FORMAT: TRADE PAPERBACK | RELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 16TH

As the war between the First Order and the Resistance rages across the galaxy, the eleventh volume of the first series of IDW’s Star Wars Adventures takes us back to a familiar location. On the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk, we find Chewbacca, Nien Nunb, Beaumont and Chewie’s ever-loyal Porg Terbus back on the planet (and not because it’s Life day) to help protect his people as he enters the Black Forest to try and remove the scourge of the First Order from his homeworld.

In true Star Wars Adventures style we also join R2-D2, C-3PO, and BB-8 on a recruiting mission, and the entire trade continues in that vein, taking us from one adventure to the next with one-off stories and ongoing tales that spin a selection of stories from across the timeline. Loyalty Test features Hux and Kylo Ren. Lost Stories focuses on the Graf family from Cavan Scott’s Adventures in Wild Space book series from a few years back, Squad Goals is a Rey and Poe story, and Finn-focused The Battle for Horizon Base wraps up the 32-issue run of the title.

Star Wars Adventures has always been a chance to tell both ongoing and quirky one-off adventures, very much in the vein of the Star Wars Tales series from Dark Horse Comics over twenty years ago. With quality stories, some pitch-perfect artwork and characterisation, it’s a shame these issues are hard to find for UK readers. Thankfully, trade paperback releases like Star Wars Adventures: Vol 11 – Rise of the Wookiees make collecting somewhat easier. Well worth a read.