Doctor Aphra #1 - "Book I, Part I"

[laughing_tree]

"For a longer time than I think people would realize, I was pretty sure she was going to die. It wasn’t actually anything to do with the fans’ response, it was just kind of the fundamental Darth Vader of it. You know what I mean? The biggest problem with the book was, I had all these characters I genuinely liked, and I made the mistake of putting them in the room with Darth Vader and they tended to not survive that experience. Aphra’s push and pull and whatever, and there was a point where I just kind of literally clicked, and I realized, 'Oh my God, she could survive.' As in, I know how she can get out of it." -- Kieron Gillen

















Also, from the issue's second story:

Comments

[captainbellman]

If she ends up somehow appearing in Ep. IX or one of the new spin-offs, I swear...after Saw Gerrera, anything is possible.

[doodleboy]

Always nice to see Kev Walker drawing sci-fi lunacy.

So far the series is fun. Sometimes I think the best way to write villain protagonists is to make them as fun and cool as possible to make the reader forget they're a villain, before bloodily them.