SWCIC: Resurrecting Darth Vader: Jaxxon Rabbit, Lina Graf & The Mustafar Fortress (Ghosts Of Vader’s Castle) – Ep 112

NIGHTMARES PLAGUE LINA GRAF & HER CREW WHILE VANÉE PERFORMS A RITUAL TO RESURRECT DARTH VADER! Mike delves into the final 5 “Vader’s Castle” horror stories; Ghosts Of Vader’s Castle, each story shows familiar faces from the original & prequel eras along with plenty of references, shocks and even a surprise appearance or two! This is a must-listen for any horror fans, or those wanting to hear the finale of Lina Graf’s entanglement with the iconic Sith Lord & his Fortress on Mustafar!

The continuous story is set just after Return Of The Jedi (around 4-5ABY). The writer for these comics was Cavan Scott and Francesco Francavilla is the artist & colour artist for the continuous story. For issue 1, Megan Levens is the flashback artist and Charlie Kirchoff is the flashback colour artist. Derek Charm, Robert Hack and Chris Fenoglio each did artwork & colours on the flashbacks of issues 2, 3 & 4 respectively.

Issues 1-5 were released in September/October 2021, the trade paperback collection was released January 2022.

The first batch of Vader’s Castle stories was tackled in episode 76 of SWCIC and the second batch was in ep 103. Mike delved into all four volumes of 2017 Vader in ep 62, 66, 70 & 74 of SWCIC. For the 2015 Vader run (set after A New Hope), check out episodes 15, 17, 19, 23 & 29 of SWCIC, for the 2020 run of Vader comics, check episodes 79 & 81 of SWCIC and check ep 41 for the Vader: Dark Visions anthology mini-series and ep 49 is the Target Vader mini-series.

Last week, Mike delved into the 5 Obi-Wan comics, where each issue delves into a different part of his life; from when he was a youngling in the Jedi temple, to going on missions with Qui-Gon as a padawan to two Clone Wars incursions to saving the life of a stormtrooper – this is a must-listen for all fans of this iconic Jedi Master!

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Guest spots Mike has been involved in:

Mike & Megan recently joined Dan & Ria for another Disney Discussion, this time on the weird movies Disney don’t want you to see (which aren’t even on Disney+)! https://pod.fo/e/143657

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

Timings:

00:00 Intro & Recommended Reading

02:50 Timeline

04:20 Personnel & Release

04:55 Dawn Of The Droids

11:22 Attack of The 50ft Wookiee

18:44 Danger On Dagobah

23:12 Beware The Chosen One

26:34 The Evil’s End

31:24 Shadow Of The Sith Reference

32:18 Shadow Of Vader’s Castle

33:11 Andor Discussion

34:30 Coming Up

36:20 Support

38:36 Newly Released Comics

39:34 Outro