KaNa

Readers need to know exactly nothing about the current “Star Wars” publishing line from Marvel Comics prior to picking up “Kanan – The Last Padawan” #1. Writer Greg Weisman and artist Pepe Larraz lay out a nice welcome mat for new readers and introduce them to a whole new galaxy far, far away. The issue opens with a familiar text crawl on the credits page, but the visual narrative starts with the crew of the Ghost receiving their next assignment from the mysterious Fulcrum. Readers who are marginally familiar with “Star Wars: Rebels” will undoubtedly find themselves comfortably inserted into the world of the animated series while the show is on a between-seasons hiatus. Newer readers might question the presence of that crew, as they’re only shown for exactly one panel, but Weisman turns back the clock for this adventure and introduces readers to Kanan before he was Kanan. The aforementioned opening scene in the issue takes place fifteen years after the bulk of the story in this co