, their needs. It turns out, this is just as true of the prop lightsabers designed by Lucasfilm as it is for their in-universe depictions. Recently, StarWars.com posted an article about the behind-the-scenes details of some of the lightsaber…

Movies Julie Muncy

Meet the Almost Excruciatingly Wholesome Jedi of Star Wars‘ High Republic

When the next era of Star Wars publishing begins with the “High Republic” initiative, we’re going to an unseen period of the galaxy far, far away, to a time when the Jedi were at the apex of their power. That means we’re going to need to get to know a few new Star Wars faces…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Which Baby Yoda Toy Is Right for You?

The world was so different last November. People were shaking hands, going to the movies, and there were zero toys of The Mandalorian’s Baby Yoda. Of course, it’s a whole new world now. There are lots of Baby Yoda toys, and while only the first few have begun to make their way home (the covid-19…

Toys & Collectibles Germain Lussier

Clone Wars Teaches Ahsoka the True Gulf Between the Jedi and the People They’re Meant to Protect

One of the overarching complaints that the Star Wars prequels always put into question was how the average citizen of the galaxy could so quickly believe that the Jedi could turn on the Republic. This week’s Clone Wars episode shows us just how easy it was for people to do so, and how Ahsoka might…

io9 James Whitbrook

The Essential Clone Wars Stories Every Star Wars Fan Should Watch

Star Wars: The Clone Wars is back in our lives for one last time, with its seventh season now airing on Disney+. Maybe you dismissed it when it first aired because it’s “just” a cartoon, maybe you just never got around to watching, but either way, you’ve missed out on one of the greatest pieces…

io9 James Whitbrook

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Our Fascination With Canon Is Killing the Way We Value Stories

As the pop culture we love becomes increasingly dominated by vast franchises of interconnected worlds and stories, so does it become dominated by one, singular question from diehard fans: Is the thing we’re about to consume canon to everything else we’ve consumed before? It’s an attitude that’s turning our love of stories into some bizarre,…

Movies James Whitbrook

Riverdale’s Sam Witwer on That Infamous Scene: ‘I Read the Script and Laughed’

Riverdale’s given us so many batshit scenes over the past four seasons that our list of WTF moments couldn’t possibly include them all. One of the weirdest from season four featured Jughead’s teacher Mr. Chipping (played by Sam Witwer) jumping out of a window, seemingly for no reason. The actor playing him was just as…

Books & Comics Beth Elderkin

The Rise of Skywalker Could’ve Given Us a Giant Tank Shaped Like BB-8

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker already had so much going on, but our exclusive look at some of the concept art behind making it reveals the film could’ve had even more, including something truly delightful. Three words, my friends: BB-8. Battle. Tank. This wonderful reveal is part of io9’s exclusive look inside Phil Szostak’s…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

BB-8 Is the Only Hero Anyone Needs in the Newest Star Wars: Galaxy of Adventures Short

Who saved the day this time? It was BB-8. It’s always BB-8. The newest short in the endlessly charming Star Wars: Galaxy of Adventures series of animations makes the argument that BB-8 is low key the MVP of the new Star Wars trilogy. His dashing heroics and stunning good looks get the organics out of…

Movies Julie Muncy

Let’s Dive Into Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga’s 27-Disc Box Set

This is the one with Maclunkey. For decades, Star Wars fans have been collecting new versions of Star Wars trilogies on all physical media formats. VHS, laserdisc, DVD, Blu-ray, THX editions, Special Editions, Complete Sagas—you name it and fans have bought it. There are probably a dozen different versions of Star Wars out there on…

Movies Germain Lussier

The Mandalorian to Add Aliens and Terminator Star Michael Biehn

Michael Biehn. Star Wars. It kind of fits, right? The actor has already appeared in two of the best sci-fi series of all-time—The Terminator and Aliens—so what better way to complete a sci-fi trifecta of sorts than with The Mandalorian? Making Star Wars reports, and Hollywood Reporter confirms, that Biehn is part of The Mandalorian…

io9 Germain Lussier

This Animated Princess Leia Star Wars Short Is Just Pure Joy

Though the first two Star Wars trilogies were primarily Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader’s stories, the sequel trilogy made it very clear Leia Organa is right up there with them. Oh, sure. In the original trilogy, Leia didn’t have quite the arc that her brother or father did. And the sequel trilogy is obviously Rey’s…

Movies Germain Lussier

The Mandalorian Has Picked Rosario Dawson to Play Ahsoka Tano

A potentially huge piece of Star Wars news is out there to end this terrible week which almost feels too good to be true. However, turns out it probably is. Slashfilm reported that actress Rosario Dawson has been cast in season two ofThe Mandalorian, which io9 heard from a source as well. Its story continues,…

io9 Germain Lussier

The Best Star Wars Reads of the Disney Era

Star Wars Day Brings the End of The Clone Wars and a Fresh Mandalorian Documentary

Star Wars’ Final Clone Wars Trailer Is an Incredible, Emotional Ride

Daisy Ridley Has Some Diplomatic Thoughts About the Backlash to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

In This Exclusive Star Wars Short, It’s Droids Who Save the Galaxy

Star Wars: The Clone Wars Drags Ahsoka Back to the Front Lines, Even If She Doesn’t Want It To

Star Wars‘ Ashley Eckstein Doesn’t Care for Your Clone Wars Filler Complaints

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker‘s Lightsabers Are Holding Some Incredible Design Secrets

Meet the Almost Excruciatingly Wholesome Jedi of Star Wars‘ High Republic

Which Baby Yoda Toy Is Right for You?

Clone Wars Teaches Ahsoka the True Gulf Between the Jedi and the People They’re Meant to Protect

The Essential Clone Wars Stories Every Star Wars Fan Should Watch

Our Fascination With Canon Is Killing the Way We Value Stories

Riverdale’s Sam Witwer on That Infamous Scene: ‘I Read the Script and Laughed’

The Rise of Skywalker Could’ve Given Us a Giant Tank Shaped Like BB-8

BB-8 Is the Only Hero Anyone Needs in the Newest Star Wars: Galaxy of Adventures Short

Let’s Dive Into Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga’s 27-Disc Box Set

The Mandalorian to Add Aliens and Terminator Star Michael Biehn

This Animated Princess Leia Star Wars Short Is Just Pure Joy

The Mandalorian Has Picked Rosario Dawson to Play Ahsoka Tano

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