At the end of The Last Jedi, master met apprentice one last time, as Luke Skywalker appeared to Kylo Ren (a.k.a. Ben Solo) on Crait, stalling to give the Resistance enough time to escape. Luke told his former apprentice, "I'll always be with you. Just like your father." This prompted an outburst of rage from [...]
As Rey finds the Skywalker lightsaber in The Force Awakens, a series of flashback images appears, including a shot of Kylo Ren killing someone and then stepping toward the camera. People wondered what this meant about his possible relationship with Rey, but the movie didn't explain the sequence, nor did later films in the trilogy. [...]
One of the very first things we learned about Kylo Ren in The Force Awakens was that he is the "master of the Knights of Ren", but that title will apparently be challenged in an upcoming story. In Charles Soule's Legacy of Vader comic series, set in-between The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker, [...]
For a man wanting to let the past die, Kylo Ren sure is obsessed with it. The troubled grandson of Darth Vader was conflicted, having both a reverence for his grandfather as well as a desire to disengage from his past entirely. It's in that turbulent period that Charles Soule's Legacy of Vader comic series [...]
When the preview pages for Legacy of Vader were released back in January, there was a panel in particular that created a lot of stir in the Star Wars fandom: images of Darth Vader killing Watto. It created a lot of discussion because, well, everything does with Star Wars fans online. But it turns out [...]
Let the past die? Though Kylo Ren insisted on that mantra during The Last Jedi, he also discovered that it's far harder to do it than to say it. He remained haunted by his past, by his family, by the expectations and weight of the galaxy. It could just be that the past contains some [...]
This year is shaping up to be a very exciting one for Star Wars comics, with series following prequel characters (Jedi Knights by Marc Guggenheim), original trilogy characters (Star Wars by Alex Segura), and sequel characters (Legacy of Vader by Charles Soule). All three authors recently appeared on a Youtube interview with Alex Damon of [...]
An upcoming Star Wars comic will finally show us the fate of one of the prequel trilogy's most despicable characters. Marvel Star Wars editor Mark Paniccia posted a few images of the second issue of the upcoming Legacy of Vader comic, showing Kylo Ren traveling to Tatooine as he hunts the legacy of his grandfather. [...]
The Star Wars comics are finally beginning to cover the time period following Return of the Jedi, but they'll soon jump a few decades further in the timeline to begin filling in some more gaps in the sequel trilogy storyline. Veteran Star Wars author Charles Soule is writing a new comic series called Star Wars: [...]
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