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Comics Roundup

Marvel’s latest Star Wars comics return to a familiar
location and look back to Maul’s fi rst mission...

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Authors
and
Artists

Kieron Gillen, the new
writer on Star Wars,
began his career with
the indie hit
Phonogram and the
breakout smash The
Wicked + The Divine
for Image. Artist
Salvador Larroca
honed his style on
titles such as The
Invincible Iron Man
before working with
Gillen on Darth Vader.
Darth Maul ’s
Cullen Bunn has a
knack for writing
lethal protagonists, as
evidenced by his work
on Deadpool Kills the
Marvel Universe.
Brazilian artist, Luke
Ross, has worked in
comics since the
1990s, with credits
including Hercules
and Star Wars: The
Force Awakens.
Return to Jedha

A new writer takes Star Wars to the ruins of Jedha, plus Darth Maul makes new enemies...

Thanks to Rogue One we now know archaeologist Dr. Aphra. “My aim’s Decades before the Death Star was
that Alderaan wasn’t, in fact, the fi rst simple,” he told StarWars.com. “Do constructed, a young Sith was on his
planet to feel the heat of the Death what Salva and I did with Darth Vader, first mission against the Jedi. The

Star’s mighty superlaser. The Holy but for Leia, Luke, and Han. As in, chart 112-page Star Wars: Darth Maul
City on Jedha was annihilated by the rise and fall of the Rebellion reprints the fi ve-issue Darth Maul
the Empire as a first test of the battle between A New Hope and The Empire limited series by writer Cullen Bunn

station’s weaponry. And now Marvel’s Strikes Back, how it changes them all and artist Luke Ross, with a cover by
Star Wars comic is returning to the and how it changes the universe.” Rod Reis. Taking place before The
ruins of the planet to see what has Star Wars has been an interstellar Phantom Menace, Maul fi nds himself
become of it! success from issue #1, driven for its unexpectedly needing to rescue a Jedi

The story arc, which begins in #38, first 37 issues by Jason Aaron’s Padawan, with bounty hunters like

is the first penned by the title’s regular perfectly-pitched scripts. Artist Cad Bane and Aurra Sing close behind.
new writer, Kieron Gillen—a name that Salvador Larroca will continue to draw Also included is writer/artist Chris
will be familiar to fans as the author of the comic. Star Wars #38, with a Eliopoulos’ short comic “Probe Droid
the first volume of Marvel’s Darth cover by David Marquez, is published Problem,” which reveals what became

Vader, as well as the creator of rogue in November by Marvel. of Maul’s droids in the Tatooine desert.

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