Overview
- Marvel published Star Wars: Jar Jar #1 on February 11, co-written by Ahmed Best and Marc Guggenheim with art by Kieran McKeown, Laura Braga, and Mike Atiyeh.
- Set early in the Clone War on Urubai, the story pairs Jar Jar with Jedi Kelleran Beq as industrial coercion and planetary harm shake the senator’s faith in the Republic.
- The issue introduces Cyphristal as the core of a secure fractal communications concept that plausibly connects to later rebel information networks.
- Mira Bridger appears, positioning the narrative within canon threads that touch Star Wars Rebels, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Andor without detailing plot turns.
- Early reception highlights Best’s reclamation of the character yet calls the one-shot limited in scope, with ComicBook.com giving it a 3 out of 5 and noting it stops short of full redemption.