SWCIC: Crimson Reign 5 – Qi’ra’s Final Plans & Her Hidden Empire Speech – CR5 & Its Companions (CR5, BH23, DV23, SW24 & DA21) – Ep 110

THE EMPIRE REALISE CRIMSON DAWN ARE BEHIND THE CHAOS BEING CAUSED! Mike delves into the fifth & final batch of Crimson Reign comics, where the archivist & the Knights Of Ren travel to a dark side cave to use the screaming key while Qi’ra initiates the next stage of Crimson Dawn’s plan against the Empire. Plus, Leia goes up against Commander Zahra in a cave, Sabé takes Vader to meet some unexpected faces from his past, Dengar confronts Lord Khamdek of the Mourner’s Wail and Sana must deal with the consequences of Aphra fusing with the Spark Eternal…

This story is set after Empire Strikes Back & after the War Of The Bounty Hunters event, but before Return Of The Jedi and the reading order is CR5>BH23>DV23>SW24>DA21.

Crimson Reign 5 was released 22nd June 2022 and was written by Charles Soule, with Steven Cummings as penciller, Victor Olazaba as inker and Guru eFX as colour artist. BH23 was released 1st June 2022 and was written by Ethan Sacks with Natacha as artist and Arif Prianto as colour artist. DV23 was June 1st 2022, was written by Greg Pak with Raffaele Ienco as artist and Carlos Lopez as colour artist. SW24 was released 8th June 2022 and was written by Charles Soule, with Ramon Rosanas & Madibek Musabekov as artists and Rachelle Rosenberg as colour artist. DA21 was released 29th June 2022 and was written by Alyssa Wong with Minkyu Jung as artist Rachelle Rosenberg as colour artist.

Mike covered the prelude to Crimson Reign in episode 97 of SWCIC, and volumes 1-4 in episodes 102, 104, 106 & 108 and for all War of The Bounty Hunters comics, check episodes 60, 64, 68, 72, 77 & 84.

Last week, Mike delved into the archives to redo the four Rise Of Kylo Ren comics, giving much more information than when he tackled it previously (back in episode 1), including connections to The High Republic, the 2020 Star Wars comics, the 2017 Darth Vader comics, Crimson Reign and gives much more information on the Knights Of Ren! He also delves into the process of bleeding a lightsaber crystal and explains how Kylo got his iconic lightsaber from the sequel trilogy!

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Mike & Megan discussed She Hulk Episode 7 on Comics In Motion’s Feed: https://pod.fo/e/143eaf

Mike & Megan recently joined Dan & Ria for another Disney Discussion, this time on the weird movies Disney don’t want you to see (which aren’t even on Disney+)! https://pod.fo/e/143657

Mike appeared on Frank Burton’s I Like The Sound Podcast here: https://pod.fo/e/143cf0

Mike went on Ike’s Flame podcast to talk about The High Republic here: https://pod.fo/e/143ce4

Outro read by BZ The Voice: http://bzthevoice.com

Intro theme arranged by Mike Burton, backing music by Eric Matyas at www.soundimage.org

Timings:

00:00 Intro
01:52 Crimson Reign 5
08:36 Qi’ra’s Speech
09:43 Bounty Hunters 23
14:02 Darth Vader 23
19:25 Star Wars 24
24:44 Doctor Aphra 21
30:10 Coming Up
33:21 Support & Outro