In this review of Star Wars: Boba Fett-Black, White And Red #3, a galaxy-spanning, time-hopping tale explores Boba Fett’s early career motivations amid his pursuit of a bounty that eluded him years ago.
STAR WARS: BOBA FETT–BLACK, WHITE AND RED #3
Writer: ETHAN SACKS
Artist: JUAN JOSÉ RYP
Main Cover: ERIK GIST
Variant Covers: PAULO SIQUEIRA, KLAUS JANSON
Page Count: 40 pages
Release Date: November 26, 2025
This review contains spoilers
Star Wars: Boba Fett-Black, White and Red #3 begins as Boba Fett pursues an informant on Nar Shadda, blasting his way through durasteel doors and a gauntlet of heavily armed guards. Fett’s quarry, Sheerax Quorsha asks why Fett is seeking an age old bounty. The story shifts to the distant past, where a young Boba Fett, (pre-Mandalorian armor), attempts to collar ruthless crime boss Corm Vargon in a seedy saloon.
Young Fett holds his own against Vargon’s underlings, but is left beaten, defeated, unmasked and humiliated by Vargon himself. Years later, Fett finds one of Vargon’s underlings at an undisclosed outpost and extracts information on Vargon’s current whereabouts (in brutal fashion). Fett travels to a remote monastery where this sect of monks remove their brains and place them in spider-droids in order to gain eternal enlightenment.
Fett encounters a bipedal droid after entering the monastery, and threatens to destroy every brain housed in the monastery unless the droid points out Vargon’s location. The droid reveals itself to be Vargon and sends waves of the spider-droids after Fett. Vargon monologues while Fett fights off the droid swarm. Outmatched, Fett evens the odds by remotely firing the blasters from his Firespray starship. Fett drags the Vargon droid out of the collapsing structure and onto the open sand.
Star Wars: Boba Fett-Black, White and Red #3 ends with the Vargon droid putting up a fight until Fett blasts Vargon’s brain in the droid’s chest cavity. Fett answers Vargon’s dying question by telling him that he always finishes a job.
Analysis
Star Wars: Boba Fett-Black, White and Red #3 delivers a wild, time-hopping story that delves slightly into Fett’s history and his personality. The younger Boba Fett’s emotional response and inexperience coupled with taking a bounty to avenge deaths caused by Vargon shows a more optimistic and swash-buckling adventurer than the older, self-assured version in Mandalorian armor.
Writer Ethan Sacks treads some familiar territory here, having previously written Star Wars: Bounty Hunters for Marvel Comics (although not necessarily with Boba Fett). Sacks’ time-shifting approach moves the narrative along while illuminating Fett’s motives from the past to the present. Star Wars: Boba Fett-Black, White and Red #3 as with many other Star Wars tales, borrow heavily from classic movie westerns.
In this issue, Sacks has Fett finishing a job he failed at as a novice bounty hunter. The exact length of time or the impetus for why Fett finally tracked Vargon down is unclear, but it certainly fits the character’s code. Sacks also gives Fett some funny dialogue that in the midst of the chaos also feel character-accurate. Sack’s approach that in the right hands, Boba Fett can be marginally more than a one-note character.
Artist Juan Jose Ryp is well known for hard-hitting, gritty and detailed artwork on titles such as Robocop and Wolverine. In Star Wars: Boba Fett – Black, White & Red #3, Ryp choreographs brutal hand-to-hand combat scenes, blaster fights, massive spider-droid armies, labyrinthian underground outposts plus some impressive facial expressions, and a silent head nod from Fett that is just plain hilarious.
Final Thoughts
Star Wars: Boba Fett-Black, White and Red #3 is an intriguing exploration of how the character’s past failures helped shape his code as a ruthless and efficient bounty hunter. Sharp writing, crackling dialogue, subtle character moments and gorgeous wide-screen artwork help elevate this issue above the surface-level coolness of a typical Boba Fett story.
