The most neglected Star Wars villain returns this September — but there's a catch

The Empire's most ruthless tactician arrives in a new format The last Star Wars fans saw Grand Admiral Thrawn — full name Mitth'raw'nuruodo, if you were curious — was 2023’s Ahsoka. There, viewers watched as Thrawn departed from exile on the far-flung planet of Peridea to make his way back home to the known galaxy. Since then, it’s been crickets from the Empire’s most ruthless strategist, but that’s all about to change in a few months' time. Thrawn has appeared several times throughout in both Star Wars canon and the non-canon Legends continuity, proving himself to be a thorn in the side of iconic heroes like Hera Syndulla and her fellow rebels of the Ghost crew, and even Anakin Skywalker. This time, however, Thrawn is getting a new chance to toy with the enemy in the first volume of Thrawn, an upcoming manga adaptation arriving this September. Fans of Thrawn have been waiting years for him to come back, and that return seems imminent with the US and Canadian release of the manga adaptation of Timothy Zahn’s 2017 novel of the same name, Thrawn. The 192-page manga adaptation, published by Panini Publishing and illustrated by Man Tsang, has been summarized as charting the “formative