Star Wars: Jedi Knights #6 - Marvel Comics

STAR WARS: JEDI KNIGHTS No. 6, October 2025

Whilst there’s undoubtedly something akin to an acceptable adventure lurking within this publication’s twenty-page plot, the way Marc Guggenheim delivers his narrative for Issue Six of “Star Wars: Jedi Knights” will probably disappoint a fair few fans of the science fiction franchise. Furthermore, the notion of starting this tale after Jedi Master Fondar Etzis has already been assassinated on Mina-Rau will surely give many a bibliophile the unshakeable feeling that they’ve disappointingly missed the yarn’s true beginning; “He was instrumental in dealing with a group of bandits who had been stealing our crop yield.”

To make matters even worse though, the American screenwriter appears to utterly waste the characters of Mace Windu and Aayla Secura, relegating the top tier Jedi Masters to insensitive bumpkins who can neither feel the “darkness surrounding Master Etzis’ remains”, or anticipate the imminent attack upon them by Corlis Rath. Admittedly, this lack of basic Force powers does allow Qui-Gon Jinn with the opportunity to face his mysterious attacker single-handed. But it doesn’t arguably say much for the likes of Windu – the so-called “ greatest champion of The Jedi Order.”

Lastly, this comic shows Count Dooku’s protégé getting rather easily out-witted by his Sinsaran opponent when he has the dual-blade wielding hit man on the ropes. Such a shocking and seemingly fatal blow to the innards, certainly seems to set the scene for this ongoing series’ next instalment – something which hasn’t really happened before. Yet, it also debatably begs the question just why Rath risked tackling three of the Jedi Council’s top tier operatives alone and head-on, when he could surely have just poisoned Jinn when he was on Coruscant in a similar almost untraceable fashion to that used to murder Fondar..?

Far more successful than this book’s penmanship is Madibek Musabekov’s pencilling, which really comes into its fore during the ‘sword-fight’ between Qui-Gon and Corlis across a humongous, fully-functioning agricultural machine as it busily reaps the annual harvest. This adrenalin-fuelled action sequence is extremely well drawn with both participants exchanging blows as they leap amongst all the deadly working parts, and it’s genuinely a shame that this frantically-paced fray is ultimately so short-lived as the pair attain some level of safety on the combine’s topmost section.

The regular cover art of "STAR WARS: JEDI KNIGHTS" #6 by Madibek Musabekov & Jesus Aburtov