Star Wars: Comics In Canon - Ep 36: Luke Skywalker & Doctor Aphra Vs Mind-Controlling Parasites (The Screaming Citadel Crossover)

This week features the Doctor Aphra crossover with the main run of Star Wars comics; The Screaming Citadel, where the mind-controlling abersyn symbiotes reappear to cause havoc! The episode features the main trio of rebels joined by Sana Starros, Doctor Aphra, the homicidal droids Triple-Zero & BT-1 along with Aphra’s wookiee companion Black Krrsantan all up against the Queen Ktath’atn and her loyal followers, with appearance of an ancient entity, mind-control and much more!

Be sure to check out episode 34 for part 1 of Doctor Aphra’s comics or episode 30 where Mike & Tony (of ICS) discussed Aphra’s time in the Darth Vader Comics!

The Screaming Citadel consists of Screaming Citadel 1, Star Wars 31 & 32 and Doctor Aphra 7 & 8. It was written by Jason Aaron & Kieron Gillen, with art by Marco Checcetto, Salvador Larroca & Andrea Broccardo with Andres Mossa, Edgar Delgado & Antonio Fabela as the colourists.

Screaming Citadel 1 was released May 2017, Doctor Aphra 8 (the final part) was released June 2017. The trade paperback was released October 2017 and the hardcover of volume 1 of Doctor Aphra (featuring her first arc from ep 34 and this storyline) was released October 2018.

Make sure to check out the weekly Mandalorian show on Comics In Motion too for episode reviews and connections to the wider Star Wars univese!

Last week, in episode 35, Mike tackled the last 3 Age Of Republic villains stories series; Jango Fett, General Grievous & Asajj Ventress! The first comic, about Jango Fett, shows him taking Boba on a job to give him some bounty hunter training, in Grievous’ comic he finds a jedi temple and has a force vision and Ventress’ comic serves as a prequel to a story-arc in the Clone Wars!

Mike was on episode 42 of Indie Comics Spotlight, him & Tony spoke with Mark Russell, author of Second Coming & Billionaire Island, found on the feed of Comics In Motion: https://spoti.fi/3mgDmm4!

Mike was recently on the Scott Pilgrim Vs The World review for the TV & Movies show on Comics In Motion where he discussed the movie with Dave of CiM and Tony of Indie Comic Spotlight, found on this feed (dated 8th October) check it out here: https://spoti.fi/33I9N5L

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

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