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Book Review: Marvel Comics' hardcover reissue of 'Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones'

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(C) 2016 by Marvel Comics and Lucasfilm Limited. Cover art by Mike Mayhew With the success of its 2015 hardcover re-mastered reissues of its classic Star Wars Trilogy comic adaptation, Marvel Comics decided to give the Prequel Trilogy a similar re-release the following year. Starting with the May 24 publication of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace , Marvel collected all four issues of Dark Horse Comics’ 2002 adaptation of Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones, the second installment of George Lucas’s “Tragedy of Darth Vader” saga. Written by Henry Gilroy – a screenwriter who has worked on Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels – and drawn by Jan Duursema ( Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi ), the four-issue series tells the tale of a corrupt Republic’s gradual transformation into an authoritarian dictatorship, an ambitious Jedi apprentice’s stormy relationship with his Master, and a star-crossed romance that will ultimately affect the fate of the galaxy.

'Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hollywood Follies' TV Movie review

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In 1994, a year after ABC canceled George Lucas's ambitious but expensive  The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles , Lucasfilm Limited produced a two-hour TV movie which continued the adventures of a college-age Henry Walton Jones, Jr. (Sean Patrick Flanery) before he became a professor of archaeology and a globetrotting adventurer. Written by Jonathan Hales ( Star Wars - Episode II: Attack of the Clones, The Scorpion King ) and Matthew Jacobs (T he Emperor's New Groove ),  Young Indiana Jones and the Hollywood Follies  was the first of four follow-up stories that were shown on cable's The Family Channel after its original network pulled the plug on the critically-acclaimed but very pricy "edutainment" series. Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hollywood Follies Also known as  Young Indiana Jones and the Hollywood Follies (VHS) Chapter 22: The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hollywood Follies (Disc 9, Volume Three: Years of Change) Set in 1920 Hollywood,