Star Wars: Comics In Canon - Ep 81: Vader Heads To Exegol To Confront Palpatine (Darth Vader [2020] #6-11)

VADER GOES TO EXEGOL & RETURNS TO MUSTAFAR! This week, Mike embarks on the second volume of the 2020 Darth Vader comics; Into The Fire, where Palpatine tests Vader shortly after his failure in Empire Strikes Back, by sending him back to Mustafar to be hunted by the sith assassin; Ochi of Bestoon! In this story Vader battles many foes and even makes his way to Exegol (planet from The Rise Of Skywalker), plus Mike gives additional info on Coruscant, Mustafar, Sith homeworlds, the Eye of the Webbish Bog and more!

This story is set just after Empire Strikes Back (3ABY). The writer for these comics was Greg Pak, Raffaele Ienco was the artist and Neeraj Menon was the colour artist. Issue 6 was released October 2020, Issue 11 was released April 2021 and the trade paperback collection was released June 2021.

Mike tackled the first of the 2020 Vader comics in episode 79 of SWCIC, he tackled the 2017 Vader comics in ep 62 (continued in 66, 70 & 74) of SWCIC and for the 2015 Vader run (set after A New Hope), check out episodes 15, 17, 19, 23 & 29 of SWCIC, plus ep 41 features the Vader: Dark Visions anthology mini-series and ep 49 is the Target Vader mini-series.

Keep an eye on Mike’s other podcast; Genuine Chit-Chat where Mike recently had an hour-long conversation with Paolo Villanelli (which should be released in early November)!

Check out last week’s SWCIC (ep 80), where Mike embarked on the second volume of the Bounty Hunters comics; Target Valance, set shortly after the end of Empire Strikes Back! Valance escapes being hunted while protecting Cadeliah, before helping some Rebels hunted by the Ohnaka Pirate Gang, meanwhile Bossk is being hunted in the Great Hunt Of Malastare! Mike also gives additional info on Battle Droids, 4-LOM, Zuckuss, the Gran species and more!

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Mike returned to Star Wars Timeline to talk about The Force Awakens here: https://youtu.be/c4VMXeBU3W4 The Last Jedi here: https://youtu.be/7dGEsdfSMkY and The Rise of Skywalker here: https://youtu.be/9fZWXji7_Jo

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Intro & outro reads by BZ The Voice: http://www.bzthevoice.com/

Intro theme arranged by Mike Burton, backing music by Eric Matyas at www.soundimage.org