Comics In Motion

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Mike embarks on the final arc of the 2016 run of Doctor Aphra comics; A Rogue’s End including the Epilogue from Empire Ascendant and Doctor Aphra Annual 3. In this arc Aphra confronts Vader for one last time, explores ancient jedi ruins, gets some closure from both Tolvan and her dad Korin, meets Triple-Zero & BT1 with their memories erased and so much more! Annual 3 is a story involving Winloss & Nokk, a peculiar human/trandoshan couple who appears in Aphra 30 and Black Krrsantan even makes an appearance!

These comics are set just before Empire Strikes Back, around 3 ABY.

They were all written by Simon Spurrier - Aphra 37-40 & the epilogue had Caspar Wijngaard as the artist with Lee Loughridge as colour artist, while Annual 3 had Elsa Charretier as artist with Edgar Delgado & Jim Campbell as colour artists.

Issue 37 & Annual 3 were released in October 2019, issue 40 & Empire Ascendant were released December 2019 and the trade paperback collection was released February 2020.

For the previous episodes of Aphra, check out episodes 59, 55, 51, 46, 42, 36 & 34 of SWCIC and don’t forget to check out the Vader episodes where she was first introduced; 15, 17, 19, 23 & 29!

Check out the last episode of SWCIC where Mike embarked on the first arc in the 2017 Darth Vader series! In the story, Vader struggles with his new suit, fights the jedi warrior Kirak as well as the Grand Inquisitor, obtains his new lightsaber, bleeds the kyber crystal and more! Mike also gives information on jedi starfighters, Mas Amedda, Mustafar’s history, holocrons, royal guards and more connective tissue within the comic!

Promo is for the Judging Dredd book, which Scott Weatherly (of the 20th Century Geek podcast) edited, plus there’s an essay from Tony Farina & many other cool aspects, it's available now: http://sequart.org/books/14/judging-dredd-examining-the-world-of-judge-dredd/

Check out Mike’s Patreon, where he releases 1 or 2 episodes of his “Afterthoughts” a week (with 3 episodes now *FREE* to anyone: season 1 of The Witcher, The Phantom Menace & Spider-Man 3!), plus there are unsplit full-length episodes of GCC, additional photos (including early access to photos of comics for this very show) and more, so if you want to support the show and get more content, check it out at http://patreon.com/genuinechitchat

If you just want to hear M&M’s talk about Spider-Man 3, check it out here for free: http://bit.ly/Spiderman3AT

The first episode of the Comics In Motion Book Club is now out! The first episode has Mike, Dave & Matt Lloyd discussing themes, artwork and their interpretations of the first volume of the 2017 Darth Vader comic run: https://spoti.fi/3dZ3eAE

Mike & Chris discussed the new Black Widow movie on the feed of Comics In Motion: https://spoti.fi/3r2AKez

Mike, Megan & Tonya Todd discussed the first 3 episodes of Loki here on the feed of Comics In Motion: https://spoti.fi/2TamZ10

Mike was on a recent episode of the I Like To Like Things podcast, talking about his favourite TV show (and no, it’s not Star Wars): https://spoti.fi/3xtlBoJ

Find Mike @GenuineChitChat on Twitter, @Genuine_ChitChat on Instagram & /GenuineChitChat on Facebook

Intro arranged by Mike Burton, backing music by Eric Matyas at www.soundimage.org

MARCHION RO’S HISTORY IS REVEALED! The final High Republic comics are out meaning Mike is embarking on the two Eye Of The Storm comics, which detail Marchion Ro’s upbringing and rise to power in the Nihil, the history of his people the Evereni, where the Nameless/Leveler came from, how the galaxy reacted to the events of The Fallen Star and much more!

These High Republic comics are set during/after 230BBY, in the first phase & third wave of the High Republic, chronologically after The Fallen Star & all other phase 1 High Republic content.

Eye Of The Storm 1 was released 12th January 2022, issue 2 was released March 2nd 2022 and both issues are included within the trade paperback of The High Republic comics, called The Jedi’s End.

Charles Soule is the writer of these comics, with Guillermo Sanna as the artist and Jim Campbell as colour artist on both issues, with Antonio Fabela also as colour artist on issue 2.

Mike tackled the three volumes of High Republic Adventures comics in episodes 86, 90 & 93 of SWCIC and he the High Republic comics (by Cavan Scott) in episodes 84, 88 and ep 92.

Mike’s High Republic book reviews are found on Comics In Motion’s feed and on Mike’s YouTube: Light Of The Jedi was released March 13th 2021, A Test Of Courage: August 14th 2021, Into The Dark: October 2nd 2021, The Rising Storm: November 13th 2021, Race To Crashpoint Tower: February 5th 2022 and Out Of The Shadows was released 19th March 2022. The Fallen Star review was released 23rd April 2022 and the last two books; Mission To Disaster & Midnight Horizon will be reviewed over the coming months.

Last week, in ep 93, Mike tackled the finale of the High Republic Adventures comics which includes the Galactic Bake-Off Spectacular! In the comics Mike takes you through Qort’s origin story, a deepening connection between Zeen Mrala & Lula Talisola, the Great Jedi Rumble Race, the Nihil conspiring and a special cooking story, plus information on the Aloxian, Er’Kit & Nuna species, the Krell Sisters, loadlifter droids & more!

To listen to one of Mike’s Patreon episodes for free, check out the first in Mike & Megan’s Tom Hanks rewatch here: https://bit.ly/TomHanks1

For more exclusive content, including book reviews on Last Shot, A New Dawn & Dark Disciple plus the Legends books Shatterpoint & Darth Plagueis, check out Mike’s Patreon, where he releases episodes of these in his weekly “Afterthoughts” show and more, so check it out at http://patreon.com/genuinechitchat

Please subscribe to Mike’s YouTube channel as once we get 100 subscribers, we can change the YouTube channel link: https://youtube.com/channel/UClQvgois9knDkFvjqcpoQtw

Mike returned to Star Wars Timeline to talk about accents in the Star Wars universe, they discuss the original trilogy here: https://youtu.be/1X0PyXkQZGg & the prequel trilogy here: https://youtu.be/3L4qWeYOzhw

Outro read by BZ The Voice: http://www.bzthevoice.com

Intro theme arranged by Mike Burton, backing music by Eric Matyas at www.soundimage.org

This week Mike is doing another spoiler-free book review from the High Republic era, now venturing into the second wave, starting with The Rising Storm by Cavan Scott – the “main adult” novel with a huge amount of characters, major plot points and shocking moments!

In more detail, for the first half of the episode, Mike gives a bit of information on the other releases for The High Republic (the first two waves within Phase 1), gives some background/plot information on the book and then delves into his spoiler-free review; providing information from the blurb, the themes, how it continues from Light Of The Jedi, what he enjoyed about it, which characters have returned and details found within the first few pages.

From around the halfway mark, Mike reads out the blurb & crawl before providing more details on the characters and their general journeys/thoughts, the state of the Republic at the start of this book, the wider themes and how they impact story elements, as well as how it fits in with other High Republic material, which all falls into light-spoiler territory. He then talks about “connected content”, primarily the tie-in High Republic comics and gives a mini-review of the Tempest Runner audio drama before giving plenty of warning and delving into his more detailed review, which still doesn’t fully spoil the book but it does mention some plot details right at the very end, so you can listen to as little or as much info about The Rising Storm before picking it up yourself.

The Rising Storm was released June 29th 2021 by Cavan Scott. He has also written the Dooku Jedi Lost audio drama, The Tempest Runner audio drama (set just after this book), as well as one story from each A Certain Point Of View book, all of Marvel’s standard The High Republic comics plus several titles under Star Wars Adventures for IDW publishing including the Monster Of Temple Peak mini-series, all 3 sets of Vader’s Castle stories and Adventures In Wild Space.

The Rising Storm is the adult novel of the second wave of the High Republic’s first phase along with Out Of The Shadows and Race To Crashpoint Tower, while Wave 3 (due early 2022) will include Claudia Gray’s “adult” novel The Fallen Star plus junior-novel Mission To Disaster and young-adult novel Midnight Horizon.

From the first wave of phase 1 is Light Of The Jedi, A Test Of Courage & Into The Dark, which Mike has reviewed on this show in 2021; LotJ was March, AToC was August and ItD was October.

Mike also spoke with fellow THR author Claudia Gray on December 12th 2020 on this very channel/feed, so make sure you check that out if you haven’t already, plus Mike spoke with Star Wars comic artist Paolo Villanelli on the feed of his other show Genuine Chit-Chat (video version also on YouTube).

Check out the last episode of SWCIC for the penultimate chapter of the War Of The Bounty Hunters crossover, Mike goes into the many plot details of the 6 comics along with many of the connections to other content and more!

Mike returned to Star Wars Timeline to talk about The Force Awakens here: https://youtu.be/c4VMXeBU3W4 The Last Jedi here: https://youtu.be/7dGEsdfSMkY and The Rise of Skywalker here: https://youtu.be/9fZWXji7_Jo

Mike & Megan spoke with Alex & Mollie of Star Wars Explained, you can listen on this very feed or check out the video version on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/R2fr4-TdbQA

Intro theme arranged by Mike Burton, backing music by Eric Matyas at www.soundimage.org

A YOUNG OBI-WAN MUST FEND FOR HIMSELF ON A STRANGE NEW WORLD! This week Mike embarks on a book review for Padawan by Kiersten White; a novel centred around a young Obi-Wan Kenobi shortly after being taken on as a padawan by Qui-Gon Jinn. Obi-Wan travels to a new world, after being guided by a Jedi from the High Republic, he meets a group of children who seem to have strange force abilities, but there is more than meets the eye, as this mystery unravels around Obi-Wan all while he questions where his place is in the galaxy.

As per all of Mike’s book reviews, it starts with his spoiler-free thoughts, then he gives plenty of warning before delving into his spoiler-filled thoughts, giving an overview of the book’s plot, some connections to other content and more! Make sure you go back and listen to episode 28 of SWCIC (from October 2020) to hear Mike’s review of Claudia Gray’s Master & Apprentice and Mike’s review of Mike Chen’s Brotherhood in June 2021.

This story is set in 41BBY, when Obi-Wan is 16 years old, approximately 1 year before Master & Apprentice, and 9 years before The Phantom Menace.

Last week, in ep 115, Mike delved into the 4 issues of Star Wars set after Crimson Reign, but before the Hidden Empire crossover event (excluding SW 25), where some Crimson Dawn undercover agents discover the DS-2 and work out where to go next, all while Luke continues to grow his strength as a Jedi and an auction takes place to obtain some ancient High Republic technology. Mike also talks about the ISB, Bar’leth, other connections and mentions a Mark Hamill anecdote from Charles Soule!

Make sure you check out all weekly Andor discussion shows for season 1, they are found on the podcast feed of Comics In Motion or check https://YouTube.com/GenuineChitChat for video versions!

To hear more of Mike’s exclusive book reviews, including the canon novel A New Dawn and the Legends books Shatterpoint, the Darth Bane Trilogy and Darth Plagueis, as well as the movie & TV “Afterthoughts” episodes, support the show at http://patreon.com/genuinechitchat

Guest spots Mike has been involved in:

Indie Comics Spotlight to talk Miracleman Books 1-4: https://pod.fo/e/156d91

Star Wars Timeline to talk Andor: https://youtu.be/rbC02Q2A8no

Mike appeared on Frank Burton’s I Like The Sound Podcast here: https://pod.fo/e/143cf0

Mike went on Ike’s Flame podcast to talk about The High Republic here: https://pod.fo/e/143ce4

Find Mike @GenuineChitChat on Twitter, @Genuine_ChitChat on Instagram & /GenuineChitChat on Facebook, or check out linktr.ee/GenuineChitChat

Outro read by BZ The Voice: http://www.bzthevoice.com

Intro theme arranged by Mike Burton, backing music by Eric Matyas at www.soundimage.org

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro
00:32 Book Info
02:18 Young Adult & Growing Up
05:36 Spoiler-Free Thoughts & Overview
21:57 Full Plot Overview (Spoilers)
25:37 Spoiler Review
29:24 Thoughts For Future Obi-Wan Content
30:47 Outro