Star Wars: Comics In Canon - Ep 10: Han Solo’s Time As An Imperial Cadet

This week Mike delves into the five-part mini-series; Han Solo – Imperial Cadet, telling what happened to Han within the movie Solo after leaving Correlia but before meeting Beckett & his crew while in the Imperial service. Mike also talks about some of the training within the Imperial Academy, the Empire’s brutal outlook on individualism, the character Valance’s other appearances and more!

All 5 issues of Han Solo - Imperial Cadet are written by Robbie Thompson, the artist is Leonard Kirk and Arif Prianto is the colourist. Issue #1 was released November 2018 and issue #5 was released March 2019. The collection of these was released in May 2019 an an annual which also included the Beckett comic (which Mike talked about episode 8)!

Last week Mike spoke about the first arc of the main run of Star Wars comics. Previous episodes have been about the Rogue One & Solo comics, planet Mon Cala, the two Last Jedi comics featuring Krait and DJ as well as Captain Phasma, Operation Cinder, how C-3PO got his red arm, Darth Maul beyond The Phantom Menace and for episode 1 The Rise Of Kylo Ren comic mini-series was talked about.

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Chris was on episode 89 of GCC to talk about wrestling and Dave is on episode 90, talking with Max of Mandatory Marvel & DC about the recent DC movies including the recent announcement of the Snyder Cut of Justice League!

Chris & Dave of Comics In Motion were on episodes 63 & 75 of GCC and Mike was on episodes 75 & 100 of Comics In Motion!

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