Marvel's Star Wars Foreshadowed Attack Of The Clones Almost 20 Years Before
A particularly tragic issue of Marvel’s classic Star Wars comics foreshadows Anakin Skywalker’s Darth Vader origin in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones. The third annual issue of the comic series shows Darth Vader’s sinister skill at manipulation as he recruits a young man into both the Empire and the Sith Order following a tragic loss. While the scene was not intended to connect to the second Star Wars prequel, Darth Vader’s dialogue is, in hindsight, a wonderful connection between the 1983 comic issue and the 2002 film.
Star Wars Annual #3 by Jo Duffy, Klaus Janson and Joe Rosen tells the grim origin story of Flint, the Force-sensitive son of a Jedi Knight who was killed during the Clone Wars by General Grievous, according to later Legends-era material. When Rebel and Imperial forces clash on Flint’s home planet of Belderone, Flint initially tries to assist the Rebellion, hoping to learn the ways of the Jedi from Luke Skywalker. Unfortunately, Imperial blaster fire from an AT-AT bombards Flint’s hometown, killing his mother in the process.
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At the end of the issue, Flint mistakenly believes that it was Rebel Alliance forces who killed his mother, and he resolves to become someone who could make a difference in the galaxy. It is then that Darth Vader discovers Flint and manipulates him into joining the Imperial Stormtrooper Corps, while Vader will train Flint in the ways of the Sith in secret. Vader claims to have once felt the same grief and frustration with powerlessness. While he was likely written as simply manipulating the grieving young man, Vader’s words eerily coincide perfectly with the death of Shmi Skywalker in Attack of the
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