May The Fourth Be With You

May 4 has become an unofficial nerd holiday for Star Wars fans as Star Wars Day — since “May the Fourth be with you” and “May the Force be with you” do sound nicely alike, after all. Writer John Jackson Miller is just one of many guys who digs that galaxy far, far away, and he’s going way, way back in it for his new five-issue Dark Horse Comics series Star Wars: The Lost Tribe of the Sith , launching Aug. 8. The comic removes three aspects that are some of the most essential of the Star Wars films — technology, starships and Jedi knights — and focuses on the Tribe, an ancient group of Sith believers stranded on a remote planet for 5,000 years. (The Sith, by the way, tap into the dark side of the Force.)/ Brian Truitt , USA Today. More here. (AP photo: Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker and the character Yoda appear in this scene from “Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back”)

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