SWCIC: Return Of The Jedi 40th Anniversary Special 1: Ewoks, Lando & Jabba’s Palace, Plus Ithorians, Droids & Gorax – Ep 128

IT’S THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF RETURN OF THE JEDI, AND A BATCH OF NEW COMICS GIVE NEW STORIES! For ep 128, Mike delves into the first 3 comics that tie-in with Return Of The Jedi; Jabba’s Palace, Ewoks & Lando! Jabba’s Palace shows a conspiracy where someone tries to take over from Jabba, Ewoks features 3 stories without dialogue that Ewoks tell each other around the campfire while in Lando, he & Chewie attempt to find full schematics of Jabba’s Palace, so they can plan a break-in to save Han! There will be 5 more comics released across the year, which Mike will delve into later in 2023.

Jabba’s Palace 1 was released on March 29th 2023 and was written by Marc Guggenheim, with Alessandro Miracolo as artist and Dee Cunniffe as colour artist. Ewoks was released April 12th 2023, was written by Alyssa Wong and had multiple artists; Lee Garbett, Java Tartaglia, Paulina Ganucheau, Kyle Hotz, Rachelle Rosenberg & Casper Wijngaard. Lando was released May 3rd 2023, was written by Stephanie Phillips, with Alvaro López as artist and Antonio Fabela as colour artist. Each of this comics, plus the remaining 5 to be released over the year, will be released in a trade paperback collection in November 2023, titled Scoundrels, Rebels & The Empire.

Mike’s conversation with Michael McCormick is on ep 128 of Genuine Chit-Chat: https://youtu.be/D4kz0jSVoj0

Mike’s conversation with Mary Kenney of Spider-Man Miles Morales & who has a story in From A Certain Point Of View, Return Of The Jedi: https://youtu.be/cXt63wQSs7w

If you enjoyed the Lando comic, listen to episode 18 for the Charles Soule Lando mini-series, set around A New Hope or episode 37 for Lando: Double Or Nothing, written by Rodney Barnes, which shows Lando a few days before his appearance in Solo!

In the last episode, Mike delved into the penultimate issue of the Hidden Empire, where the Archivist activates the Fermata Cage on Amaxine Station, as Vader & Palpatine see to it personally! Meanwhile, the Bounty Hunter crew is pursued by Inferno Squad through an asteroid field while Zuckuss is trapped in a vision of his past, meaning we get his backstory! Mike also gives more information on the Gand, Amaxine Station and more!

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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

01:00 RotJ 40th Anniversary Releases

03:30 What To Expect

04:28 Future RotJ Episodes

05:01 Timeline

05:52 Jabba’s Palace Crawl & Personnel

06:53 Jabba’s Palace Plot

18:30 Ewoks Crawl & Personnel

19:58 Ewoks Plot

26:44 Lando Crawl & Personnel

28:47 Lando Plot

32:42 Recmmended Reads

33:53 Coming Up

35:17 Support, Ko-fi & Patreon

38:09 George Mann Interview

39:00 Outro