Star Wars: Comics In Canon - Ep 49: Darth Vader Vs Beilert Valance, Dengar & Bounty Hunters (Target Vader)

This week, Mike tackles the 6-part mini-series Target Vader, where a group of bounty hunters are hired by the mysterious Hidden Hand to take down Darth Vader! In addition to some very cool Vader moments, a bounty hunter team (including Dengar) is put together, the rebellion gets involved and Beilert Valance gets his full back-story flushed out, including his homeworld Chorin!

This story is set after A New Hope and before Empire Strikes Back so is between 0-3 ABY.

All issues of Target Vader were written by Robbie Thompson. The many artists were; Marc Laming, Cris Bolson, Stefano Landini, Marco Failla, Roberto Di Salvo and Georges Duarte. The many colour artists were; Neeraj Menon, Rachelle Roseberg, Jordan Boyd, Andres Mossa, Federico Blee, Erick Arciniega and Giada Marchisio.

Issue 1 was released July 2019, 6 was released December 2019 and the trade paperback was released February 2020.

Be sure to check out episode 10 of SWCIC for the first canon appearance of Beilert Valance, in the Han Solo: Imperial Cadet mini-series (set during the 3 years Han spent in the Imperial academy/military) and be sure to look out for future episodes where Mike tackles a new series featuring Valance; Bounty Hunters!

The last week on SWCIC, episode 48, Mike tackled the 6-part arc in the main run of Star Wars comics; Mutiny At Mon Cala, which includes the rebels trying to break the Empire’s stronghold on the Mon Calamari (Admiral Ackbar’s people) and their fleet, including a rescue mission, a space battle, a shapeshifter in a 5-hour long opera and more!

Mike now has a Patreon, where this review was released a day early and there’s an exclusive new show “Afterthoughts”, with 2 episodes being *FREE* to anyone – one of which is S1 of the Witcher series and the other is The Phantom Menace, as Mike & Megan have started a full Star Wars run-through! Plus there are unsplit full-length episodes of his other show, Genuine Chit-Chat, additional photos (including early access to photos of comics for this show) and more, so if you want to support the show and get more content, check it out at http://patreon.com/genuinechitchat

Mike & 4 other members of Comics In Motion did a massive 5-person discussion on Zack Snyder’s Justice League, found on this very feed: https://spoti.fi/3lVDsQo

Mike was on the 20th Century Geek podcast to talk about his 3 “Desert Island Comics” here: http://spoti.fi/3r1UOvZ

Mike & Megan were also on the Batman retrospective on 20th Century Geek, where they discuss Batman ’66, the four Burtonverse Batman movies, Mask Of The Phantasm and the Dark Knight trilogy, check it out part 1 here: https://spoti.fi/3sTeN2m

Mike was recently on Podcasts We Listen To, speaking about his show Genuine Chit-Chat and next week he talks all about this show and his love of Star Wars: http://spoti.fi/3uus0PT

Mike appeared on episode 76 Frank Burton’s Ragbag podcast: http://spoti.fi/3aLgx5e

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Intro theme arranged by Mike Burton, backing music by Eric Matyas at www.soundimage.org