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Star Wars (2025-) #6
New Republic on the brink of war! LUKE, HAN and VALANCE face off against a swarm of Clone War-era threats! PRINCESS LEIA plays the only card she has left against the mounting threat! RYNN ZENAT discovers a clue that sheds light on the struggles of the mysterious NAGAI!
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Published October 1, 2025
About the author
Alex Segura
323 books598 followersAlex Segura is the bestselling and award-winning author of Secret Identity, which The New York Times called “wittily original” and named an Editor’s Choice. NPR described the novel as “masterful” and The L.A. Times called it “a magnetic read.”
Secret Identity received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Booklist, was listed as one of the Best Mysteries of the Year by NPR, Kirkus, Booklist, LitReactor, Gizmodo, BOLO Books, and the South Florida Sun Sentinel, was nominated for the Anthony Award for Best Hardcover, the Lefty and Barry Awards for Best Novel, the Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel, and won the LA Times Book Prize in the Mystery/Thriller category.
His upcoming work includes the YA superhero adventure Araña/Spider-Man 2099: Dark Tomorrow, the follow-up to Secret Identity, Alter Ego, and the sci-fi/espionage thriller, Dark Space (with Rob Hart). Alex is also the author of Star Wars Poe Dameron: Free Fall, the Anthony Award-nominated Pete Fernandez Miami Mystery series, and a number of comic books – including The Mysterious Micro-Face (in partnership with NPR), The Black Ghost, The Archies, The Dusk, The Awakened, Mara Llave – Keeper of Time, Blood Oath, stories featuring Marvel heroes the Avengers, Sunspot, White Tiger, Spider-Man and DC’s Superman, Sinestro, and The Question, to name a few.
His short story, “90 Miles” was included in The Best American Mystery and Suspense Stories for 2021 and won the Anthony Award for Best Short Story. Another short story,“Red Zone,” won the 2020 Anthony Award for Best Short Story.
Alex is also the co-creator of the Lethal Lit podcast, named one of the best fiction podcasts of 2018 by The New York Times.
A Miami native, he lives in New York with his wife and children.
Secret Identity received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Booklist, was listed as one of the Best Mysteries of the Year by NPR, Kirkus, Booklist, LitReactor, Gizmodo, BOLO Books, and the South Florida Sun Sentinel, was nominated for the Anthony Award for Best Hardcover, the Lefty and Barry Awards for Best Novel, the Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel, and won the LA Times Book Prize in the Mystery/Thriller category.
His upcoming work includes the YA superhero adventure Araña/Spider-Man 2099: Dark Tomorrow, the follow-up to Secret Identity, Alter Ego, and the sci-fi/espionage thriller, Dark Space (with Rob Hart). Alex is also the author of Star Wars Poe Dameron: Free Fall, the Anthony Award-nominated Pete Fernandez Miami Mystery series, and a number of comic books – including The Mysterious Micro-Face (in partnership with NPR), The Black Ghost, The Archies, The Dusk, The Awakened, Mara Llave – Keeper of Time, Blood Oath, stories featuring Marvel heroes the Avengers, Sunspot, White Tiger, Spider-Man and DC’s Superman, Sinestro, and The Question, to name a few.
His short story, “90 Miles” was included in The Best American Mystery and Suspense Stories for 2021 and won the Anthony Award for Best Short Story. Another short story,“Red Zone,” won the 2020 Anthony Award for Best Short Story.
Alex is also the co-creator of the Lethal Lit podcast, named one of the best fiction podcasts of 2018 by The New York Times.
A Miami native, he lives in New York with his wife and children.
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October 10, 2025
clone trooper armour, the nagai, the new republic stuff... I don't really care. we're missing out on the prime time to develop these characters
October 1, 2025
I've heard it said that the decision to include a Separatist battle droid arc was an 'unnecessary distraction', a useless deviation from the main plot of Alex Segura's Star Wars series. Beyond the short-sightedness of such talk (Issue #5 more than showed it as a continuation of Segura's 'new-government-under-fire' theme), not only was this 'detour' able to advance that very main plot in ways that mean the wait for #7 is going to be hard, it delivered some of the excellent character development that Segura has shown himself capable of since Battle of Jakku.
I grinned like an idiot every time we returned to the confrontation of Luke, Han and Beilert Valance, all donning clone trooper armour, against the Separatist battle droids. Sometimes, it was just for the little things, like the narrative tricks used to show who was wearing which armour (a red eye shining through the visor, or a clone trooper wielding a lightsaber), or Luke's comment that Anakin and Obi-Wan used to 'do this all the time', even the sight of a much-much larger battle droid army coming at the original trilogy's heroes (the stuff a lot of the games I used to play as a kid were like). Segura also wrote the battle droids well. Inevitably, he used them as comic relief, just as they were in the later prequels and in Clone Wars. The droids commenting about Luke hiding under their tank made me laugh so much, especially as one of them bends down to check. But that paled in comparaison to when Han starts attacking them and, in typical droid fashion, they whine things like 'get back, get back. He's angry.' I lost it!
If that was all, I would be fine with it (and the naysayers of this arc would actually have a leg to stand on when they complain about this arc). But Segura doesn't just leave it at that.
First, he adds a few little tidbits to the droids to show that these aren't the same Obi-Wan and Anakin once faced. Comments from the droid tank commander like 'he's a Jedi! You can't underestimate a-' or 'You should have stayed under our tank' show a slightly edgier side to these droids who, after all, have had to survive for 20 years since their war ended. He also emphasises something else that shows he did his homework and didn't just feature the battle droids for the heck of an Easter Egg. Even in Attack of the Clones, it was established that droids, while easy for Jedi to destroy, can overwhelm by their numbers and their relentlessness, coming as a swarm no matter how many of them are destroyed, making them a match for the Jedi.
But the biggest is the character development. Segura had already hinted at what he had in store in #5. Last time, a frame of Luke covered in sweat as he faced the battle droids figured our favourite Jedi fighting in a way he hadn't before. Segura doubles down on that now. For a brief moment of respite, an exhausted Luke calls out to Obi-Wan, wondering how he faced such swarms regularly during the Clone Wars, showing a moment of vulnerability in this mighty Jedi who has so far confidently faced every martial challenge thrown at him, whether it be in this series or in Battle of Jakku. And if anyone out there dares comment that this doesn't make sense because Luke tore apart the Dark Troopers in The Mandalorian with ease, remember this: these events are happening 5-6 years after the Battle of Yavin; The Mandalorian was 9 years ABY.
As Luke himself says in this issue: 'Dont underestimate a Jedi.'
Well, no one should underestimate Alex Segura either.
Remember all the way back in #1, when the criminal Zantarrk Gang destroyed a New Republic trade ship? The very one that crash-landed on this battle droid-infested planet? Well, it turns out there was more to that action than met the eye: rather than just a random action to cripple the fragile New Republic, there was also a strategic reason for the Zantarrk to target that ship . Thanks to this, Luke, Han, Rynn and Valence learn that the challenge posed by the Zantarrk and their allies in the warmongering Fenril Constortium is a lot more fragile than expected. Armed with this knowledge, our heroes can finally take the fight to their enemies on their own terms rather than being on the backfoot. Like I said, the wait for #7 is going to be difficult.
I would be remiss if I didn't mention something else: in #6, Leia and Mon Mothma had an intimate moment as they realised the work they had always wanted to do, the work for which they sacrificed so much in the Rebellion, was much harder than they had expected. Now, as the Fenril Consortium makes its next move, Mon has another heartbreaking moment, but Leia is there to do what we always knew she would: be the voice of reason, the call for justice and for sticking to their ideals rather than going back to the 'old ways'. Leia doesn't want to just do things the way they've always been done: she wants to do 'better'. And she is doing better. The speech Leia gives is an implicit indictment of everything her father failed to understand, all the traps that Mon (with all the emotional turmoil and ethical dilemnas carried from her time building the Rebellion) is in danger of falling into:
Everything Alex Segura has written for Star Wars, even as far back as Battle of Jakku, has been building towards something. Each issue, even if it didn't feel like it, has been adding a little bit to the puzzle while never neglecting the characters at its heart. Now, it really feels like we're on the edge of that something, and I can't wait to see what it is.
I grinned like an idiot every time we returned to the confrontation of Luke, Han and Beilert Valance, all donning clone trooper armour, against the Separatist battle droids. Sometimes, it was just for the little things, like the narrative tricks used to show who was wearing which armour (a red eye shining through the visor, or a clone trooper wielding a lightsaber), or Luke's comment that Anakin and Obi-Wan used to 'do this all the time', even the sight of a much-much larger battle droid army coming at the original trilogy's heroes (the stuff a lot of the games I used to play as a kid were like). Segura also wrote the battle droids well. Inevitably, he used them as comic relief, just as they were in the later prequels and in Clone Wars. The droids commenting about Luke hiding under their tank made me laugh so much, especially as one of them bends down to check. But that paled in comparaison to when Han starts attacking them and, in typical droid fashion, they whine things like 'get back, get back. He's angry.' I lost it!
If that was all, I would be fine with it (and the naysayers of this arc would actually have a leg to stand on when they complain about this arc). But Segura doesn't just leave it at that.
First, he adds a few little tidbits to the droids to show that these aren't the same Obi-Wan and Anakin once faced. Comments from the droid tank commander like 'he's a Jedi! You can't underestimate a-' or 'You should have stayed under our tank' show a slightly edgier side to these droids who, after all, have had to survive for 20 years since their war ended. He also emphasises something else that shows he did his homework and didn't just feature the battle droids for the heck of an Easter Egg. Even in Attack of the Clones, it was established that droids, while easy for Jedi to destroy, can overwhelm by their numbers and their relentlessness, coming as a swarm no matter how many of them are destroyed, making them a match for the Jedi.
But the biggest is the character development. Segura had already hinted at what he had in store in #5. Last time, a frame of Luke covered in sweat as he faced the battle droids figured our favourite Jedi fighting in a way he hadn't before. Segura doubles down on that now. For a brief moment of respite, an exhausted Luke calls out to Obi-Wan, wondering how he faced such swarms regularly during the Clone Wars, showing a moment of vulnerability in this mighty Jedi who has so far confidently faced every martial challenge thrown at him, whether it be in this series or in Battle of Jakku. And if anyone out there dares comment that this doesn't make sense because Luke tore apart the Dark Troopers in The Mandalorian with ease, remember this: these events are happening 5-6 years after the Battle of Yavin; The Mandalorian was 9 years ABY.
As Luke himself says in this issue: 'Dont underestimate a Jedi.'
Well, no one should underestimate Alex Segura either.
Remember all the way back in #1, when the criminal Zantarrk Gang destroyed a New Republic trade ship? The very one that crash-landed on this battle droid-infested planet? Well, it turns out there was more to that action than met the eye: rather than just a random action to cripple the fragile New Republic, there was also a strategic reason for the Zantarrk to target that ship . Thanks to this, Luke, Han, Rynn and Valence learn that the challenge posed by the Zantarrk and their allies in the warmongering Fenril Constortium is a lot more fragile than expected. Armed with this knowledge, our heroes can finally take the fight to their enemies on their own terms rather than being on the backfoot. Like I said, the wait for #7 is going to be difficult.
I would be remiss if I didn't mention something else: in #6, Leia and Mon Mothma had an intimate moment as they realised the work they had always wanted to do, the work for which they sacrificed so much in the Rebellion, was much harder than they had expected. Now, as the Fenril Consortium makes its next move, Mon has another heartbreaking moment, but Leia is there to do what we always knew she would: be the voice of reason, the call for justice and for sticking to their ideals rather than going back to the 'old ways'. Leia doesn't want to just do things the way they've always been done: she wants to do 'better'. And she is doing better. The speech Leia gives is an implicit indictment of everything her father failed to understand, all the traps that Mon (with all the emotional turmoil and ethical dilemnas carried from her time building the Rebellion) is in danger of falling into:
Is this how our grand revolution ends? The second our mettle is tested, we fall back to old habits? We answer threats and violence with bigger threats and violence? So much for the New Republic, then. If we have to fight, we will fight, but we did dream of a softer way. I didn't imagine it. A way less reliant on anger and violence. [...] And we bristled when [the Fenril Consortium] brushed us off. Don't deny it. I felt it too. You know what I'm going to say: ['No one said this would be easy.']But let no one think this makes Leia weak. #6's last shot, , is proof of that.
Everything Alex Segura has written for Star Wars, even as far back as Battle of Jakku, has been building towards something. Each issue, even if it didn't feel like it, has been adding a little bit to the puzzle while never neglecting the characters at its heart. Now, it really feels like we're on the edge of that something, and I can't wait to see what it is.
November 5, 2025
I was enjoying this series. Despite the "garbage so hot that a dianoga would shun it"-ness of Star Wars: Jedi Knights (2025-) #3 and my subsequent personal boycott of anything Marc Guggenheim writes (see: HOT GARBAGE), that was but a single issue. I'm starting to see Segura's series as a competitor with The Phantom Menace film as the dullest Star Wars tale ever told.
TPM was George Lucas writing what he knew. To wit: Our Uncle George had just spent roughly 2 decades building Industrial Light and Magic... doing what? Meetings meetings meetings. Traveling to meetings. Having difficult meetings. Battling obstacles (heavy traffic? mediocre sandwiches?) on his way to meetings.
What is Star Wars (2025)? Talking about going to meetings. Talking about avoiding meetings. Talking about how tough certain meetings will be. With miscellaneous battles to try to protect and/or kill various meeters (haw haw I made up a word) as a half-hearted attempt at flavour.
My last sneeze was more interesting than this issue.
TPM was George Lucas writing what he knew. To wit: Our Uncle George had just spent roughly 2 decades building Industrial Light and Magic... doing what? Meetings meetings meetings. Traveling to meetings. Having difficult meetings. Battling obstacles (heavy traffic? mediocre sandwiches?) on his way to meetings.
What is Star Wars (2025)? Talking about going to meetings. Talking about avoiding meetings. Talking about how tough certain meetings will be. With miscellaneous battles to try to protect and/or kill various meeters (haw haw I made up a word) as a half-hearted attempt at flavour.
My last sneeze was more interesting than this issue.
November 21, 2025
If I hadn’t purchased a mail order subscription six months ago that still has six issues left, this is where I would have dropped the book. A consecutive issue that feels like it was only made in order to reference the Clone Wars while also having art that vexes me. Faces all seem stiff and similar, the surrounding world and backgrounds are sparse (not optimal for a Star Wars book), and the stakes are continually confusing. There isn’t a flow to the movements of characters, and the droids here seem to conveniently switch between being out-to-kill and out-to-capture.
October 2, 2025
I couldn’t get into Leia’s storyline but Luke and Han’s side quest with the battle droids was pretty good. Although I can’t tell if i liked it because I liked the story or because I’m just a huge prequel lover and falling for the bait :/
I liked this issue a lot more than I’ve liked previous issues which is good. I’ve been really tempted to drop this but I might keep going cause I liked this one.
I liked this issue a lot more than I’ve liked previous issues which is good. I’ve been really tempted to drop this but I might keep going cause I liked this one.
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October 3, 2025
Again, absolutely silly as Luke—a full-blown Jedi—Han, and Beilert Valance, a cyborg, put on old Clone Trooper armor (why?!) to fight against a large group of incompetent 20-year-old battle droids from The Clone Wars. Beautiful artwork but absolutely inane storyline.
February 2, 2026
No idea why they put on those clone trooper fits bc none of those men have training in how to navigate in that heavy armor but damn did they all look fine
Luke calling upon Anakin??? Jesus kid you really saw the good in him 😭 a drag path and all that jazz
Luke calling upon Anakin??? Jesus kid you really saw the good in him 😭 a drag path and all that jazz
October 22, 2025
Okay, I can definitely admit this felt like it was for the sake of fanservice.
January 5, 2026
Some good action with Han, Luke, and Valance, but I can't help but think that this series is limited by the status quo of the Disney sequel films. After all, only non-major characters face fatalities, and we know who makes it out alive for the most part. Phil Noto's art is clean and detailed, as always, and the artist delivers competent storytelling and dynamic character designs. This is a perfectly decent comic book that I would recommend to readers who like the Expanded Universe novels: though this story isn't set in that continuity, the political intrigue of the plot has that flavor.
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