Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker Adaptation

by Jody Houser

The official comic-book adaptation of the climactic film! As the Resistance struggles against the First Order's dominance, Poe Dameron discovers an unthinkable threat on the horizon - and the final battle for the fate of the galaxy begins! Rey must find a way to a hidden Sith hideout, putting her on a collision course with Kylo Ren. Their confrontation will be explosive! Meanwhile, Chewbacca is captured - and Poe Dameron seeks aid from a mysterious figure from his past! But with only hours to act, will our heroes avert the devastation of the Final Order? Collecting STAR THE RISE OF SKYWALKER ADAPTATION #1-5.

Genres: Star Wars, Comics, Graphic Novels

128 pages, Paperback

Published October 21, 2025

Reviews

[Declan O'Keeffe · Rating 4 out of 5]

reread having bought the paperback. I stand by this review.

I'm not typically a fan of Marvel's Star Wars movie adaptations, a lot of them fall flat for me.

We have waited 5 years for this adaptation, and we've had time and stories since the movie came out.

I'll put my hand up and say TROS is not my favourite Star Wars movie.

But this book, with Jody being the pen and Will Sliney on Art, does a really good job of depicting the movie and expanding on it passed what the movie was allowed to do.

The Art is stylistic and relies on the duality of Rey and Kylo in the way only a comic can.

Jody gives us more of Leia than the movie was able to do, and there are some beautiful scenes.

While it's not perfect, and it's still just retelling the movie's story, this might still be one of the better Movie/Show adaptations that Marvel has done.

[Teresa · Rating 4 out of 5]

35 ABY

This graphic novel collects issues 1-5 of The Rise of Skywalker adaptation. It follows the plot of the movie: Rey and friends hear about Palpatine's return and seek a Sith wayfinder to go to Exogol and put and end to the problem. With adaptations, sometimes some movement or changes must be made, and it is certainly a challenge to turn a three hour movie into a five issue comic. Some areas where the film allows for some cinematic action are clipped due to pacing and spacing, though the reader does have the gutter to fill in a lot of the blanks.

The artwork is mostly good, but there are a few places where it feels a bit clinky; they could have modified some of the imagery a bit for the sake of the adaptation. One thing I actually really liked about this adaptation is the internal thoughts the reader gets from Kylo Ren and Rey, somwthing we don't get in the movie. Instead of his last word being "Ow," (yet, watch the movie and notice this--which isn't added into the graphic novel adaptation for obvious choice reasons), we rather get his final thoughts and what he thinks as he is sending his life force into Rey. These internal thought aspects really add a lot of depth to the sequencing of events and the characterization that we don't get on the visual level in the movie.

[Jesús De la Jara · Rating 5 out of 5]

Esta adaptación de la película "Star Wars: The rise of Skywalker" estaba planificada para salir en junio del 2020, pero se demoró casi 5 años en salir. Muchos ya pensábamos que nunca saldría, pero menos mal este año se animaron a sacar el cómic.
Por supuesto, tiene muchas cosas que no se cuentan en la película, quizás algunas no en el libro adaptación (que dicho sea de paso también me encantó por todo lo que habla de extra con respecto a la película). Y le pongo esta tan grande calificación porque la película, a pesar de no ser de mis favoritas y tener muchos errores, es el cierre de la historia de Rey y Kylo.
Así mismo, ver a los personajes dibujados en cómic y muchas otras imágenes conceptuales, de portadas, que nunca aparecieron en la película lo hace bastante disfrutable. Entre las cosas que nos regaló este cómic es una portada de Ben y Rey como díada en diferentes momentos de su vida, también Rey y Kylo sentados en el trono maligno (esto siempre queríamos que salga en la película, pero solo es mencionado por Rey). Entre los episodios que también son inéditos está cuando Maz Kanata habla con Leia antes que esta muerta.

[Byron Lafayette · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rise of Skywalker is a very flawed movie so this graphic novel had its work cut out for it. However I was so pleased it FIXED so many issues, Luke and Leia feel way more important to the story then they were before, Ben’s redemption is fleshed out, Palps method of return is teased better, how much the Jedi helped Rey is shown and how Palps built his fleet are addressed.

Overall this is the final word in the story of the Skywalker Saga, and I am satisfied, this graphic novel succeeds in making the story make more sense.

I was always dissatisfied with how the Skywalker Saga ended, and in some ways I still am, but this graphic novel has at least made the final story more enjoyable.

[Jackson · Rating 3 out of 5]

A solid adaptation.

The artwork is great. There are several pages with awesome panels, and really in general the paneling is unique and cool.

The story is meh. I think this really needed to be six issues, as there were parts of the movie that had to be totally skipped over. I know that is typical for a comic adaptation, but it felt like some plot points were completely dropped. The comic didn't include the sequence at the beginning of the film where Poe and Finn learn about a spy, yet they still show Hux reveal he is "the spy" later on.

[Will Plunkett · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked the film of this story, but I think the people who hated the film saw it like this comic series: rushed, glossed-over scenes or opportunities, disjointed plot, stilted. The additional internal thoughts here were an okay part, but they didn't really move the action much (and, some scenes weren't even included from the film). Beautiful covers, but I shan't judge this book by them.

[Alyce Caswell · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoy Houser’s adaptations (and other work in general) and this was no exception. Sure, the plot isn’t A grade and it’s still too compressed, but this medium removes some of the issues the film had (one of which being that Leia could not have additional scenes, for the obvious reason).

[Martijn Van · Rating 1 out of 5]

Poor Jody Houser, having the disgraceful task to adapt the utter piece of trash that is The Rise of Skywalker. She does het best and the artwork is fine but that doesnt change a thing about the terrible fragmented plot and dialogue.