Star Wars: Comics In Canon - Ep 39: Anakin Freeing Slaves, Mace’s Saber, Padmé’s Mission & Jar Jar Binks (Age Of Republic)

This week features the final 4 stories in the Age Of Republic one-shot comic series, all set around the Clone Wars; Anakin Skywalker in “The Sacrifice”, Padmé Amidala in “Bridge”, “The Weapon” with Mace Windu and “501 Plus One” with Rex and Jar Jar Binks, Mike also gives some additional info about each of the characters and recommendations for season 1 of the Clone Wars (details below). The Age Of Republic comics Anakin Skywalker & Padmé Amidala were both written by Jody Houser, pencilled by Wilton Santos & Cory Smith, inked by Walden Wong (Marc Deering also inked Padmé) and Java Tartaglia was the colourist for both too. In AoR Special, “The Weapon” was written by Ethan Sacks, pencilled by Paolo Villanelli and the colourist was Erick Arciniega while “501 Plus One” was written by Marc Guggenheim, pencilled by Caspar Wijngaard and the colourist was Cris Peter. AoR Special was released in January 2019, AoR Anakin was released February 2019 and AoR Padmé was released March 2019. The AoR Heroes trade paperback was released in May 2019 while the AoR hardcover (with heroes & villains) was released February 2020. If you want to get into the animated Clone Wars series (on Disney+), skip the movie and watch episodes 5, 9-12 and 19-22. Season 2 onwards is much better than season 1, so you can watch all CW episodes from there! For the other Age Of Republic stories, check out episodes; 2 for Maul, 26 for Dooku, 31 for Obi-Wan & Qui-Gon and 35 for Jango Fett, Grievous & Asajj Ventress. Mike will be tackling the Age Of Rebellion comics shortly so be sure to subscribe for those! For more comic-Anakin, check out episode 11 for the Obi-Wan & Anakin mini-series or episode 31 featuring Obi-Wan’s AoR story! In the last episode of SWCIC (episode 38), Mike tackled the 6-part mini-series; Thrawn; adapted from the Timothy Zahn canon novel of the same name (set between Revenge Of The Sith & A New Hope), showing how he was enrolled into the Empire, his rise in the ranks, how other officers viewed him, his work with Wullf Yularen & Governor Pryce, his aide Eli Vanto and more! Mike appeared on a recent episode of Comics On Trial, prosecuting Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker against Tony of Indie Comics Spotlight with Mike’s occasional co-host Megan as the judge (6th December): https://spoti.fi/3otJN5I Mike was on episode 42 of Indie Comics Spotlight, him & Tony spoke with Mark Russell, author of Second Coming & Billionaire Island! Get some great deals at Humble Bundle and support Comics In Motion: https://www.humblebundle.com/?partner=comicsinmotion  Comics In Motion also has an excellent offer exclusively for our listeners - go to http://tkopresents.com/discount/MOTION20 and use the promo code MOTION20 at checkout, you will receive a 20% discount! Comics in Motion is proud to partner with Lenovations Press! Check out their high quality independent comics here. Mike is also the host of a podcast called Genuine Chit-Chat where he speaks with a different guest each week about a wide array of topics where no subject is off limits – GCC can be listened to in the same place you’re listening to this show, so there’s no excuse to not check it out! Find Mike @GenuineChitChat on Twitter, @Genuine_ChitChat on Instagram and /GenuineChitChat on Facebook! Intro theme arranged by Mike Burton, backing music by Eric Matyas at www.soundimage.org