Star Wars Shattered Empire #2

Issue #2 Variant Cover I picked up on release day

What a blast that issue was to read. A-Wings, Y-Wings, Imperial AT-ATs attacking a civilian city and Leia visiting a familiar place, this issue had a lot of bang for your buck and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

So before I talk about the story there is one little tidbit I spotted in this issue which could be something or could be nothing.

Lieutenant Shara Bey has been flying non-stop since the Battle for Endor and her commanding officer is concerned. At one point he asks her:

"When did you last hear from Kes? Or your boy?"

"I talked to my father and Poe last week but...Kes [ ]"

So hold on, her son's name is Poe? And the new character just released for the X-Wing Miniatures Game is Poe also? Something tells me it's not an overly common name in that far-far-away galaxy. 

The Poe Dameron card for the X-Wing Miniatures Game

We're reading the story about Poe Dameron's parents!

In fact I should have spotted it in the first issue when Green Four addresses her lover as Sargent Dameron!

The story itself revolves around the fact that Green Four has been flying too many combat missions since Endor so she gets assigned transport duties for Princess Leie to visit Naboo. While on Naboo the eerily familiar event of planet-wide communications blackout occurs, only this time it's not a droid army in orbit, it's the Imperial Navy!

Issue #2 was a blast. It's an impressive book so far, looking forward to the rest of it.

PS: Keep an eye on how they deal with the AT-AT problem...