Star Wars: Comics In Canon - Ep 69: Destination Hoth: Vader Fights Chewie, Han Is Captured & Poe’s Parents (Star Wars #73-75 & Empire Ascendant)

Mike embarks on the final issues of the 2015 main Star Wars run of comics; Rogues & Rebels! In this finale, Luke recovers his lightsaber, Han is captured by Boss Carpo, Chewbacca goes head-to-head with Darth Vader and C-3PO makes some new friends, while Empire Ascendant’s “An Echo Of Victory” provides a small window into the mindset of Poe Dameron’s parents; Shara Bey & Kes Dameron! Plus Mike provides information on the Wampas of Hoth and some history of A-Wings!

These stories are all set just before Empire Strikes Back, around 3 ABY.

Star Wars 73-75 were written by Greg Pak, with Phil Noto as the artist and colour artist. “An Echo Of Victory” from Empire Ascendant was written by Charles Soule with Luke Ross as artist, Guru eFX as colour artist. Issue 73 of Star Wars was released October 2019, issue 75 was released November 2019, Empire Ascendant was released December 2019 and the trade paperback collection was released March 2020.

If you want to check out the previous arcs for the main run of Star Wars comics (2015-2019), check out episodes 9, 13, 19, 21, 27, 36, 40, 44, 48, 53, 57, 61 & 65 of SWCIC!

Check out the last episode of SWCIC where Mike embarked on 6 issues of War Of The Bounty Hunters for the second full chapter! Qi’ra & Crimson Dawn hold the auction for Han Solo frozen-in-carbonite, gathering the most notorious crime syndicates in the galaxy as well as piquing the interest of the Empire & the Rebellion! Mike provides tonnes of connections to other SW content as well as exploring the many different perspectives & double-crosses in the next chapter in this tantalising tale!

End promo is for the Judging Dredd book, edited by Scott Weatherly (of the 20th Century Geek podcast) & it's available now: http://sequart.org/books/14/judging-dredd-examining-the-world-of-judge-dredd/

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Mike on the Have Not Seen This podcast, talking about The Way Way Back: https://spoti.fi/3AbPcV4

Mike appeared on Star Wars Timeline’s Timecast, talking about the different SW trilogies, found here: https://youtu.be/W03gonK4rtw

Mike is also the host of a podcast called Genuine Chit-Chat where he speaks with a different guest each week about a wide array of topics where no subject is off limits – GCC can be listened to in the same place you’re listening to this show, so there’s no excuse to not check it out!

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Intro & outro by BZ The Voice: http://www.bzthevoice.com/

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