Holy Crap, the Rise of Skywalker Comedian is Lastly Coming Out

In a couple of month, we’ll have hit the five-year anniversary of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Surprisingly, Disney and Marvel are marking the event by bringing out what some had lengthy thought-about misplaced media: its comedian ebook adaptation.

Earlier within the week, Marvel revealed the Rise of Skywalker miniseries would start its five-issue run subsequent February, retaining its unique inventive staff of Jody Houser and Will Sliney and the promise of featured materials that wasn’t current within the movie. In case you’ve forgotten, the primary subject was set to come back out in June 2020, however the COVID-19 pandemic impacted Marvel’s pipeline and prevented it from releasing comics for over a month. However even after issues had been sorted out a month later, priorities appeared to shift to giving exhibits like Obi-Wan Kenobi and The Mandalorian their very own comedian variations. Marvel by no means gave the comedian a brand new launch date, and final yr, cowl artist Phil Noto finally simply shared a textless cover he made for the miniseries.

Regardless of current efforts to attempt exploring Rise‘s aftermath (large emphasis on “try“), Marvel’s apparently acquired its act collectively for the comedian. It’s additionally principally performing like no time’s handed: editor Mark Panicca famous it comes as Sequel Trilogy characters have gotten a “resurgence of curiosity”—Kylo Ren, for instance, is getting his personal solo comic a number of weeks earlier than this lands. Of the difference, Panicca mentioned Houser’s script “captures the affect of those iconic moments between the movie’s heroes and villains, whereas the artwork by Will Sliney and dazzling colours by Guru-eFX give a visually distinctive expertise of this epic finale.”

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’s five-issue adaptation will kick off on February 26, 2025, if all goes to plan.

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