Marvel Comics will be going back to the Prequel Trilogy era, more specifically the time between The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones with a five-issue miniseries focusing on Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Here is the a short description for the the five-issue miniseries by the writer of the story – Charles Soule:
“The miniseries is set three years into Anakin’s training under Obi-Wan — something he promised the dying Qui-Gon he would do — at a peacetime period where the Jedi are at the height of their power and many feel Anakin is destined to do an enormous amount of good for the universe.
He and Obi-Wan are in a spaceship heading back to a diplomatic fleet when they get a distress call from a remote deserted planet. When they land, the Jedi find a mountainous place with deep valleys containing huge roiling clouds of green mist that cover the surface. “It’s a place that’s designed to have many, many secrets,” Soule says, “and it does.
While they go on their mission, it’s interspersed with flashbacks showing how the title’s main stars reached a personal crisis point between them.”
The upcoming mini series is set to be released in January of next year. The miniseries will be written by Charles Soule (Star Wars: Lando) with artwork by Marco Checchetto (Star Wars: Shattered Empire).
It is very interesting and refreshing to have Marvel go back to this part of the Star Wars timeline. Due to all of the previous Expanded Universe material being made non-canon and will appear under the Legends banner, the time period between The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones has no stories set in it as part of the new canon.
Thoughts on this announcement? Are you excited for this comic series?
By Dan Georgiev
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