Maybe if the ‘Star Wars’ books were adapted into fully-fledged movies or if they were all dramatised for audio, I’d be able to appreciate the stories told in prose form by various authors. 😀 That’s not always the case with the ‘Star Wars’ books since you have to picture the epic battles occurring in space in your mind.
On the contrary, I have enjoyed reading the original Thrawn trilogy and it was very fascinating to discover how the saga continued in prose form.īut there’s an epic scale about the ‘Star Wars’ films in which you can appreciate their visual glory whilst watching them on the big screen, DVD, Blu-ray and on Disney+. That’s not to say reading ‘Star Wars’ books isn’t any fun at all. I don’t know if it’s me, but I prefer watching ‘Star Wars’ as opposed to reading ‘Star Wars’. This should’ve been called ‘The C’boath Trilogy’, not ‘The Thrawn Trilogy’. Read more about the Timothy Zahn trilogy here.Please feel free to comment on my review.Ĭ’boath with Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia and Mara Jade You can see it below in all the illustrations from The Last Command, including an ultra-rare image of Darth Vader. Looking back through my West End projects, each one is a time capsule that shows steady improvement and increasing confidence, especially in the brushwork. It came to me in the midst of my best years as a comic book artist, when I was regularly inking my own work and feeling good about the results. When the third sourcebook came up, I lobbied to get in on it and was rewarded with a new assignment. I read and enjoyed all three of the Zahn books when they were new, and West End did a sourcebook for each of them. But that’s another story that doesn’t need telling. At one point I donated a whole pile of them to a friend and moved on. I kept up with a lot of the followup novels until they all started feeling samey, and were getting in the way of things I wanted to read more. To no one’s surprise, they were all bestsellers and ignited what is now called the Expanded Universe. Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and The Last Command each came out a year apart and lifted everyone’s spirits with a story that built strongly upon the films. Things changed for the better with the arrival of a new novel trilogy by Timothy Zahn in 1991. For a few years, they pretty much had the Star Wars market all to themselves (impossible to imagine today). They launched their line in 1987 and kept plugging away with help from me and several other artists. West End Games was the only source for new content. It looked like the movies were over forever, comic books had faded away, and most of the remaining products were little more than retreads. The late 80s weren’t a great time for Star Wars. Posted on Star Wars: The Last Command, 1994
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