Disney's Lucasfilm and Marvel Entertainment to Publish Star Wars Comics and Graphic Novels

Dark Horse rocked at their Star Wars comics, they will be sorely missed and Marvel better take this job seriously

Interesting.

Definitely a big blow for Dark Horse. Their top four books from November were all Star Wars related which equaled 48% of all their sales volume for the month for single issues based on the numbers in Comichron.

Can't blame Marvel though. It is clearly a lucrative franchise that they own. It'd be stupid of them to not start publishing the books.

Is it just me or does the press release make it sound like Disney is berating Dark Horse's job handling the Star Wars comic books?

So who feels a price hike in the Star Wars ongoing coming on?

Now I feel like buying Dark Horse's Star Wars.

Lol yes they are, you think Marvel aren't aloud to put out films that aren't canon with the Avengers movies?

JJ and Disney decide what is and is not canon. Marvel isn't going to be allowed to put out comics that are not considered canon, since everything has to feed the current incarnation of the beast (at least for the first few years as Disney solidifies their hold-over and their vision-of the franchise).

@arturocalakayvee said:

@d0npierre said:

*Njam njam*

This....this is amazing.

aye, verily aye

JJ doesn't get to decide what comics Marvel puts out

@d0npierre said:

*Njam njam*

This....this is amazing.

Almost cared....almost.

I disagree. Marvel will have no say in what is or is not canon. JJ Abrams will decide what post-RotJ material will be canon since he is spearheading the movies. Marvel will fall in line with the new vision for the Star Wars universe.

Finally Star Wars comics on comixology. YEESSSSSSSSSS

This will not end well.

That's a shame. I would have thought they would have taken the opportunity to do like IDW is with TMNT. Reprint all the issues that other companies created for a cheap buck. It makes financial sense because they won't have to do an ounce of work for it, but get to charge those arm-and-leg prices.

@khan_noonien_singh: No, Marvel aren't going to bother keeping there books to another publishers continuity

@jonny_anonymous: Oh wow, really? I would have assumed that they would have kept the canon, just changed the publishers.

@khan_noonien_singh: whether they can match it or not isn't the point, this means all the pre-existing canon is going to be wiped

@jonny_anonymous: I know Marvel is kind of hurting... everything that I love right now in the 616 and Ultimate U, but you don't think they can match the awesomeness of Dark Horse?

@xwraith: xP Hell yeah :P That dude was funny as hell. ^__^ I may re-read some of those old Star wars comics this Weekend.

In other news, DUH

Remember Jaxxon the giant green bunny? I actually liked him.

@gothamred: I figured they might do that after a while, but I'd still like to get the Dark Horse trades for the few series I started getting (Legacy, KOTOR, Crimson Empire...not much, admittedly).

This.

That being said, I enjoyed the early Marvel Star Wars comics. Sure some where....cheesy but they had some great ones.

F*** Marvel

At least Brian Wood has time to end his run on a way he wants.

They got Halo from Marvel, didn't they? Kind of sad as it means we lose some good titles from DH who had a history of doing a nice job with the franchise. Guess Dawn of the Jedi won't be continuing after its current story arc... But maybe this might mean some focus on the Mass Effect and Halo line to up them up in terms of quality.

A sad announcement but to be expected. I think Dark Horse has done a tremendous job with the Licence, and over the years they have produced some of my all time favourite Star Wars moments and stories. I hope that respect is given to there legacy (as DH have done so many times with elements of the original Marvel Line). I just hope that this loss doesn't damage Dark Horse to critically. Once again I commend and thank them for there work.

*Njam njam*

dang idiots, so greedy,

Disney's doing the same things with its video games too, for Star Wars and Marvel, they want to put all their IP's in one place. In fact yesterday I heard the announcement that Marvel's activision games are being taken down off of PSN and XBLA for that reason. It seems bad at first, but the older series aren't going to vanish off the face of the earth, there's still ways to get them, and you never know what will happen with this in the future.

Well, this sucks. Good bye expanded universe. Marvel sucks and now they are going to make Star Wars suck. Thanks for ruining the new year so quickly.

@lvenger: @saren: I'm pretty sure Dark Horse is starting the Project Black Sky to combat the loss of Star Wars

Dark Horse's Meta Masterplan Project Black Sky Is Here

@sawcesome: Likely what happened when IDW acquired their licenses like G.I Joe, Transformers, and TMNT will happen and Marvel will be able to release dark horse's issues in their own trades like IDW's classics lines.

We all knew it was coming, but is still sucks. It says in the article that Marvel is will publish the comics starting in 2015, so at least Dark Horse has a year to finish out the current SW comics with proper endings.

I knew this would happen.

It looks like Disney is becoming Galactus..

*More and more... More franchises to consume...* :)

HA. That'd be interesting.

This^^^

So disappointed in Marvel right now. I knew they were going to take the rights back but let's be honest, they aren't going to love and adore the Star Wars Universe the way Dark Horse has over the last 20 years. Guess I should buy as many trades as I can because I doubt Marvel will reprint any for many years.

Cool.

Aww...that sucks.

Damn, that's just cold. I know Marvel has every right to take the rights to it but Star Wars, from what I've seen, was a total cash cow for Dark Horse and helped them stay steady and strong.

Terrible decision

Deadpool and Bobba Fett now please.

Well, I'm not into Star wars comics so no big deal to me, just that Dark horse will have to focus on their other comics from this point on. But it just goes to show that Marvel/Disney is a big 'hungry powerhouse vacuum' not to be taken lightly.