Most of what we know about an event occurs immediately after it occurs Jedi Counterattack in contemporary times Star Wars Continuity has been largely preserved in rebooted canon almost since its inception. running The Force AwakensLucasfilm’s cross-media initiatives made great strides, beginning to establish the framework of the Empire’s complete fall and the formation of the New Republic, but over the past decade, those stories have faded into the ether—out-of-print books and comics , mobile games have long been closed, even the big bones of this turning point are still there Star WarsThe galactic narrative remains a patchwork. Now, Marvel is revisiting that pivotal period and doing some stitching — and in the process, giving us a remarkable look at other As the second Death Star burned over Endor, the Skywalker brothers felt it.
Star Issue 1 War: The Battle of Jakku – The Rise of the Rebellion—The first of three Marvel mini-series exploring the early days of Marvel Jedi Counterattack “The Battle of Jakku,” which officially ended the Galactic Civil War a year later, stars Alex Segura, Leonard Kirk, Stefano Raphael, Rachel Rosenberg, Written by Alex Sinclair and Joe Caramagna, it hits shelves today and has already begun to weave together the various threads that played out at this time nine years ago in what has come to be known as “The Journey” The Force Awakens” Transmedia Project. Bringing together all content from Chuck Wendig’s Acolytes of the Beyond as a result of novel, to the rise of Imperial Moff Adelhard in the Arnot Sector (explored in the abandoned EA mobile game, Star Wars: Uprising), the first issue managed to condense and more directly weave the bigger picture of the immediate challenges the Rebel Alliance faced after their victory over Endor. But its best scene is one that’s never really been explored in earlier transmedia canon, and raises an interesting question: How does Leia Organa feel about Darth Vader’s death?
Of course, we know a lot about Luke’s heart, thanks to Jedi Counterattack. He knew the truth, he knew his true connection to Leia, he redeemed Anakin Skywalker and laid him to rest on a pyre with the ashes of Darth Vader. but Rebellion rises #1 offers us a convincing mirror of Luke’s quiet acceptance of what he’s learned about his father in a series of perfect Leia moments.
Sneaking away from the festivities at Endor, we glimpse Leia visiting the burning remains of the pyre Luke built as she tries to think about how she should react to her father’s death. It’s an important reminder that Leia’s experience with Vader in the movies and Marvel’s own comics is one of constant terror and confrontation—the Empire’s agents imprisoning and torturing her, brutally separating her from the one she loves of men apart, a representation of everything she fought for in the Rebel Alliance. she didn’t seen The side Vader shows to Luke empireclimax or throughout returnor in the interiority of his own caricature, the man is pushed and pulled between a seemingly inevitable dark fate and the light component that was once part of him. So Leia’s reaction to the fact of who Luke is to her and who Vader is is not sympathy or understanding, but anger.
For Leia, her father was already dead when Tarkin and Vader pulled the trigger on Alderaan. The family she embraces is the one she created in the Alliance and prepares to have a family with Han, rather than the connection she now knows she has with Vader. It’s a brief but powerful scene, one that becomes even more intense when the next day’s questions arise – confronting Luke with Leia’s reaction, keenly feeling her emotions and anger, knowing clearly What she did the night before. It takes the mirror established in the previous scene between Leia and Luke and makes it more realistic as they face each other. Luke begs his sister to understand, understand the compassion he feels for his father, and offers Leia a chance to work off the anger he felt in her last night, but Leia In no mood. They’re quickly interrupted by the development of the Rebels, bringing the issue to a climax, but this scene shows everything we know about the Jedi during the prequels as if it were cut off. Leia didn’t want to suppress or compartmentalize what she was feeling right now – sadness, anger, elation, love – as Luke had done. His compassion for her father and his eventual redemption were as foreign to her as her rage in the moment was to Luke.
We know that, ultimately, Leia will come to terms with her part of the Skywalker heritage, both in terms of her father’s true nature and as someone who will join her brother in becoming the next generation of Jedi. But in this first, raw moment, we see the true differences between the two characters of Luke and Leia in a fascinating way — something we hope to dig deeper into as the series continues.
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