This month’s Loot Crate has an exclusive comic from IDW that tells a tale of Rey set before The Force Awakens. Bleeding Cool brings us the news:
Scott Beatty has confirmed he has written an exclusive Star Wars Adventure comic book starring Rey for IDW, which will appear in the Loot Crate standard and DX crates shipping in December. A week or two before the new Star Wars Adventure: Forces Of Destiny comic comes out from IDW, also starring Rey for the first issue.
Scott Beatty’s massive 60 page comic is called “Destroyer Down” and is told over three chapters. Art is provided by Derek Charm, Jon Sommariva, Sean Parsons and Matt Herms. Here is the opening crawl tease:
A LONG, LONG TIME AGO…
The planet Jakku is littered
with countless rebel and Imperial
shipwrecks. But one vessel has
long eluded discovery. When the
Imperial Star Destroyer Spectral
reveals itself from its sandy grave,
untouched after decades buried,
renowned scavenger Rey leads
the race to claim whatever
supplies might remain within.
Perils abound as Rey descends
inside the “Ghost Ship” and learns
just what (and WHO) caused
the Spectral to crash headling
onto Jakku!
This is not Scott Beatty’s first foray as a writer of Star Wars. He first wrote for Dark Horse Comics, Tales #13 in 2002 – the short story Puzzle Piece.
With over 500,000 of this comic to be produced for Loot Crate subscibers, we expect the secondary markets such as eBay to become flooded with this comic in the coming weeks so keep an eye out for this exclusive graphic novel popping up online soon.
