
Han and Leia and Sana Starros come running into the fray, as well, and there are several new villains who are at play. There are Aphra's two murderous droids and best-friend Wookiee, and then, of course, the cast of my book. It starts with them venturing into a very dark and scary situation on a faraway alien planet and winding up in the clutches of a sinister alien queen. That's probably been the most fun part for me, so far - reading what Kieron did with those two characters together and then carrying on from that. It starts with Aphra and Luke together, which is a pairing we didn't really see at all in Vader Down, and that really drives this story. This is very much a Star Wars gothic-horror story. Mix our casts up, this time mixing them up in very different ways than what we did the previous time, and playing with some very different settings and tropes. It's really trying to do something like Vader Down. This one's probably more his, more from what he's been setting up in Doctor Aphra. This one is the same thing, it's Kieron and I coming up with it together. The previous crossover series we did, Vader Down, kind of took my Star Wars book and Kieron's Darth Vader book and slammed the casts together, and grew out of Vader's quest to get his hands on Luke. Jason Aaron: It spins out of Kieron's Doctor Aphra series. spoke with Gillen and Aaron to find out more, including who else will show up, how they'll take Star Wars into gothic-horror territory, and how The Screaming Citadel, much like 2015's Vader Down crossover, will have a great impact on all characters involved. It kicks off in May with the Star Wars: The Screaming Citadel one-shot by Kieron Gillen and artist Marco Checchetto, then continues in Jason Aaron's Star Wars #31, Gillen's Doctor Aphra #7, and on. Star Wars is filled with great duos, and an upcoming Marvel event is going to give us a new, if very, very unlikely one: Luke Skywalker and.Doctor Aphra? and The Star Wars Showare excited to reveal Star Wars: The Screaming Citadel, a five-issue crossover that finds Luke reluctantly teaming with the shady-but-cool archaeologist to investigate the Screaming Citadel, an infamous castle located on the edge of space. speaks to the writers of a major new Star Wars event starring Luke Skywalker and Doctor Aphra, and gets a first look at covers and concept art.
