This Wednesday will bring Star Wars #18 to the comic shops.
Looking at what’s already on the shelves, our own James interviewed author Pablo Hidalgo about the updated Star Wars Character Encyclopedia on StarWars.com.
Next week’s big release is Claudia Gray’s Bloodline, a Leia-centric novel that answers a question or two raised by The Force Awakens. (You can get a look at the first three chapters by subscribing to a newsletter from Playcrafting.) Look for my review on the release date, May 3.
Bloodline may be locked, but there have been minor shifts in the release dates of our next significant ROTJ-TFA bridge novels. Chuck Wendig’s Aftermath: Life Debt moves up a week to July 12, while the third book in the trilogy, Empire’s End, goes back a week to January 24. Our release schedule has been updated.
Bloodlines is likely going to do more to answer my questions about post-RotJ than Aftermath did. Looking back, it makes sense that they wouldn’t want that kind of fill-in fiction before the movie. I know Aftermath is a controversial book, but I liked it enough to look forward to Life-Debt.