I was late to the party with Who is Jake Ellis?, reading the story sometime after the trade was released ( which was a fair few months after the series debuted due to delays) but I loved it nonetheless, almost glad that i had so I could devour it whole in one extended sitting. It was an incredibly exciting book but one that I wasn’t completely satisfied by; the ending, while fitting didn’t exactly feel final and this is what held me back. That niggling feeling was, however, put to rest when I spotted on the book’s spine an embossed number one. A quick email to the book’s surprisingly open* author Tonci Zonjic later and my suspicions were confirmed, my worries were put to rest. This wasn’t over.

Of course, as all Star Wars fans know, you have to be careful what you wish for; sometimes getting sequels to great things isn’t actually as cool as you may imagine. Who is Jake Ellis? could certainly become the original origin story for a really cool ongoing character, but it could just as easily become a comic book regret, the sequel could cut and counteract the original by removing what made it work: the mystery. Is it? Does it? Given the topic I think that it’s only fitting that I put you through a moment of tension before you find out.

* Where is… wasn’t officially announced until months later and yet even with – or perhaps because of – my complete lack of press ability I managed to pry the news of him.

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