He knows way more about the characters of that world than he does about Luke Skywalker, Han Solo or any of the Star Wars characters I grew up with. My son loves the animated Clone Wars series. Jason Aaron talked about his relationship with Star Wars: Clone Wars over here, The article of course this perspective around. And you grit your teeth as reviewer after reviewer adds twenty percent to a game's score because it's got Stormtroopers and the real Lightsabre sound effects. You scratch your head at the AintItFatFacedAmericansInTheirBasements somehow claiming the original trilogy were the high points of cinematic history, when only Empire stands up as anything more than campy high adventure and Jedi is covered in a frankly embarrassing Ewokitis. I sit in horror, watching otherwise sane-minded individuals wander out of the latest cinematic monstrosity cursing George Lucas' name only to – a handful of months later – go out and buy the DVD anyway "for the extras". Star Wars is enough to drive any fair-minded observer of popular culture insane. On learning this, I was able to send a few questions to Kieron via Marvel ahead of announcement, embargoed till this moment. I was especially intrigued because ten years ago, in an intro to a review of a Star Wars game, he wrote, Jason writing the Rebel Alliance, Kieron writing the Emperor and Darth Vader… It has just been announced at San Diego Comic Con that Kieron Gillen and Jason Aaron are the two new writers for two new Star Wars monthly titles to be published at Marvel Comics.
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