Tales of the Jedi
Tales of the Jedi I learned of the Dark Horse comic series The Tales of the Jedi in high school. I have enjoyed the Star Wars movies ever since I was young; even saw the original release of Return of the Jedi in the theater. Star Wars was a large part of how we played growing up, many of us had figurines and vehicles, we’d pretend to fly speeder-bikes while riding our bicycles, and who hasn’t picked the cardboard core of used wrapping paper and used it as a lightsaber? I liked the lightsaber wielding characters but the free spirited untethered to explore the galaxy Han Solo was my favorite. Why did I like Star Wars? All the things kids grew up with are kind of captured in Star Wars, I think of things like medieval knights. When Tales of the Jedi came out it was over a decade since Return of the Jedi was released. There was talk that George Lucas planned prequels and sequels, and fans were waiting. Splinter of the Minds Eye, Heir to the Empire, and the Jedi Academy books, the later i