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Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters Variant Covers Revealed – Exclusive

Get ready for a bounty of stunning Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters art!

It’s War of the Bounty Hunters Week on StarWars.com, and every day we’ll be revealing artist Giuseppe Camuncoli’s variant covers for Marvel’s upcoming crossover epic. Kicking things off is the cover for Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #12, featuring a portrait of the notorious rogue archaeologist. Check it out below!

Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #12 (available July 21)

And that’s not all the War of the Bounty Hunters goodness coming this week. On Friday, we’ll take you inside Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters Alpha #1 artist Steve McNiven’s sketchbook, and offer a first look at over 40 variant covers for the issue, and more.

War of the Bounty Hunters, starting this May, will tell the tale

It’s Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters Week on StarWars.com!

Marvel’s epic Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters is coming soon, and we’re celebrating.

Telling the tale of Boba Fett’s struggle to deliver Han Solo to Jabba the Hutt, War of the Bounty Hunters begins this May and will cross over into the House of Ideas’ entire post-Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back line. It promises to be the biggest Marvel Star Wars event yet, and StarWars.com is thrilled to announce that we’ll be offering first looks at never-before-seen art and more, all week long. Here’s the plan:

Every day this week, StarWars.com will reveal one of fan-favorite artist Giuseppe Camuncoli’s stunning variant covers for comics from the War of the Bounty Hunters event. On Thursday afternoon, This Week! In Star Wars will reveal one variant featuring a certain bounty hunter.

Keeve Trennis Faces her Fears in Marvel’s Star Wars: The High Republic #4 – Exclusive Preview

How could it have gone so wrong?

In StarWars.com’s exclusive first look at issue #4 of Marvel’s Star Wars: The High Republic comic, Jedi Padawan Keeve Trennis must confront what’s become of her master, the legendary Jedi Sskeer, as he holds her and other Force users hostage on Sedri Minor. In stark contrast to her current predicament, the preview takes us back in time to Keeve’s earlier years training with the Trandoshan for a glimpse at his teaching style.

Star Wars: The High Republic #4, from writer Cavan Scott and artist Ario Anindito, with a cover by Phil Noto, arrives April 7 and is available for pre-order now on Comixology and at your local comic shop.

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The Star Wars Vintage Collection Has Arrived on Disney+!

Some lost Star Wars classics have been found.

The Star Wars Vintage Collection arrives today on Disney+, featuring several long-out-of-print and previously unavailable movies and series. The full list includes:

Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure

Ewoks: The Battle for Endor

The Story of the Faithful Wookiee

Star Wars: Ewoks

Clone Wars 2D Micro-Series — Volume 1 & 2

In addition, the Star Wars: Droids animated series is slated to join the Star Wars Vintage Collection later this year.

So set your coordinates for Disney+ — and enjoy your first steps into the larger world of the Star Wars Vintage Collection.

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Myth and Poetry are Allies in the Force in The Odyssey of Star Wars: An Epic Poem – Exclusive Reveal

The Odyssey of Star Wars: An Epic Poem, a new book by Jack Mitchell, owes its genesis to the unique combination of Mitchell’s scholarly background and his children’s taste in bedtime stories.

“I was reading Homer and Vergil in the daytime, then Star Wars books to my kids at night,” the Stanford-educated poet tells StarWars.com. “And I realized this was our modern mythology, which I was already passing on.”

Like the tales of Odysseus and Beowulf that have come before it, the adventures of Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Darth Vader are larger-than life mythologies, filled with legendary battles, archetypal heroes and storied warriors, sleek ships and dangerous monsters lurking along the way. Alongside illustrations inspired by the terracotta art synonymous with Greek antiquity, Mitchell uses the ancient literary form of epic poetry to

The Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy Trilogy Will End with Lesser Evil – Exclusive Reveal

First introduced in 1991’s classic Star Wars: Heir to the Empire, Grand Admiral Thrawn has since earned his place among the greatest villains of Star Wars. Creator Timothy Zahn has dialed back the clock with his current Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy trilogy, chronicling the Imperial mastermind’s rise within the military ranks of his own homeworld. Soon, that story will come to an end, and StarWars.com has the first details.

Coming November 16, Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil will end Zahn’s epic Thrawn origin tale. It finds The Chiss Ascendancy — rulers of Csilla — fractured, with Thrawn caught in the middle. You can check out the book’s cover by Sarofsky and the official synopsis below:

The fate of the Chiss Ascendancy hangs in the balance in the epic finale of

5 Highlights from the Star Wars: The Bad Batch Trailer

Following their literally explosive introduction in the final season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Clone Force 99, a.k.a. the Bad Batch, will soon step into the spotlight. Star Wars: The Bad Batch arrives May the 4th on Disney+, starring our new favorite squad of elite clones as they find their way in the immediate aftermath of the Clone War. Today saw the arrival of a new trailer for the series, and it’s filled with action, drama, and some big surprises — in other words, everything we’d expect from this rough-and-tumble crew. Gear up and check out five highlights below.

1. “A test is in order.”

The cold and calculating Tarkin opens the trailer, praising the Bad Batch’s skills while expressing concern about their individuality. Meanwhile,

Star Wars Inside Intel: Padmé’s Real Last Name

Star Wars Inside Intel is a StarWars.com feature where Lucasfilm Story Group member Emily Shkoukani, whose job is to know as much about a galaxy far, far away as possible, explores obscure facts about Star Wars lore and continuity. In this inaugural installment, Emily brings to light some details about Padmé Amidala in honor of International Women’s Month all March long.

Padmé Amidala is most notably known, of course, as the queen of Naboo. Throughout the prequel trilogy and Star Wars: The Clone Wars, we learn a lot about this fierce, young leader. When we first meet her, Padmé is the young queen of her planet and is faced with handling a terrible crisis, as the Trade Federation forms a blockade around her homeworld. Padmé risks everything to get her people

New Concept Art of the Bogaranth and More from Star Wars: The High Republic Show

The latest and greatest episode of Star Wars: The High Republic Show has landed and delivered on a slew of new reveals and announcements.

We’re still a few months away from the release of Justina Ireland’s new book, Out of the Shadows, but today host Krystina Arielle revealed our first look at the book’s main character, Sylverstri Yarrow. As the captain of the cargo ship known as the Switchback, Sylverstri makes her way across the galaxy with her long-time security droid as well as her Sullistan copilot, Neeto.

We also got a glimpse at concept art of the Nihil creature, the Bogaranth, arriving next week in the third issue of IDW’s Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures. All we know so far is that the Bogaranths are ravenous beasts that leave a trail

Obi-Wan Kenobi Series to Begin Production in April, Cast Revealed

Obi-Wan Kenobi, the new Disney+ special event series starring Ewan McGregor as the iconic Jedi Master, will begin shooting in April.

The story begins 10 years after the dramatic events of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith where Kenobi faced his greatest defeat, the downfall and corruption of his best friend and Jedi apprentice, Anakin Skywalker turned evil Sith Lord Darth Vader.

Obi-Wan Kenobi is directed by Deborah Chow, director of two critically acclaimed episodes of The Mandalorian Season 1.

The series also marks the return of Hayden Christensen in the role of Darth Vader.

Joining the cast are Moses Ingram, Joel Edgerton, Bonnie Piesse, Kumail Nanjiani, Indira Varma, Rupert Friend, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Sung Kang, Simone Kessell, and Benny Safdie.

Obi-Wan Kenobi is executive produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Michelle