I imply , it was alreadyincredibly interesting . Charles Soule — who dida fascinating jobon the second run of Darth Vader with Giuseppe Camuncoli — tackling theintriguing , conflicted , wayward villainof the Star Wars sequel trilogy ? And so close to The Rise of Skywalker , too ? Well , now this late tidbit about the series has our head spinning even firmly .
This morning , January solicits for Marvel ’s forthcoming comics gave us the first details of The Rise of Kylo Ren # 2 , the second subject in the miniseries by Soule and Will Sliney due out January 15 . Most significantly , it gave us a feel at Clayton Crain ’s cover for the series … depicting not Kylo Ren , but Ben Solo .
And his master , Luke Skywalker .
Let the past die. Kill it, if you have to.Image: Jodie Muir (Marvel Comics)
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Battling theKnights of Rentogether .
Hot diggity dog ! Here ’s the abbreviated mystifier of what we can expect inside the issue :
Luke Skywalker and Ben Solo take up arms against the Knights of Ren.Image: Clayton Crain (Marvel Comics)
With the new Jedi school day in ruin and fellow students hot on his trail for the murder of their passkey , Ben Solo flees to the only friend he has left in the galaxy … a man named Snoke . But Snoke has programme for Ben … and idea about the Force that are as severe as they are challenging for the tumultuous young jedi .
If Ben wishes to be rightfully free … the answers might lie with the glowering side . And with the Knights of Ren !
But it wo n’t be the first metre he ’s tangled with the Knights . In the past times , Jedi Master Luke Skywalker journeys to the Unknown Regions and add young Ben along for the mission . Can even Luke Skywalker fend against the legendary Knights of Ren ? !
Now , as cool a tidy sum as it is , it ’s not too surprising to see the Knights of Ren sans Kylo . Ever since theywere first bug , we knew that Ben ( née Kylo ) was inducted into an order that was found long before him — he did n’t become Kylo and then make his own knights . But still seeing Ben Solo , Jedi Padawan , facing off against them punctures a few recollective - running theories about the identity of these human body .
First off , the verbal description bring out that this affaire d’honneur takes place in the Star Wars galaxy ’s mystical Unknown Regions , an surface area beyond charted blank space that is home to everything from theChiss Ascendancy , to thesecret armadasof the First Order ( and a faction of Imperial stalwart before them ) , toSnoke , and to a mysterious power thatEmperor Palpatinespent his formula of the Galactic Empire coveting . That ties the knight closer to Snoke than it does Ben , but it also thrust aside the long - running possibility that the Knights are the fellow students we ’re told Ben ran away with the night he aggress Luke ( in self - defense , as we learned in The Last Jedi ) and burn down the entrant Jedi temple he ’d built .
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But there ’s something else very exciting about Crain ’s cover . We ’ve visualise the Knights wielding various melee and ranged weapons in both their brief comportment in the motion picture and in puzzle artistic production forThe Rise of Skywalkerand The Rise of Kylo Ren first show back at San Diego Comic - Con . They were all distinctive Star Wars - y thing — blaster , axes , lance , and so on . One of these Knights , however , has an honest to god ruby lightsaber . And if you’vebeen keep upwith the Star Wars sleeper - in media since the run - up to The Force Awakens , a sure alarm bell shape might be ringing in your head aright now .
Is there a connection to the Knights of Ren and the Acolytes of the Beyond ?
In Chuck Wendig’sAftermath trilogy of novel , the Acolytes of the Beyond were introduce as a roam cult who believed they were guided by visual sensation of ancient Sith Lords , press against the fates the will of the cosmic Force levy on all live things . There were myriad cell across the galaxy , who ventured around seeking ancient Sith relics to cast power from … includingold Sith lightsabers .
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Inthe first bookof the trilogy , one cellular telephone of the Acolytes headed to the satellite Taris ( put in in Bioware ’s dear , but nowmostly non - canonicalRPG classicKnights of the Old Republic ) and purchase what they believed to be the actual lightsaber of Darth Vader , recovered from Endor in a similar fashion to the way Vader ’s melt down mask eventually was . If the Acolytes eventually essay the same power Palpatine had sensed out in the Unknown Regions , did they venture there and ultimately become the first coevals of the Knights of Ren ?
snake pit , is this Knight wielding thelightsaber of Luke ’s father , of Ben ’s gramps , sparking an intriguing discharge that could lead to the latter ’s eventual descent to the Dark Side ? Or is it just another one of the ancient weapons they ’d recovered as Acolytes of the Beyond ?
https://gizmodo.com/a-timeline-of-everything-we-know-happened-after-return-1820781008
We do n’t bang . We have a cover and a abbreviated verbal description to go on for now . We ’ll detect out more when The Rise of Skywalker hits field December 20 . We ’ll notice out even more than that when The Rise of Kylo Ren # 2 hits shelves January 15 .
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