Commentary by memnarch (who has not seen the movie)

It started as a silly idea from an announcement; I'll just avoid seeing spoilers for Episode VII to write about my thoughts about the comics unchanged by the movie itself. It'll only be a year or so to wait, what could go wrong?

Over five years later, there's been the 3 main movies, Rogue One, maybe some other movies like Rogue One, and this Disney+ Mandalorian thing. All of which I've seen basically none of, and the things that I did catch from things have blurred together with old memories of Star Wars stuff from before Episode VII came out. Plus, life gets busy and goes in unexpected directions.

It turned into a game of "Avoid the Star Wars" at some point, probably around the time when the statement was made to wait until all the movies were out before seeing if they'd fit into the current comic. Things like mentioning to people not to tell me about the movies because I haven't seen them yet (giving a reason why optional), ducking out of theater showrooms until the previews are done, or just leaving/ignoring discussion about Darths & Droids, Star Wars, or spoilers in general. Now that it's finally starting, I'm going to make an attempt to try and write down my reactions to each comic.

That's likely going to be 4 years of writing, if not more, and will probably be one of the longest projects I work on in the end, if I make it. I'm not a great writer, and I'm probably not as amusing as Keybounce was for their entries. I'll probably end up with a couple sentence entries at times too. Whether or not I can keep on writing until it's done however, I'm still planning on waiting to see the movies until the comic has completed VII-IX. Then I can at least reread and give an overall thoughts at the end.

There are some spoilers I know (or think I know), which may become clearer as this thing progresses. So without further ado...

Huzzah! We're finally starting! I'm guessing that's the black stormtrooper guy, and Annie is already planning another big thing behind the rest of the party. Judging from the transcript (very helpful for telling speech bubbles apart at this point [Ed: memnarch saw the first strip online with the transcript, but from now on he'll be getting comics in advance like Keybounce and won't be seeing the transcripts]), his name is Finn. Maybe the different helmets mean it's a different bunch of clones, or perhaps this "First Order" had to start recruiting random people.

Ah hey, looks like everyone's in the same room again! I wonder if it's a short visiting trip, or if people have moved again for work. Sidenote, I thought Ben was missing again for some reason until I read the transcript. Not a clue why, but I somehow picked up on who everyone else without that. Corey got the line in my first read through.