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Star Wars: Jedi Knights (2025-) #9
THE SECRET OF CORLIS RATH IS REVEALED! The mysterious CORLIS RATH has hunted JEDI MASTER QUI-GON JINN across the galaxy. Now learn the why in this first part of the deadly villain's origin. Guest-starring the enigmatic COUNT DOOKU.
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Published November 19, 2025
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Marc Guggenheim
938 books175 followersMarc Guggenheim grew up on Long Island, New York, and earned his law degree from Boston University. After over four years in practice, he left law to pursue a career in television.
Today, Guggenheim is an Emmy Award–winning writer who writes for multiple mediums including television, film, video games, comic books, and new media. His work includes projects for such popular franchises as Percy Jackson, Star Wars, Call of Duty, Star Trek, and Planet of the Apes.
His next book, In Any Lifetime, coming from Lake Union Publishing on August 1st.
Guggenheim currently lives in Encino, California, with his wife, two daughters, and a handful of pets.
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Today, Guggenheim is an Emmy Award–winning writer who writes for multiple mediums including television, film, video games, comic books, and new media. His work includes projects for such popular franchises as Percy Jackson, Star Wars, Call of Duty, Star Trek, and Planet of the Apes.
His next book, In Any Lifetime, coming from Lake Union Publishing on August 1st.
Guggenheim currently lives in Encino, California, with his wife, two daughters, and a handful of pets.
Keep up to date on his latest projects with LegalDispatch, a weekly newsletter where he shares news and notes about writing, comics, and the entertainment industry.
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December 2, 2025
Young Qui Gon was rad, more of this please.
December 14, 2025
After another thought-provoking issue, we're back to Jedi Knights's only continuous storyline: Qui-Gon Jinn and the mysterious bounty hunter Corlis Rath.
Last we'd seen them, Qui-Gon had been poisoned by Corlis Rath and was in a coma fighting for his life. Since Qui-Gon has impenetrable, Phantom Menace-shaped plot armour, drawing out that storyline would have been senseless. Fortunately, writer Marc Guggenheim wakes him up in the very first frame. Jedi Knights has never wasted any time with the needless setup and delayed revelations which have saturated otherwise good stories in the past.
Next, we get a flashback to Qui-Gon's youth, when he and his master first went to Sinsara. With Count Dooku involved, it tracks that his presence would have caused problems, but his initial decision actually seems wise. To push Qui-Gon's training further, Dooku decides to put him in charge on Sinsara, as Master Yoda had once done for him. While this in itself doesn't feel that bad, it does lend an ominous note to what will happen when they land. Predictably, Qui-Gon, as a Padawan out of his depth, tries to find the path of least resistance. Using a mind trick is definitely a Qui-Gon trait (he used it three, if not four, times in The Phantom Menace), but the context is interesting. In the film, Qui-Gon uses it as a last ressort, not as an opening act, unlike in #9. And it echoes how brash Jedi Knight Berem Khana tried the same rash trick in #1, a strategy Qui-Gon himself admonished. Now, we know why.
#9 also featured a great Obi-Wan appearance. Since Claudia Gray's Master & Apprentice, it has been recontextualised that Obi-Wan, far from being the 'goody-two-shoes' most thought, was actually a rebel, someone who usually positioned himself against his particular interlocutor as way of rebelling. As he had a rebellious master and a rebellious apprentice, the only way left to rebel is to be the paragon of orthodoxy. Guggenheim gives that a spin: I was fully expecting Obi-Wan to try and force Qui-Gon to obey orders and stay on Coruscant, but he instead offers a different solution, one that defies both the Council and Qui-Gon all at once, while at the same time supporting his master in his quest. Guggenheim also writes a sufficiently witty Obi-Wan line of dialogue that we know he is once again sticking to established continuity with the way he writes legacy characters.
This treatment of legacy characters extends to Dooku. In Cavan Scott's Dooku: Jedi Lost, Dooku was written as having fallen to the dark side, not because he wanted power, but because he was stiffled at the Jedi doctrine not to use power. Dooku fell because he was convinced he could right all the wrongs of the galaxy if only he was allowed to. In the flashback, he tries to teach such a lesson to Qui-Gon, which makes his Padawan follow the wrong path. Dooku deliberately setting Qui-Gon up to fail is the kind of emotional manipulation that shows that, for all his good intentions about what good the Jedi could do, he remains a contemptible individual who put his charge in a situation he never should have been put in just to prove his point.
Unfortunately, #9 has to do a lot of heavy lifting exposition where the underwhelming #7 could have stepped in. Rather than showing us more about the ritual known as the Chrysalis, as it could have, it instead explains it. This exposition continues the disappointment of Sinsara's portrayal from what it should have been (i.e. the 'most dangerous planet in the galaxy'). This mean that #10 might be required to do a lot of heavy lifting, not just on Corlis and Qui-Gon's original confrontation, but also on their final one, and on the disappointingly neglected Sinsaran mythology.
I'm still hopeful it'll be worth it.
Last we'd seen them, Qui-Gon had been poisoned by Corlis Rath and was in a coma fighting for his life. Since Qui-Gon has impenetrable, Phantom Menace-shaped plot armour, drawing out that storyline would have been senseless. Fortunately, writer Marc Guggenheim wakes him up in the very first frame. Jedi Knights has never wasted any time with the needless setup and delayed revelations which have saturated otherwise good stories in the past.
Next, we get a flashback to Qui-Gon's youth, when he and his master first went to Sinsara. With Count Dooku involved, it tracks that his presence would have caused problems, but his initial decision actually seems wise. To push Qui-Gon's training further, Dooku decides to put him in charge on Sinsara, as Master Yoda had once done for him. While this in itself doesn't feel that bad, it does lend an ominous note to what will happen when they land. Predictably, Qui-Gon, as a Padawan out of his depth, tries to find the path of least resistance. Using a mind trick is definitely a Qui-Gon trait (he used it three, if not four, times in The Phantom Menace), but the context is interesting. In the film, Qui-Gon uses it as a last ressort, not as an opening act, unlike in #9. And it echoes how brash Jedi Knight Berem Khana tried the same rash trick in #1, a strategy Qui-Gon himself admonished. Now, we know why.
#9 also featured a great Obi-Wan appearance. Since Claudia Gray's Master & Apprentice, it has been recontextualised that Obi-Wan, far from being the 'goody-two-shoes' most thought, was actually a rebel, someone who usually positioned himself against his particular interlocutor as way of rebelling. As he had a rebellious master and a rebellious apprentice, the only way left to rebel is to be the paragon of orthodoxy. Guggenheim gives that a spin: I was fully expecting Obi-Wan to try and force Qui-Gon to obey orders and stay on Coruscant, but he instead offers a different solution, one that defies both the Council and Qui-Gon all at once, while at the same time supporting his master in his quest. Guggenheim also writes a sufficiently witty Obi-Wan line of dialogue that we know he is once again sticking to established continuity with the way he writes legacy characters.
This treatment of legacy characters extends to Dooku. In Cavan Scott's Dooku: Jedi Lost, Dooku was written as having fallen to the dark side, not because he wanted power, but because he was stiffled at the Jedi doctrine not to use power. Dooku fell because he was convinced he could right all the wrongs of the galaxy if only he was allowed to. In the flashback, he tries to teach such a lesson to Qui-Gon, which makes his Padawan follow the wrong path. Dooku deliberately setting Qui-Gon up to fail is the kind of emotional manipulation that shows that, for all his good intentions about what good the Jedi could do, he remains a contemptible individual who put his charge in a situation he never should have been put in just to prove his point.
Unfortunately, #9 has to do a lot of heavy lifting exposition where the underwhelming #7 could have stepped in. Rather than showing us more about the ritual known as the Chrysalis, as it could have, it instead explains it. This exposition continues the disappointment of Sinsara's portrayal from what it should have been (i.e. the 'most dangerous planet in the galaxy'). This mean that #10 might be required to do a lot of heavy lifting, not just on Corlis and Qui-Gon's original confrontation, but also on their final one, and on the disappointingly neglected Sinsaran mythology.
I'm still hopeful it'll be worth it.
November 26, 2025
This run is good. I’m so invested and everything going on even in the side stories that pop up in issues occasionally. This was one that was major plot driving forward and it was really strong. Ended on a cliffhanger and I need to know what happens!!
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November 29, 2025
I never thought I would be this invested and god am i saddened by the cliff hanger this was honestly a really good edition to the series, cant wait for the next edition. I would even go to rate it a 4.75 but i wont be rounding up hheheeh
December 22, 2025
This kind of redoes the library scene in AOTC but with Jocasta Nu actually being helpful. It’s neat that the comics can utilize young Qui-Gon and Dooku now. But also, Star Wars having a Davros really throws me because of the Doctor Who villain.
December 18, 2025
Probably one of my favourite chapter!!
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