Comics With Kenobi

From the satisfying conclusion to IDW Publishing's third and final issue of Star Wars Adventures -- Destroyer Down #3 to the in-depth father-and-son dynamic in Star Wars: Age of Republic -- Jango Fett #1 to a somewhat unexpected, yet utterly satisfying, return of an Imperial villian in Star Wars #59, Jeff and Matt are impressed, to a point, with the comics released on Jan. 9 from Marvel and IDW.Besides the comics discussion, we're also waxing rhapsodic on when and how the monthly Star Wars title should tackle events between those seen in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi (Bothans, everybody, Bothans.), as well as saying goodbye, prematurely, to writer Kieron Gillen's run.This week's Star Wars comics, out Jan. 16, include:Star Wars: Age of Republic -- Special #1Star Wars: Age of Republic -- Qui-Gon Jinn Adventures -- Destroyer Down #1 (Second Printing)Stay in touch and up to date by following us on Twitter and Facebook.Like what you hear? Go to iTunes and leave us a rating and review. Subscribe to

Last week's Star Wars comics this week were profound wildy adventurous, providing readers with a delicate yet forceful examination of the father-and-son relationship between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker in Jody Houser's deftly written Star Wars: Age of Republic -- Obi-Wan Kenobi one shot. In the third issue of the five-issue Star Wars: Han Solo -- Imperial Cadet, Robbie Thompson scripted an endearing story about building camaraderie and never losing sight of those you've left behind.Join us for our discussion and let us know what you think about these two tales.This week's Star Wars comics include:Star Wars #59Star Wars: Age of Republic -- Jango Fett #1Star Wars Adventures -- Destroyer Down #3Star Wars: Doctor Aphra -- The Catastrophe Con Trade paperbackStay in touch and up to date by following us on Twitter and Facebook.Like what you hear? Go to iTunes and leave us a rating and review. Subscribe to all of the Coffee With Kenobi network podcasts, including Lattes With Leia, Legends Library, Looking for

It's our end-of-the-year blowout spectacular special with a less-than-loquacious Jeff comparing and contrasting with Matt what was great about Star Wars comics in 2018 (Doctor Aphra, Poe Dameron and Tales From Vader's Castle), what wasn't so great (questionable editorial decisions) and what was just plain forgettable (looking right at you, DJ: Most Wanted).This year is a fresh start and we're optimistic about what it will bring to Star Wars in all its media iterations. We're grateful you spent 2018 with us and hope you'll do the same in 2019.This week's Star Wars comics include:Star Wars: Age of Republic -- Obi-Wan Kenobi #1Star Wars: Han Solo -- Imperial Cadet #3Stay in touch and up to date by following us on Twitter and Facebook.Like what you hear? Go to iTunes and leave us a rating and review. Subscribe to all of the Coffee With Kenobi network podcasts, including Lattes With Leia, Legends Library, Looking for Lucasfilm, Coffee With Kenobi, Resistance Reactions and Rebels Reactions.

The last issue of Darth Vader Vol. 2 was cinematic in its scope, detailed in its delivery and yielded far more questions than answers through the course of its Star Wars homages from the first to final page. In short, it began as it started: Expansive mythology for not just the Sith lord, but Anakin Skywalker, too.As for Solo: A Star Wars Story #3? This issue offered up some compelling details about Qi'ra, Dryden Vos and Crimson Dawn, as readers familiar with the film found new material to wrap their heads around.This week's Star Wars comics include:None this week.Stay in touch and up to date by following us on Twitter and Facebook.Like what you hear? Go to iTunes and leave us a rating and review. Subscribe to all of the Coffee With Kenobi network podcasts, including Lattes With Leia, Legends Library, Looking for Lucasfilm, Coffee With Kenobi, Resistance Reactions and Rebels Reactions.

A trifecta of Star Wars comics from Marvel's provided an assortent of achievements, and setbacks, for some characters and concepts, yet still advanced the medium of comics as one that is hand-in-glove to television and the cinema, too.The Star Wars: Age of Republic -- Darth Maul one shot was a master class in how this series is focusing on a specific character and expanding our knowledge but, more importantly, advancing a prequel trilogy-era villain's story.In Han Solo -- Imperial Cadet #2, we're quite satisfied with how this book is building on what was just a casual mention in the Solo: A Star Wars Story film, adding some detailed resonance that's important in the Han Solo mythology.Meanwhile, in Doctor Aphra #27, Simon Spurrier (we don't call him Si anymore) is having far too much fun with the character, the series and Star Wars, all to our benefit.This week's Star Wars comics include:Darth Vader #25Solo: A Star Wars Story Adaptation #3Star Wars Adventures #16Stay in touch and up to date by following us on

Marvel's ambitious, 27-issue Age of... maxi series begins its run with a potent yet divisive first issue, Age of Republic -- Qui-Gon Jinn, while in Star Wars #58, readers are enveloped with some seriously solid character development that has us rethinking our long-conceived notions about Han, Leia and Luke.From IDW comes the second issue of the three-part Star Wars Adventures: Destroyer Down reprint that proves, again, an all-ages comics can have a real resonance.In news, we break down November's Star Wars comics sales ranks, welcome Chris Ryall back to IDW Publishing and offer up some film recommendations.This week's Star Wars comics include:Star Wars: Age of Republic -- Darth MaulHan Solo -- Imperial Cadet #2Doctor Aphra #27Star Wars Vol. 9, collecting the "Hope Dies" arc (#50-55 and Annual 4)Stay in touch and up to date by following us on Twitter and Facebook.Like what you hear? Go to iTunes and leave us a rating and review. Subscribe to all of the Coffee With Kenobi network podcasts, including Lattes With

The Young Padawans -- Emily and Micah -- band together again to read and discuss the latest Star Wars Adventures comics from IDW Publishing. Joined by Matt and Amy, this episode puts issues #14 and #15 in the spotlight with stories about finding a missing Falcon, making a new friend and how old friends began as new friends.It's a rollicking good time as the quartet talks about the twists and turns in both comic books, featuring stories that focus on Han Solo and Chewbacca, Poe Dameron and BB-8, as well as the beginning of "The Flight of the Falcon" series of tales that show why the Millennium Falcon has always been the most elusive prize in all of Star Wars.The next issue of Star Wars Adventures #16 is due out Dec. 19.This week's Star Wars comics include:Star Wars: Age of Republic -- Darth MaulHan Solo -- Imperial Cadet #2Doctor Aphra #27Star Wars Vol. 9, collecting the "Hope Dies" arc (issues 50-55 and Annual 4)Stay in touch and up to date by following us on Twitter and Facebook.Like what you hear? Go to iTu

Just one issue this week, but it's left a searing impression on Jeff and Matt.Darth Vader #24 is setting up the series' conclusion with an unusual vista that may change the reality and perception of Darth Vader and, by extension, Anakin Skywalker, too, with consequences that could potentially resonate down the Star Wars timeline.A little far out mysticism anybody? This week's Star Wars comics include:Star Wars Adventures: Destroyer Down #2Star Wars #58Star Wars: Age of Republic -- Qui-Gon Jinn One ShotPoe Dameron Vol. 5 (collecting issues #26-31)Stay in touch and up to date by following us on Twitter and Facebook.Like what you hear? Go to iTunes and leave us a rating and review. Subscribe to all of the Coffee With Kenobi network podcasts, including Lattes With Leia, Legends Library, Looking for Lucasfilm, Coffee With Kenobi, Resistance Reactions and Rebels Reactions.

Well this episode is certainly ab-solutely ab-tastic and utterly f(ab)ulous without being at all pec-uliar.It's a double dose of Han Solo without a shirt as we discuss the second part of "The Escape" in Star Wars #57 and discuss the budding feelings of ... er ... attachment between Princess Leia, while in the pages of Solo: A Star Wars Story #2, we're treated to the beginning bonds of friendship between Han and Chewbacca, though we lament the lack of Enfys Nest character development.In news, there's discussion of upcoming projects from writer Charles Soule as well talk of potential holiday gift-giving ideas, too, courtesy of Coffee With Kenobi's team of writers and editors.This week's Star Wars comics include:Darth Vader #24Stay in touch and up to date by following us on Twitter and Facebook.Like what you hear? Go to iTunes and leave us a rating and review. Subscribe to all of the Coffee With Kenobi network podcasts, including Lattes With Leia, Legends Library, Looking for Lucasfilm, Coffee With Kenobi, Resis

Fresh of the heels of being deemed too obscure for the Star Wars Celebration podcast stage (Q: Who reads Star Wars comics anyway?A: About 200,000 do, every month.), we're looking at last week's Star Wars comics this week, including a rather stirring start of a new story arc in Doctor Aphra #26 and a thoroughly entertaining chapter of "Fortress Vader" in Darth Vader #23 that deftly blends subtle humor with a deeper lesson on the notion of maintaining balance in the force.There's also news and views, given Marvel's decision to scupper -- not cancel -- Chuck Wendig's Star Wars: Shadow of Vader five-issue mini series; A Star Wars Comic's decision to postpone its November release until December; the passing of Stan Lee and John Tyler Christopher's Yavin Princess Leia action-figure variant cover for Star Wars #58.This week's Star Wars comics include:Solo: A Star Wars Story #2Star Wars #57Stay in touch and up to date by following us on Twitter and Facebook.Like what you hear? Go to iTunes and leave us a rating and r

Heavy hearts as we mark the passing of Stan Lee, who co-created some of Marvel's most enduring characters and, thankfully, reconsidered his position against adapting a yet-to-be released sci-fi film that was to be called Star Wars by Marvel (thank you, Roy Thomas, for convincing him otherwise!).We remember Lee for the visionary that he was and will never forget him.In this episode we tackle three comics -- two from Marvel and one from IDW -- and come away with some salient observations about character building, what makes an artist great and how a writer makes a story sing. The issues include Star Wars #56, the first issue of the five-issue Star Wars: Han Solo -- Imperial Cadet and Star Wars Adventures: Destroyer Down #1 (of three). Each has its some strong moments that left us wanting more.As for news, October wasn't kind to Star Wars comics, with justtwo titles finishing in the top 100 -- you read that right -- as sales continue sauntering vaguely lower. We also talked about the latest John Tyler Christophe

Five weeks after it began, the frightful final issue of Star Wars Adventures: Tales From Vader's Castle #5 provides a resonant endsong to the mini series, keeping the suspense and chills on a steady course from start to finish.We're quite happy with how this weekly experiment played out and impressed how it not only kept its all-ages appeal, but managed to deliver enough frights for all readers. We were also pleased to see how it tied in to the events of Marvel's ongoing Darth Vader series, too.In keeping with our goal of letting listeners, and readers of Star Wars comics, hear from the creators, we're joined by Per Hedman, whose Star Wars-inspired homage to Gary Larsen's The Far Side -- The Far Dark Side -- has been making readers laugh, pause, think and, yes, puzzle, for awhile now. Join us as he talks about what inspired the strip, how he creates it and about his love for Star Wars, too.This week's Star Wars comics include:Star Wars #56Star Wars: Han Solo -- Imperial Cadet #1Star Wars Adventures -- Destroy

Readers are treated to what is arguably the first true Greek tragedy of modern Star Wars comics in the pages of Marvel's Doctor Aphra #25, a deftly executed -- in more ways than one -- conclusion to "The Catastrophe Con" story arc that left us agog because of the impact of the story.In the pages of IDW Publishing's Star Wars Adventures: Tales From Vader's Castle #4, its Ewoks who are given a weighty gravitas in a story that's one part monster epic and another part sheer terror.This week's Star Wars comics include:Star Wars Adventures #15Star Wars Adventures: Tales From Vader's Castle #5Stay in touch and up to date by following us on Twitter and Facebook.Like what you hear? Go to iTunes and leave us a rating and review. Subscribe to all of the Coffee With Kenobi network podcasts, including Lattes With Leia, Legends Library, Looking for Lucasfilm, Coffee With Kenobi, Resistance Reactions and Rebels Reactions.

Art is murderously misunderstood as readers, finally, get some details as to the origin of Lord Momin, the Sith Lord whose helm was introduced way back in the pages of the first Lando mini series, in the pages of Darth Vader #22, while the horror is sublime in the pages of IDW's Star Wars Adventures: Tales From Vader's Castle #3.Speaking of Star Wars Adventures, we sat down with writer James Gilarte to talk abou this first-ever Star Wars comics writing credit.He wrote the lead story next week's Star Wars Adventures #15, a tale that features not just Poe Dameron and BB-8, but a brand-new character that we think fans will find themselves growing fond of throught the story and beyond.It's an ambitious and well-crafted story that fits the purview of the title in every possible way and, once you read it, you'll see why we're hoping he's coming back for more stories.All that along with news, details about the coming week's Star Wars comics and so much more in a galaxy far, far away.This week's Star Wars comics incl

The Padawans have gathered again to talk about issues #12 and #13 of Star Wars Adventures.There's much to be learned in the stories, be it the dangers of revisionist history to knowing one's self worth.Emily, Micah, Amy and Matt bring talk about how Anakin and Padme, Mace Windu (he can be nice, you know) and more instill the message of the Star Wars Saga and that is hope.Join us as kids of all ages discuss the only Star Wars all-ages comics titles.

It was a quiet week in Star Wars comics until it wasn't.Jeff McGee and Matt Moore discuss Chuck Wendig's reveal that he's been "fired" by Marvel, the implications it may have and the reactions it's drawn. Also discussed? The solid and deft debut of Robbie Thompson and Will Sliney's first issue of the Solo: A Star Wars Story adaptation seven-issue mini series, for one. Then there's the genuinely creepy stories found the in the first two issues of the five-issue IDW Publishing Star Wars Adventures: Tales From Vader's Castle written by Cavan Scott and illustrated by Derek Charm and a rotating cast of artists.This week's Star Wars comics include:Darth Vader #22Star Wars Adventures: Tales From Vader's Castle #3Star Wars Epic CollectionThe New Republic Vol. 4 (Collects the Dark Horse-published Star Wars: Heir to the Empire #1-6, Star Wars: Dark Force Rising, #1-6 and Star Wars: The Last Command #1-6)Stay in touch and up to date by following us on Twitter and Facebook.Like what you hear? Go to iTunes and leave us a

This week's episode is about endings, both in the comics and beyond the comics, too. Star Wars #55 brings an end to Kieron Gillen's destructive and damaging -- to the Rebel Alliance -- "Hope Dies" arc, leaving Han, Luke and Leia partnered with Sana Starros as the Rebellions strives to survive, not flourish. The issue also marks the end of Salvador Larroca's run as artist on the series, too.We also talk about the conclusion of Poe Dameron with writer Charles Soule who, at NYCC, announced that his second volume of Darth Vader is coming to its end with issue #25.This week's Star Wars comics include:Solo: A Star Wars Story Adaptation #1Star Wars Adventures: Tales From Vader's Castle #2Stay in touch and up to date by following us on Twitter and Facebook.Like what you hear? Go to iTunes and leave us a rating and review. Subscribe to all of the Coffee With Kenobi network podcasts, including Lattes With Leia, Legends Library, Looking for Lucasfilm, Coffee With Kenobi and Rebels Reactions.

The adventures of Black Squadron concludes its run in the pages of Star Wars: Poe Dameron #31 in an inspiring, almost poetic manner, while the mysteries of the force prove to much to ignore as a former employer comes calling in Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #24.In A Star Wars Comic #17, Jim Mello and Alex Ray proffer a compelling story of duty, honor and sacrifice, but ask if it's forced, and note embraced, is it the same?This week's Star Wars comics include:Star Wars #55 (The concluding episode to the "Hope Dies" arc)Star Wars Adventures: Tales From Vader's Castle #1Stay in touch and up to date by following us on Twitter and Facebook.Like what you hear? Go to iTunes and leave us a rating and review. Subscribe to all of the Coffee With Kenobi network podcasts, including Lattes With Leia, Legends Library, Looking for Lucasfilm, Coffee With Kenobi and Rebels Reactions.

There's a crisis in continuity, again, as Star Wars #54 kills off a familiar Rogue One face, while the Falcon is taken to Vandor for a new reason in Lando: Double or Nothing #5, the final issue of the mini series.We're also joined by Peabody Award-winning writer Rodney Barnes to talk about what went into making the second Lando mini series so memorable, the challenges of writing a Star Wars comic and his love of the Saga writ large.This week's Star Wars comics include:Poe Dameron #31 (The concluding issue)Doctor Aphra #24Star Wars Adventures #14A Star Wars Comic #17Stay in touch and up to date by following us on Twitter and Facebook.Like what you hear? Go to iTunes and leave us a rating and review. Subscribe to all of the Coffee With Kenobi network podcasts, including Lattes With Leia, Legends Library, Looking for Lucasfilm, Coffee With Kenobi and Rebels Reactions.

In the last issue of The Last Jedi Adaptation #6 there's a redemption that plays out so well, it should have been in the film it was adapting.In the pages of Darth Vader #21, there's an image of Anakin so horrifying that you'll need to pour bleach on your brain.We're also beginning a new segment: A letters page. Ben Lewitt joins Jeff and Matt to talk about character representation in the pages of Doctor Aphra Annual #2. It's an intriguing discussion.This week's Star Wars comics include:Star Wars #54Lando: Double or Nothing #5Star Wars: Doctor Aphra Hardcover (Collects Issues 1-8, The Screaming Citadel #1 and Star Wars #31-32)Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The Menace Revealed Trade Paperback (Collects Star Wars: Jango Fett -- Open Seasons #1-4, Star Wars (1998) #7-18 and material from Star Wars Tales #8, #21-24)Stay in touch and up to date by following us on Twitter and Facebook.Like what you hear? Go to iTunes and leave us a rating and review. Subscribe to all of the Coffee With Kenobi network podcasts, i