Marvel is reprinting Dark Horse’s ‘Star Wars’ comics beginning April 2015
Bummed out about Disney ripping the Star Wars comics license out of the hands of Dark Horse? Well. Yeah, I don’t see how this news will make it any better. Not only has Marvel (perhaps understandably) been given the Star Wars license, but they will also be reprinting the older Dark Horse comics. Starting next April! Which I suppose also makes sense? Man, I wish I *got* things.
CBR:
Marvel is set to publish brand-new “Star Wars” comics starting in early 2015, but that doesn’t mean the vast library of “Star Wars” material published by Dark Horse Comics will disappear. Marvel announced Wednesday via StarWars.com that “Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The Empire Vol. 1” is scheduled for release in April 2015, featuring multiple stories previously published by Dark Horse. And things won’t stop there — Marvel said they’re looking to “collect full unbroken runs” of multiple past Star Wars stories.
“The Empire Vol. 1” is slated to include “Star Wars: Republic” #78-#80, “Star Wars: Purge” #1, “Star Wars: Purge – Seconds to Die” #1, “Star Wars: Purge – The Hidden Blade” #1, “Star Wars: Purge – The Tyrant’s Fist” #1-#2, “Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Lost Command” #1-#5 and “Star Wars: Dark Times” #1-#5. Each story is from the past decade of Dark Horse’s “Star Wars” run, and take place in the aftermath of 2005’s “Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith.” The collected edition will include work from creators including writers John Ostrander, Randy Stradley, Haden Blackman and Alexander Freed; plus artists Luke Ross, Douglas Wheatley, Jim Hall, Chris Scalf, Marco Castiello, Andrea Chella and Rick Leonardi.
“We’re thrilled to be bringing our innovative Epic Collections to a galaxy far, far away,” Marvel SVP sales and marketing David Gabriel said in the announcement. “We’ll be bouncing around to different periods of Star Wars history with each Epic Collection, constructing one huge tapestry, collecting full unbroken runs of all the greatest Star Wars comics from the past 35 years.”
Did anyone here get into the Star Wars comics? I didn’t — but I certainly ain’t opposed. I’m wondering if this first volume is worth snagging.