Star Wars: Visions Is Coming To Comics

Star Wars Visions comic cover

Star Wars: Visions has been some of the most interesting and creative media to come out of the Star Wars franchise in recent years. Getting together a bunch of animation studios to make one-shot Star Wars stories, all telling different stories with different art styles, is absolutely fascinating, and it’s paid off, with many celebrating the series. Now, it’s making the jump from the screen to the page.

Marvel revealed that the Star Wars: Visions initiative will soon be expanding outside of animation and into comics, with a series of one-shot comics that will hopefully allow all sorts of different comics creators to do something interesting in the Star Wars universe. The first of these Visions comics will be penned by Peach Momoko, a widely beloved comics creator from Japan who previously worked on Star Wars: Darth Vader: Black, White & Red.

Peach Momoko’s Visions comic will tell the story of a girl named Kako and her droid, Gel, who are fated to confront the leader of a pro-Sith cult, Tata. As revealed in a statement on StarWars.com, Peach Momoko wanted to tell a story that explored a more sympathetic side of the dark side of the Force.

“I wanted to tell a story about a cult. And I felt within the Star Wars universe, the dark side was something that ties to when a human, or something living, loses itself and then wants to rely on believing something in order to have hope to live,” Momoko said in the statement, “I believe falling to the dark side is nothing to be ashamed of. It could save you. Sometimes the dark side can help defeat your trauma and fear. In the story, Ankok’s belief is that the time when light defeats darkness has ended. It is the time to accept the darkness. And Tata is only using the dark side to help those who need a ‘dark light.’”

It’s certainly a compelling idea, and something that hasn’t really been explored in Star Wars for quite some time. The first issue of Star Wars: Visions – Peach Momoko will be released in November 2023.