Hasbro Star Wars Legacy Comic 2-Pack Dark Horse Heir to the Empire #1: Review
In 1991, Bantam Spectra Books and Lucasfilm Limited joined forces to re-launch the dormant Star Wars franchise with the publication of Timothy Zahn's Star Wars: Heir to the Empire , the first volume of a three-book cycle known as The Thrawn Trilogy . Eight years had passed since the theatrical run of Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi, and only a few Lando Calrissian novels, a moribund Marvel Comics series and a West End Games role-playing game were "keeping the flame" for fans who wondered when - or if - Star Wars creator George Lucas would complete the long-rumored nine-part saga made up of three Trilogies - the Classic, the Prequels and a Sequel Trilogy set decades after Return of the Jedi. Heir to the Empire, which is set five years after the climactic events of Episode VI, not only updated readers on how the lives of Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, Chewbacca,...