I think, when I ran the numbers, it was like 97 or something like that. I realized how close I was to writing a hundred. I was just, “I wonder how many of these things I've written,” and I just started adding it up because it was something that you do to procrastinate from doing the actual work of writing the issues. What does it mean to you?Ĭharles Soule: When all of this occurred to me, it was really just late last year, probably. : To start, I want to say congratulations on the milestone. To mark the occasion, spoke with Soule about hitting the 100-issue mark, why Ben Solo bleeding his kyber crystal was so important, and why two stories from Star Wars #25 will be particularly “resonant.” The comic includes four short stories that all see Soule return to characters from his prior runs - Obi-Wan and Anakin, Darth Vader and Palpatine, Kylo Ren, and Poe Dameron - while reuniting with the artists from each respective title. Today, Soule is at the helm of Marvel’s flagship Star Wars series, which is celebrating a milestone along with its writer: Star Wars #25, now available, is Soule’s 100 th Star Wars comic.
From there, Soule’s Star Wars star continued to rise, as he racked up credits including Poe Dameron, The Rise of Kylo Ren, War of the Bounty Hunters, and more, often with major contributions to lore when it came time to shape what would become the Star Wars: The High Republic initiative, Soule was one of five writers recruited as an architect of its first stories. The scribe took his first steps with 2016’s Lando, a five-issue miniseries that garnered significant acclaim. Since Marvel returned to publishing Star Wars comics in 2015, few writers have made as great an impact on the galaxy far, far away as Charles Soule. The prolific writer on some of his biggest moments in the galaxy far, far away and reaching a milestone with Star Wars #25.
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