Star Wars Goes Manga: A Fresh Look

Poking around, I noticed an article on the Star Wars official site taking a look at the manga adaptations of the "Imperial Trilogy," then kept noticing links to it on various comics and manga weblogs that I follow. I suppose I might even have hoped there would be a piece like it when I first heard about the official site running articles about "Star Wars in Japan" in advance of the official convention there later this year. When I first heard about the manga adaptations basically a decade ago, the combination definitely got my attention; at that point, I was already a reasonably seasoned veteran of my university's anime club, if still very aware of the titles I hadn't seen but which seemed to be part of some general "fandom consensus" ...nowadays, while I still haven't seen some of those titles, I don't quite seem bothered about that. Maybe it's a case of not reading as much fanfiction as I used to... I eventually found the Star Wars manga version not that long after getting the news (for example, there are still two impresssed period reviews around from a long-defunct if still online "anime webzine"), but did have to snap out of my general "maybe if I actually experience Star Wars again for myself, I'll finally be offended just like everyone else" funk before I managed to pick up the Return of the Jedi and The Empire Strikes Back adaptations, in that order.
( Some particulars of the article... and my reactions )