STAR WARS #3 (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: Carlo Pagulayan and Jason Paz with Rain Beredo; Chris Sprouse and Karl Story with Neeraj Menon; John Tyler Christopher; Leinil Francis Yu with Romulo Fajardo, Jr.
28pp, Color, $3.99 U.S. (July 16, 2025)
Rated T
“Complications”
Marvel has relaunched its flagship Star Wars comic books series. This new series will offer stories 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 finds the New Republic in a race to find allies in the Fenril Sector, all the while struggling with the Nagai. Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, and Han Solo are each involved in a different aspect of this mission, which involves pirate raids on New Republic ships, diplomatic intrigue, and gangsters. All of this will ultimately connect to the conspiracy behind the New Republic struggles.
Star Wars #3 (“Complications”) opens at Cloud City, on the gas planet, Bespin (first seen in The Empire Strikes Back). A ship has just crashed on landing dock, “East Two-Eleven.” The pilot, named “Garlev,” is barely alive, and he is asking for an old partner-in-crime, Lando Calrissian. This forces Lando to call on Han Solo, who has his hands full with bounty hunter Beilert Valance as a partner in an investigation of the Zantarrk gang.
Garlev says that he has important information for the New Republic, and he will only reveal it when Lando and Han are together. This brings up the past and the long friendship of Han, Chewbecca, and Lando, and a time when they put their trust in Garlev.
Meanwhile, Luke Skywalker reunites with pilot Rynn Zenat. Plus, old foes make a shocking return.
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, but it is not the first Star Wars comic book that I have read or reviewed.
After two issues of introducing the scenarios and situations, writer Alex Segura begins to settle into the thick of the conspiracy that plagues our favorite Star Wars heroes. I'm here for it simply because Segura's dialogue makes me race through this comic book, hungry for more information; it is all concise and engaging. Segura is making me eagerly await each issue of a Star Wars comic book in a way I have not done in decades, back in the days of that other senile President of the United States.
Phil Noto's storytelling is a potboiler of space opera intrigue. Noto delivers all the goods of Segura's script with engaging storytelling and with a visual aesthetic that is true Star Wars. Lettering can strike the right tone for comic book art, and Clayton Cowles' lettering does that for Noto's work.
Dear readers, I feel like Segura-Noto's Star Wars is the antidote for people who are always claiming that they want Star Wars entertainment that is true to classic Star Wars. If you are one of those complainers and you are not reading this new Star Wars comic book, you're triflin'.
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"
A digital comics version of STAR WARS #3 is available at Amazon.
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