Arriving 26th November, Boba Fett – Black, Whie & Red #3 will be coming our way from writer Ethan Sacks, penciller Juan José Ryp and newsstand cover artist E.M. Gist, and writing over at his must-subscribe newsletter Sacks Appeal (wherever could he have got that title from?), Ethan explains how the assignment came about, his fellow creatives and more.
November 26, you can pick up STAR WARS: BOBA FETT – BLACK, WHITE & RED #3 (OF 4), which gives me another shot at the biggest badass in that galaxy far, far away for the first time since my STAR WARS: BOUNTY HUNTERS run. If you haven’t heard of this mini-series, each issue features a new creative team chronicling one of Boba’s adventures in monochrome with a few dashes of red blood. I’m following superstar writers Benjamin Percy and Saladin Ahmed, so… no pressure.
I do have a secret weapon for this issue: Spanish national treasure Juan José Ryp on the art. His style evokes the best of the classic era of HEAVY METAL magazine, the highest compliment I can give. This is a horror tale and his art is so good, it’s literally scary, in the most literal of senses.
The main cover is by E.M. Gist, one of the best in the business, and the artist behind the scariest of A HAUNTED GIRL covers (Issue 4) — a painting that my favorite band, Tool, even considered licensing for a tour poster. One of the other variants is being done by the legendary Klaus Janson. Another surreal situation that would cause my adolescent self to spontaneously combust if he knew what lay ahead.
Once editors Mark Paniccia and Mikey Basso approached me with the offer to tell a new Boba Fett story in this format, my mind immediately closed in on the black, white, and red B’omarr monks. You know, those brains in jars mounted on spider-like robotic exoskeletons, that were briefly seen skittering around Jabba’s Palace in Return of the Jedi, and which haunted my imagination ever since.
Not just me, apparently. I sent a reference photo of a Huntsman spider infestation in my script and received the all-time best note from Lucasfilm: “New nightmare unlocked.”
I can’t tell you much else about the story. It works better when the twists and turns come as a surprise. But the tagline gives a tease: “Fett is out for revenge against the one bounty that’s eluded him!”
I can’t wait to show you more.
We can’t wait either. Ethan is currently halfway through his four-issue Hyperspace Tales: Codebreaker mini series for Dark Horse, and you can hear myself and Ethan discuss that and the rest of his always busy writing career on the latest episode of Canon Fodder.
