Welcome to Harlequin Station

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 Harlequin Station is named for the XQ1 platform from X-Wing Alliance, my favorite Star Wars video game. I've been reading Star Wars comics and novels almost my whole life, and always wanted to start a blog on it to document them as I go. So here it is. There will not be any particular order to things, but I do read all of the new Marvel comics as they come out. I've also read probably 90 percent of Dark Horse's Star Wars comics and I love to revisit them from time to time. The novels I keep up with as well, as of this writing I'm currently a bit into Phasma, so I have a little catching up to do, what with Leia: Princess of Alderaan, The Legends of Luke Skywalker, and the two young adult Join the Resistance books to get around to as well.


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