The debate is on about whether this is the worst issue of Marvel's original Star Wars series we have read thus far! It certainly ain't good. Unless you really wanted Darth Vader depicted like a Hanna-Barbera cartoon villain, in which case it will never get better than this.

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You know what sort of stories are always the BEST in Star Wars? Droid-centric stories. You know, the ones that make us question things like the morality of artificial sentient beings and Luke Skywalker owning them. Yep. So cool.

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We're through the looking glass on this one folks, in a Star Wars story so transgressive that the author took his own name off it. Just kidding, it's a weird jumble of mixed messages and space genies, though the writer did still take his name off of it...

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But what if there was a Death Probe? We're moving beyond The Empire Strikes Back and into a bold new era that is really determined not to move too quickly. So let's start things off with a big scary space robot!

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This week we discuss the newest entry in the Star Wars franchise, The Acolyte. We talk some High Republic, the usual rigmarole about hyperbolic "fans" and how the there is so much room for different stories in a Galaxy Far, Far Away.

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We finally wrap up our coverage of the Star Wars sequel that could have been and it feels like the longest four issues we've ever covered. A lot of things happen all at once and we are left wondering... why?

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We've reached the penultimate issue of Splinter of the Mind's Eye, the Star Wars sequel that wasn't. This week we've got worms and oozes and somewhat worrying indigenous people tropes, oh my! Only one issue left... okay, we can do this.

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We're halfway through our trip down memory lane in the alternate reality where this was the sequel to the original Star Wars film. This week we talk about efficient Imperials and learn all about the Yuzzem. Don't worry kids, we've got Wookies at home!

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This week we start our coverage of the sequel that never was as we discuss the comic book adaptation of the 1978 novel of the same name. The first piece of the Expanded Universe may not necessarily be the best, let's just put it that way...

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Time to finish up our coverage of The Empire Strikes Back (at least this adaptation of it). Prepare for some harsh Comics Code editing and some weird art choices as we enter a bold new era in which the Star Wars franchise now consists of two whole movies!

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