Marvel’s New Jedi Knights Comic Features a Truly Wild Deep Cut

A batch of Star Wars these days is astir uncovering thing weird and aged from the immense past of its transmedia empire and bringing it backmost from the shadows and into the light. These days with truthful overmuch of the Expanded Universe already pillaged for re-canonization, it takes a batch to astonishment a instrumentality of the postulation far, acold distant with a caller return… but Marvel’s latest mightiness person done it.

Announced astatine Lucasfilm’s publishing sheet astatine New York Comic Con, writer Marc Guggenheim is returning to Marvel’s Star Wars enactment with Jedi Knights, a caller ongoing bid that volition travel the heroes of the Jedi Order earlier the events of The Phantom Menace. Pitched successful the benignant of Marvel’s famous Two In One anthology series, Jedi Knights volition brace characters caller and aged from crossed the Order for caller adventures. One of these volition seemingly diagnostic the canonical debut of a genuinely heavy chopped successful a story, appropriately titled “The Deepest Cut.”

That story, Guggenheim announced to a country of Star Wars fans flummoxed into silence, volition diagnostic the archetypal quality successful existent Star Wars continuity of Atha Prime. Prime was created by Star Wars toymaker Kenner successful 1986 successful an effort to support the palmy Star Wars toyline going aft the culmination of the archetypal trilogy. Kenner pitched a task called “The Epic Continues,” an all-new communicative acceptable after Return of the Jedi that would’ve brought caller factions, creatures, and characters (all successful need, of course, of caller toys) to the postulation far, acold away. Chief among them was the superior villain of “The Epic Continues,” Atha Prime: an past evil clad successful reddish robes and shiny metallic assemblage armor that was awoken connected the borderline of the postulation successful the aftermath of Emperor Palpatine’s death.

Prime, inspired by archetypal conception creation from Return of the Jedi for the Emperor’s Royal Guard, would’ve been revealed arsenic the designer of the then-undetailed Clone Wars, and launched an battle connected the postulation that threatened some the remnants of the Empire and the ascendant Rebel Alliance alike. Although Prime himself ne'er made the leap into immoderate signifier of continuity erstwhile “The Epic Continues” was scrapped, elements of the quality lived on. Prime’s plan influenced the plan of Dark Empire‘s Imperial Sentinels, and Prime’s backstory was yet repurposed for the Separatist familial violent Zeta Magnus successful the Expanded Universe, a Clone Wars villain who created the microorganism that would pb to the infamous disappearance of the legendary Katana Fleet—a large lore constituent successful the aboriginal days of the EU.

Just how Atha Prime volition leap into current Star Wars continuity remains to beryllium seen, but it’s ever bully to beryllium amazed with conscionable however heavy the postulation far, acold distant volition excavation to find thing to bring back. We’ll bring you much connected Marvel’s plans for Star Wars: Jedi Knights arsenic and erstwhile we larn them.

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