The Initiates are similarly impressed with Dooku, especially when he demonstrates his lightsaber prowess in a sparring match against the great Master Yoda himself. And indeed, Dooku does eventually find himself taken with the idea of training these younglings, making special note of how a particularly talented Wookiee is able to flourish next to a Trandoshan, and Yoda remarks that this is because they were raised away from their two warring species’ prejudices against each other. But Yoda observes that it will be as good for Dooku as it is for the young Initiates, as the Serennian Jedi Master has begun to be consumed by thoughts of his home and the future of the Jedi Order. Yoda entreats Dooku to help him training a new batch of Jedi Initiates (the level prior to becoming a Padawan) in the Temple, though the latter is hesitant to return to simpler matters outside of the Council’s usual purview.

Then Yoda flashes back to the period before the prequel trilogy, when his former Padawan Dooku (now a Jedi Master) served on the all-powerful Council on Coruscant.

He hears a disembodied voice continue to call through him through the Force, but we still don’t know who it might be– and I’m guessing we won’t find out until the conclusion of this miniseries.

Yoda #4 begins back on Dagobah during the title character’s exile there. Last month, the first arc of Marvel’s Star Wars: Yoda comic-book miniseries came to an end, and now it’s time to start up a new story with issue #4– this time written by the accomplished Jody Houser ( Star Wars: Age of Republic).

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