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A MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR
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DECEMBER 2017
WELCOME... Senior Executive Editor / Divinia Fleary
TITAN EDITORIAL
Editor / Will Salmon
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Art Editor / Andrew Leung
“Who is Luke Skywalker?”
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That was the question Kathleen Kennedy posed to J.J. Donna Askem
Abrams when she first invited him to direct The Force LUCASFILM
Awakens back in 2013. While it may seem simple at first, it’s Senior Editor / Brett Rector
Image Archives / Newell Todd,
surprisingly difficult to answer. Luke has been many things in Erik Sanchez, Bryce Pinkos,
the decades that we’ve known him: naïve young farm boy; Nicole LaCoursiere, Tim Mapp
Art Director / Troy Alders
daring X-wing pilot; Jedi in training; and then later a fully- Creative Director / Michael Siglain
Story Group / Pablo Hidalgo, Leland Chee,
fledged Master. And now he’s something else—though exactly
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what, we won’t know until The Last Jedi opens in December.
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Some things remain the same, of course. He’s brave and Jon D. Witmer, Simon Hugo, Tricia Barr, Kristin
compassionate. He loses the only family he has ever known Baver, Michael Kogge, Daniel Wallace, and
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at the start of A New Hope, but rather than let his sorrow
overcome him, he focusses on trying to save Princess SPECIAL THANKS TO
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Leia—and in the process discovers his lost heritage, a sibling at Random House, Martin Eden, Holly
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and, ultimately, redeems his fallen father.
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But time changes us all, and the latest trailer certainly Draeger, Tracy Cannobbio and Chris
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suggests that Luke has become someone very different in
the years since the fall of the Empire. He’s not just physically TITAN MAGAZINES
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older—there’s a caution and uncertainty in his interactions Production Supervisor / Maria Pearson
that we’ve glimpsed with Rey that’s very different to the boy Production Controller / Peter James
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who left Tatooine all those years ago. Senior Sales Manager / Steve Tothill
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It’s been 40 years since we first met Luke. This issue we
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ahead to the future, The Last Jedi, and the next steps in this Brand Manager, Marketing / Lucy Ripper
truly iconic character’s story. Enjoy the issue. Commercial Manager / Michelle Fairlamb
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