This week, Mike embarks on the 10th volume of the main run of Star Wars comics; The Escape! This story-arc contains Luke, Han, Leia, C-3PO & R2-D2 escaping the empire and turning to Sana Starros for help, before getting stranded on the isolationist moon of Hubin where the mysterious warrior/clan leader Thane greets them! Plus, keep an eye out for SCAR Squadron’s return!

This arc is set around 1 ABY (1 year after A New Hope, 2 years before Empire Strikes Back).

All issues were written by Kieron Gillen, with Guru eFX as colour artist and for issues 56 & 61 Andrea Broccardo is the artist with Angel Unzueta being the artist for issues 57-60.

Issue 56 was released November 2018, issue 61 was released February 2019 and the trade paperback collection was released April 2019.

Queen Trios first appears in episode 23 of SWCIC (Vader volume 3) so if you want to check out the previous arcs for the main run of Star Wars comics, check out episodes 9, 13, 19, 21, 27, 36, 40, 44, 48 & 53 of SWCIC!

Check out the last episode of SWCIC where Mike tackled the one-shot comics from the era of the sequel trilogy; the Age Of Resistance! The episode features bios & stories about Finn, Rose Tico, Poe Dameron, Rey, Amilyn Holdo, Maz Kanata and BB-8, who each have their own comics that Mike goes through, along with the many connections to other SW media!

Make sure you check out Mike’s other podcast, Genuine Chit-Chat where he recently spoke with Matt B Lloyd (of the Classic Comics show) about Star Wars comics from the 80s, newspaper strips and more: https://spoti.fi/2Ql6wFI

If you want to hear Mike’s thoughts on the first 2 episodes of the Bad Batch, make sure you check the feed of Comics In Motion for the show released on Sunday 9th May, about the first two episodes of the Bad Batch, featuring Dave, Mike & Megan!

Check out Mike’s Patreon, where he releases 2 episodes of his show “Afterthoughts” a week (with 2 episodes are *FREE* to anyone: season 1 of The Witcher and the review of The Phantom Menace), plus there are unsplit full-length episodes of GCC, additional photos (including early access to photos of comics for this very show) and more, so if you want to support the show and get more content for only £1 a month, check it out at http://patreon.com/genuinechitchat

Mike also appeared on episode 16 Frank Burton’s I Like The Sound podcast: https://spoti.fi/3ue8ma3

Mike & 4 other members of Comics In Motion did a massive 5-person discussion on Zack Snyder’s Justice League, found on this very feed: https://spoti.fi/3lVDsQo

Mike was on the 20th Century Geek podcast to talk about his 3 “Desert Island Comics” here:  http://spoti.fi/3r1UOvZ

Mike & Megan were also on the Batman retrospective on 20th Century Geek, where they discuss Batman ’66, the four Burtonverse Batman movies, Mask Of The Phantasm and the Dark Knight trilogy, check it out part 1 here: https://spoti.fi/3sTeN2m

Mike was recently on Podcasts We Listen To, speaking about his show Genuine Chit-Chat and next week he talks all about this show and his love of Star Wars: http://spoti.fi/3uus0PT

Find Mike @GenuineChitChat on Twitter, @Genuine_ChitChat on Instagram & /GenuineChitChat on Facebook!

Intro theme arranged by Mike Burton, backing music by Eric Matyas at www.soundimage.org