Warning: Spoilers for Star Wars: The Battle of Jakku – Insurgency Rising #1!

Marvel’s Star Wars comics are giving fans the Han and Leia wedding scene they’ve waited for, as the franchise makes its long-heralded jump to the post-Return of the Jedi timeline. The years following the Original Trilogy remain a wide-open frontier for exciting adventures in the Disney canon, and there are few more perfect story moments to inaugurate a new era of Star Wars comics than Han and Leia’s marriage ceremony.

Comicbook.com released a preview for Star Wars: The Battle of Jakku – Insurgency Rising #1 – written by Alex Segura, with art by Leonard Kirk and Stefano Raffaele – which teases the scope and the importance of the upcoming miniseries, which will reveal previous unknown details about the infamous final battle of the Galactic Civil War. As the preview suggests, The Battle of Jakku will also further one of the definitive elements of Star Wars canon: Han and Leia’s love story.

For fans of the franchise, this is a thrilling next step for the couple – even if it is destined to end in tragedy.

Disney’s Star Wars Celebrates Han & Leia’s Marriage, As The Post-ROTJ Era Begins

Star Wars: The Battle of Jakku – Insurgency Rising #1 – Written By Alex Segura; Art By Leonard Kirk & Stefano Raffaele

Disney’s
Star Wars
seems to be dispensing with any will-they-won’t-they tension for the galactic power couple, instead opting to solidify their union in the immediate wake of the Battle of Endor.

The Battle of Jakku launches the Marvel Star Wars comics into an era not yet charted by the Disney canon. The preview for the first issue includes a page with what appears to be Han and Leia’s nuptials, featuring Luke, Chewbaca, C-3PO, R2D2, and several friends within the Rebellion’s chosen family are all in attendance in the middle of the Ewok forest for the long-awaited wedding, capped off by a kiss that makes it official. This is just one of several exciting developments the preview hints at, but for long-time fans of Star Wars, it is certainly the most significant.

In the original Star Wars canon, the relationship between Leia and Han was a somewhat protracted, drama-filled affair; Disney’s Star Wars seems to be dispensing with any will-they-won’t-they tension for the galactic power couple, instead opting to solidify their union in the immediate wake of the Battle of Endor. In the franchise’s Legends timeline, it took a full four more years before their marriage was official. While major divergences between the canons is always cause for some debate, most fans are likely to react positively to this decision.

Han And Leia’s Endor Wedding Suggests An Expedited Timeline For The Post-ROTJ Era

Star Wars: The Battle of Jakku – Insurgency Rising #1 – Available October 2, 2024

The wedding of Han and Leia is an exciting way to commence that project, and it promises to be just the start when it comes to what
Star Wars: The Battle of Jakku – Insurgency Rising
​​​​​​​has in store.

Star Wars‘ original Han/Leia wedding was in itself not free of fan controversy at the time, and now Marvel Comics has the opportunity to give the couple a fresh start leading into the post-ROTJ run of comics. It also suggests that more timeline compression is to come, as the plan for the Disney canon seems to be to wrap up the Galactic Civil War more quickly than the Legends canon, leaving room for new threats and new storylines in the interim before the advent of the Sequel Trilogy.

In any case, Marvel’s handling of Star Wars has been one of the highlights of the Disney era, and fans should be eager for the publisher to begin telling stories in the aftermath of the battle of Endor. The wedding of Han and Leia is an exciting way to commence that project, and it promises to be just the start when it comes to what Star Wars: The Battle of Jakku – Insurgency Rising has in store, making this an unequivocal can’t-miss, must-read story for Star Wars fans.

Star Wars: The Battle of Jakku – Insurgency Rising
#1
will be available October 2, 2024 from Marvel Comics.