Star Wars: Republic #69

Two Jedi stand front and center on Jan Duursema's cover — a robed, bearded figure with a blue lightsaber ignited and a dark-clad warrior leveling a blazing red blade directly at the viewer, while a swarm of Separatist droid fighters looms ominously in the sky behind them. The tension between those two weapons tells you everything you need to know about where this Clone Wars story is headed. Written by John Ostrander with inks and pencils by Duursema, this opening chapter of "Dreadnaughts of Rendili" promises the kind of large-scale Star Wars conflict the Republic series did so well in 2004.