I hope you enjoy my completed, 7-issue webcomic adaptation of Trevorrow & Connolly’s Star Wars: Duel of the Fates! Please, feel free to right-click and save any or all of the pages. Once saved, the pages can be printed out, if a physical copy is desired. Saved pages should print out approx. 5.5" x 7", 300dpi.

Or, read offline with this PDF version compiled by Tony Tang.

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Like many fans, I was disappointed with The Rise of Skywalker, a retread of Return of the Jedi that didn’t seem to follow the trajectory of the story set up in The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi. I was thrilled that Colin Trevorrow & Derek Connolly’s Duel of the Fates leaked, both the script and amazing pre-production artwork (see HERE and HERE), which I incorporate into my adaptation. Having read DOTF, I can state that I enjoy it much more than TROS. My hope is that seeing the script visually in my FREE webcomic adaptation will help people know what could/should have been. My biggest issue with TROS is that all of Rey's agency was completely taken away, both as a character (she’s now only important because of who she’s descended from) and as a woman (she no longer has her own power, she has “his power”).

DOTF is such an interesting piece of Star Wars lore. It is not canon and yet it not fan-fiction either, for it was the Episode IX set to be filmed for almost a year (Dec 16, 2016 - Sept 2017, when Trevorrow left the project). Furthermore, TROS is essentially an adaptation of DOTF, so much so that the WGA made Lucasfilm give Trevorrow & Connolly story credit for TROS. I have compiled a list of similarities between the two.

Star Wars IS our new mythology. As such, multiple iterations of stories should be able to exist alongside each other. My dream would be for Marvel to agree to publish my adaptation as a Legends version of Episode IX; as Dark Horse Comics used to do, publishing The Star Wars (Rinzler & Mayhew), Star Wars: Infinities, and 2005’s Star Wars: Visionaries (where Darth Maul’s robotic legs were first introduced in a story by Aaron McBride).

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If you’re liking my adaptation, you may also like Aaron Sinner/Joe Kenobi’s animated version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E02BkoY_K0I

If you like the reading of Trevorrow&Connolly’s script in the video above, then you should check out the full Duel of the Fates Podcast read through here: https://www.dewvre.com/duelofthefates

You may also like Lou Graziani/Industrial Magic’s “Duel of the Fates: TOYBOX Special Edition”, animated with action figures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hsqlK63R8A

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Articles & podcasts about my adaptation:

PODCAST - Meanwhile Back on the Podcast

IGN tweet: https://twitter.com/IGN/status/1368254775121358854

IGN article: https://bit.ly/2OEHss7

ScreenRant article: https://bit.ly/2OnpiLN

MovieWeb article: https://bit.ly/3qBRGGU

CinemaBlend article: https://bit.ly/3bNG9A2

Tor.com article: https://bit.ly/2OMtPHf

Inverse article (Andrew Liptak): https://bit.ly/2Obexfz

PODCAST - Star Wars Splash Page

GameRant article: https://bit.ly/3bOvhSj

GamesRadar+ article: https://bit.ly/3oQtD88

Star Wars Xtra (YouTube video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG3lSztHBKw

IGN article (Spanish): https://bit.ly/3rBBxCQ

This DOTF adaptation is briefly mentioned in EP4022 of the Unspooled podcast (at ~01:07:50), https://www.earwolf.com/episode/star-wars-the-last-jedi/

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If you’re liking my adaptation, you may also like Aaron Sinner/Joe Kenobi’s animated version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E02BkoY_K0I

If you like the reading of Trevorrow&Connolly’s script in the video above, then you should check out the full Duel of the Fates Podcast read through here: https://www.dewvre.com/duelofthefates

You may also like Lou Graziani/Industrial Magic’s “Duel of the Fates: TOYBOX Special Edition”, animated with action figures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hsqlK63R8A

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Check out these other two adaptations of Duel of the Fates!

Aaron Sinner/Joe Kenobi’s animated version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E02BkoY_K0I

Duel of the Fates Podcast read through here: https://www.dewvre.com/duelofthefates

Lou Graziani/Industrial Magic’s “Duel of the Fates: TOYBOX Special Edition”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hsqlK63R8A

NOTE: Colin Trevorrow & Derek Connolly have liked my comic adaptation!

Screenwriter Zack Stentz (X-Men: First Class, Thor) has also liked my comic, as well as Lucasfilm production artists Christian Alzmann, Jake Lunt Davies, and Dermot Power! AWESOME (I based Kylo’s Mandalorian-smelted face in issue #2 page 21 on Power’s piece “Jedi Killer Goth Face” from the final pages of The Art of The Force Awakens)

More “Duel of the Fates” videos:

• Mr. Sunday Movies’ parody synopsis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itdfe5yQ0Hg

• Mr. Sunday Movies’ “The Original Star Wars Episode 9” video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WEU1b2t1zM

• ScreenCrush’s video about the original Episode 9: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQgdW6eR8rc

• Star Wars Theory’s animated scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o04clvK8FDA

• Collider’s Rule of Two discusses “Duel of the Fates”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu79_3oOE6Q

• Robert Meyer Burnett discusses “Duel of the Fates” PART 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ShS32kJclU

• Robert Meyer Burnett discusses “Duel of the Fates” PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m62H56LMB-U