Star Wars: Comics In Canon - Ep 21: The Secret Rebel Jail & Nerf-Herding (Star Wars #16-19)

This week Mike talks about the third volume of Star Wars comics; Rebel Jail, featuring Princess Leia & Sana Starros taking Doctor Aphra to a secret rebel prison closely orbiting a star, Luke & Han’s nerf-herding mission, a crazed rebel spy, the first Star Wars annual and more! If you don’t know who Doctor Aphra is and would like an introduction to her, listen to episode 15 of SWCIC! The 4 issues of vol 3 of Star Wars were written by Jason Aaron with the penciller Leinil Yu, inker Gerry Alaguilan and colourist Sunny Gho (& Java Tartaglia on #19). Issue #16 was released February 2016, issue #19 was released May 2016 and the trade paperback collection was released August 2016 (which includes Star Wars Annual #1). Star Wars Annual #1 was written by Kieron Gillen, Angel Unzueta was the artist and Paul Mounts was the colourist and was released December 2015. Last episode Mike spoke about the Galaxy’s Edge Comic, before that was the Vader Down crossover event and the week before was the Lando comic mini-series. Previous episodes have been about Mace Windu, Princess Leia, the Jedi Fallen Order Comic, how Obi-Wan & Anakin almost left the Jedi order, the Rogue One & Solo comics, Captain Phasma, Operation Cinder, how C-3PO got his red arm, Darth Maul beyond The Phantom Menace, Kylo Ren’s red lightsaber crystal and more! If you have any questions, pointers or just fancy a chat, send Mike an email at StarWarsComicsInCanon@outlook.com This week, Comics In Motion has an excellent offer exclusively for our listeners! TKO Comics is revolutionizing the comics industry and if you go to http://tkopresents.com/discount/MOTION20 and use the promo code MOTION20 at checkout, you will receive a 20% discount exclusively for Comics in Motion listeners - happy reading! Mike is also the host of a podcast called Genuine Chit-Chat where he speaks with a different guest each week about a wide array of topics where no subject is off limits – GCC can be listened to in the same place you’re listening to this show, so there’s no excuse to not check it out! Chris & Dave of Comics In Motion featured on episode 90 of GCC, plus Chris was on episode 89 of GCC to talk about wrestling and Dave is on episode 90, talking with Max of Mandatory Marvel & DC about the recent DC movies! Chris & Dave of Comics In Motion were on episodes 63 & 75 of GCC together and Mike was on episodes 75 & 100 of Comics In Motion! Find Mike @GenuineChitChat on Twitter, @Genuine_ChitChat on Instagram and /GenuineChitChat on Facebook! Intro theme arranged by Mike Burton, backing music by Eric Matyas at www.soundimage.org