10 Insane Star Wars Comics That Changed Everything

2. Doctor Aphra - Kieron Gillen, Simon Spurrier, Kev Walker Et Al.

Star Wars Doctor Aphra
Marvel Comics

Of all the new characters introduced to Star Wars through the comics, Chelli Lona Aphra might just be the best.

A brilliant inversion of the Indiana Jones archetype, Aphra's mantra isn't so much that "it belongs in a museum", but rather that "it belongs to me, and I'm gonna sell it. Bite me."

She was first introduced in Gillen's Vader comic and proved so popular that she found her own series in 2016, joined alongside fellow favourites Triple-Zero and Beetee-One. Whether under Kieron Gillen or Simon Spurrier, the series has continued to branch out the Star Wars mythos, exploring the past and the Original Trilogy to great effect, all the while developing a truly great anti-hero in Aphra herself.

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