From 1991 to 2014, Dark Horse Comics churned out greater than 100 totally different Star Wars titles. It tailored novels, helped outline the Old Republic period, emblazoned a lot of the universe each earlier than and after the flicks, and helped outline what was known as the Expanded Universe. Now it’s going to deal with collection’ canon, as a result of the writer’s been given the go-ahead to make Star Wars comics once more.

These might be all-ages comics versus the collection focused to youngsters and up Marvel has been placing out, together with Star Wars, Darth Vader, and Doctor Aphra. Dark Horse joins IDW Publishing within the endeavor (though there have been recent rumors that IDW may be dropping its management of the license, which will surely clarify why Dark Horse is now taking up all-ages comics). According to StarWars.com, the writer’s founder Mike Richardson sounds fairly excited and never simply because the corporate’s going to make a great deal of cash:

“Dark Horse Comics has a rich history publishing Star Wars comics and graphic novels. Star Wars is near and dear to all of our hearts and I’ve been a fan since I saw the original film 19 times during its original release. I am thrilled that Dark Horse will once again bring new stories to life from this incredible galaxy and I’m not exaggerating when I say we can’t wait to bring these new adventures to fans of every age.”

The massive distinction between Dark Horse’s outdated titles and no matter it makes subsequent is, in fact, that Star Wars proprietor Disney has declared every little thing to be in-canon when it rebooted the Star Wars universe’s continuity forward of the discharge of The Force Awakens 2015—solely together with its new comics, novels, TV collection, video games, and so forth, together with the retroactively canonized Clone Wars TV collection, which started in 2008, the then-upcoming Rebels, and, in fact, the prequel and unique trilogies. Only one Dark Horse Star Wars comedian managed to make it to the brand new canon, and it was a tie-in to the Clone Wars TV collection known as Darth Maul: Son of Dathomir, which was made up of unproduced present scripts.

Dark Horse had many memorable comics again within the day, together with the Dawn of the Jedi collection, which was set 25,000 years within the franchise’s previous, and Legacy, which takes place 130 years after the unique trilogy and stars Luke’s descendent Cade Skywalker. It additionally tailored The Star Wars, a 1974 draft of A New Hope the place Annikin Starkiller was the hero. My private favorites have been the Infinities collection, which advised alternate variations of the unique trilogy motion pictures, like if Luke had frozen to dying on Hoth.

Dark Horse will resume publishing Star Wars comics within the spring of subsequent 12 months, focusing initially on tales set in the High Republic period.

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