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Desert Storm
Star Wars’ lost war comes to comics in The Battle Of Jakku
WORDS: STEPHEN JEWELL
HAVING RECENTLY concluded its post-Empire Strikes Back storylines, Marvel’s Star Wars line is now moving onto the perhaps even more intriguing gap between 1983’s Return Of The Jedi and 2015’s The Force Awakens, initially focusing on the decisive but previously unchronicled final showdown between the Galactic Empire and the New Republic.
Illustrated by Leonard Kirk, Stefano Raffaele and Jethro Morales, The Battle Of Jakku plays out in a trilogy of weekly, four-issue miniseries, beginning in October’s “Insurgency Rising” before continuing in November’s “Republic Under Siege”.