SPOILER WARNING: This article contains spoilers for "Star Wars" #28, by Jason Aaron and Salvador Larroca, on sale now.


When next we see Yoda, he's blindfolded and wandering in the dark as the child, named Garro, hurls the Force stones at him.

"Star Wars" #28 interior art by Salvador Larroca and Edgar Delgado

This image of a blindfolded Yoda, drawn by Salvador Larroca, is strikingly evocative of the training Luke went through in 1977's "Star Wars."

In that film, Obi-Wan Kenobi first trains Luke in the ways of the Force while aboard the Millennium Falcon. He gives Luke a lightsaber and a helmet with an opaque blast shield and tells the farmboy to defend himself against a laser-firing remote. Luke gets zapped a few times, yes, but after heeding Kenobi's advice, he's able to deflect a few of the remote's shots. Now we learn that just like Kenobi told Luke back during his first Jedi training session, Garro tells Yoda to focus and "feel" around him, particularly the stone.

Luke, training in his blast shield-equipped helmet

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As you might expect, Yoda proves to be a fast learner, as he goes from not being able to deflect a single stone to being able to use the stone power to lift up a boulder and deflect a cluster of hurled stones.

Yoda moves a boulder with the Force in this n"Star Wars" #28 interior art by Salvador Larroca and Edgar Delgado

Shocked, Garro tells Yoda that he's "never seen anyone else move a stone that big." Garro's reaction feels reminiscent of another Star Wars moment -- when Luke Skywalker was blown away by Yoda's ability to lift a full X-wing starfighter, in "Empire Strikes Back." Even though Yoda's only been training for a few days, he's already progressed far in this new Force training. We see Yoda learning for the first time, but then we see him return to the highly capable and always impressive Yoda we've seen throughout the trilogies. This Jedi Master is always full of surprises.

Yoda's even progressed far enough along that he can sense why the mountain (and all of the rubble it casts off) is filled with the Force. Yoda ventures up and over a ridge inside the mountain and discovers the a literal heart inside the mountain. More than just a descriptive term, it appear that the mountain is actually a living thing.

The mystery of what the mountain actually is remains unsolved -- at least until the next chapter of "Yoda's Secret War" arrives in stores. "Star Wars" #29 arrives on March 1.

"Star Wars" #28, by Jason Aaron and Salvador Larroca, is on sale now from Marvel Comics.