5 Life Day Stories In 'Star Wars' Canon

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Nov 17

Han Solo and Chewbacca — Image Source: Wookieepedia

Just in time for the Star Wars celebration of family, hope, peace, and love, CultureSlate has the rundown on five Life Day-focused stories for fans and newcomers alike to enjoy during the holiday season of American Thanksgiving and Christmas!

5. 'Star Wars Adventures' #3 And #4 (2020)

One of the first Star Wars stories to directly involve Life Day in canon, these two Star Wars Adventures comic issues tell one complete narrative involving Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi interceding to save Life Day from disruption by Trandoshans. A very action-packed story, it is still a fun examination of the relationship between Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan and is set in a period we are only now beginning to get more stories told in. Pick up these two issues to enjoy a classic, short, Jedi-heavy adventure!

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4. 'Life Day' #1 (2021)

This collection of stories is structured as a series of vignettes to prior Life Day celebrations in the Star Wars galaxy, with a central narrative featuring Han Solo and Chewbacca in Black Spire Outpost. Drawing from The High Republic and the rest of the Skywalker Saga, Life Day #1 is a comic showing the culmination of joy and happiness over the decades of Star Wars history and is an excellent holiday read. We hope to one day get another issue to tell more such tales like the rest of those on this list.

3. 'Hyperspace Stories' #4

The fourth issue of Hyperspace Stories is a fun Life Day romp through the galaxy far, far away. This entry is fairly unique, as it is set in the Sequel trilogy era and features captions of text cheekily riffing on the rhyming couplets of holiday stories like Twas the Night before Christmas and also referencing other Christmas tales like How the Grinch Stole Christmas. The actual story in the comic sees Rey traveling to Kashyyyk with Chewbacca to meet his family on Life Day. But, once they arrive, they are pursued by a bounty hunter for the bounty put on Rey by Kylo Ren. The hunter fails and even joins in the festivities, ending with a happy holiday message in a unique era of the Star Wars timeline.

2. 'Life Day Treasury: Holiday Stories From A Galaxy Far, Far Away'

It would be cheating to break open the Life Day Treasury and count each story as a separate entry for this list, so the entire collection is counted here together. Written in 2021, this group of seasonal stories runs the gambit from heartfelt and complex to simple and goofy to even scary and tense. It is also different from the other story collections written by George Mann as most of the tales are short stories, not myths or legends, set within the Star Wars galaxy. This fact adds all the more meaning to them, and with fantastic illustrations alongside the impactful tales, the Treasury is a book every Star Wars fan should consider reading for themselves.

1. 'Young Jedi Adventures' Season 1 Episode 19 “Life Day / Raxlo Strikes Back” & Season 2 Episode 9 “The Missing Life Day Feast/The Lost Treasure of Tenoo”

Young Jedi Adventures has been dedicated to showing a diversity of aliens, cultures, and locations across the Star Wars galaxy in its two seasons. Part of this has been the exploration of festivals and celebrations across the galaxy, and among the most prominent has been Life Day. Young Jedi Adventures has two Life Day episodes, likely set a year apart, with two vastly different stories at play, though with the same core characters. In one, the Tenoo Jedi Younglings of Kai, Lys, and Nubs try to help a Wookiee recover their Life Day orb after they are separated from it in the hustle and bustle of the celebrations. The second sees the same group helping this same Wookiee’s brother after a Trandoshan pirate plans to ruin Life Day, assisted by her crew and her more reluctant nephew. This young man does not follow in his aunt’s footsteps in the end, proving the long blood feud between the Trandoshans and the Wookiees is not a black-and-white binary. We hope to see this young Trandoshan later in Season 2, but for now, both episodes are perfect for the holiday season!

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