Poe Dameron: Flight Log

by Michael Kogge

Like many a great epic, 'Star Wars' is rooted in a rich history of armed conflict. Now, for the first time, the facts, figures and backstories of major clashes and combatants in the Star Wars universe have been documented in this volume. It combines action-filled narrative with encyclopedic knowledge.

Genres: Star Wars, Science Fiction, Childrens, Fiction, Reference

96 pages, Hardcover

First published April 12, 2016

About the author

Michael Kogge is an American screenwriter and author who has written for several Star Wars projects, including the Star Wars Adventure Journal, Star Wars Gamer magazine, Hyperspace, Star Wars Insider magazine, and the Star Wars: Edge of the Empire roleplaying game. He has also authored a series of Star Wars Rebels chapter books, adapting episodes from the show's first season.

Reviews

[Twofrontteethstillcrooked · Rating 5 out of 5]

No, really, this is darling. Much like the Rey counterpart -- Rey's Survival Guide -- there are a lot of nice little character, vehicle*, and storyline details, drawing from the movies but also other books (in this case, there are several refs to the ongoing Poe Dameron comic). As much as a like a good villain, Poe's legit on the light side of the force, a true good guy with just enough ego and self-sacrificing courage one must assume something entirely horrific will happen to him in upcoming films. :)))

I really want there to be a Finn book like this one and Rey's. Like, all the want.

*I love Lucasfilm's borderline obsession with vehicle schematics, except they seldom answer my most pressing question: where do the pilots use the bathroom?

[Nicis · Rating 3 out of 5]

A lot less interesting than Rey's Survival Guide, but again, Poe's and the Resistance plot of the ST has never been that much interesting for me (and I think we'll see him die for good in TROS?? I love Oscar Isaac but I couldn't care less about Dameron). Anyway I love the details in these little guides and all the pictures, draws and fold-outs made them a really nice collectible.

[JJ · Rating 3 out of 5]

Poe Dameron: Flight Log is another in Studio Fun International's series of quick-read, simple, but reasonably interesting Star Wars replica journals (previous ones features Ezra, Sabine, and Rey). This journal, obviously from the perspective of Poe Dameron, gives some background on his life and other adventures prior to The Force Awakens -- while summarizing parts of The Force Awakens, the book Before the Awakening, the Shattered Empire comic series, and the C-3PO one-shot comic (the one where he got a red arm).

If you've watched the movie and read these other pieces of media, there's not much new here. But if you haven't, you'll learn about Poe's parents, his early Resistance work, and a very abbreviated version of how C-3PO got the red arm that he has in The Force Awakens. For me, the only real new content was a brief look at how Poe got off Jakku -- something that's glossed over in The Force Awakens. It all fits pretty well within the other media that had been released at the time, which I appreciate, and I really wasn't expecting it to pull from so many other sources beyond the movie. (Although there is a slight contradiction about Lor Sen Tekka compared to a later-released comic book.)

Even without a lot of new material for me though, I still enjoyed Poe Dameron: Flight Log. The book is made to look like a collection of Resistance files, intercepted First Order transmissions, and recordings from Poe's audio logs. It's all visually interesting, even down to the grainy filters that are applied to movie stills (and stills from The Clone Wars TV show!) to make them look like recordings. There are also a couple pop-out sections to make it look like a hologram transmission is coming out of the book, which is cooler than I was expecting going into reading this.

Poe Dameron: Flight Log is a good one for a kid who likes Poe or just watched The Force Awakens, or another Star Wars fan who wants a quick one-sitting read that tightly sums up what we knew about Poe as of the release of The Force Awakens.

[Sarah]

this is great!
i wasn't expecting all the fold-outs. super neat!

"if there's one thing i've learned through all this, it's that trouble never rests.
but neither does poe dameron."

i liked the little bits of backstory we got on him and his family, too. they are SUCH damerons. i got a lot to live up to. i've been slacking, man, i been slackin.

i miss when the star wars sequels were fun and had potential. they did us so dirty man ;-;

most of the time they wrote BB-8 but a couple a times they put Beebee Ate or whatever and I was like why babe why why do they do this in star wars I hate it so much
bb-8
if you had do that why couldn't you put eight instead of ate

anyway a good book. i hope my cousin likes it, he's just about the right age for it. idk if he reads the books i give him. but i will not stop giving him neat books i find at salvation army until he either tells me to stop or my ploy to make him like reading is successful, lol

[Ahdom · Rating 2 out of 5]

Poe Dameron: Flight Log provides a straightforward account of the events surrounding Poe Dameron, one of the Resistance's top pilots. The book focuses on key battles and characters, presenting them in an easy-to-follow narrative. While the action is there, it’s clear that the book is geared toward a younger audience, which might make it less appealing for older fans. If you're looking for a simple introduction to Poe’s journey in the Star Wars universe, this book serves that purpose, but it may not offer the depth some readers expect.

[Bridget · Rating 3 out of 5]

Apparently this is the year I read all the Star Wars fanfic, so it's also becoming the year that I wander through old and new Star Wars related books. [Don't judge me. I have to read so many things I don't really like for work: JUST LET ME HAVE THIS FANNISH OBSESSION.] I loved all the little lifty flappy things and the super varied formats of each piece. Please give me more BB-8 everything, thanks.

[Steve Davala · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quick, easy, fun read about Poe's background and kind of what happened between his crash on Jakku and his appearance at Maz's place.

Told in snippets, dossier's, pics, interviews, logs... Fun.

But, not a lot of meat to it, and I feel like I've read this stuff before somewhere else.

[Amber · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun kids book along the lines of Rey's Survival Guide. Nothing really new, but a couple of comic references.

[Maximilian Lee · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this book because I like star wars. I also liked this book because I like droids.

[Nancy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Eh. Includes bits from the Poe comic, the Before the Awakening MG book, the Shattered Empire comic, and TFA itself. For me it was pretty bland.

[Kathleen · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was a Star Wars book, guys, of course I read it.

For all that, it's fine. It's kind of a weird combo of very young and pretty adult? It's a junior-grade retelling of some of the Poe Dameron comics and The Force Awakens, but it's also got some very detailed schematics for a lot of the things Poe flies over the course of the book. I think those are a little above the audience level the rest of the book seems to be aiming for.

For all that, it's cute. It's also got some backstory for Poe: he grew up on Yavin 4, his mother died when he was eight (no real idea as to how, although it's hinted that she died in battle), he really really really loves Leia Organa. It might be a bit young for most of my journal's audience, but I think it's adorable and I enjoyed it.

[Amanda · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is amazing! The artwork is gorgeous and the story is gripping, which it rather impressive since it follows story lines from Episode VII and the new EU for Poe, so even though I knew what was going to happen, I was still in suspense and on edge.

[Kai Charles(Fiction State Of Mind) · Rating 4 out of 5]

The title says it all in this book. It's a look at Poe Dameron's life immediately before The Force Awakens with some nice nods to the Poe Dameron comic, along with filling in some gaps like how he made it off Jakku. The fold out diagrams are great!

[Dave Kaylor · Rating 1 out of 5]

kids books aren't really my thing.