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Review: Star Wars #1 (2015)

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A long time ago (about two years), in a galaxy that's as close as you can get... It was a period of nerd unrest. After being purchased by DISNEY, the entire expanded universe of STAR WARS was declared non-canon by the new story-group at LUCASFILM. The only pre-Disney Star Wars that would be considered canon were the six theatrical films, and the CLONE WARS television series (the cgi one). From this point on, anything released, whether movies, comics, games, etc. would be considered canon with the STAR WARS movies. Despite Lucasfilm's rather sound reasons for making this decision and assuring fans that many of the elements from those other stories could be brought back, the Internet was enraged (but then again, when isn't it?). Due to it also being owned by Disney, all responsibilities to future Star Wars comics went to MARVEL. Multiple series have been made since, including character focused ones such as Darth Vader, Princess Leia, Poe Dameron, and C-3P0 (I

Missed Potential: Descendants

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Welcome  to the first article in my new series, Missed Potential. For today's title, we're taking a look  at something that, while I do kind of like it, I hesitate to say it's great. In 2015, Disney Channel premiered it's highly promoted film, Descendants. A movie about the children of Disney villains learning to be good. Since it's premiere it's received its fair share of both love and hate from viewers, gaining and average 6.4/10 on IMDB  even though the most frequent rating on the same site was 10/10. It's been getting a lot of stuff even after premiering, including a series of animated shorts, some novels from a bestselling author, and even an upcoming sequel. When I first heard about this movie, I was all on board for it. Unlike a lot of people on the Internet, I don't hate Disney Channel movies. I haven't seen all of them, but I actually enjoyed titles like Let it Shine  or Geek Charming . But what I really liked about the premise to D