The influential Dark Horse Comics anthology Star Wars Tales ran for 24 issues from 1999 to 2005. Here are 5 of the series' best stories.
Nearly twenty-five years ago, Dark Horse Comics debuted what would prove to be an underappreciated pillar of the late "Legends"-era Star Wars Expanded Universe. First appearing several months after the premiere of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Star Wars Tales was a comic book anthology series, which ran roughly contemporaneously with the release of the Prequel Trilogy, for a total of twenty-four issues and nearly a hundred stories.
Release a year and a half after Phantom Menace, Star Wars Tales #6 contained the story "Thank the Maker" – written by Ryder Windham, penciled by Kilian Plunkett, lettered by Steve Dutro, colored by Dave McCaig – which identified a moment from Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back that could be used to explore the Vader-3PO connection in a meaningful way. Very few Darth Vader stories could be called tender, but the end of "Thank the Maker" is exactly that.
Preceding Attack of the Clones by just over a year, "Outbid, But Never Outgunned," from Star Wars Tales #7, provided readers with a surprising Boba Fett story, one that gave the character a dimension previously unexplored by Star Wars writers up to that point. The story features Boba competing with another bounty hunter, a human woman named Sintas Vel, to retrieve a mysterious cannister from a criminal.
"Resurrection" – by Ron Marz, Rick Leonardi, Terry Austin, Steve Dutro, and Raul Trevino – appeared in 2001's Star Wars Tales #9, a 48-page action-filled confrontation between Maul and Vader, set on what could be described as a proto-Mustafar. The set-up for their showdown finds Darth Vader lured to the moon Kalakar Six with the promise of information on the Rebel Alliance.
"Trooper" was written by comic book legend Garth Ennis who was just a year removed from finishing Preacher at the time, and was still several years from debuting The Boys. The story – which features art by John McCrea, Jimmy Palmiotti, and Brad Anderson – is set in the opening moments of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, told from the point-of-view of one of the stormtroopers boarding the Tantive IV in order to capture Princess Leia and secure the Death Star plans.
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