Princess Leia finally gets her X-Wing license thanks to Dark
Horse's new Star Wars comic  It's an injustice as grave as
Chewbacca not receiving a medal at the end of Star Wars: A New
Hope — Princess Leia, leader of the Rebellion, ace-shot with a
blaster, and all-around kick-ass heroine never got to fly
starships with the boys. Well, thanks to writer Brian Wood, Leia
finally gets her chance in the pilot's seat in Dark Horse's
upcoming Star Wars #1, due out on January 9. Says Wood (courtesy
of Newsarama):  Leia spends a LOT of time in an X-Wing here, as
a pilot equal in stature to Wedge and Luke, and close in skill.
If there's anything "controversial" in what people already know
about my story, it's this idea that Leia is a fighter pilot.
That she ISN'T one, actually, since we've never seen her doing
it.  I simply applied logic to the situation: If we, here, learn
to drive at age 16, why wouldn't someone in Star Wars learn how
to fly as a coming of age thing? Luke did, as a farm boy. Wedge
did, working his pare