Here’s what’s expected from Marvel in November. It’s a lot: STAR WARS #12 JASON AARON (W) • STUART IMMONEN (A/C) ACTION FIGURE VARIANT BY JOHN TYLER CHRISTOPHER VARIANT SKETCH COVER BY STUART IMMONEN • Showdown on the Smuggler’s Moon! • Plus: Lightsabers! Loads of Lightsabers! • And finally: the truth about Sana Solo! 32 PGS./Rated…
It’s a new year at Star Wars Always, and while there have been a few minor developments in the last couple of weeks (which I’ll get to in subsequent posts), the big event this week is the release of the first issue of Marvel’s flagship Star Wars title. I’ve been eagerly awaiting Marvel’s Star Wars…
As the number of views for The Force Awakens teaser eclipses the 100 million mark, we now learn that Marvel’s Star Wars #1 is set to sell over a million copies, which makes it the first comic to do so since Batman #500 in 1993. In contrast, Dark Horse Comics’ Star Wars #1 (which had the…
Thanks to Marvel.com, here we get a glimpse at the art from the first issue of Star Wars: Darth Vader, as well as a synopsis for the series. Immediately. this art recalls the original trilogy (perhaps because it seems to very closely reference Luke’s arrival at Jabba’s Palace in Return of the Jedi). What’s interesting is…
This is it. With Star Wars: Rebels currently airing, Star Wars: Tarkin hitting shelves next week and Star Wars: Episode VII wrapping production, we’re now entering the phase where the floodgates of Star Wars goodies are about to crack wide open. It seems that, with one Star Wars film being released each year for the…
Today Bleeding Cool are reporting that Marvel’s Star Wars comics will be announced in July, specifically the week prior to the San Diego Comic Con (which starts on 25 July). How many titles will there be? Two, apparently. The first title seems obvious: a comic set around Rebels somehow. Would they dare set the second…
The inevitable has been announced: in 2015, the Star Wars comics publishing license will transfer from Dark Horse Comics to Marvel Entertainment. This was on the cards as soon as Disney (who own Marvel) bought Lucasfilm. You can read the press release at StarWars.com, which basically announces the move, praises Dark Horse and notes that…
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