Holy Crap, the Rise of Skywalker Comic is Finally Coming Out

In astir a month, we’ll person deed the five-year day of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Surprisingly, Disney and Marvel are marking the juncture by bringing retired what immoderate had agelong considered mislaid media: its comic publication adaptation.

Earlier successful the week, Marvel revealed the Rise of Skywalker miniseries would statesman its five-issue tally adjacent February, retaining its archetypal originative squad of Jody Houser and Will Sliney and the committedness of featured worldly that wasn’t contiguous successful the film. In lawsuit you’ve forgotten, the archetypal contented was acceptable to travel retired successful June 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic impacted Marvel’s pipeline and prevented it from releasing comics for implicit a month. But adjacent aft things were sorted retired a period later, priorities seemed to displacement to giving shows similar Obi-Wan Kenobi and The Mandalorian their ain comic adaptations. Marvel ne'er gave the comic a caller merchandise date, and past year, screen creator Phil Noto yet conscionable shared a textless cover he made for the miniseries.

Despite caller efforts to effort exploring Rise‘s aftermath (big accent connected “try“), Marvel’s seemingly got its enactment unneurotic for the comic. It’s besides fundamentally acting similar nary time’s passed: exertion Mark Panicca noted it comes arsenic Sequel Trilogy characters person gotten a “resurgence of interest”—Kylo Ren, for example, is getting his ain solo comic a fewer weeks earlier this lands. Of the adaptation, Panicca said Houser’s publication “captures the interaction of these iconic moments betwixt the film’s heroes and villains, portion the creation by Will Sliney and dazzling colors by Guru-eFX springiness a visually unsocial acquisition of this epic finale.”

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’s five-issue adaptation volition footwear disconnected connected February 26, 2025, if each goes to plan.

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