We might have to wait until January 2021 for the launch of The High Republic and thankfully Lucasfilm is providing a steady drip of new details and teases which help keep it in our collective consciousness. Today, The High Republic received a landing page on the official site, full of updated looks at Jedi like Avar Kriss, Keeve Trennis, and…Yoda (!), among other features. Head below for a look at just over-the-hill Yoda, a Trandoshan Jedi, and more details! UPDATE: We’ve since launched our own The High Republic hub, putting all our coverage together in one handy new spot! (Update: THR has begun and our reviews are rolling in!)
Look at that fine, younger looking Yoda! Sure, he’s beyond the cute stages of Baby Yoda from The Mandalorian, but there’s no doubt he’s exuding some suaveness in High Republic robes and no grey hair. Alongside his younger look, it was revealed he’ll feature prominently in Daniel José Older’s on-going comic from IDW, The High Republic Adventures (out February 2021). Older teases Yoda, on the Jedi Council of course, will be a journeyman teacher at this point, out with, “… a group of Padawans traveling around the galaxy to learn the ways of the Jedi with a hands-on approach. The Force study abroad program, basically.” The article goes into great and intriguing detail on what it was like to design a 700 year old or so Yoda and I’m really loving his fresh look. Seeing as he factors into a comic, we’ll be seeing a lot of this take on Yoda, so I understand the lengths they went to ensure they came up with the best, true to Yoda, design.
There was also a recent article introducing us to Sskeer, a Trandoshan Jedi who plays a large role in Marvel’s on-going comic, The High Republic (January 2021), written by Cavan Scott. Scott teases this brutally honest Jedi actually has a secret, and it, “…is tearing him apart,” and I’m already rooting for him to pull through it all, because the world doesn’t have enough alien Jedi. Sskeer isn’t the only one with some very interesting potential to their storyline, as Keeve Trennis, who received some slick updated looks, is mentioned by Yoda in Dooku: Jedi Lost (also by Scott) as being a member of the Lost 20, Jedi who leave the Order not due to death, but rather disillusionment with the Order. Is Sskeer’s secret and how the Jedi of the High Republic era react part of Keeve’s departure? And what could it mean for future stories in THR?
Also included in the Sskeer article were details on the powerful San Tekka family, the same family of Lor San Tekka in The Force Awakens/Poe Dameron, whose technological advancements helped the Republic rise…and them right alongside it. But as co-creator of THR, Charles Soule mentions, “…the San Tekkas have a secret…their rise did not come without cost.” Maybe this is why Lor isn’t some powerful or well-known person in the galaxy, but rather a nomad scouring planets for Jedi artifacts, as their family secret becomes known.
Every new detail and image continues to build the hype for The High Republic for me, and the launch of the dedicated page somehow, for some reason, takes it to a whole new level. Check back to the Manor for more news as it comes, as well as reviews once it begins in January 2021!
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