Hey CHU, it’s DrunkWooky with your monthly Star Wars Comic round up!
First of all, we’re doing an awesome store exclusive giveaway this Wednesday! Most Good Hobby has been kind enough to sponsor our Free Comic Wednesday! So, make sure to enter for a great set of their exclusive color and black and white Darth Vader #25 General Tagge John Tyler Christopher Action Figure Variant! The color is limited to 3000; black and white to 1500! Take a gander below and thanks Most Good Hobby!
Alright, now on to other news! Jason Aaron just announced over at Starwars.com that the series’ next arc kicking off in issue #26 will be an untold tale of Jedi Master Yoda!
The framework of the story seems like a really cool concept. Aaron has been giving the reader breathers between story arcs with passages that Luke reads from old Ben Kenobi’s journal found towards the beginning of the series. So far, these have been stand alone issues with beautiful art from Mike Mayhew depicting an incognito Jedi Obi-Wan looking out for his young Protege, Luke. Obi-Wan generally kicks butt and protects the lowly farmers, while some familiar faces crop up.
Star Wars #26 Cover by Stuart Immonen
However, starting with issue 26, Aaron is going to present a full story arc from Obi-Wan’s journal about Master Yoda. Aaron discusses the story constraints of a pre-Empire Strikes Back book and how he deftly maneuvered around those:
Starwars.com: “[I]n a new arc kicking off with Star Wars #26, it will add maybe its biggest contribution to Star Wars so far: a Yoda story, which Luke will read — without knowing who Yoda is or that it’s actually about him — in Obi-Wan’s recovered journals.”
Aaron:”…I was always trying to figure out a way for us to use Yoda. We’re a bit hamstrung in terms of the time period of our main story, because Yoda’s chilling on Dagobah. So this was kind of the only way we could kill all those birds with one stone — to do one story that connects Luke, Yoda, and Obi-Wan all at the same time, while still taking place in three different time periods.
Aaron also promises that the foe Yoda faces will be actually be a formidable challenge for one of the most powerful Jedi Masters:
“The other big challenge with Yoda, of course, is finding something that’s a challenge for him, right? Who can pose a threat to Yoda? I think we came up with an interesting answer to that question. That’s part of the mystery of this story. There’s a very specific reason that this is going to be quite the challenge for Yoda. It’s not a matter of just him being the more powerful Jedi. It’s a bit trickier than that.”
Finally, for those fans of the soon-to-be-concluded Darth Vader series, Salvador Larocca will be drawing the next arc featuring Yoda.
Interior art from Star Wars #26 by Salvador Larocca
As a bonus tid-bit, new art for Han Solo #4 variants (go ahead and ignore the number one at the top of the issue, freakin’ Marvel!) has materialized featuring some names we haven’t seen involved on Star Wars covers very often. One of the most interesting to me being Dustin Nguyen (Descender):
Dustin Nguyen Variant
Stephanie Hans Variant
Kirbi Fagan Variant
Jamal Campbell Variant
Until more brand new super awesome Star Wars comic news is delivered down my thermal exhaust port, DrunkWooky out!
What process/program do you use to randomly select winners of your drawings?
I use the Random.org list randomizer all names go on the list and then I total up the number of entries as the number of times it gets rolled. For example 117 entries will equal 1+1+7 for 9 rolls. It’s a pain to do but it ensures randomness.
thanks for answering my curiosity. now, i just need to figure out how to stack the odds in my favor lol
Bribes.
So you would “roll the dice” more times if the number of entries were 99 than if the number of entries were 111? (9+9=18 vs. 1+1+1=3?)
99 would be 9+9=18 and then 1+8=9 so it would be 9 rolls
I don’t know if you want to open that can of worms Anthony lol
Nice write up! Who is still loving the main Star Wars title from marvel? This guy!! It’s great seeing new takes on these classic characters.
Getting caught up recently, and like issue 21 how it was written from the perspective of storm trooper who believes in the empire
It’s about time they did something with Yoda.