So Palpatine again, huh? People's opinions of the movie quality aside, the one other thing I picked up over the past years after my writing started was that someone or something surprising returned in an unpleasant manner. I've had a handful of thoughts about who that could be, and Palpatine getting a mention here does seem to be the most likely of them now. First runner-up Anakin was literally banished from the comic a few weeks ago, so he's not going to be around. Probably. And anyone else that was a possibility was either seen in the comic before this episode (like Yoda) or weren't really interesting before they died in the movies (like Nute).

The interesting twist here, assuming I've put things together right, is that Palpatine already did the "return from death" thing in one of the old Star Wars comic series. He'd got himself a bunch of clones stored on a secret planet, came back after doing some Force power thing to move himself into one of them, and eventually body-hopped from one clone to another (though that bit might have been a different/later series). He also had a bunch of huge planet-eating ships that ate Mon Calamari as a set-piece, because what's a Star Wars story without a superweapon of some kind showing off, right? They had to one-up the Death Star Mk II somehow!

There's also something to be said about Star Wars that I see a planet that's a dusty colored black with bright lava red patches like this and think "Oh hey, that's probably Mustafar", and that's exactly it? Either that the movie writers wanted to bring this planet back for some reason, or the Irregulars had the exact same thought I did and changed the name. Hm. I'll actually bet it's the second one because that's a burning forest Kylo's fighting in here. I doubt that there's enough solid space for trees to properly grow on the "Nabooian" scenery we've seen that I know was Mustafar in the movies.

One last thing; it's curious that we're only seeing one Team Bad Guy member here in the opening. I think. It's hard to tell if there's anyone here besides Kylo and the random cyborg robot people Kylo is killing.