Cover: Derrick Chew

Star Wars: Legacy of Vader #10

Jan 2026 · Marvel · 3.99 USD

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“Reign of Kylo Ren, Part 10”

About this Issue

Star Wars: Legacy of Vader #10 is a turning point in Marvel's ongoing effort to fill the narrative gap between The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker, delivering the first canonical comic-book depiction of Kylo Ren entering the Netherworld of the Force — a Force realm his grandfather Darth Vader could never access. That distinction carries genuine lore weight: where Vader spent decades trying and failing to commune with the dead, Kylo achieves it precisely because the light of Ben Solo still flickers within him, a detail reviewers and the wider fan community immediately recognized as retroactive enrichment of the sequel trilogy's redemption arc. The issue's post-publication resonance was amplified by the then-simultaneous revelation of the cancelled 'Hunt for Ben Solo' film project, making its exploration of Kylo's inner conflict feel unexpectedly timely and urgent. Multiple outlets noted that the Kylo-Luke encounter across the Force boundary 'broke the internet' within the Star Wars comics community, giving the series its highest-profile moment to date.

writer Charles Soule · artist, inker Luke Ross · colorist Nolan Woodard · letterer VC's Joe Caramagna · cover Derrick Chew

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History

The series was announced at New York Comic-Con 2024 by writer Charles Soule, who framed Legacy of Vader as a bookend to his earlier 2019 miniseries The Rise of Kylo Ren — together forming a bracketing portrait of Ben Solo's fall and, implicitly, his path back. Soule brought aboard artist Luke Ross, his collaborator from the 2020 Star Wars: Darth Vader ongoing, with Nolan Woodard on colors and Joe Caramagna on letters; Mark Paniccia edited, and Derrick Chew provided the main cover for issue #10. The series launched February 5, 2025, as part of a coordinated Marvel relaunch of its Star Wars line, and issue #10 shipped November 5, 2025, with a January 2026 cover date — placing it squarely in the stretch where Marvel's Star Wars output was being scaled back, lending the series an added urgency among fans aware of its uncertain future.

Trivia · 8 facts

Written by Charles Soule, art and inks by Luke Ross, colors by Nolan Woodard, letters by Joe Caramagna, cover by Derrick Chew; edited by Mark Paniccia.
Published by Marvel Comics on November 5, 2025 (cover-dated January 2026); 22 story pages, rated T+.
The issue presents the first canonical depiction of Kylo Ren entering the Netherworld of the Force — described across multiple reviews as a Force feat Darth Vader himself never accomplished, because only a being retaining some light within them can access this mystical afterlife.
Kylo uses Darth Vader's meditation sphere/chamber at Fortress Vader on Mustafar to attempt to rid himself of the lingering Force presence of Luke Skywalker; the attempt instead plunges him into a dark metaphysical underworld filled with skeletal visions of those he has wronged, including spectral likenesses of his parents Han Solo and Leia Organa.
Within the Netherworld, Kylo confronts Luke Skywalker's Force ghost in a direct canonical encounter after Luke's sacrifice on Crait — Luke's parting words affirm that 'Kylo Ren means nothing to me, but I'll always be there for Ben,' a line reviewers noted echoes Han Solo's dialogue in The Rise of Skywalker.
Vaneé — Darth Vader's surviving servant first introduced in live-action in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) — plays a pivotal manipulative role, steering Kylo toward Vader's meditation chamber and, by issue's end, having Kylo placed in a bacta tank; the issue deepens Vaneé's characterization as a scheming, self-interested caretaker rather than a simple attendant.
The series is set in 34 ABY, canonically positioned between Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi and Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker, per Wookieepedia's cross-reference with Star Wars: Timelines.
Three variant covers shipped alongside the main Derrick Chew cover: a 1:25 retailer incentive by Josemaria Casanovas, a Bengal 'Jedi Knights' connecting variant featuring Porter Engle and Belle Zettifar, and an additional variant by Luke Ross.