STAR WARS #10
SPROUSE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK VAR
(W) Charles Soule (A) Jan Bazaldua (CA) CHRIS SPROUSE
"OPERATION STARLIGHT, PART 2 (OF 3)" - REELING FROM THE LOSS OF ONE OF THEIR OWN, THE REBELS FINALLY SEE A PATH FORWARD! • THE REBELS attempt to create a new communications code that THE EMPIRE will never be able to crack, in hopes that they might be able to safely reunite their scattered fleet and rejoin the fight. • However, the code has a cost, one that LANDO CALRISSIAN is not willing to pay! • Meanwhile, STARLIGHT SQUADRON, the group of elite pilots tasked with finding the scattered divisions of the fleet, heads out on its first deadly mission. Rated T
STAR WARS BOUNTY HUNTERS #9
SPROUSE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK VAR
(W) Ethan Sacks (A) Paolo Villanelli (CA) CHRIS SPROUSE
THE "TERMINUS GAUNTLET" CONTINUES! • Trapped on a REBEL transport under attack by pirates, VALANCE must make a desperate gambit to survive. • But little does the cyborg bounty hunter know he's on a collision course with his old rival, DENGAR! • Plus, a familiar face makes a shocking return with a plan that will change the underworld forever. Rated T
STAR WARS DARTH VADER #9
SPROUSE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK VAR
(W) Greg Pak (A) Raffaele Ienco (CA) CHRIS SPROUSE
THE ASSASSIN RETURNS! • In his search for vengeance in the depths of MUSTAFAR, DARTH VADER has seized the mysterious key to the EMPEROR'S greatest secret. • But the key itself needs a key - which only the deadly assassin OCHI OF BESTOON seems to have. Vader and Ochi are in for the fight of their lives with the fate of the Emperor in the balance - but how much of this is all PALPATINE'S plan? • And what happens when the SITH LORD and the SITH ASSASSIN start to figure that plan out? Rated T