Star Wars: Comics In Canon - Ep 56: Stories Of Resistance Heroes Before The Sequel Trilogy (Age Of Resistance Heroes)

This week, Mike tackles the one-shot comics from the era of the sequel trilogy; the Age Of Resistance! This episode features bios & stories about Finn, Rose Tico, Poe Dameron, Rey, Amilyn Holdo, Maz Kanata and BB-8, who each have their own comics that Mike goes through, along with the many connections to other SW media!

These stories are all set between 28-34 ABY (a bit before the sequel trilogy, bar Rey’s story).

Finn, Poe, Rose & Rey’s stories were all written by Tom Taylor, with Ramon Rosanas as artist and Guru eFX as colour artist.

The AoR special has 3 shorter stories within it; “Maz’s Scoundrels” which was written by Tom Taylor, with Matteo Buffagni as artist and Chris O’Halloran as colour artist, “The Bridge” was written by G. Willow Wilson with Elsa Charretier as artist and Nick Filardi as colour artist, while “Robot Resistance” was written by Chris Eliopoulos, with Javier Pina as artist and Guru eFX as the colour artist.

Finn was the first heroes comic released, in July 2019, with the last being Rey’s, released September 2019, the trade paperback was released November 2019 and the hardcover featuring both heroes & villains was released September 2020.

Check out the last episode of SWCIC for the volume of Doctor Aphra comics called Worse Among Equals! Aphra and Triple-Zero are on the run with explosives in their necks while Dr Cornelius Evazan records their every move, featuring imperial propaganda, force-wielding corpses and the monster hunting couple Nokk & Winloss!

If you want to hear Mike’s thoughts on the first 2 episodes of the Bad Batch, make sure you check the feed of Comics In Motion for the show released on Sunday 9th May, about the first two episodes of the Bad Batch, featuring Dave, Mike & Megan!

Check out Mike’s Patreon, where he releases 2 episodes of his show “Afterthoughts” a week (with 2 episodes are *FREE* to anyone: season 1 of The Witcher and the review of The Phantom Menace), plus there are unsplit full-length episodes of GCC, additional photos (including early access to photos of comics for this very show) and more, so if you want to support the show and get more content for only £1 a month, check it out at http://patreon.com/genuinechitchat

Mike also appeared on episode 16 Frank Burton’s I Like The Sound podcast: https://spoti.fi/3ue8ma3

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

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