Finished reading Star Wars: Showdown on the Smuggler's Moon, continuing Marvel Comics main Star Wars series as writer Jason Aaron tells a small story featuring a self exciled Obi-Wan set between the two trilogies which continues as a larger story with the heroes of the original film. The book opens up to a story featuring Obi-Wan Kenobi on Tattooine finding it hard to blend in and to try to not be a Jedi, which goes against every part of his nature, from his training to his willingness to help people. During a severe drought on the planet Obi-Wan comes across a handful of Jabba's men who are taking water from the locals by saying that it's a tax while Obi-Wan tries to help the locals and protect a young Luke Skywalker by using his Jedi training discretely in order to not bring attention to himself. The rest of the book follows the main heroes of the series as Luke and R2-D2 head to the Smuggler's Moon of Nar Shaddaa where Luke hopes to find a way to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant in hope to become a better Jedi. However Luke's plan goes south incredibly fast as he finds himself captured by Grakkus the Hutt who takes Luke to his arena ready to be killed for entertainment. Once news of Luke's capture is received by the Rebel Alliance Chewbacca and C3PO head to Nar Shaddaa to rescue their friend. As all of this is happening Han and Leia are confronted by a woman called Sana who insists that she is the wife of Han Solo. Their meeting is cut short when an Imperial Fleet of Tie Bombers and Fighters starts to bombard the planet and the soldiers attempt to arrest Han and Leia for being Rebels. Overall this was an amazing book as it continues to be a great addition to the Star Wars canon by showing what Obi-Wan was doing on Tattooine and how Luke slowly became the Jedi he is within the films. The character interactions are amazing as the scenes with Han, Leia and Sana help to develop their relationship which contains a lot of great laugh out loud moments. While the pairing of Chewbacca and C3PO on Nar Shaddaa is brilliant as it consists of great comedic moments with how C3PO translates what Chewbacca is saying and some of the best action scenes in the book come out of its as well especially when the Bounty Hunter Dengar enters the fray. Also the structure of how writer Jason Aaron fits the Obi-Wan story in to the rest of the series is great as it plays out with the story coming to life at the same time that Luke is reading the journal he found in Obi-Wan's home on Tatooine at the end of the previous book. The artwork is amazing as the Obi-Wan story drawn by artist Simone Bianchi designs some great action scenes between Obi-Wan and Jabba's men while also showing how isolated he is on the planet. While the artwork throughout the rest of the book is immensely breathtaking as artist Stuart Immonen draws some spectacular space battles and action scenes, which are all elevated by Wade Von Grawbadger's inks and Justin Ponsor's colours. 9.5/10.
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