THE GREATEST TRIAL IN THE GALAXY CONTINUES! LANDO CALRISSIAN is on trial for crimes against the ALLIANCE. The evidence is clear, and his friends have turned against him, from LUKE SKYWALKER to LEIA ORGANA. Lando's only hope…is DARTH VADER?
As he did for Star Wars 41, artist John Tyler Christopher did two negative wash covers for Star Wars 45 after getting what he described as an amazing opportunity he needed to quickly take. One cover features bounty hunter Boba Fett. Fett's cover was first teased with a green image that served as the cover's background. Ahead of presale exclusively held on his website, Tyler revealed Fett's cover with yet-to-be-approved art, which he needed to note on the Tweet, In the end, however, it was approved without the need to change anything.
According to Tyler, the preorders had needed to be placed in order to give him the chance to use both characters as cover-focuses. Presale for the covers started on February 8 and ended on February 10. In that sale, both covers were sold as a RAW bundle. Tyler did promise that fans would be able to purchase each cover individually or as "grades" during public sale, by which point he promised his store would have the issues themselves in hand. He also tweeted out an alternatively colored "sunset" version of his Fett cover to make a "stupid pun" about the end of the presale. Tyler did not reveal the subject of his second negative wash cover, only describing it as Fett's secret cargo in the context of the online presale.
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