Look, I am not condoning Darth Vader’s behavior in The Empire Strikes Back – force-choking your colleagues is not cool. In fact, if I were Emperor Palpatine, I would have considered making Vader do ...

The most die-hard Star Wars fans often credit Admiral Kendal Ozzel (Michael Sheard) with ruining basically everything for the Empire, enough that there are even theories that he was actually a Rebel ...

Most Impressive: Vader emerges from the carbonite chamber to face Luke. “The Force is with you, young Skywalker, but you are not a Jedi yet” [in The Empire Strikes Back ]. Why The Force Is Strong With ...

Over the weekend I went to see the 40th-anniversary re-release of Return of the Jedi (released a month before its actual anniversary for some reason). It’s weird because it seems like a movie I’ve ...

The late Michael Sheard didn't have much screen time in the Star Wars universe, but his small role has become the subject of a fascinating fan theory in the decades since. Popping up in 1980's The ...

You can’t swing a dead womprat on a Star Destroyer without hitting a terminated Imperial officer, Force-choked to death by Darth Vader for some failure or another. But who deserved their termination ...

Former Jedi Master Archivist Jocasta Nu has returned to Coruscant in search of an important entry in the Jedi Archives. Despite her best efforts, her arrival does not go unnoticed by the forces of the ...

Darth Vader is fearsome. Darth Vader is tragic. But also? Darth Vader is the sassiest Sith lord around. From the Star Wars movies to the current comic, Vader is capable of pulling out fantastic ...

Imagine, if you will, an avalanche. As it blunders down a hill, virtually anything in its path is in enormous danger and will likely be wholly destroyed. Star Wars: Darth Vader #20 posits the idea of ...

Kenneth Colley, the British actor who appeared in seven features for director Ken Russell and portrayed the Darth Vader underling Admiral Piett in the Star Wars films The Empire Strikes Back and ...