Fans hoping The Book of Boba Fett would return for another round on Disney+ can stop waiting: Lucasfilm has not commissioned a second season, and there is nothing on the current release slate to suggest one is coming.
Marvel Comics is set to publish a seven-issue adaptation of the 2021 Disney+ series, beginning September 9, 2026, with each issue mapped to a single episode of the show's lone season. This isn't a continuation of Temuera Morrison's story as Tatooine's reigning crime boss — it's a full retelling, episode by episode, of a season that never got the follow-up its ending seemed to promise.
A Familiar Face Returns — Younger Than Ever
The comic's most notable reveal so far concerns issue #6, due November 25, which brings a de-aged Mark Hamill back as Luke Skywalker. The cover art places him in his New Republic era, mirroring the same time period fans first saw him reappear in The Mandalorian Season 2 finale, “The Rescue,” slicing through Moff Gideon's Dark Troopers with a green lightsaber before later resurfacing in The Book of Boba Fett to train Grogu.
Issue #6 corresponds to “From the Desert Comes a Stranger,” the episode that gave Hamill his first and only on-screen appearance in the series. It was a standout moment at the time, one that fans praised so highly that some credited director Dave Filoni as being “a god” for pulling it off.
The issue comes from writer Rodney Barnes and artist Will Sliney, and it ships with two separate Luke-centric covers rather than one. Phil Noto's main cover stages a quiet visual conversation between Din Djarin and Luke, positioning Grogu between them with the beskar chainmail Din made for him on one side and Yoda's lightsaber on the other — an image that doubles as a preview of the choice Grogu will eventually have to make between two very different paths. A second, variant cover by Mike McKone opts for something more intimate: Luke training Grogu in the swamp, echoing the original episode directly.
That Marvel chose to build an entire issue's marketing around Luke, rather than Boba Fett himself, says something about which moments from the show's run actually stuck with audiences.
How The Book of Boba Fett Got Here
To understand why a comic book retelling is filling the gap where a second season might have gone, it helps to revisit how the original series was received. The Book of Boba Fett premiered in December 2021, giving Morrison's Boba Fett — a character believed dead since the original trilogy before his live-action return in The Mandalorian Season 2 — a series built around his attempt to run Tatooine's underworld from Jabba the Hutt's old palace.
It didn't land the way Lucasfilm may have hoped. Complaints about pacing and plotting were common; some fans felt the writing didn't do justice to Boba Fett's established history, and the season's back half increasingly shifted focus to Din Djarin and Grogu. By the finale, the show often played less like The Book of Boba Fett and more like an early preview of The Mandalorian Season 3 — a shift in identity that has followed the series ever since.
No sequel season materialized, Morrison has publicly said no one has reached out to him about returning to the role, and Boba Fett didn't appear anywhere in The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026).
A Franchise Still Finding Its Footing
That absence lines up with a rougher stretch at the box office for the Mando-Verse as a whole. The Mandalorian and Grogu opened domestically to around $82 million over Memorial Day weekend — the weakest three-day opening for a live-action Star Wars movie since 2018's Solo: A Star Wars Story — and finished its run with $345.3 million worldwide, per Box Office Mojo, against a $165 million budget. Its worldwide opening of $165 million also came in below Solo‘s $171 million global debut, making it the franchise's softest start in years.
Andor has earned real critical praise during this same Disney+ streaming period, but that alone hasn't ended the larger discussion about where Disney+ Star Wars is headed next. Taken together with Boba Fett's stalled season and the character's absence from the newest film, it looks less like a coincidence and more like Lucasfilm scaling back some of its earlier streaming bets — a pattern also visible in the recently released LEGO version of The Mandalorian, which condenses the three-season show and drops several characters along the way.
For now, at least, Boba Fett's next act belongs to the comic shop rather than the screen — with any live-action return likely dependent on how Lucasfilm chooses to rebuild its Star Wars plans going forward.
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