Greg Pak's one-shot features young Anakin dreaming about his future as a Jedi.
It's been 25 years since 1999, one of the biggest movie years in the history of cinema, and so it's probably fair to expect a number of anniversary celebrations for some of the year's biggest hits. There is no hit bigger than Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, and Marvel Comics got out ahead of things with a new one-shot that celebrates a quarter-century of the prequel trilogy.
The image itself is from a premonitory dream by a young Anakin, who is also seen in the preview pages with his mother, Jar Jar, Qui-Gon, and Obi-Wan Kenobi. At least the Jar Jar and Obi-Wan pages look like they take place shortly after the end of the movie's climactic battle, with Anakin mourning Qui-Gon.
"I was eight when A New Hope came out, so for my formative years, Star Wars was synonymous with the original trilogy," writer Greg Pak told StarWars.com, where the pages premiered."But I delved deep into the prequels when I came on board as the writer of Marvel's Darth Vader comics, watching and rewatching all of them. And I found myself dazzled by the long game George Lucas was playing in laying out the tragedy of Darth Vader.
The Phantom Menace 25th Anniversary Special #1 arrives in May 1, 2024 and is available for pre-order online and at your local comic shop.
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