Mallory Ortberg brings Ayn Rand jokes to her first Star Wars story.

To say that Mallory Ortberg is funny is an understatement.

So, of course, Ortberg would bring her unique sensibility to an official Star Wars story.

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The articles Ortberg wrote before she did officialStar Warswork also leaned in to the extremity of the characters situations.

Han Solo eventually talked him down from the dark side.

As a fan of the EU, Ortberg had her own ideas about this story.

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Durron, Ortberg said,was a war criminalwho should not have been put back in Luke Skywalkers custody.

This is, obviously, one of those places where reference does not constitute endorsement.

Mothmas voice, rich with sorrow and gravitas, might be hard to translate to prose, Ortberg suggested.

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I pointed out some more of my favorites, including Ortbergs, inDen of Geeks review.

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