Star Wars: Shattered Empire Preview

Along with Chuck Wendig's Star Wars: Aftermathseries of novels, Shattered Empire bridges the gap between Return of the Jediand The Force Awakens. Picking up where we left off after the Battle of Endor, we get the new canon continuation of the story, a huge challenge for the writers and artists that have to live up to the quality of so many great Legends novels like The Thrawn Trilogy and The New Jedi Orderbooks.

Shattered Empire is written by Greg Rucka (Batman), who is also writing a standalone Star Wars novel called Smuggler's Run, starring Han Solo, and Marco Checchetto (Spider-Man) is on art. And I can honestly say the art looks absolutely wonderful. Just check out these first few preview pages from the book, which pick up right after the Battle of Endor:

Yeah, that's good stuff, right?

Says a press release about the book:

High above the forest moon of Endor, the Rebel Alliance makes their desperate last stand against the might of the Empire. Though they are successful in the destruction of the second Death Star, the Empire is far from beaten. Now, follow Shara Bey, an A-Wing pilot in the Rebel Fleet in the days following the Battle of Endor. Though their super weapon has been destroyed, Shara will discover that just how dangerous and unpredictable a shattered Empire can be!

Star Wars: Shattered Empire lands on shelves on Sept. 2.