Kanan: The Last Padawan #2 preview online

StarWars.com has been updated with a preview of Kanan: The Last Padawan #2, which goes on sale on May 6: A particularly nice touch is the reference to the “Fives” arc from The Clone Wars: The Lost Missions. It looks to be another superb issue.

Marvel’s plans for Star Wars

Some exciting hints of what’s to come in Marvel’s Star Wars comic titles were dropped at Celebration Anaheim. Firstly, regarding the flagship Star Wars title, Boba Fett will catch up with Luke in issue #6. If you recall, in Darth Vader #1, Vader sent Fett on a mission to track down the Rebel pilot who…

A look at Marvel’s Star Wars titles

This is it. With Star Wars: Rebels currently airing, Star Wars: Tarkin hitting shelves next week and Star Wars: Episode VII wrapping production, we’re now entering the phase where the floodgates of Star Wars goodies are about to crack wide open. It seems that, with one Star Wars film being released each year for the…

Who is Max von Sydow playing in Episode VII?

Do we already know more than we realised about one of the key characters from Episode VII? In recent times, Max von Sydow has been rumoured to be playing the character explored in these concept sketches: To expand on the rumour, which surfaced prior to the concept art leak, his role is similar in many…

Dave Filoni talks Rebels, canon and Kanan

There’s a great interview with Dave Filoni that’s just been posted to IGN. Here are some salient quotes: Not to say that we would do this right, but I could see a scene far down the road where the Rebel [fleet] amasses near Sullust, and who knows if [the Ghost crew] were there or not? They…

Four new Rebels videos

The Star Wars YouTube channel has updated with four new Rebels videos: two are featurettes and two are clips from upcoming episodes. Prepare to be dazzled…

Rebels spoilers ahoy!

Making Star Wars have posted an outline of the premier episode of Rebels, and it sounds superb. I won’t post any major spoilers here, but I will make a few comments about the overall story. Firstly, it really does seem to harken back to Star Wars: A New Hope, where the Jedi and the Force…

New clip shows Rebels’ Ghost crew freeing Wookiees!

Below is a new Star Wars Weekends video, the tail-end of which features a new clip from Rebels. In the Rebels trailer we saw Kanan take on some Imperials (including Kallus) who were holding a group of Wookiees (presumably as slaves). Here we see more from that scene as the Ghost crew free the Wookiees from captivity:

Rumour: Rebels character name revealed?

Originating on the forums of JediDefender.com comes this brief glimpse into Star Wars: Rebels… or not, depending on your point of view. Apparently a Hasbro customer service page included the following list:   The above image originally appeared in the forum post; now it lingers instead in Google Images. In any case, the list is…