Star Wars: Comics In Canon - Ep 46: Imperial Experimentation, Romance & Hera Syndulla (Doctor Aphra #14-19)

This week features the weirdest (& potentially the best) instalment of Doctor Aphra so far, where Aphra has been enslaved by the homicidal protocol droid Triple-Zero to assemble a crew to steal his lost memories from some of the most secure imperial archive facilities, causing further entanglement with imperial Magna Tolvan, the capture of rebel general Hera Syndulla, setting imperial experiments free and much more!

All 6 comics were written by Kieron Gillen & Simon Spurrier, with the artist Emilio Laiso and the colour artist Rachelle Rosenberg.

The first issue of this arc, number 14 was released November 2017, issue 19 was out April 2018 and the trade paperback collection was out July 2018.

Make sure you check out episode 42 of SWCIC for previous Aphra episode, ep 36 for the Screaming Citadel crossover (Aphra 7 & 8) and ep 34 for the first batch of Aphra comics (1-6).

Shout-out to Ben of Star Wars Timeline, be sure to check out his YouTube channel for more amazing SW content: https://youtube.com/starwarstimeline

In the last episode of SWCIC (ep 45), Mike tackled the 5-part mini-series TIE Fighter, created as a tie-in for the Alphabet Squadron novels, following a group of Imperial pilots attempt to rescue a star destroyer, uncover a traitor and have multiple flashbacks all while trying to not get killed in the process!

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Mike was recently on Podcasts We Listen To, speaking about his show Genuine Chit-Chat and next week he talks all about this show and his love of Star Wars: http://spoti.fi/3uus0PT

Mike appeared on episode 76 Frank Burton’s Ragbag podcast: http://spoti.fi/3aLgx5e

Mike & Megan were also on the Batman retrospective on 20th Century Geek, all parts (1, 2A, 2B, 3A & 3B) are out where they discuss Batman ’66, the four Burtonverse Batman movies, Mask Of The Phantasm and the Dark Knight trilogy, check it out part 1 here: https://spoti.fi/3sTeN2m

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