Star Wars: Comics In Canon - Ep 42: The Auction Massacre & Ancient Rur Vs Darth Vader (Doctor Aphra #9-13 & Annual 1)

This week features the 2nd (or 3rd) story-arc of Doctor Aphra comics called The Enormous Profit, where Aphra tries to sell the reactivated crystal of the ancient jedi Rur to a group of wealthy bidders at a special auction and unsurprisingly, things don’t go to plan, especially when Darth Vader shows up! The annual also gives more back story to the brutal wookiee bounty hunter; Black Krrsantan.

All comics this week were written by Kieron Gillen, with issues 9-13 pencilled by Kev Walker, inked by Marc Deering and coloured by Antonio Fabela, while Annual 1 had Marc Laming & Will Sliney as artists and Jordan Boyd as the colourist.
Issue 9 was released July 2017, issue 13 was out October 2017, the annual was out August 2017 and the trade paperback with all 6 comics was released February 2018.

Make sure you check out episode 36 of SWCIC for the Screaming Citadel crossover (Aphra 7 & 8) and ep 34 for Aphra 1-6.

The last episode of SWCIC (episode 41), featured something a bit different; 5 comics showing 5 different Darth Vader stories, with artwork for each comic being by different people! In brief, the stories include; Vader as a savior on a unknown world, an imperial officer driven mad with fear, a woman hopelessly in love, a cocky rebel pilot, and a terrifying hallucinogenic trip, plus information on exogorths/space slugs (big worm from Empire Strikes Back!

Mike was on the latest episode of 20th Century Geek, talking about Batman ’66 and the two Burton-Batman movies, in the first of a 3 part Batman retrospective, check it out: https://spoti.fi/3sTeN2m

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Ep 19 of Mandatory Marvel & DC; with Max Byrne to talk about the New 52 Batman story Death Of The Family: https://spoti.fi/3isIWka

Indie Comics Spotlight, where he & Tony spoke about Mark Russell’s run of The Lone Ranger comics: https://spoti.fi/3oJsQ7Y

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

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