Star Wars-ing: Both Chewbaccas Will Be at Wizard World New Orleans!

For the next two weeks, most of our blogs will be about Wizard World New Orleans. The Convention is held at the Morial Convention Center on January 6,7, and 8th.  This week we will be previewing the event, and next week reviewing the event.  The two men who have portrayed Chewbacca…

Star Wars-ing: Both Chewbaccas Will Be at Wizard World New Orleans!

For the next two weeks, most of our blogs will be about Wizard World New Orleans. The Convention is held at the Morial Convention Center on January 6,7, and 8th.  This week we will be previewing the event, and next week reviewing the event.  The two men who have portrayed Chewbacca…

Star Wars-ing: Star Wars Rebels Season Three Episodes

Yes, I know I haven’t finished my Clone Wars recaps.  Nor, at the time of this writing, have we seen Rouge One.  Being adult isn’t all that fun sometimes.  However, We have been watching Rebels season three.  It is now on winter break.  Here are some thoughts on each episode.  Mild…

Star Wars-ing: Star Wars Celebration 2017 in Orlando

Star Wars hosts it’s own convention for its legions of fans called Star Wars Celebration.  Ms. Nola Nerd Couple has attended multiple Celebrations, and this will be my third.  There is no set location for Celebration however they have been most often in either the Los Angeles area or Orlando…

Star Wars-ing: Wishlist

With the holiday season fast approaching, I am going to make a list of Star Wars projects I would like to see. I don’t read much Star Wars news for fear of spoilers, so I might mention something that is happening…let me know if it is. I don’t care if…

Reading: Nerd Links for November 4-11, 2016

How Female Fans Made ‘Star Wars’ Their Own:  A great article about how female fans formed their own fan groups.  Often sci-fi fandom is wrongly considered a male dominated domain.  It truly isn’t even though there a few bad male apples that try to assert their dominance. The Strong Women of…

Star Wars-ing: Vader Down

Vader Down picks up where Star Wars and Darth Vader 12 left off.  Both comics, Star Wars and Darth Vader, tell one story in a cross over event. Luke has been guided to the planet Vrogas Vas by some information he received from reading Obi-Wan’s bio he discovered in Star Wars #7.…

Star Wars-ing: The Second Season of The Clone Wars

I was struck by how fantastic the first season of Clone Wars was.  I hated the movie that introduced the series finding it childish.  The series has proved to be deeper than most Star Wars vehicles and, in fact, more than most television shows in general. The Halocron Heist Arc…

Star Wars-ing: The Clone Wars Season 1 Episodes 17-22

  The Blue Shadow Virus (s1 E17-18): An amazingly complex idea is rendered into what I consider the first “for children” episode of the series .  The subject matter is biological warfare and that brings up a slew of questions that could elevate this The Clone Wars episode into something special…