Dark Horse Original Announcement: Special announcement for Star Wars Friday! Next week we will be debuting images of a brand-new series, featuring one of the most beloved-characters in the universe. The series will be written by a well-known creator who hasn't worked within the universe for a few years, and will be drawn by an artist coming to Dark Horse for the first time. Any guesses as to what it will be?

So maybe not so beloved of a character. I went from excited it might be something fun to fearing this is JarJar. Wanna bet a total fanboy wrote that original announcement. This should be interesting.

It's also a character from the movies.

C3PO

If not 3PO, then R2. :)

It's Callista!! :p

Sounds like someone we love to hate. I'm going to guess maybe Tarkin? :lol:

Lando.

Wasn't he included on some DR marketing list with the Big Three as "beloved", or something like that? We discussed that...recently...in some thread...somewhere...

I thought Wedge or Lando until RS hedged. Now I'm betting Imperial...or Mando

I think Wedge truly is "beloved", so he doesn't count. You may be right, though. It probably isn't Lando - I just threw him out there because I can't think of anyone/thing else. :p

Prince Isolder, H/L fans love to hate him, and there is actually a lot of unseen back story with the assassinated brother the time with pirates and the assassinated fiancé.

Huh. Never thought of him. Good thinking.

Isolder was not in the movies.

Oh. Yeah. :doh:

A Mando Lando?

So yesterday when I went to the comic shop to buy Legacy War #2, I got there about 4:00 and got the last copy of Legacy they had. But there were six copies of Darth Vader and the Lost Command #1 still sitting there.

Good job, Dark Horse. :doh:

New comic series announced -- Qui-Gon and Xanatos backstory

Uh... meh. :unsure:

Beloved, uh never saw that coming. Yeah he's beloved but I would have thought Qui-Gon would have been off-limits. I've always liked him.

Hmm. Not excited.

Fanboy round 822...

Do. Not. Care.

Some Star Wars comics news revealed by Dark Horse today at the start of NYCC. More info at TFN Lit thread.

Dawn Of The Jedi - new ongoing series from John Ostrander & Jan Duursema - issues 0 and 1 in February 2012 - the origins of the Jedi Order

Knights Of The Old Republic: War - new arc by John Jackson Miller - January 2012

Darth Vader and the Ghost Prison - five issue mini-series by Haden Blackman - May 2012

Knight Errant - third arc by JJM

Blood Ties - new arc by Tom Taylor and Chris Scalf

Yeah for Jan and John and Jedi with swords.

Poo, for more man-with-boobs Kerra. Hopefully they'll leave her in the comics and out of more books.

OMG!!OMG!!OMG!!OMG!!OMG!!OMG!!OMG!!OMG!!OMG!!OMG!!OMG!!OMG!!OMG!!OMG!!OMG!!OMG!!OMG!! :francis: :francis: :francis:

Randy in Lit, on the Dawn of the Jedi --

Nice article from Comics Books Resource with John and Jan.

Okay, this is news I just got.

Dark Horse is doing a Lost Tribe of the Sith series with JJM writing and Andrea Mutti, artist.

Because we needed more stories starring Sith?

(Though thanks for the heads up. I'm just really, really bitter about all the Sith stories.)

Because we needed more stories starring Sith?

I wonder if Star Wars: The Old Republic can get part of the credit for that. I hear Sith is the more popular faction (most of my friends are playing Sith unfortunately, that's one reason I refuse to touch that game).

Hmmm. Good point. I am probably going to play a Sith because of my friend, but having watching playthrough vids, I know you can do so as a lightsider, which I think is both fun and hilarious.

And since I'm the one who keeps going around saying "Troopers are popular now because of TOR," mayhaps you have a point too! :-)

Dark Horse instead of wasting time on boring stuff should give back JJM his KOTOR ongoing series. That was a great series. Invasion was crap.

Just moving this news over here. :wink:

And count me in for "meh" as well. I didn't care for the ebooks; I don't think a comic story will be any more interesting. :p

Thanks for moving that, Lex. I wasn't sure where to post it because I'm still finding my way around this forum.

And I like this. I liked the Lost Tribe because they weren't your typical Sith, and their accomplishments did not match their egos. I honestly found it very amusing in FOTJ because they were all so "We'll stomp the Jedi because we're so badass. We're Sith!" And then the Jedi would hand them their heads.

I'm a very visual person, so I'm going to enjoy seeing the Lost Tribe and Kesh images.

After excessive delays in the word finally coming, Dark Horse announced their latest new comic today at WonderCon (via Roqoo Depot): an 8-issue story, "The Star Wars," based on George Lucas' early ideas that after much development ultimately became ANH. On Facebook, Randy Stradley described it as an "adaptation of George Lucas's 1974 screenplay." Bleeding Cool has some images of the slides from the presentation. Apparently it starts in September.

My first reaction is that early concepts and first-draft scripts get radically revised for a reason. :p But I guess I'll see what more we hear about this story as we get closer. :thinking:

So Dark Horse just did this: http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfe.../133/668/68.gif

Comics announcements are ridiculous.