Cover: Rod Reis

Star Wars: Ahsoka #5

Jan 2025 · Marvel · 4.99 USD

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“Part Five: Shadow Warrior”

About this Issue

Star Wars: Ahsoka #5 translates what critics and fans widely regarded as the most emotionally significant episode of the Disney+ Ahsoka series into sequential-art form — the long-deferred reunion between Ahsoka Tano and her deceased master Anakin Skywalker within the mystical World Between Worlds. As the first comic adaptation to dramatize that master-apprentice reckoning in print, it marks a meaningful moment in how the prequel-era Clone Wars legacy crosses into modern Marvel canon storytelling. The issue also puts into comics panels for the first time within this adaptation the Force-sensitivity reveal of Jacen Syndulla, a narrative thread with lasting implications for the Star Wars canon lineage of Kanan Jarrus. Coming midway through Ahsoka's first-ever solo Marvel run, this chapter is the emotional centerpiece around which the entire eight-issue series is built.

writer Rodney Barnes · artist Steven Cummings · inker Wayne Faucher · colorist Rachelle Rosenberg · letterer VC's Joe Caramagna · cover Rod Reis

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History

The Star Wars: Ahsoka comic series was announced as Ahsoka Tano's first-ever solo Marvel Comics run, following the same creative team — writer Rodney Barnes and artists Steven Cummings and Georges Jeanty — that had previously adapted both seasons of The Mandalorian for Marvel. Issue #5 returned Cummings to interior art duties (he alternated with Jeanty across the series) and carried the title 'Shadow Warrior,' adapting the Dave Filoni-written-and-directed television episode of the same name. Editor Mark Paniccia and assistant editor Mikey J. Basso shepherded the issue through production, with Rod Reis providing the primary cover and Phil Noto, Brian Matyas, Leinil Francis Yu, and Takashi Okazaki contributing variant covers.

Trivia · 8 facts

Published November 6, 2024 (cover-dated January 2025) by Marvel Comics as issue #5 of the 8-issue Star Wars: Ahsoka miniseries.
Written by Rodney Barnes; interior art by Steven Cummings with inks by Wayne Faucher and colors by Rachelle Rosenberg; lettered by VC's Joe Caramagna.
Primary cover by Rod Reis; variant covers by Phil Noto, Brian Matyas (1:10 Concept Art incentive), Leinil Francis Yu (1:25 incentive), and Takashi Okazaki (retailer exclusive, trade dress and virgin editions).
Adapts 'Part Five: Shadow Warrior,' the fifth episode of the Disney+ series Ahsoka (written and directed by Dave Filoni, originally released September 12, 2023).
Central narrative: Ahsoka enters the World Between Worlds and confronts the spirit of Anakin Skywalker, reliving Clone Wars-era battles; she ultimately chooses to live, resolving her survivor's guilt.
Features the comic-adaptation debut of Jacen Syndulla's Force sensitivity — he senses Ahsoka's lightsaber duel underwater, with Huyang explaining his inherited abilities as the son of Jedi Master Kanan Jarrus.
Chancellor Mon Mothma appears via hologram to warn Hera Syndulla that without evidence of Imperial Remnant activity, the New Republic cannot support their mission — a key political beat bridging the Rebels and New Republic eras.
Star Wars: Ahsoka is the character's first-ever solo Marvel comic series; this issue is the acknowledged emotional and narrative centerpiece of that run.