Welcome to the August 2015 Star Wars Canon Update!
This month we got five new comic issues, so I’m just gonna get to the good stuff quick!
But if you want the short version, Marvel is killing it with their current series.
I look forward to reading each new issue, and if you haven’t checked them out, I recommend
you give one a shot!
Starting with Darth Vader issue 8, Dr. Aphra and her merry band of bounty hunters set up
a very cool heist to steal the Imperial contraband.
They are able to get in and out without the Empire even knowing they were there, and Aphra
successfully rips off most of her team, keeping most of the score for herself.
Back with the General Tagge, Vader is tasked with investigating the exact heist he just
executed.
He’s also provided with the help of a Sherlock Holmes-type investigator that seems to know
Vader was involved.
It will be interesting to see that cat-and-mouse game play out as well as see how Vader keeps
one of his competitors from tracking down Luke.
Moving onto another heist, Lando and his crew successfully escape the Imperials with the
Emperor’s ship full of priceless art.
And we get a reminder of what it means to displease the Emperor.
The space station that allowed the ship to be stolen is blown to pieces, and the Imperial
officer that allows Lando’s escape promptly kills himself.
The Emperor then hires a new bounty hunter by the name of Chanath Cha to do what his
own forces could not.
I’m not sure what to think of this character yet.
He basically seems like a Boba Fett clone, but we’ll see.
Finally, as Lobot inspects the art they’ve just stolen, he pops open a door only to be
stabbed by two Imperial Royal Guards.
Of course Lobot survives, but I don’t like to see him hurt!
That’s a pretty awesome cliffhanger, knowing how formidable the Royal Guards are, and I
can’t wait to see Lando’s hired fighters duke it out with them.
It’s been two months since we got to see what’s going on in the main Star Wars storyline.
We last left Han and Leia with Han’s possible wife.
Han at least keeps claiming Sana is a liar, but he definitely has a history with her.
She seems unstable at best.
She destroys their ship and calls in the orbiting Imperials to come pick up Leia for her bounty,
which is a nice reference to the Princess Leia series.
Meanwhile, Luke decides it’s time for him to investigate the Jedi Temple.
But first he does some classic Luke whining about how all Ben left him were stories.
First of all, they’re probably pretty cool stories.
Second of all, don’t you think he left them for a reason?
It’s easy to forget that this is Luke immediately after A New Hope.
He’s pretty much still a bratty teenager.
And he doesn’t make the best decisions.
He heads to Nar Shadaa to find someone that can smuggle him to Coruscant.
It seems to be a running joke that Luke just tries and fails at the things Obi-Wan did.
He goes to a seedy bar and announces his need for a smuggler loudly.
Stupid.
The patrons then attack him and he flashes his lightsaber in front of everyone.
Stupid.
Then he loses his lightsaber to a thief.
Get it together, Luke!
Anyway, I think this storyline will be cool, and I’m excited to see Luke infiltrate the
Jedi Temple, if he gets that far.
Kanan was great this month.
We last saw Caleb captured by his former Clone commanders.
He tries to talk some sense into them and help them see through Order 66.
He then ejects himself into space and is picked up by Kasmir, but the freighter is still hot
on their tail.
But before they can make the kill, one of the clones decides Caleb was right after all,
and attacks the other clones to atone for his murder of Depa Billaba.
The whole sequence was just plain fantastic.
Back to safety, Caleb decides to leave Kasmir, and take up the name Kanan Jarrus.
I’m going to miss Kasmir a lot, I hope we see him again in the future.
Remember that cliffhanger I mentioned earlier?
Well the next issue came late in August, so we didn’t have to worry about Lobot’s
health long.
Basically in this issue, Lobot gets put in bacta, Lando finds out whose ship he stole,
the twins beat the royal guards, and Chanath Cha starts his chase.
There were also some interesting developments in this story.
Cha is given Darth Maul’s old ship, the Scimitar to hunt down Lando.
As Lobot starts to bleed out, he begins to lose control over himself and his implants
take over.
I was wondering why he had implants, but was so different to Tseebo from Rebels.
Turns out if he is able to concentrate hard enough, he can mentally overpower the implants.
I love Lobot.
We also get to see some unmasked Royal Guards, and they are “corrupted” as Sava puts
it.
Turns out they are corrupted because they have been locked in a room protecting Sith
artifacts for who knows how long.
So the ship is full of priceless Sith items, included an ominous looking helmet sitting
on a pedestal in the shape of the Sith Empire’s emblem, which I thought was a nice touch.
All in all, Lando is continuing to be a very fun comic, and a huge step up from the Princess
Leia series.
That’s it for August!
The Canon Update will be back on September 30, and it’ll probably be a monster episode.
Tons of new comics, Aftermath, a junior novel, and three new chapter books.
A lot to look forward to for Star Wars fans!
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