Zayne Carrick is a human Jedi Padawan born on Phaeda in 3982 BBY, barely admitted to the Order — his Force sensitivity was formally described as "marginal" — and apprenticed on Taris to Master Lucien Draay. He is the lead of John Jackson Miller's Knights of the Old Republic, published by Dark Horse Comics from 2006 to 2010 and set during the Mandalorian Wars, a few years before BioWare's game.
The premise
Carrick's masters belong to a secret organisation, the Jedi Covenant, dedicated to preventing the return of the Sith by any means. Acting on a prophecy, they murder their own Padawans. Carrick survives because he is late, and spends the next several years as the galaxy's most wanted fugitive, accused of the crime.
Why the comic is good
Miller has said Carrick was partly modelled on the early experience of playing the video game — the disorientation, the fumbling with controls — and the series runs on that: a Jedi who is not very good at being a Jedi, in a story where competence keeps turning out to belong to the villains. It is a caper comic with a genuine conspiracy underneath, and it has aged considerably better than most Star Wars comics of its decade.
The crew
He runs with the Snivvian con artist Marn Hierogryph, the Arkanian Offshoot Jarael, the Mandalorian deserter Rohlan Dyre and the elderly engineer Camper aboard The Last Resort — a rogues' gallery assembled by accident, which is exactly the right structure for the story.