Marvel Comics has revealed a series of new teaser images highlighting the lead characters in the upcoming crossover event, Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters. Illustrated by The Amazing Spider-Man artist Giuseppe Camuncoli, they highlight characters like Darth Vader, Princess Leia, Doctor Aphra, Boba Fett, and Jabba the Hutt.
These headshots will also serve as variant covers for upcoming tie-in issues of the event that will see these heroes and villains, along with the galaxy's deadliest bounty hunters, on a collision course for the greatest prize of all: Han Solo. Filling in the gaps between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, the series promise to reveal what really happened after Han was frozen in Carbonite.
"Getting to work on a comic at Marvel, especially a Star Wars comic about one of the most perpetually under-appreciated criminal masterminds in the whole galaxy, has been a trip," writer Justina Ireland, who will pen a one-shot focusing on Jabba (artist Luca Pizzari will join her).
"It’s exciting, a little scary, and really makes me wish I could time travel to tell my twelve-year-old self reading comics in the grocery store self ‘All of this will pay off one day.'"
Jabba the Hutt is one of the most powerful and ruthless gangsters in the galaxy - and Boba Fett, his most trusted bounty hunter, has failed him. How will Jabba deal with betrayal and what does this have to do with a bounty hunter with ties to the High Republic? We'll find out in Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters - Jabba the Hutt #1 this May.
Check out this new artwork for the comic book event below:
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