A Preview Of Marvel Star Wars 2025: Marc Guggenheim And 'Jedi Knights'

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Mar 5

YouTuber and Star Wars content creator Star Wars Explained did an exclusive interview with the three architects of the three big comic runs Marvel is launching over the coming year in late January. He interviewed each author in turn, though there were points where all three or one of the others spoke up to add additional commentary on the topic at hand.

Today on CultureSlate, in honor of the launch week of Jedi Knights, we look at Marc Guggenheim’s comments about the series, and learn what we can look forward to in coming issues.

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Goals of the Series

Guggenheim spoke at length about his goals for the new comic series, outlining the first ten issues (suggesting or hoping for more than that) as an exploration of the Jedi Order in the Prequel Trilogy era outside of the Clone Wars. In his words, this is their regular day at the office, and he also wanted to show different areas of the galaxy and different threats to match those areas in this era outside of a major war.

The structure of the series generally follows a “rule of two”, where two Jedi are teamed up per issue, save the first issue which helps set the action into motion. Guggenheim stated he wanted to offer a series of interesting pairings that complement the story in the issue, and the roles taken on by each character in that story. For instance, he states an issue involving the discovery of a young Force sensitive will see Kelleran Beq as one of the main characters, as his role often involves the instruction of Jedi Younglings.

Guggenheim also has a comic issue exploring the master and apprentice relationship through the lens of Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi. Guggenheim also noted he will be telling an overarching story, though each issue will feel like its own little film. He hopes the blend of individual stories and the different pieces strewn throughout the comic issues comes together well for fans.

Individual Issue Information

Compared to the discussion given by Charles Soule regarding his comic issues for Legacy of Vader, Marc Guggenheim gave a lot of specific details about several of his upcoming issues. In the weeks since the interview, solicits for the upcoming comics have also given us some additional information.

We also know that the editorial team at Marvel challenged Guggenheim to give them three splash pages per issue, so there should be a lot of fascinating large images across the comic series. The following pieces of information related to these different reveals, so if fans want to go into the issues blind, don’t read any further!

Issue 1

Issue 1 breaks the rule set out earlier by Guggenheim regarding two Jedi to an issue. Instead, it features an ensemble made up of many of our cast for later issues, as a group of Jedi tries to prevent the escalation of a war between the Outer Rim worlds of Vekura and Syrinx Prime in the wake of Vekura invading its neighbor. Qui-Gon Jinn helms the peace efforts on Vekura, while the majority of the Jedi are on Syrinx Prime trying to defend the planet during its ground assault. This issue will see the appearance of Corlis Rath, a mysterious ninja-esque figure with a vendetta against Qui-Gon, who unfortunately has no idea who Corlis is. The comic issue is set to end with Obi-Wan Kenobi experiencing a vision of the future, revealing snapshots of the following nine issues to tease us about what is coming next.

Issue 2/The Deepest Cut

Guggenheim is particularly proud of the second issue since it sees the introduction of a character whose name he’s apparently been saving for a Star Wars story for some time: Vetna Mooncrest. A newly knighted Jedi, Vetna has a disability that she has had to overcome, and if this writer had to guess, it has something to do with her mobility given she seems to have extensive physical enhancements as indicated by a series of metal nodes dotted over her body. She has been paired up with Master Yoda, with Guggenhim hoping to show the difference between the generations, and to let her shine next to the Jedi Master.

This comic also sees the introduction of Atha Prime, a character from a failed pitch by the toy company Kenner to expand the Star Wars license into an original story propelled by toys. Atha has never been made canon, until now, and will appear on a mysterious world alongside vehicles of that proposed toy line narrative which Guggenheim also pulled into his series. He’s apparently been a fan of this content for a long time, hoping it would be made canon for a while, and it seems he’s the man to do it. Atha is described in the interview as a significant non-Sith threat for the Jedi in this period, and what he is doing has repercussions throughout the wider story.

Issue 3

The third issue has less information available about it, but Guggenheim mentioned the presence of kaiju in Star Wars as Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon’s master and apprentice story is set within this issue. The pair are forced to battle huge monsters while trying to save the life of Senator Bail Organa, giving us our earliest look at this iconic Star Wars character. The artwork depicting the skyscraper-sized monsters is another detail praised by Guggenheim.

Beyond Issue 3

Beyond the third issue of Jedi Knights, we know a lot less. One issue will feature a team-up between Dooku and Jedi Master Yaddle, with Guggenheim intending to play on audience awareness of Yaddle’s fate by apparently tying this issue into moments from Tales of the Jedi.

Aside from this, we know issue six will end on something of a cliffhanger, that Kelleran Beq will appear in an issue, and issues 9 and 10 serve as a true two-parter that will wrap up the Corlis Rath storyline. It will be fascinating to learn who else from the wider canon will make an appearance in these comics, as well as what new Jedi Guggenheim has cooked up for readers!

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