Star Wars: Jedi Knights #7 - Marvel Comics

STAR WARS: JEDI KNIGHTS No. 7, November 2025

Falsely claiming that “Qui-Gon Jinn is dead!” at the beginning of this comic’s solicitation synopsis, it’s arguably difficult to therefore treat anything found within Issue Seven of “Star Wars: Jedi Knights” as implausible, sensationalist storytelling. Indeed, the very premise of its central plot appears to make no sense whatsoever when its revealed that the deadly assassin who previously cut down Count Dooku’s old padawan in the title's preceding instalment didn’t then just finish the job with one of his hand-weapons. But rather went to all the trouble of injecting his victim with the self-same, poison used to previously murder Jedi Master Fondar Etzis instead.

Furthermore, in using the now recognisable violet-coloured, slow-acting substance, as well as permitting an almost deceased Jinn to utter the name of the one planet where it's antidote is made, Marc Guggenheim is also able to manufacture Mace Windu and Aayla Secura’s desperate mission to a mysterious world where “Jedi are [apparently] forbidden.” Such a complicated contrivance should surely tax the willingness of any bibliophile to believe in the American author's subsequent penmanship, especially when he then has the two seasoned Force Users land their spacecraft at the one location where an inhabitant will dispense with the ramifications of Horomeeda, and tell the pair everything they need to know over a cup of tea.

Of course, this conversation luckily leads on to Windu and Secura needing to embark upon another assignment to convince the uncivilised thieves of “the most dangerous planet you’ve never heard of” to give them the rare cure before it’s too late – and subsequently chop down a gigantic Kaijura in the process. So clunky a narrative debatably doesn’t do the popular characters concerned any justice at all, and frustratingly even goes so far as to ignore perhaps this publication’s biggest draw which is to explore what the Jedi did to be banned from an entire world in the first place; “I… don’t know what that is.”

Fortunately, at least Madibek Musabekov’s artwork provides some prodigiously pencilled panels for this comic's audience to enjoy as the awkwardly-told yarn progresses. Although it does appear that the Kazakhstan-born illustrator ran out of room towards this adventure’s end, as one minute the titular characters have somewhat dubiously carried out King Gara’s demand and then in the very next instant they are disconcertingly back on Coruscant getting a medical update on Qui-Gon’s condition from Doctor Rig Nema.

The regular cover art of "STAR WARS: JEDI KNIGHTS" #7 by Madibek Musabekov & Jesus Aburtov