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Star Wars Annual #1 (1979) - Atop the Fourth Wall

Welcome to Atop the Fourth Wall, where bad comics burn. In this Patreon-sponsored episode, Linkara checks out the first Star Wars Annual! Action Figures, Comicron One models, and other collectibles available at Storenvy: https://atop-the-fourth-wall.storenvy.com/ T-Shirts Can be found here: https://at4w-shop.fourthwall.com/ Non-AT4W Merch can be found here: https://pokequipment.storenvy.com DVDs can be found here: https://kunaki.com/MSales.asp?PublisherId=136024&PP=1 Title Card Art by J-Maner: https://linktr.ee/jmaner https://atopthefourthwall.com http://www.patreon.com/at4w Originally released August 10th, 2026 ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: May the force be with you... or the force will send out a smoke demon. #at4w #starwars

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Bryan Beyer

Yep the continue issues got weird with Star Wars. The novels were at least approved by Lucasfilm for each one and they had someone try to keep the novels not to contradict each other or the movies. The funniest aspect is after the first three movies the people who help define canon was West End Games who made the roleplaying games. They would send source books from the game to people who wrote the books. Yep Star Wars EU is nutty.

Jack Kavanagh

Ah, the EU of old. Lot of weird shit in there. What's funny is that while they were approved by Lucasfilm, George himself never considered them canon. I think he just thought they were incongruent to what he envisioned. But he at least had a sense of humor out of it, like that bit when the Robot Chicken guys visited him and he smacked Zeb Wells upside the head for mentioning Mara Jade (although I doubt Spider-Man fans will complain about it either way). That said though, I am glad that Star Wars tie-in stuff is canon. It feels weird to me to see other franchises treat their supplemental material as just...there. What's the point of making it in the first place if it's not going to be canon anyway? I feel like some stories are good enough they deserve to be canon, you know? But that's just what I think.

S G Matthews

The thing I always think about with Star Wars fandom is the 100% acceptance that Obi Wan was born on the planet Stewjon… because George Lucas said in an interview with Jon Stewart. It can’t just be a very bad joke and he was actually born on Coruscant or whatever, it has to be cannon because Lucas, a creator who famously badly needs multiple drafts and ample feedback, tossed something off without thinking.