Star Wars: Boba Fett — Black, White & Red #3
MEETING OF THE MINDS
The perfect clone of a legendary bounty hunter.
A ruthless hunter with no allegiance to anyone but himself.
Just a simple man making his way through the galaxy….
Writer: Ethan Sacks
Artist: Juan José Ryp
Letterer: Joe Caramagna
Colourist: Juan José Ryp
Cover artist: E. M. Gist
Editor: Mark Paniccia
Publication date: November 26 2025
…and the moral of this story is, don’t ever allow a Boba Fett bounty to get personal, especially if you’re on the wrong end of it. Well, that might not be the precise moral of Star Wars: Boba Fett — Black, White & Red #3 from writer Ethan Sacks and artist Juan José Ryp, but it’s certainly the takeaway as we open the cover (and there are some glorious newsstand and variant covers to this issue) to visit Nar Shaddaa and panicked information broker Sherax Quorshaa as she realises a most unwanted visitor is outside her durasteel doors. Her hired goons stand ready, and as she prays that the one meter thick door is strong enough to withstand attack we quickly see it isn’t, and in the smoking hole we see Boba Fett, lacing into the guards and taking them down in short order as he tells the quivering frog that he’s there for information, and she knows what he’ll do if she doesn’t oblige.
Turn the page and we take our first trip into the past and a rowdy bar on Ord Radama as a brave bounty hunter moves in to the room looking for his quarry Corm Vargon, and as blasters are quickly pulled on the bounty hunter we meet Vargon, a Nikto boss surrounded by numerous lackeys who is treated with reverance, which doesn’t impress the hunter at all. He tells Vargon how he was hired by a fishmongers father to bring him in dead after his son was murdered over a game of chance cubes. One of his cadre is a wild-haired, wide-eyed man called Shriff who is offended at the implication, but Vargon is less than bothered, and as his goons leap to defend him the bounty hunter opens fire, as we switch back to the present and Fett on the world of Donovia, walking in pouring rain as he approaches an outpost and demands entry despite being told it was a sacred place. One of the many toiling inside is an elderly Shriff who asks who dares disturb their meditation, and as he hears Fett ask where Vargon is we see his fear…
…and cut back to the past as a younger Shriff dodges blaster fire as the bounty hunter continues his attack, until Vargon attacks from behind, taking the bounty hunter down and yanking off his helmet to reveal a younger Boba Fett who has to listen to Vargon scoff at his lack of skill, calling him a stain on Jango Fett’s legacy as we step back to now and Boba facing down a hoard of heavies as Shriff demands they attack, which they do to their folly. Far older and wiser in combat he takes them down until it’s just him and Shriff, who swears to die before he gives away his masters secrets, we move forward as Fett meets with Aphra – not Chelli but her father Korin – who studies the sigil on the back of the hand that once belonged to Shriff and tells Fett that it’s from an offshoot of the B’omarr monks, a sect Fett is very familiar with after his dealings with Jabba the Hutt.
After Korin tells him to head to Wild Space and Javeek, and we see Fett walk away from Slave 1 towards an outpost and once inside we see walls covered in glass cases; brains, much like the B’omaar monks move with. Fett is greeted by an imposing droid who welcomes him, but as Fett asks for the brain containing Vargon he is told that the minds here move beyiond their past, becoming holy beings. Fett has no time for that and begins blasting the brains, which reveals the droid to be Vargon as we once again step back as Vargon beats young Boba down and walks away as the young Fett swears vengeance.
We return to the present as Vargon stands in front of countless B’omarr monks, all preparing to attack and as Fett begins his own barrage, quickly reralising how strong they are and how desparately outnumbered he truly is. Instead, he switches to a new plan and we see Slave 1 hovering outside the tower, blasting at the base as Fett activates his jet pack to escape, but not before Vargon snags him with a line and yanks him down. Face to face Vargon begins to make threats, but we pull back to see that this time Fett was ready, a blaster pointed at his chest, blasting a hole, and as he sits and wonders how the bounty put on him by the fishmongers was still active we learn that it isn’t; Fett never lets a bounty get away.
That is a deeply satisfying Boba Fett story to read, written by someone who always used the character judiciously and to great effect whenever he turned up in Bounty Hunters. Not only do we see a gritty, young and eager to impress Fett as he attempts to nab an early bounty (in his Clone Wars era outfit no less) but we also see that Boba takes so much pride in his profession that even when a hit has expired, he just can’t let it go. Beautifully drawn and coloured by Juan José Ryp (stunning work all through) it shows once again how well Ethan Sacks gets the character; short sentences, curt warnings, no pauses, all action.
An ongoing Boba Fett series wouldn’t work, but – as it did so well in the Dark Horse era – mini series and occasional appearances by Fett work brilliantly, and here in the three issues of Star Wars: Boba Fett — Black, White & Red so far that’s been shown to work very well indeed. Top drawer work all round.
