STAR WARS: SHATTERED EMPIRE Lands This Week!
Marvel has been owning the comic landscape with their recent STAR WARS titles. Seriously people, they’re great. While most of these new STAR WARS comics have covered the time between A NEW HOPE and EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, this week’s release of SHATTERED EMPIRE marks the first time in the newly established canon (since the Disney buyout) that we venture past the events of RETURN OF THE JEDI. This is a big deal.
As part of the “Journey to Force Awakens” initiative, SHATTERED EMPIRE is one of many projects from Disney/Lucasfilm getting us pumped and ready for STAR WARS EPISODE VII: THE FORCE AWAKENS heading our way on December 18th 2015. Wow that’s so close! Writer Greg Rucka gets the honor to be the first to delve into this uncharted post-ROTJ timeframe alongside artist Marco Checchetto. SHATTERED EMPIRE is a short 4-issue mini-series that will hopefully have some important ties to THE FORCE AWAKENS. Lucky for us, all 4 issues will be released by the end of October for our reading pleasure. Here’s a sneak peak at what to expect:
For the first time in the new Star Wars canon, journey with us into the time after the end of Return of the Jedi! Writer Greg Rucka (PUNISHER, WOLVERINE, Gotham Central) and artist Marco Checchetto (AVENGERS WORLD, PUNISHER) take us past the destruction of the second Death Star into the chaos of a Shattered Empire.
As a huge STAR WARS fan myself, of course I am a bit hesitant to jump into this new canon, but everything Marvel has delivered so far has been wonderful. And Rucka is no slouch either. He’s more than capable to tell an engaging and interesting story so he should fit into the STAR WARS mold nicely. Let’s collectively cross our fingers and hope for the best as we enter the SHATTERED EMPIRE mini-series beginning this week.
Words by Jason Furie
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