It’s been almost a year since I last considered my personal canon. In that time, I tried being a SW '77 purist, but that didn’t work out for me. I then tried smothering my vestigial love for all things Star Wars and any personal canon with it, but that didn’t work out, either. Since then, my love and hatred for Star Wars has reached equilibrium, and now I believe I’ve settled upon a definitive personal canon.
This isn’t a canon of compatible works all forming a single, cohesive universe. This is a canon of dissimilar, often incompatible stories which I happen to enjoy, pure and simple.
- Tales of the Jedi
- TCW: “Overlords”
- TCW: “Altar of Mortis”
- TCW: “Ghosts of Mortis”
- Star Wars (theatrical version)
- The Star Wars radio drama
- The Empire Strikes Back (theatrical version)
- The original Marvel SW comic (#1-80)
- The Archie Goodwin/Al Williamson SW comic strip
- The Alan Moore SW comics
- Dark Forces: Soldier for the Empire
- Dark Forces: Rebel Agent
- Dark Forces: Jedi Knight
- Mara Jade: By the Emperor’s Hand
- Heir to the Empire
- Dark Force Rising
- The Last Command
- Dark Empire
- I, Jedi
- Ambush at Corellia
- Assault at Selonia
- Showdown at Centerpoint
- Specter of the Past
- Vision of the Future
Updating to add “George R. Binks” and the Power Converters Robot Chicken skit.
Ah yes, the two most essential elements of the Star Wars saga.
Two classics revolving around lust, contempt, and despair. If that isn’t quintessential Star Wars, I don’t know what is.