Star Wars #26
This Star Wars book has been Marvel’s primary offering since getting the licence to publish Star Wars again for the first time since 1986! The series started with plenty of fan fare but actually overshadowed Dark Horse’s final run on it which was also brilliant and well-worth picking up retrospectively, apart from the fact that all of Dark Horse’s work is now non-canon….
“sorry-not-sorry, Dark Horse”
- Marvel
The current Star Wars story follows the Rebels after the destruction of the first Death Star and focuses on a few different characters even doing some issues from the Imperial point of view (say hello to Scar Squadron). Along with this we have a series of Obi Wan Kenobi issues done in the style of diary entries of when he was protecting young Luke on Tatooine. Throw in a host of excellent variant covers and Marvel have put an appreciable amount of effort into what is essentially a side-show for them.
This issue happens to be one of the Obi-Wan stories but this is the first time that the Obi-Wan diaries are interspersed with the ongoing story-line.
In the ongoing story our mighty heroes have restored HOPE to the Galaxy. I capitalized the word hope because apparently hope is super important as shown in the recent documentary Rogue One.
Rebels have captured an Imperial Star Destroyer not unlike previous Star Wars story arcs (Wedge Antilles shows up in the captured Lusankya in Crimson Empire) and the main characters have escaped the clutches of the evil Darth Vader. All except one of them... C-3PO who now faces interrogation at the hands of Scar Squadron.
Much like Action or Detective Comics you can jump into Star Wars at any issue number and enjoy it. Even better this issue kicks off a new story arc: Yoda’s Secret War. Get on it!
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