Star Wars: Crimson Reign #1
Jan. 7th, 2022 08:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

"I think one of the keys to writing modern Star Wars (and there are lots of ways to approach it) is to find the characters who still have a lot of interesting questions to be asked and answered about them, despite forty years of storytelling. Some have more meat on the bone than others, and for some, it's about finding the unexplored era of their lives, drilling down on one set of moments we haven't yet seen. (That said, you need to be smart about that too -- I'm not sure Luke's life on Tatooine pre-Episode IV is something fans are clamoring for -- though I could be wrong!) When you look at it through that lens, Qi'ra is an absolutely perfect character to revisit and build big stories around. She has strong connections to many signature characters from both the Prequel and Original Trilogy eras, there's a defining on-film appearance by Emilia Clarke in Solo. Her story clearly goes to some wild places we haven't yet seen. For me, she was an obvious choice." -- Charles Soule
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