Star Wars: The Last Jedi - 10 Amazing Comics To Read While You Wait

8. Star Wars

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Jason Aaron is another of Marvel's greatest talents, so it's no surprise that he was placed on the company's flagship Star Wars title.

Aaron's series - like Gillen's - takes place in the relatively uncharted period between episodes IV and V. In it, we see Luke, Leia, Han, Chewie, Artoo, and C-3PO as they build on the successful destruction of the Death Star and take the fight to the Empire. It's great fun, and while some interactions between Luke and Vader somewhat ruin a lot of what we saw in Episode V, it's a minor flaw in an otherwise exemplary series.

Aaron really has a grasp on what readers want to see in a Star Wars title, and imbues the series with a key sense of adventure and action whilst maintaining an eye for melodrama. Kieron Gillen would later take over the book, but it continues to impress, depicting stories both before and during the Original Trilogy with characters like Yoda and Obi-Wan each getting a starring role.

It's the flagship book for a reason, and if you're going to start with any Marvel comic situated in a galaxy far, far away, there are few better poised to make that introduction.

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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.