#arthur spills tea on comics

Don’t you love how these Star Wars reference books never give any credit to the comic book writers and artists who came up with this stuff originally?

It’s amazing to me that Dave Filoni gets more credit for something he didn’t make than John Ostrander and Jan Duursema get for one of strongest SW characters with one of the most sophisticated and satisfying storylines of them all.

This unevenness is one of the consequences of the frustrating and silly divide between “legends” and “canon” that I just don’t engage with on this blog. And of course, while I won’t deny that movies > TV shows > games > novels > comics in terms of budget and popularity, I will argue that that order is certainly not the case in terms of originality, imagination, or storytelling quality.

“Star Wars: The Lightsaber Collection.” October 20, 2020. Writer: Daniel Wallace. Illustrators: Lukasz Liszko and Ryan Valle.