Jedi Academy: The Phantom Bully (Jedi Academy #3) (Family Comic Friday)

  Padawan Roan Sanchez is about to begin his final year of schooling at the Jedi Academy Middle School. Before the year is out, he will have to complete the obstacle course, labyrinth, and one-on-one training with everybody's favorite Jedi Master, Mr. Garfield- OR he'll have to repeat the entire grade over! It's going to be hard with Roan being targeted by a mysterious foe who's sabotaging him at every turn.

   The Phantom Bully marks the conclusion to the Sanchez Trilogy but not the end to the Jedi Academy series. A new class, along with a new writer, is set to hit bookshelves in July. I'm looking forward to it but I really don't want Roan's story to end. Maybe the Jedi-in-training will return to encourage the new students of Jedi Academy. 

   But, one thing strikes me a little eerie about this series- does it bother any of you that most of the students attending Jedi Academy will either die at the hands of the clone troopers, following the Emperor's command of Order 66, or be betrayed by Anakin Skywalker, when he becomes Darth Vader? So maybe it is a good thing Roan and friends have moved on...

    Jeffrey Brown is such a talent in the Star Wars universe. His Darth Vader and Friends books are hysterical and he does a great job in making Jedi Academy both fanciful and relatable for kids. No matter what happens to the characters of the Jedi Academy series, I hope this volume isn't the end of Brown's time in a galaxy far, far away...

   Worth Consuming

   Rating: 9 out of 10 stars.