THE LEGACY OF TARKIN EMERGES! For ep 78, Mike continues the 2020 run of Star Wars comics with the full second volume; Operation Starlight, set shortly after the end of Empire Strikes Back! As well as introducing Commander Zahra and Tarkin’s Will, these issues show the rebellion developing a new way to communicate due to the Empire cracking their code, with Lobot being invaluable and a flashback about Han and Poe’s parents! Mike also gives additional info on Starlight Squadron, Eriadu, The Redemption (ship), Veermoks and more!
This story is set after Empire Strikes Back (& after the first run of the Star Wars, but before the War Of the Bounty Hunters crossover). The writer for these comics is Charles Soule, Ramon Rosanas was the artist for issues 7, 8 & 12, with Jan Bazaldua as artist for issues 9, 10 & 11 and Rachelle Rosenberg was colour artist for all issues. Issue 7 was released October 2020, Issue 12 was released March 2021 and the trade paperback collection (of issues 7-11) was released April 2021.
Please note this episode was first released in November 2021 on the podcast feed of Comics In Motion! If you want haven’t listened to Mike’s episodes on the 2015-2019 run of Star Wars comics, start with episode 9 and if you want to hear about the Lando mini-series with Lobot, check out episode 18!
Check out last week’s ep of SWCIC, which was another spoiler-free book review from the High Republic era, this time venturing into the second wave, starting with The Rising Storm by Cavan Scott – the “main adult” novel with a huge amount of characters, major plot points and shocking moments! As usual, Mike reviews the book in 3 tiers, the first completely spoiler-free, the second with some very light spoilers and the final part includes some more plot details and a more in-depth look at the themes within the book.
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Outro read by BZ The Voice: http://www.bzthevoice.com
Intro theme arranged by Mike Burton, backing music by Eric Matyas at www.soundimage.org
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:03 Info & Personnel
03:39 Crawl
04:08 Issue 7
12:21 Issue 8
20:40 Issue 9
25:08 Issue 10
36:48 Issue 11
39:50 Issue 12
47:26 Coming Up
55:52 Outro