On the heels of Disney Plus’ The Mandalorian and the Rogue One spinoff following Diego Luna’s Cassian Andor, Lucasfilm’s next stab at episodic Star Wars is reportedly an Obi-Wan Kenobi TV series, with Ewan McGregor stepping back into the role for the first time since Revenge of the Sith. But what will the show actually be about? The answer may have been in front of us for years. In the final issue of the first arc of Marvel’s Star Wars, which relaunched in 2015 in the lead up to The Force Awakens in order to establish what is and isn’t canon, we’re introduced to a character claiming to be Han Solo’s wife, we see the moment Darth Vader discovers he has a son, and Luke finds a book titled “The Journals of Ben Kenobi”. Told across three standalone issues (Star Wars #7, #15, and #20), the journals find Obi-Wan (now calling himself Ben) living in Tatooine and trying to stay under the radar. Writer Jason Aaron and artist Simone Bianchi turn the story of old Ben Kenobi into a kind of Western, with the former Jedi master acting like Clint Eastwood’s Man with No Name or Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo, roaming the land without saying much, a gritty old man trying to escape his past while being unable to do so. The comic book issues tell the particular story of “The Great Drought” of Tatooine, and how Ben Kenobi found himself saving the day while attempting to train young Luke. Of… [Read full story]