Dark Web: X-Men #3: This issue is terrible as it nullifies the entire point of this event. When Jean realizes that Madelyne is after her memories of Nathan, she simply gives them to her, raising the question why Madelyne hadn't just asked her for them earlier. Now, the only question hanging over this event, to my mind, is whether Jean can do the same thing for Ben. Even if she does, this event feels like it could've been handled as an annual's back-up story. What a joke.
Star Wars: Bounty Hunters #30: Now we're getting somewhere.
Valance defects from the Empire after Tonga tells him that Cadeliah is with Crimson Dawn and Yura is dead. Valance realizes that Vader and, to a lesser extent, Haydenn played him this entire time. He uses the thermonuclear detonators that the supply ship was actually transporting to Bestine - notably not the alleged "food" for the people living outside the Imperial base - to destroy said base. He explains to T'onga the attack was simply bait for Vader, who arrives at the issue's end.
Sacks doesn't have a lot of time to dwell on the emotions, but he doesn't miss the chance to do so. He includes a flashback to Bossk, T'onga, and Valance's time on Nakano Lash's crew when Nakano tells them that their successes come from the fact that they're family. T'onga reminds a devastated Valance of this conversation in an attempt to comfort him. But Valance works out his feeling through taking out Imps, a reminder of how Tonga's offer of humanity is unlikely to get Valance to see his.
Star Wars: Han Solo and Chewbacca #9: This issue gets the whole gang together again.
Han brings the urn to Nar Shaddaa after he, Chewie, and Phaedra discover it doesn't contain ashes but an orb. Lando's contact, an Ugnaught Sava, informs Han that it's actually the neural core of a droid named Ajax Sigma who led a droid rebellion two centuries ago.
Of course, one of Khel Tanna's contacts tipped off Tanna that Han was on Nar Shaada and, of course again, Corbus Tyra bugged Tanna's communicator so he passed on this information to Marshall Vancto. As such, everyone converges on the Sava's office. The trio escapes only for Chewie to go after Marshall Vancto for shooting him in the back and Han and Phaedra encountering a blastered-up Tyra in the Falcon.
As Han explains to Phaedra, it's all a pretty good example of his luck.
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