Elite Stormtroopers Headed to Marvel’s Star Wars Comic.

Stormtrooper Legion

After the end of Rebel Jail, the current arc of Marvel’s Star Wars comic, the heroes of the Rebellion will have to stand up against a squad of seven unique Stormtroopers in the next arc, The Last Flight Of Harbinger. Take a look inside for some concept art of the new troopers.

 

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According to the official Star Wars website, these Stormtroopers will cameo in issue #20 of Star Wars before starring in a standalone story shown in issue #21 that will then lead into the The Last Flight Of Harbinger arc proper. As it turns out, we’ve already met their leader, Kreel – who was previously identified as the Gamemaster in Showdown On The Smuggler’s Moon. Kreel, while operating as an undercover Imperial agent for Grakkus the Hutt, trained Luke in order to keep him alive long enough for the Empire to capture him. Obviously, that last part didn’t work out as planned, but there should be an interesting dynamic if the two face off again.

 

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In this arc, we’ll learn about why Kreel and his merry band of troopers believe that the Empire is a just cause. Writer Jason Aaron described the story as being the antithesis of both Finn’s personal story arc in The Force Awakens and the incomplete “Bad Batch” episodes of The Clone Wars. In a sense, these guys could almost be seen as the Thunderbolts or Suicide Squad of the Star Wars setting.

 

After we meet the new Stormtroopers, issue #22 will pick back up with the Rebellion, showing Luke, Han, Leia, and Chewbacca on a mission to hijack an Imperial Star Destroyer in the middle of a massive space battle. This, of course, gets the attention of the Stormtrooper squadron, pitting the two groups against one another in subsequent issues. Shown below is artist Jorge Molina’s takes on the big three of the Rebellion:

 

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Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

34 thoughts on “Elite Stormtroopers Headed to Marvel’s Star Wars Comic.

  • April 20, 2016 at 2:39 am
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    What – no Dark Trooper w/ Arc Caster & jet pack!?!

  • April 20, 2016 at 4:36 am
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    Me likey.

  • April 20, 2016 at 5:54 am
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    God, these designs are badass.

    Why can’t we get designs like this in the movies!?.. *sigh* one can dream..

    • April 20, 2016 at 7:39 am
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      If it ain’t the OT, the movies ain’t doing it.

      • April 20, 2016 at 12:20 pm
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        They could do something like that with the FO Stormtroopers.

    • April 20, 2016 at 1:09 pm
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      Too good? Rey or Jyn wouln’t be cool compared to them, and neither the Jedi.

  • April 20, 2016 at 12:34 pm
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    I’m glad that these designs (hopefully) won’t make it to any movie. They look ridiculous and forced. Feels like a generic template of the stereotypical and boring group where everyone should have its own “role”.

    • April 20, 2016 at 1:08 pm
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      That would be if Marvel was doing Star Wars I guess.

  • April 20, 2016 at 3:16 pm
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    this makes me wish we’d seen a lot more variations on the stormtroopers in the OT movies… the snow armor and the scout armor were excellent deviations for specialized missions but I wish there had been more beyond those.

    • April 20, 2016 at 3:26 pm
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      Same goes of ships in TFA. But I’m ok with not to many armors because too much is sometimes too much. We don’t want another Avengers: Age of Ultron.

      • April 21, 2016 at 5:52 am
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        But…but…I liked AoU though….

        • April 21, 2016 at 2:38 pm
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          I fell asleep during it.

          • April 22, 2016 at 4:27 am
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            How? Like, I realize that you may not have liked it, but it was certainly anything but boring.

          • April 22, 2016 at 1:56 pm
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            I was already kinda tired. But it still allowed me to fall asleep. THe last film that did that to me before AoU was Lincoln.

    • April 21, 2016 at 9:03 am
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      I’m kinda glad there were only 3 variations in the OT. (I count the TIE pilots as off shoots as well.) The problem with Episode III was that there were too damn many Clonetrooper variants to remember and, thus, care for any of them.

      • April 24, 2016 at 4:35 am
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        That’s the thing, superfans are the only ones that have any interest (at all) in memorizing the stormtrooper variations. Not that many people are that obsessed.

  • April 20, 2016 at 5:17 pm
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    I don’t at all care for these designs. They look too video gameish (that’s a word, right?). I love the new trooper designs we’ve seen in the Rogue One trailer, but these I’m just not feeling.

    • April 20, 2016 at 5:55 pm
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      Especially that Bazooka one. It looks like a boss from Super Star Wars or something.

  • April 20, 2016 at 6:53 pm
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    Just bring back republic commando!!!!

    • April 20, 2016 at 7:07 pm
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      Imperial Commando was in the development actually, but the game got cancelled :/

      • April 20, 2016 at 7:16 pm
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        ashamed that Disney axed so many good projects!

        • April 20, 2016 at 7:39 pm
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          Imp. Commando was canned long before Disney took over.

        • April 21, 2016 at 5:51 am
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          I will never forget 1313.

        • April 25, 2016 at 10:49 pm
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          Disney had nothing to do with that.

  • April 20, 2016 at 7:46 pm
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    This is dumb. It looks like bad video game boss/mini-boss concept art. Evebn if the characters themselves are well done, the looks will take me out of things completely.

  • April 21, 2016 at 3:05 am
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    It looks like Clone Troopers 2.0 to me.

  • April 21, 2016 at 3:41 am
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    It does look very comic-y. I think a story about them post Jedi would have been cooler, Especially since they can’t make the OT ones look too competent or the trilogy would have ended differently on Endor.

  • April 21, 2016 at 5:34 am
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    Its for the comics, people. Relax.

    Should we bring back the droid arc or Jaxson the rabbit?

  • April 21, 2016 at 6:47 am
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    Storm Troopers getting their “Disneyfied” treatment…

  • April 21, 2016 at 2:42 pm
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    I think the designs are pretty good, and will probably be much better in their final states. I am not feeling Bazooka or Scout, though. Not at all. Get rid of those two and this group becomes much less strange.

  • April 21, 2016 at 5:55 pm
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    I’m not really feeling the new EU. They aren’t telling the stories I want. Most of it doesn’t seem to be any better than the Dark Horse series. The new stuff doesn’t always suck but none of it is really blowing me away either.

  • April 23, 2016 at 6:33 pm
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    Hmm I don’t know what they are doing with these comics now. It’s lost its focus. Move into empire strikes back territory.

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