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Marc Guggenheim spent most of the Star Wars books panel at New York Comic Con 2024 simply sitting quietly and smiling as fellow panelists talked about the fabulous new novels, comics, and audio books they’ve got coming out.

When it was finally his chance to take the mike, it turned out he had a doozy to reveal, his first Star Wars ongoing, Jedi Knights. Set before The Phantom Menace, the book will feature standalone stories starring two or more Jedi Knights. “I’ve structured the book like Marvel 2-in-1 or Marvel Team Up,” he said, “with Jedi.”

The book is drawn by Madibek Musabekov, the current artist on Star Wars, with photo-realistic covers from the artist Rahazzah that drew wows from the audience. Guggenheim promised that many of the Jedi will be familiar. He teased an upcoming issue with Yaddle “that ties directly into the Sith Lord episode of Tales of the Jedi,” which got cheers and applause from the audience. Based on the cover of issue 1, the series will also give us Count Dooku before he left the Jedi.

Guggenheim promised there will be new Jedi as well, including one with some kind of disability, which once again got a lot of love from the audience. “I don’t know if she’s the first disabled Jedi,” he said, “but she’s one of the disabled Jedi.”

He also teased an upcoming issue “where we’re introducing basically the Star Wars equivalent of Kaiju to a galaxy far, far away, in an issue that is all splash pages.” And he revealed that issue 2 will feature Atha Prime, one of a set of new Star Wars figures that Kenner toys created after the original Star Wars trilogy ended in an attempt to keep interest in Star Wars figures alive. The issue will be titled, appropriately, “The Deepest Cut.”

The series will begin with an issue that features many Jedi involved in some kind of massive battle. “I wanted to start the whole thing off with a bang,” he explained. “It’s a story that I came up with during the anniversary of D-Day and it’s kind of inspired by D-Day. It gave me an opportunity to tell a story about how the Jedi aren’t an army, they’re not soldiers, but they are called upon to get involved in internecine wars between worlds.”

“We’re swinging for the fences with this one,” Guggenheim said of the series, which debuts in March 2025.

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