Star Wars: Old Canon Book Club
Oct 8, 2026 · 3 hr 8 min · 15 segments
And so...at the end of the journey...was not even just Droids and Ewoks again but also ANOTHER re-telling of the first Star Wars movie?!?! At least it's gorgeous! Join Alex, Davis, and Jesse, as on…
Alex FacianeHostMichael DavisHostJesse CoxHost
It's actually the same as the cartoon, almost exactly where the Ewoks have more issues and the droids have about one half as many issues.
But in this case, droids started later and Ewoks started earlier, which is kind of interesting.
So basically how it works is there was this line of comics called Star Comics because the thing that – it's funny that you say they're for babies because one of the things that Marvel Comics was really struggling with for a really long time up until about the early 80s is that they had never really succeeded at doing kids – stuff like obviously comic books are for children in the sense that like people under the age of 18 were the main audience for all the main stuff yeah of course and so you know there's a lot of violence and punching and kicking and killing and stuff going on in those early comics and then the comics code comes in and then we have like you know comics has to like adjust and evolve and become more cerebral and intellectual and by the early 80s sandman we start to get there i
it makes a lot of sense watching when I became a comic book fan was in the mid nineties.
Uh, but to to what i was saying marvel was struggling with like the children children demographic the actual baby like like who can't who can't read that well type of kids and star comics was a very short-lived uh sort of enterprise at marvel uh where from 1984 to 1988 they started a like They had a few of their own things.
It's actually the same as the cartoon, almost exactly where the Ewoks have more issues and the droids have about one half as many issues.
But in this case, droids started later and Ewoks started earlier, which is kind of interesting.
So basically how it works is there was this line of comics called Star Comics because the thing that – it's funny that you say they're for babies because one of the things that Marvel Comics was really struggling with for a really long time up until about the early 80s is that they had never really succeeded at doing kids – stuff like obviously comic books are for children in the sense that like people under the age of 18 were the main audience for all the main stuff yeah of course and so you know there's a lot of violence and punching and kicking and killing and stuff going on in those early comics and then the comics code comes in and then we have like you know comics has to like adjust and evolve and become more cerebral and intellectual and by the early 80s sandman we start to get there i
it makes a lot of sense watching when I became a comic book fan was in the mid nineties.
Uh, but to to what i was saying marvel was struggling with like the children children demographic the actual baby like like who can't who can't read that well type of kids and star comics was a very short-lived uh sort of enterprise at marvel uh where from 1984 to 1988 they started a like They had a few of their own things.
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