From the beginning of 2020, MarvelMain Star Wars Manga – Main Star Wars series, Darth Vaderand has already been concluded Doctor Afra and Bounty HunterMoving on to a new period in the original film’s timeline, The Empire Strikes BackLike the first A new generation Marvel Star Wars In previous documents, New Hope and Empirewhich explores the time between Empire and Return of the Jedi.
Now, that era is coming to an end. Marvel is Star Wars and Darth VaderThe current volume of will end with issue 50, and both will be released as 50-page oversized comics in September. But here’s the problem. New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back was About 3 yearsThat’s about the same amount of time that both films were actually released in our world. Star Wars In comics, Marvel lasted for about five years. The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi?
1 year. 1 year. aboutAnd we’ve done just as much, if not more, in the various series that have come before. Star Wars The manga stories, as part of the current canon, were packed into that era and spanned roughly the same period.
Don’t get me wrong. Many of these stories are actually It was really goodBut they are also often completely insane. From Qi’ra solo Appeared Tried to kill Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine By confining Throwing a big box into the sun and getting stopped by the Knights of Ren (don’t worry) or some ancient technology exploding Droid Zombie Plague He nearly took over the entire galaxy in his quest to control the Force itself. do not have Don’t worry, Darth Vader could have been Palpatine’s advisor Sly Moore, who was actually leading the Imperial rebels. Defeat the Emperorthe Schism Empire, before he himself joins it (you might be worried about this, it’s a relatively recent plotline, mentioned in Marvel’s PR Darth Vader #50, but knowing what happens right after this, I might not. Return of the Jedi!)and it is half Its.
These moments and revelations, on their own, would be endearing and pretty wild and crazy. Star Wars The material way of the expanded universe (canon, reboot, or otherwise) requires those wild moments to feel right. Star Wars For me, that may just be the standard I was raised with. Chewbacca died because extragalactic BDSM aliens dropped the moon on him or Ki Adi Mundi has many wivesBut all these big stories Interesting and inspiring Characters like Luke, Leia, Lando, Vader, and others are the catalysts for our journeys and grow into the people we meet. Return of the JediLuke, in particular, must face the truth about his father and his lonely journey. Becoming a Jedi— that they had to be crammed into a year in the timeline makes them even more insane.
next Star Wars Marvel Comics remains unclear, with today’s news just a vague promise that there will be more information on this “new era” of comics in the coming weeks, without any concrete confirmation of when it will be set. Return of the Jedi And fill in the gaps still remaining in that era (Marvel was already doing a bit of that) A collapsed empire, The Force Awakens“Transmedia Initiative.” Thirty years on and still largely unexplored while Jedi and The Force Awakens There’s plenty of opportunity for further story development. A sequel could expand on the movies volume by volume, as they did with the original trilogy. Or even a prequel! The comics could go back in time as much as they have gone forward.
These are particularly wild times, and they open up a lot of possibilities. Star Wars Manga is coming to an end, and I hope the next era finds a better place to breathe.
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