Star Wars Splash Page

The summer has wound done, but the Star Wars comics show no sign of abating.

August? It reached a new level, with 10 titles out last month.

This episode has lots of conversation and constructive criticism, along with news you can use, including details about Si Spurrier joining the writing team with Kieron Gillen for Doctor Aphra, as well as Jason Aaron's dissection of his long run on Marvel's flagship monthly Star Wars title with SyFy Wire's Mike Avila.

Given that Gillen is taking over for Aaron with issue 38, we thought it was mighty interesting that Salvador Larroca posted a picture of Benthic Two Tubes from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Of even more interest? His remarks to us via Twitter that he's got big plans for Benthic in Star Wars.

And don't forget, this week marks the debut of IDW Publishing's Star Wars Adventures, so get ready and get your copies. (We've got some big plans for this new series. You'll see.)

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Star Wars Splash Page is a weekly podcast dedicated solely to contemporary Star Wars comics published by Marvel, Dark Horse and previously IDW, featuring views about the current week's comics, interviews with the writers, artists, colorists, letterers and editors who create them, as well as the latest details on publishing schedules, upcoming series and mini-series, so that you, the listener have more detail and context about the comics that are a vital part of Star Wars canon, lore and legends.

With July done, it's time to revisit the month's bounty of Star Wars comics from Marvel and A Star Wars Comic. We suggest you get a milkshake to savor while you listen. (#MakeMineMilkshake)

There's more detail about the Thrawn mini series announced at San Diego Comic-Con, which debuts in February in this episode.

Finally, Jeff McGee and Matt Moore discuss the upcoming change in writers on Marvel's flagship Star Wars monthly. Writer Jason Aaron is exitingwith issue 37. He'll be replaced by Kieron Gillen, whose 25 issues of Star Wars: Darth Vader (Vol. I) were a critical and commercial success. Gillen will continue writing Star Wars: Doctor Aphra for at least another year, too.

Star Wars comics reviewed this month?

_ Rogue One #4
_ Star Wars #33
_ Poe Dameron #17
_ Darth Maul #5
_ Darth Vader #3
_ Doctor Aphra #9 and #10

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Star Wars Splash Page is a weekly podcast dedicated solely to contemporary Star Wars comics published by Marvel, Dark Horse and previously IDW, featuring views about the current week's comics, interviews with the writers, artists, colorists, letterers and editors who create them, as well as the latest details on publishing schedules, upcoming series and mini-series, so that you, the listener have more detail and context about the comics that are a vital part of Star Wars canon, lore and legends.

Gather up your java, tea and more and pull those Star Wars comics out of the bags as we dive into June's issues from Marvel.

Co-hosts Matt Moore and Jeff McGee have found much to discuss in regard to the conclusion of The Screaming Citadel, the ongoing adventures of Poe Dameron as well as the latest installment of A Star Wars Comics.

There's also news about Star Wars Adventures at San Diego Comic-Con and some tidbits about this month's comics, too.

It's another long one, but, you know, it's good problem to have, all these Star Wars comics.

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Star Wars Splash Page is a weekly podcast dedicated solely to contemporary Star Wars comics published by Marvel, Dark Horse and previously IDW, featuring views about the current week's comics, interviews with the writers, artists, colorists, letterers and editors who create them, as well as the latest details on publishing schedules, upcoming series and mini-series, so that you, the listener have more detail and context about the comics that are a vital part of Star Wars canon, lore and legends.

Sit down, pour a cup of joe and relax. Be at one with the Force as we discuss all the comics from May -- and we mean all of them.

Apologies for the length of this show -- it's more than two-and-a-half hours -- but there was a great deal to discuss about the events of (The) Screaming Citadel crossover that's gone through three of its five chapters in its namesake one-shot, Star Wars No. 31 and issue seven of Star Wars: Doctor Aphra.

(At this rate, our show discussing August's comics will last three days!)

Co-hosts Jeff McGee and Matt Moore also delved into loss and longing, as typified in the events of Star Wars: Poe Dameron 14 and 15. Tears were shed, we won't lie. They also talk about Star Wars: Rogue One No. 2, the film adaptation that continues to shine and the latest installment of A Star Wars Comic, too.

We've also got an interview with Chris Ryall, IDW's chief creative officer, who joined us shed some more light on the upcoming Star Wars Adventuresmonthly title coming this fall. We don't want to give too much away in advance, but we will leave you with a tidbit: Jaxxon.

Listen to know more.

Now, the fine print:

We know you listen because you enjoy the format. We also know that you listen because we provide content others don't, namely interviews and more.

We'll keep doing that, but when we do have interviews, we'll release them separately as a mid-month offering.

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Star Wars Splash Page is a weekly podcast dedicated solely to contemporary Star Wars comics published by Marvel, Dark Horse and previously IDW, featuring views about the current week's comics, interviews with the writers, artists, colorists, letterers and editors who create them, as well as the latest details on publishing schedules, upcoming series and mini-series, so that you, the listener have more detail and context about the comics that are a vital part of Star Wars canon, lore and legends.

April proved a pivotal month for Star Wars comics.

From the first issue of Marvel's Rogue One adaptation, which provided some context and details not seen in the film, to the conclusion of story arcs in Star Wars 30 and Star Wars: Doctor Aphra 6, along with the passing of a beloved member of the Resistance's Black Squadron in Star Wars: Poe Dameron 13, there was plenty of pathos and high adventure to be had.

Co-hosts Matt Moore and Jeff McGee were suitably impressed with Star Wars: Darth Maul 3, which continued to build nuanced layer after nuanced layer on a Zabrak who began life seemingly as a throwaway character, but has grown to become one of the Star Wars Saga's most enduring and utterly complex characters.

And there's the fourth installment of A Star Wars Comic, the monthly six-page tale by Jim Mello and Alex Ray that continues to attract with thoughtfully written and artfully composed stories.


Also featured on this month's episode? The debut of the new Facebook page (hello, 2012!), reminiscing about Star Wars Celebration Orlando (no wrist bands needed for that portion of the show) and Jeff's short chat with the director of the Starlight Foundation, a charity that works to bring

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Star Wars Splash Page is a weekly podcast dedicated solely to contemporary Star Wars comics published by Marvel, Dark Horse and previously IDW, featuring views about the current week's comics, interviews with the writers, artists, colorists, letterers and editors who create them, as well as the latest details on publishing schedules, upcoming series and mini-series, so that you, the listener have more detail and context about the comics that are a vital part of Star Wars canon, lore and legends.

March came in like a lion but didn't end like a lamb, at least not in the pages of Marvel's Star Wars comics, that's for certain.

Join us we take a deep dive into the latest issues of Star Wars: Darth Maul #2, Star Wars: Poe Dameron #12 and Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #5. We're also looking ahead to Star Wars Celebration in Orlando, too, with details about the Coffee With Kenobi Podcast meet-up, panels that are focused on Star Wars comics along with pertinent details about what you can get from us, cheap as free if you're going to the big event.

Our chief question? What will Celebration mean for Marvel's Star Wars comics? We don't know, yet, but one thing's for certain: Don't stop believing.

For the second part of this episode, hosts Matt Moore and Jeff McGee talk with Otis Frampton, the comics artist behind the series Oddly Normal who is waging a social media campaign for Marvel to publish his proposed Jawa Adventures comics series that blends both humor and more about the Saga's favorite purveyors of quality droids and more.


You may also know Frampton from his work on the amazingly creative and

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Star Wars Splash Page is a weekly podcast dedicated solely to contemporary Star Wars comics published by Marvel, Dark Horse and previously IDW, featuring views about the current week's comics, interviews with the writers, artists, colorists, letterers and editors who create them, as well as the latest details on publishing schedules, upcoming series and mini-series, so that you, the listener have more detail and context about the comics that are a vital part of Star Wars canon, lore and legends.

February was a light month for StarWars yet remained a critical moment for the entire line, with stories in Star Wars: Poe Dameron 11, Star Wars: Doctor Aphra 4 and Star Wars #29 holding true to ongoing storylines that keep pace with expanding the Saga's character development and exploration of events before the events of the prequel trilogies and the original trilogies, along with ahead of events in The Force Awakens.

We've also got a special guest this issue, artist Mike Mayhew, whose work on the vaunted one-shot Obi-Wan Kenobi stories in Marvel's flagship StarWars monthly (we dubbed them Obi-Wan Shots) gave readers new insight into not just the last of the Jedi Knights' time on Tatooine, but an edifying and entertaining glimpse into Luke Skywalker, too.

Mayhew's work is a dream to behold -- that's not hyperbole -- and he's got a knack for taking characters we all know and love and proffering new views of them, particularly when they're younger -- Luke -- or in middle age just before old age (Hello there, Ben Kenobi!).

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Star Wars Splash Page is a weekly podcast dedicated solely to contemporary Star Wars comics published by Marvel, Dark Horse and previously IDW, featuring views about the current week's comics, interviews with the writers, artists, colorists, letterers and editors who create them, as well as the latest details on publishing schedules, upcoming series and mini-series, so that you, the listener have more detail and context about the comics that are a vital part of Star Wars canon, lore and legends.

We're two years in and then some in this grand experiment of Marvel's Star Wars comics. We have to admit, it's been a heck of a run.

In this episode, we're talking the releases from January and the first week of February.

We interview with comic creators Alex Ray and Jim Mello. The artist and writer from Florida created A Star Wars Comic, a monthly fan-made comic that takes readers -- in just six pages -- deeper into the Star Wars head canon.

They join us to discuss the first of what's expected to be a monthly offering, the tale of Benthic Two Tubes, seen in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. The duo has an amazing history together. If the first issue is any indication, it won't be long until we're reading their tales in the pages of Marvel.

From there, Jeff McGee and Matt Moore tackle the latest titles from Marvel. They include Star Wars: Doctor Aphra 3, Star Wars 27 and 28, Star Wars: Poe Dameron

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Star Wars Splash Page is a weekly podcast dedicated solely to contemporary Star Wars comics published by Marvel, Dark Horse and previously IDW, featuring views about the current week's comics, interviews with the writers, artists, colorists, letterers and editors who create them, as well as the latest details on publishing schedules, upcoming series and mini-series, so that you, the listener have more detail and context about the comics that are a vital part of Star Wars canon, lore and legends.

For our last episode of 2016 -- and the first of 2017 -- we dive deep into the four Marvel Star Wars comics that made December so stirring. They featured tales of adventure, intrigue, daring and, yes, heroism in all its forms, subtle and small.

We start off with Star Wars: Poe Dameron #9, and are immediately drawn into the role that C-3PO plays. Is he, in fact, a super stealthy agent of espionage? Is that loquacious fretting merely a cover? Meanwhile, in Star Wars #26 (what a story!) we get our first look at a pre-The Phantom Menace Yoda as the series starts a multi-issue arc that draws its inspiration from the journals of Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Finally, we embrace with gusto the first two issues of Star Wars: Doctor Aphra, written by Kieron Gillen and drawn by Kev Walker.

It bears repeating that this is a milestone debut, given it's the first time a Star Wars character created for the comics is headlining a solo title. We had high hopes. Were they met?

You bet.

We also talk about the tremendously done fan project Star Wars: Tales From the Far, Far Away shepherded by writers Michael Moreci and Tim Daniel. It's so well done and deserving of your attention. The fact that it's only the second time they've done so should add to your excitement.

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Star Wars Splash Page is a weekly podcast dedicated solely to contemporary Star Wars comics published by Marvel, Dark Horse and previously IDW, featuring views about the current week's comics, interviews with the writers, artists, colorists, letterers and editors who create them, as well as the latest details on publishing schedules, upcoming series and mini-series, so that you, the listener have more detail and context about the comics that are a vital part of Star Wars canon, lore and legends.

Oh my. So much Star Wars comics from November in this episode.

So much we even had to include an issue from December, too, to be sure we got them all.

How many? Six. Just like the original trilogy plus the prequel trilogy.

But it's worth every audio minute and every single panel on every single page to hear Jeff McGee and Matt Moore get a bit emotional over the conclusion of the deftly written Star Wars: Han Solo mini-series, as well as the adroitly executed eighth of issue of Star Wars: Poe Dameron.

Then there's the superb storytelling of the Star Wars Annual #2 and the conclusion of "Last Flight of the Harbinger" in the main Star Wars monthly.

Lastly, we conclude the adaptation of The Force Awakens mini-series by diving into issues five and six.

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Star Wars Splash Page is a weekly podcast dedicated solely to contemporary Star Wars comics published by Marvel, Dark Horse and previously IDW, featuring views about the current week's comics, interviews with the writers, artists, colorists, letterers and editors who create them, as well as the latest details on publishing schedules, upcoming series and mini-series, so that you, the listener have more detail and context about the comics that are a vital part of Star Wars canon, lore and legends.