New Star Wars Comic Reveals More About Last Jedi Planet

Storms of Crait will feature Luke and Leia in a leading role.

by Ewan Paterson

Marvel have been knocking it out of the park when it comes to Star Wars for over a year, and - having already bridged the gap between Episodes VI and VII in Greg Rucka's Shattered Empire - they're now looking to do the same with The Last Jedi.

Said bridging will occur in the upcoming Star Wars: The Storms of Crait, written and drawn by Ben Blacker, Ben Acker and Mike Mayhew. Situated during the Original Trilogy (but before Episode VI), the story will see Luke Skywalker team up with Leia Organa in an attempt to found a new Rebel base on Crait - a locale said to be heavily featured in Rian Johnson's upcoming film.

Marvel-ous editor Jordan D. White said that he's really "excited for the opportunity to tell this story... Tying the new sequel series in more tightly with the original trilogy era, and helping make the Galaxy Far Away a little more fleshed out."

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White was also quick to sing the praises of the team involved with the new series, stating that "the Bens are a great fit for Star Wars, as they showed in Join the Resistance, and Mike has done such great work on both covers and the Obi-Wan issues of the flagship Star Wars title, that we couldn’t be happier to have him back doing art for us."

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While the comic won't be releasing until December 27, a week after The Last Jedi drops that same month, Marvel have a proven record when it comes to a galaxy far, far away. Mayhew's art on those Kenobi issues were particularly brilliant, and while the Bens' comics resume is slightly more elusive, we've only heard good things about Join the Resistance.

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WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.