A new five-part crossover comic called Star Wars: Screaming Citadel has been announced.

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According to StarWars.com 's reveal (via THR ), the series will have a gothic horror story that crosses Marvel's main Star Wars comic with the new Star Wars: Doctor Aphra series ( read IGN's review of Doctor Aphra #1 ).

The Screaming Citadel storyline will launch in May with a special issue called Star Wars: Screaming Citadel #1. The story will then continue in Star Wars #31 and #32, before concluding in Doctor Aphra #7 and #8.

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Screaming Citadel is being co-written by Star Wars comic writer Jason Aaron and Kieron Gillen, the writer of Doctor Aphra. This isn't the first time the two have teamed up for a Star Wars crossover, as Gillen and Aaron previously worked together on Star Wars: Vader Down Gillen discussed the setting for Screaming Citatel, telling StarWars.com that while it has "that dark-and-stormy night of gothic horror," it's also "got an industrial, kind of lived-in feel to it." For Gillen, one of the main draws of this crossover is the chance to "do a horror story with this level of gothic fantasy to it" and explore a genre that hasn't really been seen in the Star Wars universe before.

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