Star Wars: Poe Dameron, Issue #8 begins Book III: The Gathering Storm. It starts with a sort of dramatis personae, as Poe Dameron goes through each member of Black Squadron, looking for the leak. Agent Terex of the First Order simply has too much info on the Resistance for there not to be a leak, and Dameron can't believe that it's any one of them. Then the comic goes back in time to the fall of the Empire, when Agent Terex, then a stormtrooper, takes off his armor and deserts.
Charles Soule's writing engenders interesting parallels, such as that between the relationship between Finn and Poe Dameron in The Force Awakens and the relationship between Terex and the other former stormtrooper in this comic. Phil Noto is an excellent artist, and this is a very good comic. I find myself subvocalizing C-3PO in Anthony Daniels's voice and hearing the incidental music of Episode VII in my head.
I read a lot of the Star Wars Extended Universe in the 1990s and early 2000s, perhaps some 20 or 30 novels. Timothy Zahn's Empire trilogy inspired a generation that grew up with the original trilogy. I didn't start reading comic books until 2013, so my perusals into Star Wars fiction over the past year have been mostly in canon. My next adventure into Star Wars will be Chuck Wendig's Aftermath, which has received mixed reviews, mostly because it features new characters instead of the traditional characters.
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