Star Wars #10

Star Wars (2020) (Single Issues)

by Charles Soule, Jan Bazaldua (Illustrator), Carlo Pagulayan (Cover Artist)

“OPERATION STARLIGHT, PART 2 (OF 3)” - REELING FROM THE LOSS OF ONE OF THEIR OWN, THE REBELS FINALLY SEE A PATH FORWARD! THE REBELS attempt to create a new communications code that THE EMPIRE will never be able to crack, in hopes that they might be able to safely reunite their scattered fleet and rejoin the fight. However, the code has a cost, one that LANDO CALRISSIAN is not willing to pay! Meanwhile, STARLIGHT SQUADRON, the group of elite pilots tasked with finding the scattered divisions of the fleet, heads out on its first deadly mission.

Genres: Star Wars, Comics, Graphic Novels, Science Fiction, Marvel, Graphic Novels Comics

32 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 6, 2021

About the author

Charles Soule is a #1 New York Times-bestselling novelist, comics author, screenwriter, musician, and lapsed attorney. He has written some of the most prominent stories of the last decade for Marvel, DC and Lucasfilm in addition to his own work, such as his comics Curse Words, Letter 44 and Undiscovered Country, and his original novels Light of the Jedi, The Endless Vessel, The Oracle Year and Anyone. He lives in New York.

Reviews

[Ian Sharman · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is an entirely decent comic, it's just...I'm just not really into it, you know?

I think the thing that's really bothering me is that this is set between The Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi, and at the end of Empire we see Lando heading off to find Han...who he knows Boba Fett was taking to Jabba. He knows where Jabba is. So...he surely went to Jabba's palace and infiltrated his guards and... Well, apparently not, apparently he hung out with the Rebellion for a while, going on missions with them, and Lobot was with him too, and he was secretly communicating with Bib Fortuna and wrestling with whether or not he should sell the Rebels out...

And, while, sure, none of that directly contradicts anything we saw in the movies, it doesn't quite feel right. Maybe Soule will turn it around by the end of this arc and I'll be into it, but that hasn't happened for me yet.

I did like all the stuff with the pilots though, and it's great to see Poe's parents being given something to do.

I should also, I think, address the cover...as I talked about the fact that Leia was on the cover of #9 but hardly in the actual comic in my review of that issue. Well, Luke pretty much takes up the entire cover of #10, with his new yellow lightsaber at the ready (which I've just realised must be referencing the fact that Kenner gave Luke a yellow lightsaber back in the day)...but he's not in a single panel of this comic. Which is a bit misleading...

Anyway, it's by no means a bad comic, it just has some issues which pulled me out of the story. Maybe I'm just a nerd?

[Steven Shinder · Rating 4 out of 5]

The cover doesn't really match the issue. I did think this tied in nicely with Soule's Lando miniseries. And he's weaved in characters from other comics as members of Starlight Squadron. But what's the deal with Leia and Lando's faces? They look weird.

[Buck johnson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Its star wars!

Nice tie-ins from the lando comics and familar characters return in a nice way. Cant wait for more and especially more high republic easter eggs!

[Micah Ulibarri · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was good but missing some of the spark that the series has started off. Hopefully, they will find it again in the next issue.

[Dan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just a synoptic of the series so far, very good, great art, great expansion on empire strikes back and awesome rebel and imperial action.

[Jason · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5

[Dennis Brock · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.25/5

[Andy Hickman · Rating 2 out of 5]

Star Wars (2020)

#10 – “You’ll have LANDO CALRISSIAN to answer to.”