An Absolute Delight

And sometimes fanfiction is, ‘Watch me do a fucking KICK FLIP off this cool sentence!! Also here's some sex'

we are nearing 10 years of having our favorite doctor in star wars! before A New Legacy comes out in a couple weeks with anniversary stories featuring Aphra, let's run down all her many many comics :)

(there are a few guides online, but mostly outdated or don't include everything i feel they should)

(includes Aphra's comics storyline. issues of other comics that feature Aphra as a cameo but don't really fit anywhere into her story are summed up at the end, same with non-comic material.)

Vader - Darth Vader (2015) issues 1-6

Shadows and Secrets - DV issues 7-12

Vader Down - Vader Down one-shot -> DV 13 -> Star Wars (2015) 13 -> DV 14 -> SW 14 -> DV 15

Rebel Jail - Star Wars (2015) issues 16-19

(optional) The Shu-Torun War - DV issues 16-19

End of Games - DV issues 20-25

Aphra - Doctor Aphra (2016) issues 1-6

The Screaming Citadel - The Screaming Citadel one-shot -> SW 31 -> DA 7 -> SW 32 -> DA 8

The Enormous Profit - Doctor Aphra Annual 1, DA issues 9-13

Remastered - DA issues 14-19

The Catastrophe Con - DA issues 20-25

Worst Among Equals - DA issues 26-31, Doctor Aphra Annual 2

Unspeakable Rebel Superweapon - DA issues 32-36

Rogue's End - DA issues 37-40, DA Annual 3, The Empire Ascendant one-shot

Fortune and Fate - Doctor Aphra (2020) issues 1-5

The Engine Job - DA issues 6-9

War of the Bounty Hunters - War of the Bounty Hunters 1 -> DA issues 10-11 -> WotBH 2 -> DA 12 -> WotBH 3 -> DA 13 -> WotBH 4 -> DA 14-15 -> WotBH 5

Crimson Reign - DA issues 16-21

The Spark Eternal - DA issues 22-25

Ascendant - DA issue 26 -> Revelations (2022) -> DA issues 27-29 -> Hidden Empire 5 -> DA issues 30-31

Ripple Effect - DA issues 32-34

Dark Droids - DA issues 35-40, Tall Tales story in Revelations (2023)

(War of the Bounty Hunters, Crimson Reign, Hidden Empire and Dark Droids are all bigger crossover events as well, which can optionally be read in their entirety. all content relevant to Aphra is included here.)

(for big-picture timeline purposes: arcs 1-14 take place between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back; arcs 15-22 between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.)

additional Aphra-featuring issues outside this timeline:

flashbacks in Galaxy's Edge issues 3-5, set sometime between Vader and Remastered.

Bounty Hunters (2020) issue 1, set sometime between Rogue's End and War of the Bounty Hunters, probably around Fortune and Fate. conflicts with pre-established character dynamics a bit.

Darth Vader (2020) issues 35-36, set sometime between Ascendant and Dark Droids.

Dark Droids issue 5, difficult to reconcile with the rest of the Dark Droids Aphra arc, but taking place during it.

Battle of Jakku: Republic Under Siege issues 1-2, set after Return of the Jedi and thus after everything in this guide.

extremely minor cameos and mentions in other comics:

multiple flashbacks in Sana Starros miniseries (issues 1, 2, and 5)

mention in Star Wars (2015) issue 61

non-comic media starring Aphra (recommended for sure but outside this reading guide):

The Trigger - short story from the anthology From a Certain Point of View (2017). takes place shortly before Vader.

Doctor Aphra audio drama and/or its script (2020) - adapts the first six arcs of this guide, with additional material, including backstory aspects that are later incorporated into Aphra's comics.

“The family name ‘Murasame’ was given to me by my master. The given name ‘Tatsumasa’ is a combination of ‘dragon’ (tatsu), the [zodiac] year when I was born, and one character from my master’s name,” says Murasame."

yeah that looks normal… yeah these are all— um. hold on. hang on.

Can just imagine all the girlies on tiktok going "I know this is a bit controversial but I honestly love using limestone as a gastrolith. Not only can you readily forage it but they are just so pretty when smoothed out after regurgitating them"