“Fear of the Jedi” was the Marvel comic running alongside the final few bits of Phase 3, but sadly due to this it didn’t really get to do… anything. The main action on Eriadu was seen in the Adventures comics and the Trials of the Jedi book finale, leaving this to be some space dogfighting and, um, that’s about it. Still, always nice to see Keeve and Sskeer I guess?!
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Well, here we are, some four and a half years after I posted the review of Light of the Jedi we have reached the end of the High Republic… at least as it was planned out as there are clearly more stories to be told in this era (and not including the last Marvel comic story arc and the comic epilogue, I’ll review them when they’re on Marvel Unlimited…) Still, what of the Nameless, the Blight and Marchion Ro? What of the Jedi characters we’ve all come to love, like Avar Kriss, Elzar Mann, Bell and Burryaga? How about the rivalry between Porter Engle and Abediah Viess? So many questions, and to my relief, so many extremely satisfying answers! Let’s take a look…
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It’s time for our first “final” something in the High Republic range as we wrap up the Manga releases with the last two volumes. Now, I actually read these after finishing “Trials of the Jedi”, but as that’s the final book set after these I thought I’d put this up first, even though they’ll still be the final comics to review after Trials but as I’m reliant on Marvel Unlimited for those I’m not going to wait months to put these up! ANYWAY, Edge of Balance wraps up Lily’s time on Banchii and features the always fun duo of Azlin Rel and Reath Silas, the former having debuted and “turned” during this very Manga run, so it’s rather fitting really, even if his actions here don’t really line up with what happens in Trials…
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“Star Wars: The High Republic – The Edge of Balance: Premonition” (blimey, enough subtitles for you?!) is a sort of spin-off manga volume in the High Republic series rather than a Volume 3 (or 4 if you include the Phase II “Precedent” one), as it focuses solely on Yoda rather than the Edge of Balance cast (who will return in volumes 3 and 4 to finish the Manga series off). It’s good though, we get to see him take a bit more direct action and come into contact with the Nameless, as throughout most of the era he’s been a voice to council with and that’s about it (which makes sense and is fine by me as I’ve loved the original characters from this era!) So let’s take a look!
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Another May 4th went by (a while ago now, admittedly) and with it was another pack of six animated shorts that fill in continuity gaps! This time we answer “how was Asajj Ventress alive in the Bad Batch?” and then throw in “What is Cad Bane’s origin story?”, which is admittedly not a gap that needed filling in, but it was a fun 40-ish minutes so why not? Let’s take a look!
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Andor’s second and sadly final season somehow managed to keep up the momentum from its stellar first season and keep that going all the way up to connecting to the already-great Rogue One film, making for a hell of a run of stories and moving Cassian Andor way up the chain of “great Star Wars characters”. Perhaps beyond all that though is it showed masterfully how you can blend real world messages and allusions into a great fictional show without jamming it in people’s faces, no guesses as to what show I’m referring to there… Anyway, let’s take a broad look, which means yes there will be some scenes and characters I don’t mention… I don’t have all day you know…
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I’m not sure why it’s taken me a year to get round to writing the review for the second classic Battlefront game, but here we are anyway! Battlefront II was one of those sequels that improved on the original in literally every aspect and then added a whole bunch more besides. Dedicated space battles, playable heroes, the ability to actually run… you name it, they added it or improved it. That being said, what’s it like to play now in the mid 2020s? Well…
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So these two audiobooks appeared as free Audible downloads over the past few months, and while I don’t normally bother with the really young aimed material the fact they didn’t cost anything, were written by High Republic classic George Mann and the knowledge that they deal with the Drengir plot thread while the rest of the Phase III High Republic stories are obviously focused on other things I decided to give them a go. How was it? Well… it was certainly squarely aimed at the younger audience, I’ll say that much, but there was some fun to be found, especially in the second story. Let’s take a deeper look!
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“Tempest Breaker” is the latest addition to the High Republic era of Star Wars and weirdly despite being a full cast audio drama it’s actually a direct continuation of the Marvel High Republic comic series, and I mean direct continuation! After a recap we pick up where the previously released issue ended and we follow the characters from the comics (plus a couple of over-arching High Republic characters) through some pretty important scenes in the overall plot. I mean I loved it, it’s no secret I love sci-fi audio dramas and whoever cast the actors here nailed every single one, but I imagine if you’re not a fan of the genre you might be a little peeved, especially if you’re a big fan of the comics. Anyway, let’s take a look!
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Now I don’t normally read the YA novels of the High Republic, not because of some snobby turning my nose up at them thing (have you seen some of the other stuff I cover on this site?) just a lack of time thing, but given the large gap between the core adult novels and hearing that “Tears of the Nameless” has some key connections to the overall High Republic storyline I decided to dive in to the admittedly long-as-hell novel, and although there were some parts that I felt could’ve been trimmed it was overall a really good read and full of yet more enjoyable High Republic storylines new and old. Let’s take a look!
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