The Book of Boba Fett’s first chapter has a lot of blank pages
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The Book of Boba Fett finally is giving its titular character the spotlight.
The fan-favorite bounty hunter has long lurked in the margins of Star Wars’ history: his brief introduction in an animated short during the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special; and his rocketing to popularity thanks to his iconic armor (practically designed to sell action figures) despite his brief appearances in _The Empire Strikes Back_and Return of the Jedi, his shoehorned backstory in Attack of the Clones, and a half-baked arc in The Clone Wars. For all that, Fett himself has been an enigma, a blank slate of badassery that’s never been filled in.
Fett has spend decades as a blank slate of badassery
But after years of rumorsof a solo film, an aborted history...