“Now to see her coming to life through Ario and Mark art is wonderful.” In the pages below we find the fierce young Padawan Keeve focused on her training and trying to prove herself to her teacher, the Trandoshan Jedi Master Sskeer, who seems to have experienced a very common problem in Star Wars: He’s missing an arm.
“I came up with the character of Keeve Trennis in our first Project Luminous summit,” Scott says.
Scott was part of the core team of authors who gathered at Skywalker Ranch in 2018 to help forge a path for the interwoven tales that the project would encompass. Now, we’re ready to take our first steps into that sumptuous world, with interior pages as well as a cover by artist Phil Noto. The era, set some 200 years before the events in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, has only been glimpsed in concept art showing bold new characters and hinting at a more opulent era for the Jedi peacekeepers. “You’ll see things you never expected in a Star Wars story,” says writer Cavan Scott.
There’s something at once novel and familiar about the new era of Star Wars storytelling, a fact made immediately clear by the initial pages of the upcoming Marvel Star Wars: The High Republic comic series. presents a first look at the ongoing series, with insights from writer Cavan Scott, to take fans back to the prime of the Jedi Order.
