Star Wars #35

The Comicbook Dispatch

Star Wars #35 focuses on three involving characters and explores the Jedi’s relationship with the Force. Rich art enhances this densely-told story as the tension builds toward a climax that tests each person’s ethics and loyalties.

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Luke's quest to learn more about his lightsaber and kyber crystals puts him on a journey where he collides with a figure as mysterious as the crystal itself, with what Luke learns about the Force being just as confounding as anything else he's ever learned. The book does deliver some interesting backstory for the nature of lightsabers and kyber crystals in general, some of which plays a pivotal part of the lightsaber Luke debuts in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, but as a narrative chapter in the Jedi's journey, it reads less like prose and more like a reference book for lightsabers. We know that this issue brings with it more concrete revelations about the future of this arc, but it's a dense chapter in this storyline that tells more than it shows. What saves it from being entirely frustrating is the implication of this chapter's impact on the original trilogy, ultimately feeling like a necessary, albeit convoluted, exposition dump.