A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

Cover art (derived from Issue #5) by Paolo Rivera. ©2018 Marvel Comics and Lucasfilm Ltd. (LFL) On November 6, 2018, nearly a year after the debut of director Rian Johnson's eponymous film, Marvel Comics released Star Wars: The Last Jedi, a trade paperback that collects the six issues of writer Gary Whitta and artist Michael Walsh's series  Star Wars: The Last Jedi Adaptation. Featuring a dynamic cover by Paolo Rivera that was originally done for the series' fifth issue, this slim 136-page  volume continues the Sequel Trilogy saga that pits General Leia Organa's small band of Resistance fighters against the forces of the evil First Order of Supreme Leader Snoke and his powerful but unstable apprentice, Kylo Ren. The FIRST ORDER reigns. Having decimated the peaceful Republic, Supreme Leader Snoke now deploys his merciless legions to seize military control of the galaxy. Only General Leia Organa's band of RESISTANCE fighters stands against the risin...

Cover art by Phil Noto. (C) 2017, 2018 Marvel Comics Group and Lucasfilm Ltd.  On July 11, 2018, Marvel Comics published the hardcover edition of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, a 176-page volume that collects issues 1-6 of writer Jody Houser’s adaptation of the 2016 Star Wars Anthology film and the standalone Star Wars: Rogue One – Cassian & K-2SO Special #1. Scripted by Houser ( Star Wars: Thrawn ) and illustrated by Emilio Laiso (issues 1-2, 4-6), Paolo Villanelli (issue #3), and Oscar Bazaldua, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story follows reluctant Rebel Jyn Erso’s perilous mission to redeem her father, Imperial scientist Galen Erso, by helping a small group of freedom fighters, an Imperial defector and two acolytes of the extinct Jedi Order steal the plans to a planet-killing superweapon – the Death Star. Th e Rebellion is here! The Rogue One crew makes the leap from the big screen to the comic-book page in this action-packed adaptation! All looks lost for the gal...