Star Wars #21

The cover by Ramón Rosanas sets an immediately tense mood: Darth Vader's massive, shadowed helmet looms over the entire scene while a lone Stormtrooper stands armed and alert amid a field of wrecked droids, flashlight cutting through the gloom of what appears to be a damaged Star Destroyer corridor. That striking composition — tiny soldier dwarfed by both the Dark Lord and the wreckage surrounding them — promises exactly the kind of claustrophobic peril the story title "Trapped on a Star Destroyer" delivers. Charles Soule and artists Marco Castiello and Ramón Rosanas, with Rachelle Rosenberg's cool, atmospheric colors, make this 2022 issue feel like a thriller unfolding in the heart of Imperial power.