New One-Shot Comic Featuring Benicio del Toro’s “DJ” from The Last Jedi Coming in January!
Thanks to a recent article from Bleeding Cool, we have learned that Marvel has just revealed a new one-shot comic featuring Benicio del Toro’s mysterious character DJ from The Last Jedi coming this January. According to the solicitation, the comic will tell a day in the life of DJ just prior to his appearance in The Last Jedi.
The comic will be written by Ben Acker and Ben Blacker (who are also working on the upcoming one-shot Star Wars: The Last Jedi – The Storms of Crait) and will be illustrated by artist Kev Walker (Doctor Aphra).
Here’s the solicitation from Marvel (via Bleeding Cool):
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI â DJ #1
BEN ACKER & BEN BLACKER (W) âą KEV WALKER (A)
Cover by JEFF DEKAL
Variant Cover by TBA
Variant Cover by TBA
Movie Variant Cover also available
When STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI takes theaters in FORCE (get it?) this December, Star Wars fans will get a peek into some new dark corners of the Galaxy Far AwayâŠand out of one of those corners scuttles DJ, the mysterious character played by Benecio Del Toro! Who is this mystery man, and what put him in the path of our Resistance heroes? Join Ben Acker & Ben Blacker (Star Wars Join the Resistance, Star Wars: The Last Jedi â The Storms of Crait) and Kev Walker (Star Wars: Doctor Aphra, Darkhawk) as they reveal a day in DJâs life just before his appearance in the film!
32 PGS./Rated T âŠ$3.99
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Not sure how I feel about these new Star Wars names… Rose? DJ? …is this an 80’s sitcom or a Galaxy far far away?
I liked it better when “DJ” didn’t have a name. We’ll see soon enough!
Not sure how I feel about these new Star Wars names… Rose? DJ? …is this an 80’s sitcom or a Galaxy far far away?
I liked it better when “DJ” didn’t have a name. We’ll see soon enough!
Erm, Luke, Ben, Chewie? This is nothing new.
I get that… Ben and Luke still have a more “universal” sound …DJ and Rose don’t (at least for me) Rose especially… it is the name of a too well known flower on our planet …and it reminds me of a waitress at some dinner
…and DJ was the kid on “Roseanne”
It’ll probably work …but gorilla walkers and these names worry me a bit.
Film looks good so far… just have to wait and see
I agree, especially with the name “DJ”. It sounds like he is a hip 80s kid. It just doesn’t sound like it belongs in the universe. At first I didn’t mind so much, and I guess I still don’t let it bother me too much, but then I thought DJ were initials for something that needed to be kept secret, like “dark jedi” or something like that.
That would be an awful way to keep a secret haha.
Hehe I know. It was the first thing I could think of. You get the picture though đ
Merchandise for the character shows him in a hat with the words “Don’t Join” written in aurebesh along the side. Make of that what you will.
“it is the name of a too well known flower on our planet …”
Han calls 3PO “Goldenrod” and that is a flower in our world.
Didn’t seem to be a problem for anyone.
Han, Luke, Ben, Leia and Finn (perhaps with some minor spelling differences) are pretty common names where I’m from.
Where are you from that “Han” is a common name?!
China
holy crap you are right!
…but how many Chinese people are named Luke?
hmmm…
You realize we are talking about earth as a whole, right? He took names from all of the world and made up his own.
Holland. Got a few back in them school years, at the local football team, some colleagues, Han’s all over the place.
It’s not really shocking from the OT standpoint. They had Luke, Ben… which are common names. I think it’s mainly the prequels (and all the subsequent stuff) that set this new standard that if you had to be a Star Wars character, you had to be named something long and fancy-sounding. But yeah… it would be cool to see them try to find something a bit more “Star Wars” sounding. And something which is longer than one fucking syllable.
If you prefer, you could always call him Dorn Jenth (the Aurebesh equivalent). đ
Ok… I will do that …thanks ha ha!
Why didn’t I think of that?! Now help out with “Rose”
It is what it is with Rose. But if it helps, the GFFA has roses too. An “Ithorian rose” is mentioned in the From a Certain Point of View novel. So the flower is not unique to our galaxy. But I feel ya…I can’t help but think of Betty White and Candace Cameron when I hear those names. Lol.
I haven’t gotten to read the new cannon books (still a “legends” guy)
Ok, so that does help a bit. Just needed some reference to “fix” it in my crazy O.C. head.
Thanks!
Certain Point of View is a celebration of 40 years of Star Wars with 40 short stories. I don’t buy many novels, only have one new cannon, but this one is well worth it.
You, sir, have singlehandedly solved my neurosis. Care to have a try at the gorilla walkers? (I guess we’ll have to wait and see them on film to see if they look and act like king kong mechs)
Haha! You bet. The tip-yip (Ewokese) a.k.a. the “Endorian chicken” was a primary source of food for the Ewoks. The common fan name for the AT-ST has also since been canonized by an in-universe character derisively calling it a “chicken walker”. So, chickens are also a thing in the GFFA. So why not gorillas? đ
What does yub-nub mean
I think it means “yummy stormtrooper”.
I never really paid much attention to names in SWs, but yeah; some of the names do seem weird. For example, Snoke. The connotations of that name sound like he’d be super uptight or stuffy. Kind of like Hux. Perhaps, I am reading too much into it, but really I am just indifferent.
Never did like “Snoke” …still hasn’t grown on me but maybe we will understand more as the story goes on. I always liked General Hux …seemed very Star Wars to me …like General Veers
Agreed. Hux fits the stuck up, imperial aspect that the First Order has.
Nothing could be worse than ‘Sheev’ – it’s like the SW Galaxy equivalent of ‘Bob’. Emperor Bob Palpatine. SMH…
Yea they don’t fit in at all. No ones ever gone by a two letter name and rose sounds like some rich girl.
I’m starting to think that the mystery surrounding his character is going to result in him playing a quirky little character like he did with the Collector in the MCU. Its a character that has potential to pop up elsewhere. Not necessarily a big role though.
Out in January, after the film drops same as the novelisation, could indicate that there is something spolierific about DJ, or not?
Flip that image and he has similar scars to Ezra Bridger.
Flip that image and he has similar scars to Ezra Bridger.
Yes, but heâs not Ezra Bridger. Change my hair color and itâs the same as Carrot tops but nobody is confusing us.
Just kidding anyway, hope he isnât Ezra. The galaxy should big and interesting enough not to keep using the same characters.
Hope whoever he is, heâs not too small a part. Waste of a great actor.
I honestly think he will have a similar cameo as he did in Guardians of the Galaxy. Maybe on screen for 10-15 minutes.
Ezra would be 20 years older than DJ.
It is spelled Benicio rather than Benecio. Please fix the headline.
*Binassyo DĂŻhl Tweroo*
Thank you every much Valerie.
Combolations, Elisagerth! Somepandy told me Braks were for battlin’, but I don’t see no Space Coast on my ghost…
Looking forward to seeing his backstory expand with this comic. ^_^
https://youtu.be/ekgpZag6xyQ
As your attorney, I advise you to stop using my jacket as a place-mat.
DJ = Dwayne Johnson