In this episode of Star Wars: Comics In Canon, Mike tackles the one-shot comics from the era of the sequel trilogy; the Age Of Resistance! This 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!
These stories are all set between 28-34 ABY (a bit before the sequel trilogy, bar Rey’s story).
Please note this episode was originally released in May of 2021 on the feed of Comics In Motion.
Finn, Poe, Rose & Rey’s stories were all written by Tom Taylor, with Ramon Rosanas as artist and Guru eFX as colour artist.
The AoR special has 3 shorter stories within it; “Maz’s Scoundrels” which was written by Tom Taylor, with Matteo Buffagni as artist and Chris O’Halloran as colour artist, “The Bridge” was written by G. Willow Wilson with Elsa Charretier as artist and Nick Filardi as colour artist, while “Robot Resistance” was written by Chris Eliopoulos, with Javier Pina as artist and Guru eFX as the colour artist.
Finn was the first heroes comic released, in July 2019, with the last being Rey’s, released September 2019, the trade paperback was released November 2019 and the hardcover featuring both heroes & villains was released September 2020.
Check out the last episode of SWCIC for the volume of Doctor Aphra comics called Worse Among Equals! Aphra and Triple-Zero are on the run with explosives in their necks while Dr Cornelius Evazan records their every move, featuring imperial propaganda, force-wielding corpses and the monster hunting couple Nokk & Winloss!
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