publication date: January-June 1992

pencil: Cam Kennedy

story: Tom Veitch

designer volume: Brian Gogolin

Six-issue miniseries, collected in a single volume, which tells the adventures of the protagonists of the "Return of the Jedi", 6 years later.
The rebels are still fighting the remnants of the Empire.
Luke Skywalker is lured by a disturbance in the force on Coruscant, in the old capital of the empire.
From here he is kidnapped and taken to the center of the Galaxy, where he finds Emperor Palpatine still alive.
His immortality is due to cloning and the dark power to transfer his spirit from one body to another.
The Sith convinces Luke to become his new apprentice.
Luke is convinced that he can resist the dark side and thus defeat the emperor.
Meanwhile, Leia Organa has also become a Jedi and has two children with Han Solo, her husband.
She too feels the influence of the dark side, but she manages to dominate it.
Reaching the heart of the Galaxy, she confronts the emperor face to face and manages to steal an ancient Jedi holocron from him.
Meanwhile, Luke manages to steal the software capable of controlling the new Destroyers of the Emperor.
Leia, Han and the others manage to escape from the emperor's planet, but Luke is left behind.
While Luke faces Palpatine in a duel, R2-D2 defeats the entire enemy fleet.
Palpatine defeats Luke and together they reach the Imperial fleet, where Leia joins Luke (along with the baby she is carrying) and finally defeat Palpatine.
The style is very reminiscent of Argentine techniques, such as the Eternauta, not my favorites.

No story from the comic book series prior to the Disney purchase (October 30, 2012) was recognized in the new continuity.
SW4 indicates the date on which the 4th cinematic episode is set, "a" indicates "forward", "d" indicates "after". The scale is in years.

Star Wars TimeLine:

• 5,000 to SW4: The Golden Age of the Sith

• 4,990 to SW4: The Fall of the Sith Empire

• 4,000 to SW4: Ulic Qel Droma and the battle of Onderon

• 3,999 to SW4: The Nomi Sunriders saga

• 3,998 to SW4: The Return of Freedon Nadd

• 3,998 to SW4: Dark Lord of the Sith

• 3,990 to SW4: The Sith War

• 3,986 to SW4: Redemption

• 30 to SW4: Aurra Sing

• 32 to SW4: Darth Maul

• 32 to SW4: EPISODE 1: THE PHANTOM MENACE

• 0-10 to SW4: Boba Fett: Enemy of the Empire

• 5-10 to SW4: Droids

• 25 to SW4: EPISODE 2: THE ATTACK OF THE CLONES

• 25 to SW4: Repubblic

• SW4: STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE

• 0+ n SW4: Darth Vader

• 3 n SW4: The shadow of the Empire

• 3 n SW4: EMPIRE STRIKE BACK

• 3 n SW4: Jabba De’ Hutt: The Art of Deal

• 3.5 n SW4: The price of a rogue

• 4 n SW4: X-Wing Rouge Squadron: The Phantom Affair

• 4 n SW4: X-Wing Rouge Squadron: Battleground Tatooine

• 4 n SW4: X-Wing Rouge Squadron: The Warrior Princess

• 4 n SW4: X-Wing Rouge Squadron: Requiem for a Rogue

• 4 n SW4: Shadows of the Empire

• 4 n SW4: RETURN OF THE JEDI

• 4 n SW4: Mara Jade: by the Emperor’s Hand

• 4 n SW4: Classic Star Wars: the Vandelheim Mission

• 4 n SW4: The heir of the Empire

• 4 n SW4: Challenge to the New Republic

• 4 n SW4: The last command

• 5 n SW4: Boba Fett: engines of destruction

• 10 n SW4: Dark Empire: the dark side of the Force

• 10 n SW4: Dark Empire II: the emperor's revenge

• 10 n SW4: Boba Fett: Death, Lies & Treachery

• 11 n SW4: Empire's End: the end of the empire

• 11 n SW4: Kenix Kill

• 11+ n SW4: Crimson Empire

• 11+ n SW4: Crimson Empire II

• 12+ n SW4: Jedi Academy: Leviathan

• 20+ d SW4: Union /h6>

• 25+ n SW4: Chewbacca