Star Wars: Jedi Knights #9 - Marvel Comics

STAR WARS: JEDI KNIGHTS No. 9, January 2026

Whilst the character of Qui-Gon Jinn has arguably always been depicted as something of a head-strong, “maverick Jedi Master”. It is probably to fair to say he has never been shown to be downright rude, especially to those around him. Yet that’s precisely the sort of disagreeable attitude Count Dooku’s former protégé appears to suffer with in Marc Guggenheim’s script for Issue Nine of “Star Wars: Jedi Knights”. Indeed, considering that the basic premise of this comic’s plot is presumably to illustrate the marked difference between the “well-respected member of the Jedi Order” and his eventual Sith-corrupted master, the “Force-sensitive human male” appears at times to be just as rude and arrogant.

By far the best example of this hubris comes when Ginn decides to pay the Jedi Archives a visit on Coruscant and encounters the Chief Librarian Jocasta Nu. During this meeting Qui-Gon not only quickly dismisses the possibility that the learned bookworm can assist him with his research into “whether it’s possible for someone to alter their appearance.” But then condescendingly rejects the elderly woman’s belief that his assassin was a Sinsaran when the killer was; “But this man looks nothing like that species.”

Furthermore, many readers may well be scratching their heads as to what a young Ginn was supposed to do next during a lengthy flashback sequence to his days of being a Padawan, when the incredibly aggressive and hostile leader of the Behru attacks him after he’s tried to “negotiate a mutually beneficial cessation of hostilities.” It seems pretty clear that his would-be killers don’t appreciate anything except brute force. However, the supposedly older and far wiser Qui-Gon admonishes the Count of House Serenno for advising him back in the past to subsequently fight the murderous criminals once the Jedi’s good intentions had failed.

Equally as unsettling as the American author’s penmanship for this twenty-page-periodical is debatably many of Madibek Musabekov’s design choices – the first of which has to be the disconcerting pencils showing Ginn waking up from a hospital bed, as opposed to the artist possibly considering having the Jedi Knight be treated for his near fatal injuries inside a Bacta tank.? In addition, some bibliophiles may well feel that the illustrator’s handling of a young(ish) Dooku and Qui-Gon look little like their usually recognisable selves, with Obi-Wan Kenobi’s future master appearing far closer to that of Luke Skywalker than anyone else.

The regular cover art of "STAR WARS: JEDI KNIGHTS" #9 by Madibek Musabekov & Jesus Aburtov