Comics With Kenobi

Two comics yet four stories -- five if you count the excerpt of Alphabet Squadron -- and numerous new characters along with some familiar faces, too, in the pages of Star Wars: Age of Rebellion -- Special and the start of the new TIE Fighter mini series.This week's episode sparks a lively debate about how serious a Star Wars story should be and whether the Saga as a whole glosses over the loss of life that is the conflict between the Empire and Rebellion.This week's Star Wars comics, out April 24, include:Star Wars: Vader -- Dark Visions #3Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge #1Doctor Aphra #31Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: Empire, Vol. 5 (Collects 1994's Star Wars: Droids #1-6 and Special, 1995's Star Wars: Droids #1-8, Star Wars: The Protocol Offensive #1 and material from Star Wars Galaxy Magazine #1 and Star Wars Tales #16 and #20)Stay in touch and up to date by following us on Twitter and Facebook.Like what you hear? Go to iTunes and leave us a rating and review. Subscribe to all of the Coffee With Kenobi networ

We're through Star Wars Celebration Chicago and into the start of the Age of Rebellion Star Wars comics, with the first two issues focusing on Princess Leia and Grand Moff Tarkin. Join us as we discuss news from Celebration, including the new Target Vader mini series featuring Valance the Hunter, as well as plot synopses of this summer's Age of Resistance maxi from Tom Taylor, along with the "official" reveal that Greg Pak and Phil Noto are taking over the flagship Star Wars monthly.This week's Star Wars comics, out April 17, include:Star Wars: Age of Rebellion -- Special #1Star Wars: TIE Fighter #1Star WarsAdventures #20Tales From Vader's Castle Digest (Collects issues #1-5)Stay in touch and up to date by following us on Twitter and Facebook.Like what you hear? Go to iTunes and leave us a rating and review. Subscribe to all of the Coffee With Kenobi network podcasts, including Lattes With Leia, Legends Library, Looking for Lucasfilm, Coffee With Kenobi, Resistance Reactions and Rebels Reactions.

We've got a great conversation with artist Will Sliney, whose tenure on the just-completed Solo: A Star Wars Story adaptation allowed him to flex not just his creativity, but his love for Star Wars, which is fitting, given issue #7 is among the two issues we're discussing this episode.The second title, Star Wars #64, was a thrilling ride, setting the line for when devotion becomes fanaticism, then moving it.This week's Star Wars comics, out April 10, include:Star Wars: Age of Rebellion -- Princess Leia #1Star Wars: Age of Rebellion -- Grand Moff Tarkin #1Star Wars, Vol. 10, "The Escape" (Collects issues #56-61)Tales From Vader's Castle Box Set (Collects issues #1-5)Stay in touch and up to date by following us on Twitter and Facebook.Like what you hear? Go to iTunes and leave us a rating and review. Subscribe to all of the Coffee With Kenobi network podcasts, including Lattes With Leia, Legends Library, Looking for Lucasfilm, Coffee With Kenobi, Resistance Reactions and Rebels Reactions.

Be warned, spoilers abound for Star Wars comics to come, including the flagship Star Wars monthly post-Kieron Gillen and the upcoming Star Wars -- Age of Resistance maxi series. They're in the news section of the show, so proceed with some trepidation.Once you've done that, stay for the vibrant discussion about Doctor Aphra #30 and the absolutely mindblowing Star Wars: Vader -- Dark Visions #2. You'll be glad you did.This week's Star Wars comics, out April 3, include:Star Wars #64Solo: A Star Wars Story #7Stay in touch and up to date by following us on Twitter and Facebook.Like what you hear? Go to iTunes and leave us a rating and review. Subscribe to all of the Coffee With Kenobi network podcasts, including Lattes With Leia, Legends Library, Looking for Lucasfilm, Coffee With Kenobi, Resistance Reactions and Rebels Reactions.

The tension is building in Star Wars #63 while Solo: A Star Wars Story adaptation #6 offers some new material, along with some stunning art, as we discuss the two comics in this week's episode.We also break down Star Wars comics plans for next month's Star Wars Celebration Chicago, including Charles Soule's admonition that no one miss the Lucasfilm Publishing writer's roundtable on Monday, April 15. (He was quite adamant that you not miss it.)This week's Star Wars comics, out March 27, include:Doctor Aphra #30Vader: Dark Visions #2Star Wars Adventures #19Solo: A Star Wars Story Adaption Graphic Novel (IDW Publishing)Stay in touch and up to date by following us on Twitter and Facebook.Like what you hear? Go to iTunes and leave us a rating and review. Subscribe to all of the Coffee With Kenobi network podcasts, including Lattes With Leia, Legends Library, Looking for Lucasfilm, Coffee With Kenobi, Resistance Reactions and Rebels Reactions.

It's a pair of endings as we come to the end of Star Wars: Han Solo -- Imperial Cadet, along with the last installment in the Star Wars: Age of Republic titles, and neither did so meekly, but rather with deft writing, dynamic illustrations and lingering thoughts.The ending of Han Solo -- Imperial Cadet #5 sets the stage for a pair of new characters, whose stories we think will come back around sooner than later, while in Age of Republic -- General Grievous, a notorious villain is given a better foundation that will impact future viewings of Revenge of the Sith for years to come.In news, we weigh in on the facsimile edition of Star Wars #50 (Vol. 1), as well as the impending start to the Greg Pak-written Star Wars: Age of Rebellion one shots and look ahead to the 40th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back and what it may portend for Marvel and IDW Star Wars comics.This week's Star Wars comics, out March 20, include:Solo: A Star Wars Story Adaptation #6Star Wars #63Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The Old Re

Three Star Wars comics from different eras of the Saga, each of one solidly executed and featuring some stellar character development, glimpses into stories already told and a rethinking of long-held perceptions of others, too.This week's podcast is focused on Age of Republic -- Padme Amidala #1, Star Wars #62 and Vader: Dark Visions #1 and the conversation is frantic and encompassing.Also drawing our interest is a new 16-page "fan made" comic, Rebel: A Rogue One Story that features a story about Jyn Erso from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Written by Ken Lowery, drawn by Gavin Guidry, colored by Addison Duke, lettered by Micah Myers and featuring a "Jyn-up" by Shawn McGuan, it's an intriguing tale. We'll have a review soon.This week's Star Wars comics, out March 13, include:Star Wars: Age of Republic -- General Grievous #1 (One shot)Star Wars: Han Solo -- Imperial Cadet #5 (of five)Stay in touch and up to date by following us on Twitter and Facebook.Like what you hear? Go to iTunes and leave us a rating and r

Just a single issue this episode, but it's got enough story beats, action and verve to fill up an entire story, but that's not surprising, given how deliciously weird and wild Star Wars: Doctor Aphra has been since the character's introduction in the pages of Darth Vader, Vol. 1.As such, Doctor Aphra #29 is inarguably the best issue so far of this story arc, and we'll explain our reasoning behind our assertion. Agree? Disagree? That's OK because like this stellar comics series, it's the different approaches that make it standout with such zest. As for news, we weigh in the utter balderdash that is Marvel Comics going the way of the dodo and, also, a personal message, too.This week's Star Wars comics, out March 6, include:Star Wars: Age of Republic -- Padme Amidala #1 (One shot)Star Wars: Vader -- Dark Visions #1 (of five)Star Wars #62Stay in touch and up to date by following us on Twitter and Facebook.Like what you hear? Go to iTunes and leave us a rating and review. Subscribe to all of the Coffee With Kenobi

Just a single issue to delve into in this week's episode, but there's enough material in Solo: A Star Wars Story adaptation #5 to generate some significant discussion about the role adaptations play in the wider Star Wars comics segment.In comics news, we're excited about word that Elsa Charretier and Pierrick Colinet's Star Wars Adventures #22, out in May, will feature a Princess Leia, R2-D2 and C-3PO story set after The Empire Strikes Back as they search for Han Solo. Then there's IDW's announcement that Walter Simonson, a comics legend, will get the Artist's Edition treatment for his work on Marvel's first Star Wars series.We're also talking news of Cavan Scott's third anniversary writing Star Wars material, Kieron Gillen handing in his last script for the flagship series -- issue #67 -- and artist John Tyler Christopher's latest action-figure variant exclusive, available for order Feb. 28, featuring Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi.This week's Star Wars comics, out Feb. 27, include:Doctor Aphra #29The Star Wars

Amid rumors of relaunching and renumbering the main Star Wars title later this year, Jeff and Matt discuss the pros and cons of such a move and whether it would have any significant effect on Marvel's existing titles and their sales.Then there's Star Wars (Vol. 1) #108, the one shot due at the end of May that will serve as a sequel to Vol. 1's Star Wars (Vol. 1) #50.Looking farther afield, there's a conversation about what titles may be announced at Star Wars Celebration Chicago.As for comics, it's a battle of Trix vs. Frosted Flakes (Jaxxon vs. Jak'zin) in the stellarly written and illustrated Star Wars: Age of Republic -- Count Dooku, while Han finds his confidence is contagious in the penultimate issue of Star Wars: Han Solo -- Imperial Cadet #4.This week's Star Wars comics, out Feb. 20, include:Star Wars Adventures #18Star Wars: Solo -- A Star Wars Story Adaptation #5Stay in touch and up to date by following us on Twitter and Facebook.Like what you hear? Go to iTunes and leave us a rating and review. Subs

A reflection on doing what's right, even when you're told it's wrong, leads our discussion of Marvel Star Wars comics Age of Republic -- Anakin Skywalker #1, along with knowing when to forgive, but not forget, in Star Wars #61.There are no easy answers to the questions both issues presented, but that's part of what makes such contextual storytelling so dynamic.This week's Star Wars comics, out Feb. 13, include:Star Wars: Age of Republic -- Count Dooku #1Star Wars: Han Solo -- Imperial Cadet #4Stay in touch and up to date by following us on Twitter and Facebook.Like what you hear? Go to iTunes and leave us a rating and review. Subscribe to all of the Coffee With Kenobi network podcasts, including Lattes With Leia, Legends Library, Looking for Lucasfilm, Coffee With Kenobi, Resistance Reactions and Rebels Reactions.

The Star Wars comics this week -- Doctor Aphra #28 and Solo: A Star Wars Story Adaptation #4 -- are emotionally draining yet exhilarating, too, whipsawing readers through a range of despair, elation and betrayal.Why? Great writing enmeshed with superb illustrating to tell these stories.We're also discussing the latest news about Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge and wondering what the announced IDW all-ages Galaxy's Edge comic may be about, as well as the rundown of the podcast stage at April's Star Wars Celebration in Chicago (lots of familiar faces in that crowd!).This week's Star Wars comics, out Feb. 6, include:Star Wars: Age of Republic -- Anakin Skywalker #1Star Wars #61Stay in touch and up to date by following us on Twitter and Facebook.Like what you hear? Go to iTunes and leave us a rating and review. Subscribe to all of the Coffee With Kenobi network podcasts, including Lattes With Leia, Legends Library, Looking for Lucasfilm, Coffee With Kenobi, Resistance Reactions and Rebels Reactions.

Plenty of discussion about not just Star Wars #60, but A Star Wars Comic #18, too. We're discussing the ongoing Flight of the Falcon story, too, joined by novelist and comics writer Michael Moreci to talk about his contribution to the cross-format story that's been appearing in the pages of Star Wars Adventures.Be sure to check out the fan-made anthologies Moreci had a hand in creating, too. (Volumes One and Two)As for news, we lament the recently announced decision by Jim Mello and Alex Ray to bring A Star Wars Comic to an end with issue #19, cheer GLAAD's nomination of Doctor Aphra as an outstanding comic of 2018 and talk about April's True Believer line of Star Wars comics from Marvel.This week's Star Wars comics, out Jan. 30, include:Doctor Aphra #28Solo: A Star Wars Story Adaptation #4Star Wars Adventures #17Darth Vader, Dark Lord of the Sith Vol. IV Trade Paperback(Collecting issues #19-25)Stay in touch and up to date by following us on Twitter and Facebook.Like what you hear? Go to iTunes and leave us 

Three stories for $5 as Marvel's Star Wars: Age of Republic -- Special debuts, offering up new insights to characters from Mace WIndu, Asajj Ventress and, yes Captain Rex and Jar Jar Binks, too.There's also news to discuss, including the new TIE Fighter and Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge five-issue mini series that start in April, as well as the 2018 and December sales rankings, too.This week's Star Wars comics, out Jan. 23, include:Star Wars #60A Star Wars Comic #18 (Out Jan. 25)Stay in touch and up to date by following us on Twitter and Facebook.Like what you hear? Go to iTunes and leave us a rating and review. Subscribe to all of the Coffee With Kenobi network podcasts, including Lattes With Leia, Legends Library, Looking for Lucasfilm, Coffee With Kenobi, Resistance Reactions and Rebels Reactions.

From the satisfying conclusion to IDW Publishing's third and final issue of Star Wars Adventures -- Destroyer Down #3 to the in-depth father-and-son dynamic in Star Wars: Age of Republic -- Jango Fett #1 to a somewhat unexpected, yet utterly satisfying, return of an Imperial villian in Star Wars #59, Jeff and Matt are impressed, to a point, with the comics released on Jan. 9 from Marvel and IDW.Besides the comics discussion, we're also waxing rhapsodic on when and how the monthly Star Wars title should tackle events between those seen in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi (Bothans, everybody, Bothans.), as well as saying goodbye, prematurely, to writer Kieron Gillen's run.This week's Star Wars comics, out Jan. 16, include:Star Wars: Age of Republic -- Special #1Star Wars: Age of Republic -- Qui-Gon Jinn Adventures -- Destroyer Down #1 (Second Printing)Stay in touch and up to date by following us on Twitter and Facebook.Like what you hear? Go to iTunes and leave us a rating and review. Subscribe to

Last week's Star Wars comics this week were profound wildy adventurous, providing readers with a delicate yet forceful examination of the father-and-son relationship between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker in Jody Houser's deftly written Star Wars: Age of Republic -- Obi-Wan Kenobi one shot. In the third issue of the five-issue Star Wars: Han Solo -- Imperial Cadet, Robbie Thompson scripted an endearing story about building camaraderie and never losing sight of those you've left behind.Join us for our discussion and let us know what you think about these two tales.This week's Star Wars comics include:Star Wars #59Star Wars: Age of Republic -- Jango Fett #1Star Wars Adventures -- Destroyer Down #3Star Wars: Doctor Aphra -- The Catastrophe Con Trade paperbackStay in touch and up to date by following us on Twitter and Facebook.Like what you hear? Go to iTunes and leave us a rating and review. Subscribe to all of the Coffee With Kenobi network podcasts, including Lattes With Leia, Legends Library, Looking for

It's our end-of-the-year blowout spectacular special with a less-than-loquacious Jeff comparing and contrasting with Matt what was great about Star Wars comics in 2018 (Doctor Aphra, Poe Dameron and Tales From Vader's Castle), what wasn't so great (questionable editorial decisions) and what was just plain forgettable (looking right at you, DJ: Most Wanted).This year is a fresh start and we're optimistic about what it will bring to Star Wars in all its media iterations. We're grateful you spent 2018 with us and hope you'll do the same in 2019.This week's Star Wars comics include:Star Wars: Age of Republic -- Obi-Wan Kenobi #1Star Wars: Han Solo -- Imperial Cadet #3Stay in touch and up to date by following us on Twitter and Facebook.Like what you hear? Go to iTunes and leave us a rating and review. Subscribe to all of the Coffee With Kenobi network podcasts, including Lattes With Leia, Legends Library, Looking for Lucasfilm, Coffee With Kenobi, Resistance Reactions and Rebels Reactions.

The last issue of Darth Vader Vol. 2 was cinematic in its scope, detailed in its delivery and yielded far more questions than answers through the course of its Star Wars homages from the first to final page. In short, it began as it started: Expansive mythology for not just the Sith lord, but Anakin Skywalker, too.As for Solo: A Star Wars Story #3? This issue offered up some compelling details about Qi'ra, Dryden Vos and Crimson Dawn, as readers familiar with the film found new material to wrap their heads around.This week's Star Wars comics include:None this week.Stay in touch and up to date by following us on Twitter and Facebook.Like what you hear? Go to iTunes and leave us a rating and review. Subscribe to all of the Coffee With Kenobi network podcasts, including Lattes With Leia, Legends Library, Looking for Lucasfilm, Coffee With Kenobi, Resistance Reactions and Rebels Reactions.

A trifecta of Star Wars comics from Marvel's provided an assortent of achievements, and setbacks, for some characters and concepts, yet still advanced the medium of comics as one that is hand-in-glove to television and the cinema, too.The Star Wars: Age of Republic -- Darth Maul one shot was a master class in how this series is focusing on a specific character and expanding our knowledge but, more importantly, advancing a prequel trilogy-era villain's story.In Han Solo -- Imperial Cadet #2, we're quite satisfied with how this book is building on what was just a casual mention in the Solo: A Star Wars Story film, adding some detailed resonance that's important in the Han Solo mythology.Meanwhile, in Doctor Aphra #27, Simon Spurrier (we don't call him Si anymore) is having far too much fun with the character, the series and Star Wars, all to our benefit.This week's Star Wars comics include:Darth Vader #25Solo: A Star Wars Story Adaptation #3Star Wars Adventures #16Stay in touch and up to date by following us on

Marvel's ambitious, 27-issue Age of... maxi series begins its run with a potent yet divisive first issue, Age of Republic -- Qui-Gon Jinn, while in Star Wars #58, readers are enveloped with some seriously solid character development that has us rethinking our long-conceived notions about Han, Leia and Luke.From IDW comes the second issue of the three-part Star Wars Adventures: Destroyer Down reprint that proves, again, an all-ages comics can have a real resonance.In news, we break down November's Star Wars comics sales ranks, welcome Chris Ryall back to IDW Publishing and offer up some film recommendations.This week's Star Wars comics include:Star Wars: Age of Republic -- Darth MaulHan Solo -- Imperial Cadet #2Doctor Aphra #27Star Wars Vol. 9, collecting the "Hope Dies" arc (#50-55 and Annual 4)Stay in touch and up to date by following us on Twitter and Facebook.Like what you hear? Go to iTunes and leave us a rating and review. Subscribe to all of the Coffee With Kenobi network podcasts, including Lattes With