Star Wars: Comics In Canon - Ep 28: Master & Apprentice Book Review, Prophecies And Introducing Rael Averross

This week brings the very first book review on Star Wars: Comics In Canon, all about Claudia Gray’s Master & Apprentice; a book set years before The Phantom Menace, focusing on Qui-Gon Jinn & Obi-Wan Kenobi’s relationship and their mission on Pijal, along with flashbacks giving insight into Qui-Gon’s relationship with his master Dooku and 6 prophecies including the infamous Chosen One prophecy!

Mike splits the podcast into 3 sections; firstly the blurb and then his general thoughts on the book - all completely spoiler-free, the second part delves more into the plot & background information with only light spoilers, while the final part of the show contains a more in-depth look into the characters & events in the book and Mike reads a few parts of the book he especially enjoyed, including the epilogue, meaning there are spoilers within but he gives fair warning before entering these sections!

Master & Apprentice was released April 2019, is set at 40BBY which is around 8 years before The Phantom Menace (excluding flashbacks within it) and is written by Claudia Gray who has also written; Lost Stars, Bloodline, Leia Princess Of Alderaan, the Master & Apprentice short story in A Certain Point Of View and the upcoming High Republic novel Into The Dark.

In the last episode, number 27 of SWCIC, Mike tackled the fourth volume of the main line Star Wars comics, before that was the first “Age Of…” comic with a history of Dooku, the week before that Mike did a Q&A using your questions to talk about his favourite characters, give comic recommendations and more! Previous episodes have been about Han Solo, Chewbacca, Galaxy’s Edge comics, the Vader Down crossover, Lando, Mace Windu, Princess Leia, the Jedi Fallen Order Comic, how Obi-Wan & Anakin almost left the Jedi order, the Rogue One & Solo comics, Captain Phasma, how C-3PO got his red arm, Darth Maul beyond The Phantom Menace, Kylo Ren’s red lightsaber crystal and more!

Mike appeared on the second episode of Comics On Trial, defending The Phantom Menace against Scott of 20th Century Geek, with Paul of Superheroes For Dummies as the judge, found on this very feed (released 20th September): https://spoti.fi/2FTjvZI

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Mike is also the host of a podcast called Genuine Chit-Chat where he speaks with a different guest each week about a wide array of topics where no subject is off limits – GCC can be listened to in the same place you’re listening to this show, so there’s no excuse to not check it out!

Chris & Dave of Comics In Motion featured on episode 90 of GCC, plus Chris was on episode 89 of GCC to talk about wrestling and Dave is on episode 90, talking with Max of Mandatory Marvel & DC about the recent DC movies! Chris & Dave of Comics In Motion were on episodes 63 & 75 of GCC together and Mike was on episodes 75 & 100 of Comics In Motion!

Email Mike at StarWarsComicsInCanon@outlook.com or find him on social media @GenuineChitChat on Twitter, @Genuine_ChitChat on Instagram and /GenuineChitChat on Facebook!

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