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Star Wars (2025-) #10
THE FINAL CONFRONTATION! As the fate of the FENRIL SECTOR - and THE GALAXY! - hangs in the balance, LUKE SKYWALKER, HAN SOLO, RYNN ZENAT and the NAGAI must face off REYNA OSKURE and her twisted followers! Will Oskure's deadly powers destroy one of the heroes forever? THE NEW REPUBLIC forces stand on the brink of war - will the brief peace be lost forever?
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Published February 18, 2026
About the author
Alex Segura
302 books586 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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February 27, 2026
Sadly, there's nothing special in this final issue.
It should have been as Rynn Zenat takes center stage. Since Battle of Jakku, Alex Segura introduced many of his own characters to accompany the established 'legacies' but none of them ever felt like they belonged. Most were spies who ended up dead or sidelined once the limelight passed (like Kith Alaytia or Rynn's girlfriend, the most pointless character in the history of pointless characters). In this long list of forgetable, disposable characters, Rynn has been the exception, a character I could identify with, thanks mostly to her friendship with Luke. That is until recently. Since Issue #1 of Star Wars (2025-2026), Rynn felt like a wall painting, a background sidekick. Until #8: Rynn was dying because her lifeforce had been stolen back in Battle of Jakku by the Anzati 'witch' Reyna Oskure. The Anzati stealing lifeforce doesn't bother me; it originated in Dark Horse Comics's Republic series. Nor is Rynn dying a bad plot point (Mara Jade spent the first eight books of The New Jedi Order fighting off an alien infection the Force was powerless against). What does annoy me is that this was unforeshadowed. Rynn should have been struggling with this from #1, keeping it a secret and trying to keep up even as her body was failing. Grappling with simple mortality as she fights side by side with legends, scared of what they might do if they found out? That would have been a great arc.
As a result, giving the POV to Rynn this issue doesn't work as nothing she does feels earned. It's furstrating that Segura felt the need to focus on new original characters he would then neglect when his treatment of the legacy characters was top-notch. Reyna was a great villain, giving off distinctive Lumiya vibes from the old Expanded Universe, and Luke's takedown of her in #9 was amazing, especially as she spun the truth revealed by the Crown of Verity on him. In #10, Reyna escapes. This time, Rynn takes her down, requiring a massive exposition dump instead of being epic and fistbumping as Luke's was. Reyna's threat ends in a whimper and Rynn's own sudden arc is resolved, quite literally, by magic.
Same for the Nagai rebellion and the Zantarrk Gang. With the issue opening on the Zantarrk fleet blowing up over Nagi and debris falling to the surface, #10 should have gone the disaster movie route. What I would have given to see Luke stopping the debris with the Force. Or Han and New Republic pilots trying to shoot it down, much like Phantom Squadron in Empire's End. The subsequent reconstruction efforts would have been a more interesting ending. What we got instead was more generic fighting and the same speech from Leia about the importance of solidarity she already gave a few issues prior.
There's been a lot of speculation that Issue #10 wasn't supposed to be the final issue of Star Wars (2025-2026). If there was ever a sign of that, it's the cameo of the Tofs, which won't land land unless you're very familiar with the old EU. Does it advance the story in any way to feature, for a single frame, the Nagai's ancestral enemies? No. What it does is take away from more interesting storylines. Why did so many Nagai join the Zantarrk? All the resolution that premise got was a small conversation between Nagai leader Jesrit (another sidelined character) and an unmasked Zantarrk Nagai which can be summed up as 'why did you do it?'/'I was promised money'/'It's ok, I forgive you'. Seriously? Is that best you can do? But, if the ending was rushed, the cameo at least shows that Segura had more stories to tell.
The overall result is that #10 reads more like a list of cool things that could have been if the series continued, not the epic conclusion I was hoping for. Was Rynn's illness planned but brought forward because of he would never get the chance to say it otherwise? What plans did he have for the Tofs and the Nagai in the future? We'll never know.
How did I find Star Wars (2025-2026) run as a whole?
4.1/5 stars
With the future of Star Wars comics beyond tie-ins uncertain, this might be the end for Alex Segura. But should it be?
He does have pretty spectacular lows. The longer his series run, the more apparent his shortcomings. He is excellent at setup but stumbles at pay off, relies on original characters he treats unevenly, often forgetting characters he created could take a function he instead creates whole new characters for, and sometimes plays fast and loose with continuity; in Battle of Jakku, he made deliberate changes contradicting the story told in the concurrent Aftermath trilogy (Chuck Wendig's brilliant, sadly underrated, series). Similarly, in Star Wars (2025-2026), he left a character's entire arc unforeshadowed. All these things build up and make for a few, very frustrating issues like this one.
But I could happily live with that considering how good he was at everything else.
What cannot be argued is how well he treated the legacy characters. Issues #2, #3 and #4, standalones about Luke, Han and Leia, are a masterclass in Star Wars character development. Segura knows them well, whether Han's self-denial that he has always been a good man or Leia's willingness to risk it all to live by her ideals. But Luke is where Segura shone: Segura is an EXCELLENT Luke Skywalker writer, showing him as a confident Jedi who nonetheless struggles with purpose, while accouting for every part of his characterisation, from A New Hope's farmboy to the grumpy mentor from The Last Jedi. In fact, it was Segura's take on Luke that helped me figure out a factor behind the virulent backlash against The Last Jedi, why even I (a proud Last Jedi and Grumpy Luke defender) always felt that it wasn't quite right: it was because Grumpy Luke was all we got. What if the sequels had introduced a more confident Luke in The Force Awakens only to bring him low in subsequent films? Now, thanks to Segura, I have more than just Luke's appearances in the sequels and Adam Christopher's Shadow of the Sith to sink my teeth into. Issue #2 is as perfect a Luke story as it can get. Alex Segura deserves his own post-Return of the Jedi standalone Luke series. A. S. A. P.
But Segura was also excellent in another category where the sequels were left wanting: the tropes of Star Wars. The political intrigue of the underdog armed insurgency struggling to transition into a functional alternative government is where the sequels should have gone after the originals dealt with the initial struggle and the prequels the failures of government. Especially after Andor, it's worth having a series that asks whether it's best to be pragmatic to a fault, as Mon Mothma argues, or if it's worth the cost of standing by our ideals, as represented by Leia? In a world as adrift as 2026's, having such a conversation about government is more important than ever. Nor did Segura just press 'reset' like The Force Awakens. He realised what the GFFA needs more of: that there is always more to the story. When he features a Star Wars image, like stormtroopers, he asked genuine questions about who could be using the trappings of the Empire after it fell. The best Segura had to offer is one such story: the battle droid arc of Issues #5 and #6. Rather than boring and repetitive, watching original trilogy heroes fight prequel era enemies had my blood pumping. And, beyond the cool factor, we got amazing character beats too: Luke connects with his father and master on a whole new level as he faces what they did daily during the Clone Wars and engages for the first time in action he had up until then never done (providing interesting backstory to how he evolved prior to season 2 of The Mandalorian). It's not the most elaborate or thought-provoking subtext ever done but it speaks volumes for me, on a similar level to its thematic predecessor, the Star Wars Rebels's 'The Last Battle'.
Segura's callbacks aren't limited to existing continuity either: the Nagai were an early foe for the New Republic in the old EU, so I loved seeing them here. Segura gave them a different spin, making them oppressed underdogs oppressed. This twist forces the New Republic (and Luke as the sole surviving Jedi) to question whether their ideals can be upheld now that they have won. Should they help this new rebellion or establish themselves more firmly first? The Nagai stand in for 'the little guy', the ones caught between the ambitions of despots and the good intentions of 'civilised' mainstream governments. Appropriately, this story's climax came out at the same time as the Greenland dispute and the ongoing war in Ukraine.
So, there it is. All his considerable faults outweighed by his strengths. This shouldn't be the end for him in Star Wars.
It should only be the end for now.
It should have been as Rynn Zenat takes center stage. Since Battle of Jakku, Alex Segura introduced many of his own characters to accompany the established 'legacies' but none of them ever felt like they belonged. Most were spies who ended up dead or sidelined once the limelight passed (like Kith Alaytia or Rynn's girlfriend, the most pointless character in the history of pointless characters). In this long list of forgetable, disposable characters, Rynn has been the exception, a character I could identify with, thanks mostly to her friendship with Luke. That is until recently. Since Issue #1 of Star Wars (2025-2026), Rynn felt like a wall painting, a background sidekick. Until #8: Rynn was dying because her lifeforce had been stolen back in Battle of Jakku by the Anzati 'witch' Reyna Oskure. The Anzati stealing lifeforce doesn't bother me; it originated in Dark Horse Comics's Republic series. Nor is Rynn dying a bad plot point (Mara Jade spent the first eight books of The New Jedi Order fighting off an alien infection the Force was powerless against). What does annoy me is that this was unforeshadowed. Rynn should have been struggling with this from #1, keeping it a secret and trying to keep up even as her body was failing. Grappling with simple mortality as she fights side by side with legends, scared of what they might do if they found out? That would have been a great arc.
As a result, giving the POV to Rynn this issue doesn't work as nothing she does feels earned. It's furstrating that Segura felt the need to focus on new original characters he would then neglect when his treatment of the legacy characters was top-notch. Reyna was a great villain, giving off distinctive Lumiya vibes from the old Expanded Universe, and Luke's takedown of her in #9 was amazing, especially as she spun the truth revealed by the Crown of Verity on him. In #10, Reyna escapes. This time, Rynn takes her down, requiring a massive exposition dump instead of being epic and fistbumping as Luke's was. Reyna's threat ends in a whimper and Rynn's own sudden arc is resolved, quite literally, by magic.
Same for the Nagai rebellion and the Zantarrk Gang. With the issue opening on the Zantarrk fleet blowing up over Nagi and debris falling to the surface, #10 should have gone the disaster movie route. What I would have given to see Luke stopping the debris with the Force. Or Han and New Republic pilots trying to shoot it down, much like Phantom Squadron in Empire's End. The subsequent reconstruction efforts would have been a more interesting ending. What we got instead was more generic fighting and the same speech from Leia about the importance of solidarity she already gave a few issues prior.
There's been a lot of speculation that Issue #10 wasn't supposed to be the final issue of Star Wars (2025-2026). If there was ever a sign of that, it's the cameo of the Tofs, which won't land land unless you're very familiar with the old EU. Does it advance the story in any way to feature, for a single frame, the Nagai's ancestral enemies? No. What it does is take away from more interesting storylines. Why did so many Nagai join the Zantarrk? All the resolution that premise got was a small conversation between Nagai leader Jesrit (another sidelined character) and an unmasked Zantarrk Nagai which can be summed up as 'why did you do it?'/'I was promised money'/'It's ok, I forgive you'. Seriously? Is that best you can do? But, if the ending was rushed, the cameo at least shows that Segura had more stories to tell.
The overall result is that #10 reads more like a list of cool things that could have been if the series continued, not the epic conclusion I was hoping for. Was Rynn's illness planned but brought forward because of he would never get the chance to say it otherwise? What plans did he have for the Tofs and the Nagai in the future? We'll never know.
How did I find Star Wars (2025-2026) run as a whole?
4.1/5 stars
With the future of Star Wars comics beyond tie-ins uncertain, this might be the end for Alex Segura. But should it be?
He does have pretty spectacular lows. The longer his series run, the more apparent his shortcomings. He is excellent at setup but stumbles at pay off, relies on original characters he treats unevenly, often forgetting characters he created could take a function he instead creates whole new characters for, and sometimes plays fast and loose with continuity; in Battle of Jakku, he made deliberate changes contradicting the story told in the concurrent Aftermath trilogy (Chuck Wendig's brilliant, sadly underrated, series). Similarly, in Star Wars (2025-2026), he left a character's entire arc unforeshadowed. All these things build up and make for a few, very frustrating issues like this one.
But I could happily live with that considering how good he was at everything else.
What cannot be argued is how well he treated the legacy characters. Issues #2, #3 and #4, standalones about Luke, Han and Leia, are a masterclass in Star Wars character development. Segura knows them well, whether Han's self-denial that he has always been a good man or Leia's willingness to risk it all to live by her ideals. But Luke is where Segura shone: Segura is an EXCELLENT Luke Skywalker writer, showing him as a confident Jedi who nonetheless struggles with purpose, while accouting for every part of his characterisation, from A New Hope's farmboy to the grumpy mentor from The Last Jedi. In fact, it was Segura's take on Luke that helped me figure out a factor behind the virulent backlash against The Last Jedi, why even I (a proud Last Jedi and Grumpy Luke defender) always felt that it wasn't quite right: it was because Grumpy Luke was all we got. What if the sequels had introduced a more confident Luke in The Force Awakens only to bring him low in subsequent films? Now, thanks to Segura, I have more than just Luke's appearances in the sequels and Adam Christopher's Shadow of the Sith to sink my teeth into. Issue #2 is as perfect a Luke story as it can get. Alex Segura deserves his own post-Return of the Jedi standalone Luke series. A. S. A. P.
But Segura was also excellent in another category where the sequels were left wanting: the tropes of Star Wars. The political intrigue of the underdog armed insurgency struggling to transition into a functional alternative government is where the sequels should have gone after the originals dealt with the initial struggle and the prequels the failures of government. Especially after Andor, it's worth having a series that asks whether it's best to be pragmatic to a fault, as Mon Mothma argues, or if it's worth the cost of standing by our ideals, as represented by Leia? In a world as adrift as 2026's, having such a conversation about government is more important than ever. Nor did Segura just press 'reset' like The Force Awakens. He realised what the GFFA needs more of: that there is always more to the story. When he features a Star Wars image, like stormtroopers, he asked genuine questions about who could be using the trappings of the Empire after it fell. The best Segura had to offer is one such story: the battle droid arc of Issues #5 and #6. Rather than boring and repetitive, watching original trilogy heroes fight prequel era enemies had my blood pumping. And, beyond the cool factor, we got amazing character beats too: Luke connects with his father and master on a whole new level as he faces what they did daily during the Clone Wars and engages for the first time in action he had up until then never done (providing interesting backstory to how he evolved prior to season 2 of The Mandalorian). It's not the most elaborate or thought-provoking subtext ever done but it speaks volumes for me, on a similar level to its thematic predecessor, the Star Wars Rebels's 'The Last Battle'.
Segura's callbacks aren't limited to existing continuity either: the Nagai were an early foe for the New Republic in the old EU, so I loved seeing them here. Segura gave them a different spin, making them oppressed underdogs oppressed. This twist forces the New Republic (and Luke as the sole surviving Jedi) to question whether their ideals can be upheld now that they have won. Should they help this new rebellion or establish themselves more firmly first? The Nagai stand in for 'the little guy', the ones caught between the ambitions of despots and the good intentions of 'civilised' mainstream governments. Appropriately, this story's climax came out at the same time as the Greenland dispute and the ongoing war in Ukraine.
So, there it is. All his considerable faults outweighed by his strengths. This shouldn't be the end for him in Star Wars.
It should only be the end for now.
March 5, 2026
Man, it’s a bummer to see this series go right as I felt it was hitting its stride. I feel like Segura was finally sorting out all the various threads he’s been weaving since the Battle of Jakku and I was finally buying into the whole thing. But then we had to rush through the end because the series was cancelled. I expected more from our journey into the New Republic era alongside the OT cast.
February 19, 2026
Ill be honest i only collected this run for the action figure variant covers but it was an okay story, just not a big star wars fan but really wish i was.
March 8, 2026
This whole arc has been rather confusing and uninteresting unfortunately.
March 14, 2026
The end.
The Ross and Sotomayor is a good art and color combo. Hope to see more from them.
The Ross and Sotomayor is a good art and color combo. Hope to see more from them.
March 22, 2026
I love that Han and Luke tried to stop Ryne and say that this wasn’t her AFTER she had already killed that woman <3 iconic bisexual, Gay, and lesbian behavior
March 23, 2026
Eh. This felt very by the numbers.
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