We caught up with Cat Staggs after Celebration V to chat about Star Wars, why she chose to do a Tusken Raider Stormtrooper helmet and how she got started in a galaxy far, far away.
What’s your earliest memory of Star Wars?
Well…I was five and my parents took us to see it at the Cooper Theater in Denver. I got to see that Star …
Well, that was fast. Last week, we told you about Lucasfilm’s lawsuit to force Jedi Mind, Inc. to change their name and stop infringing on the Jedi IP, and now the Californian company has officially renamed itself Mind Technologies, Inc. According to the short press release announcing the change, it was made to “avoid potential …
John Jackson Miller is one of the most versatile writers in the Star Wars universe. He’s written games and comics (including the fondly received “Knights of the Old Republic” series), and will soon launch a comic book series and publish a prose novel that both star a new Jedi character a thousand years before The Phantom Menace. He’s …
Just because Gary Kurtz said George Lucas took the Star Wars franchise in a different direction after ESB because of its lucrative licensing deals doesn’t necessarily mean we’re opposed to the molded action figures of our youth. I, for one, got sucked into the original trilogy because of them. I still remember the Kenner box sets …
In honor of Star Wars Month, I volunteered to painstakingly watch all six Star Wars movies and compile a list of gadget-like devices I spot in each one. I can promise you I will miss a few and I won’t know what some of them are supposed to be called, but I’ll be damned if I don’t watch all six episodes of one of the greatest film
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With hundreds of collections – and multiple time periods and casts – to choose from, it can seem a little overwhelming to know where to start with Star Wars comics. Luckily, we’re here to help. Here’re our choices for 10 Star Wars Comics You Should Read… and in (roughly) chronological order, too!
Star Wars: Vector Vols. 1 & 2
Okay, …
It’s finally here.
A few weeks ago, the hilarious Matthew Latkiewicz, creator of Star Wars Yoga, was nice enough to give me a lesson. In New York’s Central Park, Matthew showed me how to get my midichlorians flowing while I did my best stretchy attempt to become one with the force. We even got a few recruits to join along. Enjoy.
What does Star Wars mean to me? Difficult to say. It means two very different things, depending on what point in my life you asked me.
I was born in 1978. I did not see Hope or Empire in the theaters. I did see Jedi as a five year old and worshipped it as a five year old would. Why wouldn’t I? It’s all plush freedom fighters and …
Look! Proof that the prequel trilogy wasn’t a late George Lucas cash-in (Jump to 1:27 of the first clip)!
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Oh, Harrison Ford, with your dry “It gets real confusing after awhile, doesn’t it?” and picking your nose on live …
In a galaxy far, far away in an alternate Star Wars universe, Obi-Wan failed to inform Luke that Leia was his sister. It turns out they did a little more than play tonsil hockey while Luke was recovering from the wampa abduction. Say hello to little Gree-Morr Skywalker.
P.S.- Bonnie, you may not want to watch this (again?), since …
We’re all familiar with the start of the Star Wars movies: A Long Time Ago, In A Galaxy Far, Far Away… But with all the spin-off novels, games and comics, the Star Wars saga actually starts a much longer time ago than you’d think. Like, twenty-five thousand years earlier. Oh, and it continues more than a century after the end of Return …
The first time I laid eyes on a Star Wars film, I was kicked out of the room almost instantly. I was probably nine or ten and had just come wandering in to investigate the noise our surround sound was making. I marched right in firing questions off as I watched two men poke each other with long glow sticks.
“What are you watching? Who …
