↑ 6.0 6.1 MARVEL COMICS January 2016 Solicitations on ( September 20, 2015) (archived from the original on October 21, 2015).↑ 5.0 5.1 Star Wars: Vader Down (2015) #1 on Marvel Comics' official website ( backup link).↑ 4.0 4.1 Star Wars: Vader Down on ( backup link).↑ 3.0 3.1 EXCLUSIVE: Marvel's Star Wars To Sell More than 200,000 Copies in Collected Edition by Burlingame, Russ on ( July 27, 2015) (archived from the original on June 20, 2018).↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 MARVEL COMICS December 2015 Solicitations on ( September 15, 2015) (archived from the original on September 19, 2015).Marvel's Star Wars: Darth Vader – Black, White & Red Revealed on ( backup link).Open Mike Deodato's Vader Down Sketchbook, Part 2 on ( backup link).SDCC 2015: 6 Reasons to be Very Excited for Marvel's Vader Down - Exclusive Interview on ( backup link).The story of the six-part run begins in Vader Down 1 and continues into the Star Wars and Darth Vader series. As a result, the writers had the opportunity to depict a dangerous Vader in a way that had not yet been canonically depicted. This allows Vader to be depicted as the hunted, rather than the hunter, and doing whatever it takes to survive. Gillen explained that it shows Vader up against the entire Alliance army and fleet, with survival his only goal. In the story they wrote, Darth Vader faces down Rebel Alliance forces on his own. Their working environment allowed them to rely on one another to write the characters well, and to ask questions of one another as needed. The story was conceived by the two authors, who found it a joy to cross over and work with each other's characters. The crossover also gives them the opportunity to have characters from both series meet one another, such as Doctor Aphra meeting Han Solo.

By creating a crossover, the two authors were able to create what Aaron referred to as a larger and more epic movie-style event for the Marvel Star Wars comic book line.

The two comics are told alongside each other, in the same chronological order, including having both of their first arcs end with Darth Vader discovering that Luke Skywalker is his son. The six-issue comic book run was conceived as a crossover event between Aaron's Star Wars and Gillen's Star Wars: Darth Vader. Star Wars: Vader Down was announced at San Diego Comic-Con in 2015, along with an interview with authors Jason Aaron and Kieron Gillen on. It's Vader with an array of people in front of him and he's in a precarious situation. ' It's called Vader Down and the core image is Vader against the entire Rebel army and fleet.

Star Wars, Vol. 1 by Jason Aaron