A cagey young Imperial officer seems to anticipate the Rebels’ every move, so Princess Leia forms a “stealth squadron”—including Luke Skywalker—to expose a suspected spy within their ranks.
Meanwhile, Han Solo and Chewbacca run afoul of bounty hunter Boba Fett, and the Emperor sends Darth Vader on a secret mission!
* Stars Han Solo, Princess Leia, Luke Skywalker, and Darth Vader!
Brian Wood's history of published work includes over fifty volumes of genre-spanning original material.
From the 1500-page future war epic DMZ, the ecological disaster series The Massive, the American crime drama Briggs Land, and the groundbreaking lo-fi dystopia Channel Zero he has a 20-year track record of marrying thoughtful world-building and political commentary with compelling and diverse characters.
His YA novels - Demo, Local, The New York Four, and Mara - have made YALSA and New York Public Library best-of lists. His historical fiction - the viking series Northlanders, the American Revolution-centered Rebels, and the norse-samurai mashup Sword Daughter - are benchmarks in the comic book industry.
He's written some of the biggest franchises in pop culture, including Star Wars, Terminator, RoboCop, Conan The Barbarian, Robotech, and Planet Of The Apes. He’s written number-one-selling series for Marvel Comics. And he’s created and written multiple canonical stories for the Aliens universe, including the Zula Hendricks character.
This is two 5 star ratings in a row now for this Star Wars 2013 comic book series by Wood.
The world/character building is so, so good. Highest level quality, professional grade style. This does not feel like some newbie just writing whatever and slapping down 'Star Wars' on the cover and raking in the cash.
The space combat is an absolute blast as well. It makes me want to play Squadrons or find some other way to tap into some X-Wing vs TIE fighter goodness.
The cherry on top is a murder mystery, spy among us type scenario that is kicking-off in this issue.
I am 100% hooked.
If these comics continue to deliver like this, I am going to definitely go back and retrospectively slap down 'best-in-class' tags on these.