Star Wars: Comics In Canon - Ep 43: Boba’s Hunt, Tarkin’s Scars, Jabba’s Deal & Vader Disobeys (Age Of Rebellion Villains)

This week features the 5 villains stories in the Age Of Rebellion one-shot comic series (from original trilogy); Grand Moff Tarkin in “Tooth & Claw”, Boba Fett in “Hunter’s Heart”, Jabba The Hutt in “Great To Be Jabba”, Darth Vader in “To The Letter” and IG-88 in “The Long Game”, Mike also gives additional information about each of the characters, connections, bounty hunters, species and more!

The 4 main Age Of Republic comics were written by Greg Pak, with the IG-88 story (in the AoR special) written by Simon Spurrier. For Tarkin & Boba Fett, Marc Laming was the artist and Neeraj Menon was colourists, with Jordan Boyd also doing colouring for Tarkin. Jabba’s 3 artists were Emilio Laiso, Roland Boschi & Marco Turini with the 3 colourists Andres Mossa, Rachelle Rosenberg & Neeraj Menon. For Vader, Rámon Bachs was the artist and Stéphane Paitreau was colourist, for IG-88 Casper Wijngaard was the artist and Lee Loughridge was colourist.

Tarkin’s comic and the AoR Special were released in April 2019, with Darth Vader being released June 2019 (with the other stories released in-between). The AoR Villains trade paperback was released in September 2019 while the AoR hardcover (with heroes & villains) was released June 2020.

For the prequel-era Age Of Republic stories, check out episodes; 2 for Maul, 26 for Dooku, 31 for Obi-Wan & Qui-Gon, 35 for Jango Fett, Grievous & Asajj Ventress and 39 for the Padmé, Anakin, Mace Windu and Jar Jar & Rex stories. Mike will be tackling the Age Of Rebellion Heroes comics in four episodes time, so be sure to subscribe for that!

In the last episode of SWCIC (episode 42), Mike tackled the 2nd (or 3rd) story-arc of the first run 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!

Mike was on the Batman retrospective on 20th Century Geek, parts 1 & 2 are out where they discuss Batman ’66, the four Burtonverse Batman movies and Mask Of The Phantasm, part 3 will be out soon, check it out part 1 here: https://spoti.fi/3sTeN2m

The two below episodes, where Mike guested are found here on the feed of Comics In Motion!

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

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