Star Wars: Dark Times #1

Set in the bleak aftermath of the Republic's fall, Star Wars: Dark Times #1 opens the five-part "Path to Nowhere" with a cover by Douglas Wheatley that sets a grim, determined tone — a white-haired human soldier advances through a dense forest, blaster in one hand and blade raised in the other, flanked by a group of heavily armed alien warriors. The tagline "War… with no hope of victory" frames the scene perfectly, signaling that writer Welles Hartley and Mick Harrison aren't pulling any punches with this Dark Horse series. It's a compelling, grounded start to what promises to be a survival story told on the edges of the galaxy.