Star Wars Comics Moving to Marvel
In a move that has surprised no one on Earth, Marvel is set to start publishing Star Wars comics in 2015. The writing was on the wall the instant Disney added Star Wars to their crown, and I guess we’re now looking at the last year of Dark Horse publishing Star Wars. And it’s a little sad, because Dark Horse has created many amazing Star Wars works over the years and I have a nagging doubt that Marvel will be able to replicate the same feel and atmosphere as the best of the Dark Horse Star Wars comics.
Too bad we won’t get anyone at Marvel following in Carmine Infantino’s footsteps. I’d love to see Marvel take a stab at replicating the look and feel of their very first Star Wars comics from the seventies.
This announcement means that I need to start plugging holes in my collection of Star Wars trade paperbacks. No longer can I look at one of the books in the store and say “I’ll grab it later.” Later is almost over, and I doubt Dark Horse will reprint many — if any! — of these trades again. And whether or not Marvel will start printing these is an unknown at this time.
To get the process started I just hit Amazon and ordered a few new books for my collection:
- Star Wars Omnibus: Wild Space Volume 2*
- Star Wars Omnibus: Infinities*
- Star Wars Omnibus: Shadows of the Empire*
- Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Ninth Assassin*
I’ve got some fun reading ahead of me!
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I just got Wild Space volume 1 last month, because it reprinted a couple of the old Marvel UK stories I had in old paperbacks. But it always struck me as kind of weird that Dark Horse would reprint the old Marvel stuff–which I love, but DH really put in a lot of work.
It’s not a surprise or anything, but it has to suck for everyone currently working on a Star Wars book.
@googum – I grabbed volume one of Wild Space a few weeks ago and would have bought it sooner if I had realized there was Carmine Infantino work in there. Awesome volume and I can’t wait to see the second collection.
As to the Marvel work at Dark Horse, Lucasfilm owned all of the old comics so I’m not shocked the work made it to Dark Horse. I need to finish the Marvel collections, though, because I don’t have all of the trades in that line.