Star Wars: Comics In Canon - Ep 55: On The Run With A Murderbot; Worse Among Equals (Doctor Aphra #26-31 & A2)

This week, Mike tackles the next volume of Doctor Aphra comics; Worse Among Equals! Aphra and Triple-Zero are on the run with explosives in their necks while Dr Cornelius Evazan records their every move, featuring imperial propaganda, force-wielding corpses and the monster hunting couple Nokk & Winloss!

The 6 main comics take place around 1ABY, Annual 2 was likely between 0ABY-1ABY.

All issues were written by Simon Spurrier, issues 26-31 had Emilio Laiso as artist, Rachelle Rosenberg as colour artist and Andrea Broccardo also as artist on issue 31 while Caspar Wijngaard was the artist for Annual 2.

Issue 26 was released November 2018, issue 31 was released April 2019, Annual 2 was released September 2018 and the trade paperback collection was released June 2019.

The last week on SWCIC, episode 54, Mike tackled the comic starring Caleb Dume/Kanan Jarrus from Star Wars Rebels, detailing how he survived order 66, why he changed his name, what happened to his master Depa Billaba and the differences between the event shown in this 2015 comic and in the first episode of the Bad Batch animated show! Plus hear how far clones will go to complete order 66 and Mike reads out the warning message Obi-Wan sets up to warn Jedi of order 66 (as seen in Revenge Of The Sith)!

If you want more of Mike’s thoughts on the Bad Batch, make sure you check the feed of Comics In Motion for the show released on Sunday 9thMay, about the first two episodes of the Bad Batch, featuring Dave, Mike & Megan!

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Mike also appeared on episode 16 Frank Burton’s I Like The Sound podcast: https://spoti.fi/3ue8ma3

Mike & 4 other members of Comics In Motion did a massive 5-person discussion on Zack Snyder’s Justice League, found on this very feed: https://spoti.fi/3lVDsQo

Mike was on the 20th Century Geek podcast to talk about his 3 “Desert Island Comics” here: http://spoti.fi/3r1UOvZ

Mike & Megan were also on the Batman retrospective on 20th Century Geek, where they discuss Batman ’66, the four Burtonverse Batman movies, Mask Of The Phantasm and the Dark Knight trilogy, check it out part 1 here: https://spoti.fi/3sTeN2m

Mike was recently on Podcasts We Listen To, speaking about his show Genuine Chit-Chat and next week he talks all about this show and his love of Star Wars: http://spoti.fi/3uus0PT

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