Star Wars: Comics In Canon - Ep 8: How Cassian Met K-2SO & Beckett Before Solo Double Feature

This week Mike delves into the two one-shot comics for the Star Wars Anthology movies; Solo & Rogue One. For Rogue One, it’s the Cassian & K-2SO special on how they met, while the Solo comic is about Beckett & his crew before meeting Han Solo. As well the comics, Tobias’ homeworld, Cassian’s age, Han Solo’s blaster and more is discussed!  Cassian & K-2SO was written by Duane Swierczynski, the artist was Fernando Blanco and the colourist was Marcelo Maiolo, the comic was released on August 9th 2017. Beckett was written by Gerry Duggan, the colourist was Jordan Boyd and the 3 artists (for the 3 chapters) were Edgar Salazar, Will Sliney & Marc Laming, the comic was released August 15th 2018.  Last week Mike spoke about what happened between Last Jedi & Rise Of Skywalker, Admiral Ackbar’s son & the planet Mon Cala. Previous episodes have been about the two Last Jedi comics featuring Krait and DJ as well as Captain Phasma, Operation Cinder, how C-3PO got his red arm, Darth Maul beyond The Phantom Menace and for episode 1 The Rise Of Kylo Ren comic mini-series was talked about.  If you have any questions, pointers or just fancy a chat, send Mike an email at [email protected]  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!  Chris & Dave of Comics In Motion were on episodes 63 & 75 of GCC and Mike was on episodes 75 & 100 of Comics In Motion!  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