StarWars.com has posted a 5-page preview of the upcoming Dark Horse comic book miniseries Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Lost Command #1, written by Haden Blackman.

Click image here at right to see one of issue’s variant covers, which was done by artist Tsuneo Sanda and is one of twelve 25th anniversary covers.

This 40-page full-color first issue, which centers around Star Wars villain Darth Vader, is available for pre-order now and will be released on January 26, 2011.

Still haunted by the events in Revenge of the Sith, Darth Vader must set aside his past and put his future on hold for a mission to the mysterious Ghost Nebula to locate–and if possible, rescue–a missing Imperial expeditionary force.

But what seems a perfect opportunity to lose himself in his duty is complicated by two factors: he is paired with a willful yet highly competent co-commander, and the officer they are being sent to locate is the son of Vader’s rising nemesis, Moff Tarkin.