This week features 5 individual comic stories from the main Star Wars comics and the 3rd Star Wars Annual, including R2-D2 killing a bunch of stormtroopers, Sana & Lando’s con before Empire Strikes Back, Luke & Leia being stranded on an unknown planet, Han & Chewie taking Grakkus The Hutt prisoner, SCAR squadron finding a rebel base on Horox III and an angry Nikto from Han’s past causes trouble for him & Leia!

Star Wars 33-37 were written by Jason Aaron, Salvador Larroca was the artist and Edgar Delgado was the colourist, with the 3rd SW annual being written by Jason LaTour with Michael Walsh as the artist & colourist.

Star Wars 33 was released July 2017, issue 37 was out October 2017, Star Wars Annual 3 was out September 2017 and the trade paperback (Vol 6: Out Among The Stars) was released in December 2017.

For extra context on some of these stories, check out episode 13 of SWCIC for the 2nd volume of Star Wars stories!

In the last episode of SWCIC (episode 39), Mike tackled the final 4 stories in the Age Of Republic one-shot comic series, all set around the Clone Wars; Anakin Skywalker in “The Sacrifice”, Padmé Amidala in “Bridge”, “The Weapon” with Mace Windu and “501 Plus One” with Rex and Jar Jar Binks, Mike also gives some additional info about each of the characters and recommendations for season 1 of the Clone Wars!

Mike was on a recent episode of Indie Comics Spotlight, where he & Tony spoke about Mark Russell’s run of The Lone Ranger comics: https://spoti.fi/3oJsQ7Y

Mike appeared on a recent episode of Comics On Trial, prosecuting Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker against Tony of Indie Comics Spotlight with Mike’s occasional co-host Megan as the judge (6th December): https://spoti.fi/3otJN5I

In an earlier ep of Comics On Trial, Mike defended The Phantom Menace against Scott of 20th Century Geek, with Paul of Superheroes For Dummies as the judge, also found on this feed (20th September): https://spoti.fi/2FTjvZI 

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