May 4 Be With You

I always thought the Knights of Ren were supposed to be this terrifying dark-side crew hanging in the background of the sequels, but we never really see what they can do. The funny thing is, there’s a comic that actually answers a different question instead: what happens when they run into Luke Skywalker at full …

During the Clone Wars, we learn that Maul didn’t just survive, he came back with a mission. He rebuilt himself in the shadows, gathered power, and made a clear play to get back into Darth Sidious’s orbit. And when Sidious finally tracks him down on Mandalore, Maul doesn’t even pretend otherwise. He puts it out …

In Obi-Wan Kenobi, we get a quick but disturbing look inside Fortress Inquisitorius: Jedi and younglings suspended in amber, lined up like a hidden museum of the Purge. Obi-Wan calls it a tomb, and then the episode moves on. In this article, I want to slow that down and answer one simple question: why are …

We all know the scene: Tarkin says “Fire,” Alderaan explodes, Obi-Wan feels “millions of voices” cry out… and then the story moves on. For a Core World that important, it always raises the same question for me and probably for you too: what did everyone else do when that happened? How Ordinary People Reacted When …

Luke’s jump in The Empire Strikes Back is one of those moments that can look confusing if you watch it like a normal “escape move.” He’s injured, cornered, and Vader is literally offering him a hand… and Luke chooses the drop. At first glance, it looks like Luke just gives up. But that’s not what …

Last time, we talked about the way the Empire tried to pin a fake “crime” on Jedi Master Plo Koon—claiming he attacked a Neimoidian grub-nursery near the end of the Clone Wars. It’s one of those propaganda lines that tells you everything about how the Empire operated: don’t just wipe the Jedi out, make sure …

We all grew up with farmboy Luke, then the black-clad Jedi Knight in Return of the Jedi—but Legends doesn’t leave him there. By the time he’s Grand Master of the New Jedi Order, Luke is doing things with the Force that make his movie-era self look almost grounded. In this article, I don’t want to …

A new report making the rounds this week suggests that Dave Filoni is being lined up to effectively run Star Wars once Kathleen Kennedy eventually steps down as president of Lucasfilm. The headline that kicked this off came from Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2026/01/06/new-report-says-dave-filoni-is-about-to-run-all-of-star-wars/ This isn’t just fan rumor, though. The original sourcing traces back to Puck News, …

We’ve all heard the same explanation over and over: Imperial TIE fighters don’t have shields because the Empire wanted to mass-produce them. Strip out the protection, make them cheaper and lighter, and you can flood the galaxy with more TIEs. On the surface, that sounds pretty reasonable. The more starfighters you have, the better… right? …

The first time most of us saw a double-bladed lightsaber on screen was Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace. That weapon got branded as a Sith thing almost immediately. But the design itself was never exclusive to the dark side. Over different eras, a handful of Jedi used double-bladed sabers too—usually because it changes the …

If you’ve ever seen Boba Fett in that slick, all-black “gladiator” look and wondered what the deal was, it isn’t a random alt-costume or a toy-only design. It comes straight out of Marvel’s canon comic event Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters, starting with the prelude one-shot War of the Bounty Hunters Alpha #1 …