Marvel’s Star Wars comic will reveal Yoda’s pre-Phantom Menace past

Marvel Star Wars has an all new Star Wars comic series in the works, and the mysterious comic run has a mysterious placeholder title – Star Wars Classified.

Remember that time Luke Skywalker was going through Obi-Wan Kenobi‘s journals, and happened a story about Yoda in the time before the Naboo crisis and Clone Wars – but he didn’t know he was reading about the little green Jedi Master he would meet on Dagobah? No? He believes they “came up with an interesting answer to that question”.

Or, in other words – we’re finally going to get to see a whole other side of Yoda, within the pages of one of the very best comic books around.

Yoda’s years as a younger Jedi knight will be explored by Star Wars comics’ Jason Aaron.

It sounds like a more balanced vision of Yoda, but we’ll have to see how it all plays out in December, when Star Wars #26 comes out. I was always just intrigued by that idea.

“I’m always struck, when you go back and watch Empire, by just how amusing Yoda is”, comic writer Jason Aaron told Star Wars.com, “I like that playfulness to Yoda”.

“.This puts him on a very unusual adventure”.

He’s still the Yoda we know. That’s part of the mystery of this story. It does take place before Phantom Menace. “So this was kind of the only way we could kill all those birds with one stone – to do one story that connects Luke, Yoda, and Obi-Wan all at the same time, while still taking place in three different time periods”.

“This one a long time have I watched”.

Some fans may be upset to see “Legends”-era stories about Yoda potentially disrupted, while others may be pleased to see the backstory told in a new way”. Sure, the events of both the original trilogy and the prequels gave us a pretty solid idea of his years as a senior Jedi official, and as a swamp-dwelling eccentric – and The Clone Wars showed us just how badass a general he could be – but beyond that, Yoda largely remains a mystery, at least in the official canon. “It’s a bit trickier than that”, Aaron explained.

“He’s still the Yoda we know”, he promises, saying he loves just how much “playfulness” there is to the character.

“I’m always struck, when you go back and watch Empire, by just how amusing Yoda is, and how he messes with Luke a lot when they first meet”.