Star Wars: Doctor Aphra (2020-2024) #26

Star Wars: Doctor Aphra (2020) (Single Issues)

by Alyssa Wong, W. Scott Forbes (Cover Art), Minkyu Jung (Artist)

Friends and enemies. Sana Starros and her allies have cornered the Spark Eternal! She’s determined to bring Doctor Aphra back, no matter what it takes! But will it be enough? Or will it destroy Sana, Aphra...and everyone they love?

Genres: Star Wars, Comics, Graphic Novels Comics, Graphic Novels

23 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 16, 2022

About the author

Alyssa Wong studies fiction in Raleigh, NC, and really, really likes crows. She was a finalist for the 2016 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and her story, “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers,” won the 2015 Nebula Award for Best Short Story and the 2016 World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the Pushcart Prize, the Bram Stoker Award, the Locus Award, and the Shirley Jackson Award. Her work has been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Nightmare Magazine, Black Static, and Tor.com, among others.

Reviews

[Saimi Korhonen · Rating 4 out of 5]

”You came to separate me from Aphra. And what, reduce a broken woman back to her broken pieces? So you can take credit for putting her back together? No, I don’t think so. Chelli Aphra is mine now.”

Sana Starros and her team to rescue Chelli Lona Aphra have managed to capture the Spark Eternal, the ancient technological marvel holding their friend hostage in her own body. Their victory is short lived as soon, everything goes to hell.

This issue was wild and full of cool weirdness, a few touching moments and great art. This series is such a joy to read each month. This issue had some cool twists and turns, some that gave hints as to where this arc will go next and some that I think will be followed up on other comics, like Charles Soule's Hidden Empire. My favorite scene was a sequence between Aphra and Magna Tolvan, as they are a duo that I like a whole lot, even though I ship Aphra more with Sana. Seeing those two reunite was so much fun!

I don't have any big thoughts or critiques or anything that smart to say, other than that this series is a blast and I can't wait for issue 27!

[Jenna · Rating 3 out of 5]

3* for the pacing, action, and writing, as some of the dialogue could really have been cut down and allowed the drawings to talk for themselves.

4* for Aphra and Tolvan FINALLY seeing each other again! Tolvan's such a softy.

[Steven Shinder · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really goes all out with the spark.

[Elizabeth (Miss Eliza) · Rating 3 out of 5]

OK, so, um, did they all die? And I think that the new power is going to be Spark and the Murderbots... I mean, who would stand in their way?

[Jason · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.25

[Andy Hickman · Rating 3 out of 5]

#26 – Friends and Enemies – “After all isn’t this an ARCHAEOLOGIST’S GREATEST DREAM? To discover something so MOMENTOUS that it changes Everything.” – Spark
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