We are getting closer to The Rise of Skywalker and the Allegiance limited series has reached a conclusion! The connecting covers by Marco Checcheto features Rey against a blue background with General Nossor Ri(?) and Chewbacca on the side. We get BB-8 and X-Wing fighters on the bottom. We have the two groups, Leia, Rey, and her group on Mon Cala, and Poe and Finn on the Moon of Avedot. “A Rising Tide” is with the creative team, writer Ethan Sacks, and artist, Luke Ross. We begin with the explosion at the Dac City landing platform. Then, we get Rey using her Force powers to protect everyone using cargo containers. Actually, best use of Force, would be to move the explosive off of the platform or to move everyone away, but that may take away from the cliffhanger ending. Rose spots the saboteur and leaps after him with Rose also in the pursuit. Rose doesn’t see how she can help, but “borrows” a speeder. Rey chases after the Quarren bomber through a marketplace and protects a family from his blaster fire.
The saboteur uses that distraction to escape, but Rose of course stops him. Rey holds her staff to the fallen Quarren. An interesting panel with the Quarren in shadow, but Rose is towering over Rey, except actress Kelly Marie Tran is kinda short. At the moon base, Finn is revived by Poe on comlink. Poe and BB-8 take cover from bounty hunter blasterfire. Finn also has to leap away from the bounty hunter ship blasting at him! BB-8 informs Poe that he will take care of the situation. He bumps over to a crate of thermal detonators. One flies towards bounty hunter leader Kendoh and she manages to leap away. She just notices the thermal detonator hopping at her calf and then leaps away from the explosion? Hard to believe. Poe boards his ship as Finn is cornered. Back at Mon Cala, the First Order fleet has arrived from hyperspace! Leia sends the others to prep the Falcon while she meets with King Ech-Char. This all seems to be a set-up for why there are Mon Calamari ships in Rise of Skywalker like the end of Return of the Jedi. General Nossor Ri puts the blame on Leia, but Aftab defends her.
Leia reveals Chadkol Gee, the general’s assistant, and their plot to attack Leia’s group. Leia, nice close-up in her diving helmet, explains that they need Mon Calamari ships to take on the First Order. Witnessing the destruction of Alderaan and suffering through Rian Johnson’s script. She frees the binders on the general in an act of forgiveness. He vows to somehow get the ships through the First Order blockade. At Avedot, Finn is using the snowspeeder to fly at the bounty hunter, Basso Mak, and ejects in time with a splash page of the explosion. Poe has BB-8 pop out the ejector seat and heads the ship over to Finn who is screaming for help. In a series of vertical panels, Finn is about to freefall in his ejector seat. Kendoh and her gang witness the rescue and escape with the shipment of weapons. One ship full of weapons does not seem pivotal unless they are prototype weapons. We also lose track of the Resistance Base on Anoat. Kendoh mentions the next job concerns the sword that is part of the Galaxy’s Edge limited series. This is Sacks tying in his two Star Wars series. Mon Cala, there is the blockade, and the escape, but we have seen the consequences with General Hux against allied planets! This moves into Rise of Skywalker.
Three Lightsabers out of Five!
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