Last 12 months launched a transition of types for Marvel’s Star Wars publishing output in 2024 and past, with an ongoing series titled Jedi Knights taking readers again to the prequel era of the Star Wars timeline in 2025, whereas the explosive Battle of Jakku event miniseries marked the transfer from the Civil War (authentic trilogy) era to the barely extra peaceable instances of the early New Republic. Now, we have discovered that Marvel’s most important Star Wars series will proceed in May.
As standard, the refreshed series will start with a gentle relaunch to assist onboard new informal readers, whereas additionally serving diehard Star Wars followers who’re interested by the pre-The Mandalorian occasions in this new age of peace and prosperity for the galaxy, lengthy earlier than Thrawn‘s return and the rise of the First Order a long time later.
Marvel’s Star Wars Issue #1 hits on May 7 and is already out there for pre-order based on the official Star Wars website. You can discover each the first cowl and Leinil Francis Yu’s variant – that includes bounty hunter Beilert Valance – beneath:
The comic will likely be written by LA Times Book Prize winner Alex Segura (Star Wars: Battle of Jaku miniseries, Spider-Society), with the cowl and inside artwork dealt with as soon as once more by Phil Noto (Ahsoka, The Rise of Skywalker adaptation).
“Alex is an amazing writer and has come up with some great storylines and new characters for this series… It’s also been exciting to draw the classic characters in the post-Return of the Jedi era because there’s no existing film or TV versions of them,” stated Noto.
Indeed, this very early New Republic interval hasn’t been proven in movie or TV, and regardless of some main efforts in novels and video games, there are many gaps in the timeline that must be stuffed.
As the huge New Republic era continues to be explored additional down the ever-expanding in-universe chronology with The Mandalorian & Grogu and exhibits like Skeleton Crew and Ahsoka, we now have to marvel when and the way Marvel’s comic books will run into the key characters and occasions from these on-screen installments. Perhaps we’ll lastly see Luke Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano‘s awkward first assembly!
