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Star Wars is a media empire. Of course, it began with movies successful 1977. Now, determination are streaming TV shows, video games, much movies, novelizations, and comic books. In fact, determination person been Star Wars comic books based connected George Lucas’s abstraction opera since 1978, the twelvemonth aft A New Hope first deed theaters.
For implicit 40 years, Jedi and Sith person battled it retired successful the glossies. But of course, Star Wars is overmuch bigger than Jedi and Sith. Partly due to the fact that of these comics, the beingness of Star Wars has grown, filled with generals, pilots, monsters, aliens, planets sparse oregon densely populated, and truthful overmuch more. For each quality you spot successful the movies, you tin find a comic publication bid (or five) telling stories of their life, their species, and their location planet. Periods thousands of years earlier and aft the events of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader person been elaborate sheet by panel. After 4 decades of comics, however bash you fig retired what to read? Where bash you start?
I’m present to assistance with this database of 12 of the implicit best, stellar Star Wars comics that request to beryllium successful your TBR close now. May the Force beryllium with you.
Star Wars (2015) by Jason Aaron and Stuart Immonen
When Lucasfilm and Marvel came nether the aforesaid banner nether Disney, Star Wars came backmost to Marvel Comics aft years with Dark Horse. To footwear disconnected the return, Marvel tapped Jason Aaron to constitute the archetypal comic successful the caller canon. Picking up from the extremity of A New Hope, this comic filled the spread betwixt that archetypal movie and The Empire Strikes Back.
Star Wars: Age of Resistance Special by Tom Taylor, G. Willow Wilson, Chris Eliopoulos, Matteo Buffagni, and more
This 1 changeable is 3 stories successful 1 comic. From an all-star database of writers and artists, these stories grow connected respective characters introduced successful the last trilogy of Star Wars films: Vice Admiral Holdo, Maz, Poe Dameron, and BB-8. Love oregon hatred the caller trilogy, these stories soma retired these characters that we different hardly know.
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Star Wars: Crimson Empire by Mike Richardson, Randy Stradley, and Paul Gulacy
Kir Kanos was the past surviving subordinate of Palpatine’s Royal Guard aft the demolition of the 2nd Death Star. This is his story, bloody and filled with revenge. This is 1 of those large Star Wars stories that takes a nameless, faceless quality from the movies and turns them into an incredible, analyzable person.
Star Wars: Darth Vader (2015) by Kieran Gillen, Salvador Larroca, and Leinil Francis Yu
Alongside the main Star Wars comic listed above, Marvel Comics tapped Kieran Gillen to constitute the communicative of Darth Vader betwixt the events of A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back. It covers immoderate pivotal quality moments for Vader, similar discovering that his lad has survived, starring up to the fateful confrontation successful Cloud City.
Star Wars: Doctor Aphra (2020) by Alyssa Wong and Marika Cresta
Introduced successful Star Wars: Darth Vader, Doctor Aphra is an archeologist employed by the Sith Lord until she faked her ain decease and joined the Rebellion. While her quality was fleshed retired successful the 2016 Star Wars: Doctor Aphra comic, the 2020 ongoing bid yet gives the quality country to breath, live, and research her spot successful the the galaxy.
Star Wars: Jedi – Aayla Secura by John Ostrander and Jan Duursema
This is different one-shot story, this clip focused connected the Twi’lek Jedi Aayla Secura. In this Legends (non-canonical) story, Secura goes undercover with Separatists. Inevitably, her screen is blown and she has to combat Aurra Sing, the famed Jedi slayer and bounty hunter, to past and escape.
Star Wars Omnibus: Knights of the Old Republic by John Jackson Miller, Brian Ching, Travel Foreman, Harvey Tolibao, and Dustin Weaver
The Knights of the Old Republic video crippled has been lauded for a agelong time. This comic publication bid of the aforesaid sanction and acceptable successful the aforesaid clip play is conscionable arsenic good. Set thousands of years earlier Luke Skywalker, this communicative focuses connected Padawan Zayne Carrick, framed for execution by his ain masters and uncovering refuge with a motley unit of space-farers portion trying to wide his name.
Star Wars: Legacy by John Ostrander and Jan Duursema
Here’s different Legends story, this clip acceptable thousands of years aft Luke Skywalker, focused connected Cade Skywalker. He’s a smuggler and bounty hunter, trying to region himself from his sanction and his legacy. Of course, the Force has different ideas, pulling yet different Skywalker into the halfway of a conflict for the galaxy’s soul. Legacy is 1 of the essential, stellar Star Wars comics.
Star Wars: Mara Jade: By the Emperor’s Hand by Timothy Zahn, Michael Stackpole, and Carlos Ezquerra
Ah, Mara Jade. She’s the quality from the Legends worldly that astir apt gets the biggest outcry hoping to spot her successful the caller canon. But hey, the stories are inactive determination to read, truthful what does canon truly matter? This communicative focuses connected her clip arsenic Emperor’s Hand close aft Palpatine’s evident death. Loyal to a dormant Sith Lord and a fallen empire, she’s inactive trying to implicit her last mission.
Star Wars: Princess Leia by Mark Waid, Terry Dodson, and Rachel Dodson
Princess. General. Rebel. Space Mom. The last of the 3 Star Wars comics launched aft Marvel took implicit successful 2015, this is the communicative of Leia gathering the Rebellion aft the demolition of the archetypal Death Star and her ain location planet. The Empire is rounding up surviving Alderaanians, and Leia is having nary of that.
Star Wars: Purge by John Ostrander and Doug Wheatley
This one-shot Legends communicative covers a play of clip that has really seen a batch of canonical stories recently: the contiguous aftermath of Order 66. The legendary John Ostrander pens this 1 focused connected Darth Vader arsenic helium hunts a tiny set of Jedi trying to flight the Sith Lord.
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi by Tom Veitch, Chris Gossett, Janine Johnston, and David Roach
This is technically the 2nd measurement of Tales of the Jedi, digging into the past of the Old Republic and the Great Hyperspace War thousands of years earlier Luke Skywalker. Remember proceeding astir the large Sith Empire agelong earlier the Rule of Two? This Legends communicative has each of that past and drama.
Okay, Star Wars fans. Let maine person it. What are your favourite stellar Star Wars comics that I didn’t mention? What portion of the Legends stories conscionable HAVE TO beryllium canon?
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