Storms Of Crait Comic Reveals Backstory To Star Wars: The Last Jedi

In Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi, the Resistance hunkers down on Crait in hopes that they can hold off the First Order long enough to ensure the Resistance’s survival – but over thirty years before that happened, Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa scouted the location as a potential base for the Rebel Alliance. An all-new one-shot comic will tell that story.

 

 

According to Newsarama, the comic is 40 pages in length, is written by Ben Acker and Ben Blacker, and is illustrated by Mike Mayhew. A preview of the cover (illustrated by Marco Checchetto), followed by six textless pages previewing the comic, can be seen below:

 

 

The official press release is as follows:

This December, the soon-to-be thrilling Star Wars: The Last Jedi rocks movie screens across the world…and the reverberations are felt all around a galaxy far, far away! First up, learn the secret of the mineral planet Crait! Long before it became a battleground between the Resistance and the First Order, Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa led the Rebellion there in search of a new home! From writers Ben Acker & Ben Blacker (Star Wars Join the Resistance) and artist Marco Checchetto (Star Wars: Shattered Empire) comes the backstory to this winter’s biggest adventure!

The comic will hit shelves on December 27.

 

 

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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.

12 thoughts on “Storms Of Crait Comic Reveals Backstory To Star Wars: The Last Jedi

  • November 17, 2017 at 1:16 am
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    I’m definitely looking forward to this. The Leia novel established Crait as an interesting place.

    • November 17, 2017 at 4:13 am
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      Agreed. I did like that new novel from Claudia Gray. And really, I do like the concept of Crait. It’s Hoth like, but really its only difference is that it is a heated desert. Note, a desert can be either hot or cold as it is just barren land.

      But really, with all due respect, my hope is that post TLJ we will start seeing some new stories outside the ANH and ESB timelines. To be fair, we’ve seen this with Poe Dameron, Bloodline and the PT stuff. But to me the ESB and ROTJ, along with ROTJ and TFA time period is a lot more fascinating as in the case of Luke would be interesting to explore.

      Heck, being a Luke fanatic, I even have two stories written. One is a book set between ESB and ROTJ staring Luke and the other is an anthology film.

  • November 17, 2017 at 1:20 am
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    Haven’t done a lot of the comics, but those panels are gorgeous.

  • November 17, 2017 at 3:28 am
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    Wouldn’t it be neat if artists would stop tracing film frames and publicity photos? Besides the obvious fatigue of seeing the same angles and expressions again and again, it really makes the rare occasions when they’re forced to try and, you know, actually draw something stick out really awkwardly.

    • November 17, 2017 at 3:43 am
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      I’m not a fan of this. At all. How long has this been going on in the comics medium? As you can tell, I don’t read many Star Wars comics. But just glancing at these excerpts, I’m immediately taken out of what I’m seeing because I know exactly where these expressions occur in the films.

      • November 17, 2017 at 1:45 pm
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        It’s been going on for quite a long while now. to be fair, Mayhew is undoubtedly an extremely talented, photo-realistic artist ( as might been seen from his other SW and non-SW projects.

        There have been worse perpetrators in the past ( on other non SW comics – such as Greg Horn ).

        A number of the new SW comics do seem to have suffered from screencap tracing, but I’d say there are worse ( i.e. clumsy ) examples of it – the above art is just a very OBVIOUS ( but well crafted ) example.

    • November 17, 2017 at 1:48 pm
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      I find it a problem across the board at Marvel at the moment. There are egregious examples of tracings being taken directly using ‘SmithMicro POSER’, and ‘Google Sketch-up’ – and it’s not even smartly utilised, making for extremely bad finished drawings.

    • November 17, 2017 at 2:36 pm
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      I thought the same of a couple of the shots of Leia in the preview above. However, Mayhew is generally an uber talented artist and the panels above are really easy on the eyes. Of all of the artists who use this technique, I can tolerate it from him the most, mainly because of just how gorgeous the finish product is. He did a great job on the first Ben Kenobi story in the SW comic, and I like his other work outside of Star Wars, so I’m definitely looking forward to reading this one. To me, these aren’t half as jarring as some of the other SW artists (*cough*Salvador Larroca*cough*).

      • November 17, 2017 at 6:06 pm
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        He may be talented, but literally EVERY panel, apart from the Mon Mothma stuff, and the last couple of panels of Leia and Luke are traced from the films. The vehicles, and all of the characters. I mean, you can absolutely pick out each and every shot from SW that he’s copied there. Is it laziness? Time crunch? I have no idea, but it’s massively distracting to me.

    • November 18, 2017 at 6:07 am
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      It’s really distracting. I recognize most of the source images. It takes me right out of the story.

  • November 17, 2017 at 4:11 pm
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    I don’t mean to be negative about someone who clearly is talented enough to land a gig drawing Star Wars for Marvel comics, but how do these artist that keep using realistic pictures for faces completely keep getting work? It takes me out of the medium every single time to the point where I honestly can’t enjoy the comic.

  • November 17, 2017 at 4:32 pm
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    That art is beautiful. Looks really good

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