Star Wars Tales #3

Jar Jar Binks takes center stage on Dave Dorman's striking painted cover, rendered in luminous teals and golds as the wide-eyed Gungan clutches a tiny, startled creature in his gangly hands — an image that manages to be simultaneously unsettling and oddly endearing. This 2000 anthology from Dark Horse packs 64 pages across four stories, including Ryder Windham and Tom Fowler's "The Death of Captain Tarpals," promising a range of tones well beyond the Gungan's famously bumbling reputation. It's a satisfying chunk of the Expanded Universe at its most adventurous.