The Empire Strikes Back Monthly 156: Rust Never Sleeps is the one hundred fifty-sixth issue of the Marvel Star Wars UK series of comic books. This issue includes one of the few original comic stories in the series, Rust Never Sleeps. It was later reprinted in the Classic Star Wars: Devilworlds series. This issue reprints the first of two parts of the story printed in the US as Star Wars 57: Hello, Bespin, Good-bye!.