Star Wars: Comics In Canon - Ep 38: Grand Admiral Thrawn’s Ascent In The Empire And Meeting Pryce & Yularen

This week features the 6-part mini-series; Thrawn; adapted from the canon novel of the same name (set between Revenge Of The Sith & A New Hope), showing how he was enrolled into the Empire, his rise in the ranks, how other officers viewed him, his work with Wullf Yularen & Governor Pryce, his aide Eli Vanto and more!

Thrawn was written by Timothy Zahn but was adapted for comics by Jody Houser. The artist was Luke Ross, with colourist Nolan Woodard. Issue 1 was released February 2018, issue 6 was released July 2018 and the trade paperback was released September 2018.

Thrawn was introduced into the canon in season 3 of the show Star Wars Rebels, he is also in the 3 Thrawn books (Thrawn; Alliances & Treason, all set before the season 4 finale of Rebels). In addition, the first book in the Ascendancy trilogy (set before the Thrawn trilogy & Rebels) is called Chaos Rising – it’s sequel, Greater Good will be released April 2021! Thrawn’s first appearance was in the legends Heir To The Empire trilogy, created by Timothy Zahn.

Last week Mike spoke with Star Wars author Claudia Gray about her current 4 books, her upcoming High Republic book, duality & relationships in Star Wars and more!

In the last standard episode of SWCIC (#37), Mike tackled Lando - Double Or Nothing, which is set just before Solo: A Star Wars Story, featuring Lando, L3-37 and an undamaged Millennium Falcon! As well as Lando recording his adventures as the “Calrissian Chronicles”, the story includes a rebellion uprising, Lando buying a new cape and Mike also gives some information about the Falcon, L3-37 and of course, Lando himself!

Mike appeared on a recent episode of Comics On Trial, prosecuting Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker against Tony of Indie Comics Spotlight with Mike’s occasional co-host Megan as the judge (6th December): https://spoti.fi/3otJN5I

In an earlier ep of Comics On Trial, Mike defended The Phantom Menace against Scott of 20th Century Geek, with Paul of Superheroes For Dummies as the judge, out 20th September: https://spoti.fi/2FTjvZI

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 Horrocks and Tony Farina, found on this feed (8th October): https://spoti.fi/33I9N5L

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