Navigating the Star Wars Comics Universe (Old and New)

[VulcanMindBlown]

Unfortunately, Star Wars: The Essential Reader's Guide Companion Book does not do comics. Is there any guide to navigating the comic book universe? I'd rather not use a wikipedia, but it's not like it's for academia.

P.S. It would have been cool if they did other media, like video games...

 

[Skywalker]

Do you mean like a chronological listing of issues?

Wookieepedia's got you. They also have similar lists for other media, such as novels and video games.

And here's a chronological listing of canon comics, for good measure.

 

[Jedi Marso]

The SW comic book 'verse is a pretty convoluted one.

My favorites include the original Marvel Series from the start to right before TESB came out, and the Rogue Squadron series that was produced about the same time as the Stackpole novels back in the mid to late 90's. There is some other good stuff out there, but a lot of the various series sort of tread on each other timeline-wise or are contradicted by what came out on screen after they were made.

Basically you can read it all for the sake of loving SW and comic books, or pick and choose and decide what fits into your personal 'head-canon.'

Notably, the one comic series I would have been all over like a fat boy on a cupcake would have been a Dark Forces / Kyle Katarn comic series. Sadly it never happened.

 

[JRoss]

The comics are cool in that they create their own sort of universe.i really liked the With stories from Dark Horse. They basically gave us what became KOTOR. The republic series was good enough to affect the movies, bringing us Aayla Secura and Quinlan Vos

 

[Reverend]

It's not even like there's one "comic book universe". It's more like six or seven mostly independent little narrative enclaves divided by era, publisher and tone.

 

[Skywalker]

Honestly, for at least the last decade or so of the Legends era, I felt like the comics were much stronger than the novels.

 

[Hound of UIster]

That is because it was. Dark Horse had a much stronger editorial hand in the comics and thus could create better material by enforcing better quality controls. In contrast Del Rey and the novel division didn't appear to have those controls and it was more dependent on the individual skills of the writers. I think it's telling when one of the better Legends Obi-Wan novels by Del-Rey started out at Dark Horse as a comics idea.