During the New York Comic Con panel “Lucasfilm Publishing: Star Wars: Stories From a Galaxy Far, Far Away,” Marvel Comics announced a new ongoing Star Wars series, Star Wars: Jedi Knights, written by Marc Guggenheim with art by Madibek Musabekov (the previous ongoing Star Wars comic.) The book will follow the Jedi from the prequel trilogy before the events of the films, including Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda, Count Dooku, and Mace Windu, as well as some all-new characters.
Taking place before The Phantom Menace, STAR WARS: JEDI KNIGHTS stars the Jedi Order as fans came to know it during the Prequel Trilogy including legendary characters like Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda, Count Dooku, Mace Windu, and many more. In addition to featuring iconic and fan-favorite Jedi duo, the series will introduce all new Jedi characters that served the Republic during this pivotal era. Each issue will spotlight a different Jedi duo on a different mission throughout the galaxy, but an overarching threat binds them together. Who is the mysterious new villain targeting Qui-Gon Jinn for death and how will it force the Jedi Order to evolve for a new age?
Editor Mark Paniccia promises, “Marc and Madibek [will] deliver a blockbuster first issue with a cliffhanger that kicks off one action-packed issue after another featuring your favorite knights. You’ve literally never seen so much lightsaber action in a comic book!”
The comic’s setting sidesteps a potential issue Marvel could’ve run into after the conclusion of the last ongoing Star Wars series, which was set during the year between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi: if the next volume had continued to follow the original trilogy’s heroes after the Galactic Civil War, the risk of contradicting the narrative being constructed on The Mandalorian and its spin-offs (which take place shortly after the trilogy) would’ve become increasingly high. While there have been canonical books and comics set in the years immediately before The Phantom Menace (including Marvel’s Yoda maxiseries, which Guggenheim contributed to), it still remains safer and relatively unexplored new ground to cover.
Star Wars: Jedi Knights #1 will be released sometime in March, with a main wraparound cover by Rahzzah (shown above), and a lightsaber foil variant cover by Taurin Clarke. In the meantime, Marvel’s current Battle of Jakku trilogy, which is acting as the conclusion to the Civil War era of comics, will conclude in January.
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