Force In Focus: ‘Star Wars: Rogue One — Jyn Erso’ #1 At Least Gives Us A Character Arc
by Austin Gorton
It’s another one comic one-shot week as the ten year anniversary of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
Star Wars: Rogue One – Jyn Erso #1
By Ethan Sacks, Ramon Rosanas, Guru-eFX, Travis Lanham
Imprisoned in an Imperial labor camp on Wobani, former Rebel Jyn Erso must decide whether to stick her neck out for a group of prisoners plotting an escape.
- Artist Ramon Rosanas is no stranger to Star Wars, having been the regular penciller of the main book at one point, as well as drawing several miniseries.
- Jyn’s cellmate in this issue is Oolin Musters aka Kennel aka Nail, a female Blutopian member of the Rebel Alliance. She is the same cellmate Jyn has when she’s rescued from the this prison on Wobani in Rogue One. As such. Oolin made appearances in most of the print adaptations of Rogue One, as well as Rebel Rising, the Jyn Erso prequel novel. Ironically, she escaped in the wake of Jyn’s rescue and made her way to Jedha, then died when the Empire destroyed Jedha City with the Death Star.
- “Liana Hallik” is the alias Jyn was using at the start of Rogue One.
- Five Points Station first appeared in the aforementioned Rebel Rising (though it being explicitly called “Five Points Station” is new here; previously it was simply a space station called “Five Points.”
- All of the fellow inmates whom Jyn helps escape are new characters.
- Hadder, whom Jyn briefly flashes back to, is a character from Rebel Rising, part of a family who took Jyn in after Saw abandoned her, who ended up getting caught between the Empire and the Rebllion and then dying.
- This is true of Rogue One as well, but it bugs me that all the prisoners in the work camp are just wearing their regular clothes, particular when Andor showed that Imperial prisons have prisoner uniforms. Maybe by the time of Rogue One, they’ve decided to cut costs and just keep everyone in the clothes they were arrested in.
This has a leg up on the previous Cassian Andor one-shot thanks to the fact that it actually gives the title character something of an arc — the Jyn who ends the story is a little different from the one who begins it, a Jyn slightly more willing to work with and empathize with others, putting her a step closer to the Jyn who develops in the course of Rogue One. Plus, it’s always nice to see Rosanas pop up on a Star Wars issue.
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