Clone Wars

Screenshot: LucasfilmThe Bad Batch, is ready to come back, and now the team behind Star Wars’ Clone Wars spinoff has a new mission: fight back against the Empire instead of merely survive it.Lucasfilm has dropped a new trailer for the second season of the spiritual Clone Wars sequel, set during the early years post-Revenge of the Sith. As the galaxy adapts to the rule of Emperor Palpatine, our titular heroes—a band of genetically-enhanced former Clone Commandos, all voiced by Clone Wars stalwart Dee Bradley Baker—and…

The Columbia Republic Parka’s outer shell is waterproof but breathable, so you’re less likely to end up sweaty after winter activities. That said, the combination of the company’s 650 ll insulation and thermal reflective lining on the inside is still going to keep you very toasty and feeling like you’re on Mustafar when you’re really on Hoth. The hood is lined with a faux fur trim that can be unzipped and removed, while the outside is covered in countless pockets for stashing gloves, thermal detonators, and lightsabers.…

Young Count Dooku in Tales of the Jedi.Image: LucasfilmIf you’re a Star Wars fan, talking to legendary voice actor Corey Burton can be a little scary. After all, on The Clone Wars, Burton was the voice of villainous Sith Lord Count Dooku, as well as vicious bounty hunter Cad Bane. Neither character is someone you’d like to meet in a dark alley. (Or bright street for that matter.) This year, Burton reprised both roles to great effect: Bane for The Book of Boba Fett, and now Dooku in Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi. io9spoke…

Ahsoka is back. Image: LucasfilmAbout a decade ago, everyone was sure Ahsoka Tano was dead. Dead both on screen, with her show The Clone Wars all but canceled, and off-screen, because how could another Force user still be alive in the world of Star Wars? Things have certainly changed. Not only did Ahsoka come back for more Clone Wars episodes, but she was also back on another animated show, Star Wars Rebels, and has been at the center of novels, comics, and even the world of live-action, with appearances on The…

Screenshot: Z-Man GamesGame companies Asmodee and Z-Man Games have announced that they are going to be collaborating to create Star Wars: The Clone Wars – A Pandemic System Game. An incredibly popular, collaborative game, Pandemic is a great base system, and adding a Star Wars skin (especially when it has cool figurines like Darth Maul) seems like a perfect combination. The game combines a constantly-growing game tension with big events, really reflecting the slow-burnwartime fears that The Clone Wars show did so…

Screenshot: LucasfilmWhether you loved the Obi-Wan Kenobi TV series or it left you feeling disconnected from the Force of the Star Wars franchise, it’s interesting to think about the show we might have gotten. While we heard earlier this week that the show planned to kill off the villain Reva, and that the initial plan was to make a trilogy of Obi-Wan movies, now writer-producer Stuart Beattie has revealed some more of the earliest plans for the project, and they range from “Oh, cool!” to “You have got to be shitting…

Obi-Wan looks upon a familiar face.Screenshot: LucasfilmStar Wars, on many levels, exists in series of parallels and couplets—a cycle of the rise and defeat of darkness, the fall and rebirth of light, an echo of a story told over and over across generations of families and civilizations. “It’s like poetry, they rhyme,” George Lucas says in the Phantom Menace documentary The Beginning,a statement that may be a meme now but remains one of the truest things ever said about the galaxy far, far away.But what happens when Star…

“Wait a minute, how did this happen? We’re smarter than this.”Screenshot: LucasfilmObi-Wan Kenobi is—was—a Jedi. A General of the Clone War. A warrior monk of such skill, such balance, such understanding of his form both spiritual and physical that he could sit atop the Jedi Order’s ranks as a Master of its Council. And here he is, stuffing a child under a trenchcoat on a wing and a prayer, and I’m loving every second of it.Obi-Wan and his new ally Tala’s flight from Fortress Inquisitorius at the climax of last week’s…

Image: LucasfilmPart of the fun of Star Wars can be seeing well-known actors suddenly show up in one of its many movies or shows. Maybe they’re there as important characters, like we got with Sam Jackson or Ming-Na Wen, maybe they’re there as “wait, they’re in this?” cameos, like Zach Braff or Forest Whitaker. Either way, it’s always delightful when these stars pop up for to be the new “Glup Shitto” for a bit. Surprisingly, one cameo we could’ve gotten would’ve been for what would’ve been a big player during the…

Screenshot: LucasfilmStar Wars diehard or Star Wars newbie, if you’re a fan of the galaxy far, far away, you probably have a favorite character that isn’t one of the major heroes or villains, or even one of the myriad supporting stars. Just, you know: that cool background character who maybe shows up for a glimpse, or a tie-in media character who rarely escapes their medium and you go, “oh! it’s them!”That’s your Glup Shitto. And Star Wars probably knows a bit too well now that you have one.Glup Shitto isn’t an official…