Star Wars 8 represents the eighth installment of the Star Wars comic book line. This particular series unfolds its narrative in the period bridging Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope and Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back. The release date for the eighth issue was August 14, 2013.
In an effort to uncover the method Colonel Bircher employs to monitor Rebel activities, Luke Skywalker and Wedge Antilles willingly submit to capture by Imperial forces. Simultaneously, Darth Vader dispatches an informant to infiltrate his own organization with the identical objective. In a separate development, Han Solo and Chewbacca engage Boba Fett in intense blaster combat!