This March, writer Ethan Sacks and artist Paolo Villanelli will tell a new tale about one of Star Wars‘ oldest bounty hunters. In the aptly named “Star Wars: Bounty Hunters,” Sacks and Villanelli will follow cyborg bounty hunter Beilert Valance as he seeks not just a bounty, but revenge.
“We’ll get to see this world through the cybernetic eye of Valance, a bounty hunter with a rich history of his own at Marvel, and one of the few that can go toe to toe with the likes of Bossk,” Sacks said, in an interview announcing the series at StarWars.com. “And rest assured that he’s going to have to be doing a lot of fighting as his jobs take him to some pretty dark places in both the Outer Rim and in his inner heart.”
Sacks teased appearances by not just Bossk, but also Boba Fett, the Hutts, and a slew of new bounty hunters. The series will also feature Valance’s mentor, Nakano Lash – though he’ll be the bounty that Valance is hunting.
“[Bounty hunting has] always been a facet of the [Star Wars] saga that’s fascinated me ever since I first witnessed that glorious murderers’ row take a bounty from Darth Vader aboard the Executor in a theater as a seven-year-old in 1980,” said Sacks. “I’m channeling that wonder from The Empire Strikes Back and beyond in ‘Bounty Hunters,’ which will be a high-octane action romp through the Star Wars underworld of Hutts and Fetts.”
Sacks and Villanelli will be joined by Lee Bermejo on the series’s covers. If you need more info before you can acquire your target, be sure to click over to StarWars.com to learn more about Marvel’s “Star Wars: Bounty Hunters.”
