STAR WARS #1 (2025)
MARVEL COMICS
STORY: Alex Segura
ART: Phil Noto
COLORS: Phil Noto
LETTERS: VC's Clayton Cowles
EDITOR: Mark Paniccia
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: C.B. Cebulski
COVER: Phil Noto
VARIANT COVER ARTISTS: Ken Lashley with Juan Fernandez; Annie Wu; Chris Sprouse and Karl Story with Neeraj Menon; David Nakayama; John Tyler Christopher; Leinil Francis Yu with Romulo Fajardo, Jr.; Pepe Larraz with Marte Gracia; Gabriele Dell'Otto
28pp, Color, $4.99 U.S. (May 7, 2025)
Rated T
“Out of the Darkness”
In 2015, Marvel Comics began publishing Star Wars comic books again. Marvel's new Star Wars #1 opened in the time immediately after the events depicted in the original film, Star Wars (1977). After 75 issues, that series ended. In late 2019, the next new Star Wars ongoing series (cover date: 2020) debuted and focused on the aftermath of the events depicted in the second original Star Wars film, The Empire Strikes Back. It ended in 2024 after 50 issues.
Now, ten years after returning to the publication of Star Wars comic book series, Marvel has another Star Wars #1. Its stories will be set after the events depicted in the third film in the original Star Wars trilogy, Return of the Jedi (1983). This new Star Wars comic book is written by Alex Segura; drawn and colored by Phil Noto; and lettered by Clayton Cowles.
Star Wars #1 finds Luke Skywalker and a couple of X-Wing squadrons on a mission to stop a band of pirates from looting New Republic supply shops. Luke Skywalker and fellow pilot, Rynn, discover that all is not what it seems when it comes to pirates.
Meanwhile, on Chandrila – the provisional capital of New Republic, Princess Leia and Mon Motha struggle with diplomacy in the aftermath of the Battle of Jakku. Leia must deal with new complications as she attempts to negotiate an alliance with the planets of the Fenril Sector. On the Outer Rim planet of Guat'a, Han Solo is investigating an underworld mystery when he rescues bounty hunter, Beilert Valance, from the “Zantarrk Gang.” And these situations will only grow more deadly.
THE LOWDOWN: I do not receive PDF or physical review copies of any titles published by Marvel. I bought this new Star Wars comic book via Amazon Kindle slash comiXology, and it is not the first Star Wars comic book that I have read or reviewed.
However, this is the first Star Wars comic book of any type that I have read in five year, probably. I like it. After seeing Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi all those years ago, I became very interested in what might happen to my favorite heroes. I would eventually get post RotJ stories in the “Thrawn trilogy” or “Heir to the Empire trilogy” of novels that began with 1991's Heir to the Empire. There was also the 1991-92 six issue Star Wars comic book miniseries, Dark Empire.
Those were dark works of fiction, but Star Wars #1 2025 feels like hope, and Star Wars is at its best when it emphasizes hope. Star Wars #1's writer, Alex Segura, buries his cast in a lot of deep sh*t, but even with a pile of cliffhangers dangling over the story, the first chapter feels as if there is hope... and rebellions are built on hope. In addition to the hope, Segura makes the characters feel genuine, as if they stepped from the original trilogy and transferred to the medium of comic books in order to continue their adventures.
Phil Noto's art is clean, and the storytelling is clear and straightforward. Noto's art works in tandem with the dialogue to build up drama and suspense. The coloring is both earthy, which emphasizes the conflict of the character drama, and also exotic, which emphasizes the galaxy of wild, weird and wonderful that is and always will be Star Wars. Clayton Cowles' lettering is an exercise in low key graphics, telling the story without distracting while also looking like classic comics cool.
I am pleasantly surprised by this new Star Wars #1. Something made me really interested in it. I decided to purchase it because I had a nagging feeling that it would be fun to read. It is, and it feels like classic Star Wars has found a home in this new series
I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of Star Wars comic books will want to read the 2025 Star Wars comic book series.
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Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
The STAR WARS #1 KINDLE EDITION is available at Amazon.
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