Last
Halloween Lieutenant Thom Hudd crash landed on Mustafar with a team of Rebels
commanded by Lina Graf. The team entered Vader’s fortress and escaped, but Hudd
was left behind. Now he is being tortured by Vaneé (a lightsaber wielding crony
of Darth Vader’s). In a prison cell Vaneé tells Hudd stories. Unsettling
stories in the dark...
Issue
#1 - “The Horned Devil”
Maul
A
team is sent to Lotho Minor to extract a creature... Darth Maul. After Kenobi
chopped off Maul’s lower half during the Battle of Naboo, Maul was driven
insane. He constructed new spider-like legs for himself. Maul became a monster.
And on Lotho Minor, there is no escape from that monster.
Issue
#2 - “The Curse of Tarkin”
Tarkin
A
monster is looking for Tarkin. The monster was an experiment created by the
Grand Moff long ago- stitched together using body parts of many species. Now
the experiment has come to seek revenge upon his creator. And yet this story
proves that even monsters are capable of being heroes- and men like Grand Moff
Tarkin, they are the real horrors.
Issue
#3- “Bop Sh-Bop Little Sarlacc Horror”
Ventress
In
the Coruscant underworld Asajj Ventress (former Sith assassin turned bounty
hunter) stalks her prey. Yet this time the prey isn’t a wanted criminal, it is
a Sarlacc. And she soon discovers that where you find one Sarlacc, you might
find many. The Sarlacc has sent its spores all around the city, and now the
Sith assassin turned bounty hunter must become… an exterminator.
Issue
#4- “Vault of the Living Brains”
Jabba
Long
before Jabba’s palace was a palace it belonged to the B’omarr Monks. Wanting to
isolate themselves worldly sensations,
these monks would have their brains transplanted into liquid-filled
orbs. The orbs were kept secret under the sands for generations, until Jabba
built his palace on top of the B’omarr catacombs. Crakka the Hutt, Jabba’s
cousin, wished to retrieve one of these brains for her own enrichment. She even
hired Dagra Van, a beast-tamer, to help her infiltrate the catacombs far
beneath the palace. But Jabba is not a gullible as his cousin believes him to
be and by the time dawn touches the desert sands, another brain may be added to
Jabba’s collection.
Issue
#5- “Night of the Lava Zombies”
Vader
When
Vader built his fortress on Mustafar, the locals were not impressed.
Mustafarians, who were familiar with the force, sought to overthrow Vader and
his Imperial Garrison. But Vader fought back and Vader won. Years later a
Mustafarian named Mother Sssl brought an army of Lava Zombies to overtake the
fortress. During the attack one zombie took a bite of Vader’s arm. Has the dark
lord been turned into one of Mother Sssl’s monsters? Or will Mother Sssl be yet
another victim who enters Fortress Vader, never to escape?
Special
(Free Comic Book Day 2019) - “Droid Hunters”
Han
& Chewie
The
treasure of Rane Mahal is a legend, but for a smuggler like Han Solo, it is a
legend worth searching for. This quest takes him to a cantina on Kelada in the
Colonies Region, a droid museum on Nubia in the Core Worlds, a cave on Ogem in
the Western Reaches and then to Sakreen in the Outer Rim. But Solo and his crew
are not the only ones in search of the treasure. They will have to contend with
the likes of Gwarm the Weequay and his gang of outlaws.
*UPDATE: November 2020*
Halloween 2020 - “Shadow of Vader's Castle”
One scientific explanation for haunted houses is often Carbon Monoxide leaks. In the Star Wars universe it is the noxious gasses of Mustafar that is causing ghostly visions to apparate at the site of Vader's Castle. The gasses caused Anakin Skywalker to experience hauntings in the hours before his transformation into Lord Vader. They caused Stormtroopers to to see malevolent shadows. They caused an Imperial officer named Vaneé to transform into a insane devotee to the Dark Lord.
Vader's (apparently) Haunted Castle was a blight on the landscape of Mustafar for years. And after Vader was defeated at the Battle of Endor, two young Mustafarians ventured into the fortress in an attempt to destroy it. Within they discovered a witch in a well: Vaneé, Keeper of the Obsidian Flame, and attendant to Darth Vader had been imrisoned in an exhaust vent after angering the Dark Lord. But upon his escape Vaneé foiled the plot to explode the fortress. And out from the noxious gasses of Mustafar, Vaneé witnessed a return. The ghost of Vader had come home. Vader Triumphant. Vader Supreme. Vader Reborn.
To Be Continued In... Ghosts of Vader's Castle.
See you again Halloween 2021
More Star Wars Halloween Posts...
Tales from Vader's Castle Year 1:
https://roadto7.blogspot.com/2018/11/tales-from-vaders-castle.html
https://roadto7.blogspot.com/2018/11/tales-from-vaders-castle.html
Tales from Vader's Castle Year 2:
https://roadto7.blogspot.com/2019/10/return-to-vaders-castle.html
https://roadto7.blogspot.com/2019/10/return-to-vaders-castle.html
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