I know. Jedi have always been cool, but my favorite aspect of Star Wars has always been more in the dog fights, military stuff, and the world of crime and smugglers. The common people who are trying to survive and or fight for what they believe in in a cold and unjust galaxy that puts very little value on life. I remember how annoyed I was when Dark Forces 2 became Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight. That was the beginning of a long trend of giving everyone a lightsaber. It reminds me of when I was a little kid and me and my friends would be playing Star Wars and everyone wanted to be Luke so they could use the force and have a lightsaber. I don't know how many times I heard kids compromise by saying, okay, I'll be Han, but I still get to use the force and have a lightsaber. There is so much more to Star Wars than the Jedi and the force, unfortunately with the PT era we are now perpetually stuck in, EVERY hero has got to be a Jedi.

When I was a kid Wedge was always my absolute favorite character, and I never had to fight with the other kids in order to be him. That is also why I liked Dark Forces and Kyle Katarn so much, as well as Shadows of the Empire and Dash Render. Whatever bad things you can say about SOTE, I still find it 100% more Star Wars esque than the PT or anything I see on the shelfs or in advertisements today.

I also really liked the Boba Fett comics. I didn't feel they really fit all that well with the Boba Fett from the trilogy, but I enjoy seeing Fett placed in kind of an anti-hero Batman-like (costumed detective work with a lot of cool gagets) mercenary who solved mysteries and collected bounties. They too opened up a door to that part of the SW galaxy I really loved. The Dark Horse Droids comic were among my favorites as well, simply because they reached out into a part of the SW galaxy that was completely unfamiliar and had nothing to do with what we'd seen in the movies other than the fact they were told through the eyes of two very familiar characters.