Big enough umbrella - The Force remains strong after 30 years

Matthew L. Price is an entertainment writer for a major Oklahoma newspaper. He also owns the Eisner-Award-nominated Speeding Bullet Comics with his wife, Annette.

He posts almost every day to Nerdage, a newsok.com blog about comic books, video games, action figures and geek culture.

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The Force remains strong after 30 years A long time ago (30 years, to be exact), in a galaxy not so far away, viewers were introduced to “Star Wars,” the motion picture that became a phenomenon that has influenced pop culture for two generations.Author J. W. Rinzler, who wrote the new “The Making of Star Wars” book, said the difficulty of what “Star Wars” creator George Lucas accomplished with his film may not be understood completely by modern viewers.