SWCIC: Bounty Hunters After Crimson Reign: Fighting The Knights Of Ren & Qi’ra (Bounty Hunters 24-28) – Ep 114

THE BOUNTY HUNTER CREW FIGHT THE KNIGHTS OF REN & CONFRONT QI’RA! Mike delves into the 5 issues of Bounty Hunters set after Crimson Reign (24-28), but before the Hidden Empire crossover event, where the Bounty Hunter crew attempt to raid the Crimson Dawn flagship; The Vermillion, in an attempt to “rescue” Cadeliah, fighting many Crimson Dawn thugs, including the infamous Knights of Ren. Meanwhile, Beilert Valance struggles with his new position in the empire, continuing to clash with Darth Vader…

This story is set after Empire Strikes Back & after the Crimson Reign & War Of The Bounty Hunters events, but before Hidden Empire & Return Of The Jedi.

Bounty Hunters 24-28 are written by Ethan Sacks, artwork is by Paolo Villanelli and the colour artist is Arif Prianto. Issue 24 was released June 15th 2022, issue 28 was released November 2nd 2022 and the trade paperback collection is due out on January 31st2023.

Mike covered the prelude to Crimson Reign in episode 97 of SWCIC, and all volumes/crossovers 1-5 in episodes 102, 104, 106, 108 & 110 and for all War of The Bounty Hunters comics, check episodes 60, 64, 68, 72, 77 & 84.

Last week, Mike & Dave Horrocks talk about the latest animated release of Star Wars; Tales Of The Jedi! These essentially serve as special episodes of The Clone Wars, each featuring key moments of Dooku & Ahsoka’s lives – listen to the duo discuss the characters in general, their relationship with Clone Wars and Rebels, how important they feel these are to the wider canon and more!

Make sure you check out all weekly Andor discussion shows for season 1, they are found on the podcast feed of Comics In Motion or check https://YouTube.com/GenuineChitChat for video versions!

To hear Mike’s exclusive canon book review on A New Dawn, plus the Legends books Shatterpoint, Darth Bane (1 & 2) and Darth Plagueis as well as the movie & TV “Afterthoughts” episodes, support the show at http://patreon.com/genuinechitchat

Guest spots Mike has been involved in:

Mike appeared on Frank Burton’s I Like The Sound Podcast here: https://pod.fo/e/143cf0

Mike went on Ike’s Flame podcast to talk about The High Republic here: https://pod.fo/e/143ce4

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Outro read by BZ The Voice: http://www.bzthevoice.com

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

Timestamps

00:00 Intro

02:38 Personnel & Collection Info

03:30 Crawl

04:18 BH24

10:01 BH25

16:25 BH26

20:37 BH27

25:06 BH28

29:19 Coming Up

34:04 Support

35:33 Outro