Warning! Spoilers ahead for Star Wars #19
A new Revenge of the Sith, serving as Anakin's first true test as the armored Darth Vader.
This past story was a part of Marvel's 2017 Darth Vader run from writer Charles Soule and artist Giuseppe Camancoli, seeing the new Sith Lord tasked with creating his own red lightsaber. As the recently fallen Jedi learns from his new master Darth Sidious, red crystals are actually normal kyber crystals that have been made to bleed after a Sith fills it with their hate, pain, suffering, and rage. As such, Sidious sends Vader to eliminate surviving Jedi Master Kirak Infil'a on the river moon of Al'doleem to then take his lightsaber crystal as his own. While Vader was proven the victor wearing his new life- armor, it wasn't without sustaining heavy damage in what was his first trial as a Sith apprentice.
Now, Star Wars #19 has been released which also comes from Soule with art by Marco Castiello. In it, dark Sith meditations Vader began engaging in shortly after his own trial on Mount Pasavaal.
This certainly looks to be an intentional connection created by Soule between his past and current Star Wars series, forming a powerful new throughline between the father and son's contrasting paths in the Force. In the current time period of Star Wars #19, Luke is actively developing his abilities as a Jedi at the very site where Vader would get the key component required for his sinister crimson blade, the forging of which saw Anakin strengthening his resolve and fully giving in to the dark side. While Luke's journey as a Jedi is continuing on the river moon, it's where Anakin's truly ended as Vader saw no hope for redemption, motivating him to begin his dark Sith meditations as he sought to grow his power in the dark side.
In any case, Luke recovers a valuable Holocron containing the teachings of none other than Jedi Master Yoda by the issue's end. Now, a new path has been revealed to Luke who had been struggling to see the way ahead in his journey after learning that Darth Vader was his father. However, just as Anakin was motivated to fully commit and follow the corrupt path to the dark side as Darth Vader on this secretly significant world, Luke Skywalker has likewise been given what he needs to continue onwards to becoming a Jedi Knight in the Star Wars galaxy.
