Since that date, Marvel has been quite a busy bee, helped by IDW, and a lot of Star Wars comics are published every month. This article is devoted to the Star Wars canon, to the Star Wars comic books published after April 25, 2014. And in 2022, Dark Horse will resume publishing new Star Wars comics and graphic novels.

In 2017, IDW Publishing launched the anthology series Star Wars Adventures. The Star Wars comics license returned to them in 2015, and they are now the primary Star Wars comics publisher. Marvel was actually the first company to publish Star Wars Comics in 1977 (and for the next ten years). And so, everything published after April 25 was now considered part of the new canon (it’s a little more complicated than that, but the details are not necessary here). Meaning that, outside of the original six Star Wars films produced by George Lucas and certain other materials, everything that has been created before April 25, 2014, was now part of the Star Wars Legends aka the old continuity. Things changed when Walt Disney acquired the Star Wars franchise and decided it was time for a clean slate (or a reboot!). In a galaxy far, far away, humans, aliens, and droids lives numerous adventures since 1977 in the Star Wars franchise, comprised of movies, television series, video games, books, comic books, and more.įor a long time, those adventures were part of what was called The Star Wars Expanded Universe - since then renamed Star Wars Legends ( see our reading order).

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