Much of what we know about the events immediately in the wake of Return of the Jedi in contemporary Star Wars continuity has been left in broad strokes for almost as long as the rebooted canon has been around . In the run up to The Force Awakens , Lucasfilm’s transmedia initiatives made great strides to begin setting up the framework of the Empire’s complete fall and the formation of the New Republic, but in the last 10 years, those stories have faded into the ether—books and comics out of print, mobile games long since shut down, even the broad bones of this turning point in Star Wars ‘ galactic narrative remains patchwork. Now, Marvel is revisiting that crucial period to do some stitching—and in the process, gives us a remarkable look at how the other Skywalker sibling felt as the second Death Star burned above Endor.
The first issue of Star Wars: Battle of Jakku – Insurgency Rising —the first of three Marvel miniseries exploring the early period between Return of the Jedi and the Battle of Jakku that formally brings an end to the Galactic Civil War just a year later—by Alex Segura, Leonard Kirk, Stefano Raffaele, Rachelle Rosenberg, Alex Sinclair, and Joe Caramagna, hit shelves today, and is already beginning to weave together the various threads that played out this time nine years ago in what would become known as the “Journey to The Force Awakens ” transmedia project . Pulling together on everything from the Acolytes of the Beyond from Chuck Wendig�.
