Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi: Force Storm
Twenty-five thousand years before the films, and nobody has invented the word Jedi yet.
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Twenty-five thousand years before the films, and nobody has invented the word Jedi yet.
The second arc, and the one where the Je’daii start disagreeing about balance.
The Je’daii become the Jedi, and it costs them the argument they were founded on.
The first serious attempt to give Star Wars a deep past.
The comic that brought the Emperor back, and got away with it for about a decade.
Who is involved
Created for a comic, drafted into the films because George Lucas liked the cover.
An Imperial Knight who served the Emperor rather than the Force, and was not remotely conflicted about it.
Trained half the Jedi in the story, and his death started the war that killed the rest.
A Skywalker who is a bounty hunter, a spice addict, and absolutely not interested in the family business.
A Royal Guardsman with dark side training who murdered the Emperor by letting his clones rot.
Kept believing in his brother long past the point of evidence, and was killed for it.
A Jedi raised by Tusken Raiders who ended as the emperor of a Sith order a thousand strong.
A Nagai warlord recruited into the One Sith and kept there as its blunt instrument.
Raised from birth inside the Sith order, with no self to fall away from.
Krayt’s lore master and closest ally, which in a Sith order is a job with a fixed term.
Chief mechanic of the Mynock, reputedly able to fix anything with a hydrospanner.
A deposed emperor running a government from Bastion, and the least villainous Imperial in the setting.
Planned to blow up Coruscant and frame the last Royal Guard for it.
A Jedi who read too much, and the first Dark Lord the Expanded Universe built from scratch.
Dead for four hundred years and still running Onderon through the people who dug him up.
Shared a prophetic vision with a man the Council exiled, and said nothing for years.
A slave who became a slaver to survive, and spent the rest of the series undoing it.
Cade Skywalker’s partner in the bounty trade, and no friend at all of the Jedi.
A bounty hunter who wore Mandalorian armour and let people assume, which turned out to be a fatal business model.
Survived the Clone Wars, the Purge, and roughly 150 years of Legends history in a very large hat.
Left behind a talisman that turns people into a plague, and the plague outlived him by millennia.
The one Council member who reached the screen from a comic — and the one the films never bothered to explain.
The last Royal Guard, keeping a blood oath to an Emperor who never deserved one.
Killed in the first issue so that the series could be about what his son did next.
Lost a duel to a Jedi and swore his people to him on the spot.
Took the mask off a dead warlord and turned a defeated people into the Mandalorian Wars.
The princess the Sith keep trying to assassinate, and the heir who outlasts them.
A century on the throne, and the succession crisis that ended his empire began at his funeral.
Con man, black marketeer, and the only person on Taris pleased to see a fugitive Jedi.
Fourteen years old, abandoned by her brother, and the best slicer on a planet that is about to be destroyed.
The Sith Lord who found the Republic by accident and lost an empire trying to conquer it.
Widowed into the Jedi Order, and the first great woman the Expanded Universe wrote.
Director of Imperial Intelligence, and — under another name entirely — Cade Skywalker’s mother.
Built the Great Jedi Library on Ossus, and lived long enough to watch it burn.
The Questioner: a Mandalorian who kept deserting in order to find out what the war was for.
Grand Master of the Jedi Order, descended from Revan and Bastila Shan, and the face of a losing war.
A mercenary promoted to Executor of the resurrected Emperor, and disposed of like one.
The Je’daii who found the Force Hound in the wreckage and argued for keeping him.
A Jedi whose entire arc is about a temper she cannot train out of herself.
A baron’s daughter who preferred the Force to a weapon, and did not survive the war.
A spy with the most famous Jedi surname in the galaxy and no connection to the Force whatsoever.
Enslaved as a child, freed by a Jedi, and drawn with the first curved lightsaber hilt in Star Wars.
Volunteered to infiltrate the dark side, and the plan worked exactly as badly as you would expect.
Learned the Force from the man who destroyed her mother’s Order.
Trained Exar Kun, saw exactly what was coming, and was killed by it anyway.
A Rakatan slave-weapon dropped into the middle of a Force order that has never met the dark side.
One of the original exiles, and the one who worked out how to heal with the dark side.
The worst Padawan on Taris, framed for the murder of his entire class.
From the database
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Dark Horse recolours, re-edits and reprints the Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson daily newspaper strip as a twenty-issue comic, with new panels and…
The line of linked miniseries that moved Star Wars thousands of years into its own past and invented the Old Republic as a setting rather than a…
Marvel’s 1977 film adaptation, repackaged by Dark Horse as two oversized issues with new painted covers.
The 1983 Marvel adaptation of Return of the Jedi, reissued in two parts.
The Russ Manning newspaper strips of 1979 and 1980, coloured and reformatted — the earliest post-A New Hope adventures anyone published, back when…
Archie Goodwin, Al Williamson and Carlos Garzón’s 1980 adaptation of The Empire Strikes Back, reissued as two oversized issues.
The reborn Emperor launches Operation Shadow Hand against the New Republic, Luke Skywalker goes looking for surviving Jedi, and Han and Leia try to…
R2-D2 and C-3PO as the leads, drifting between owners in the Kalarba system in the years before the first film. Dark Horse’s first attempt at the…
Two Jedi go looking for the Sith for the best of reasons. Exar Kun finds them on Onderon and Korriban and is remade; Ulic Qel-Droma infiltrates the…
On Onderon, a cult loyal to the long-dead Dark Lord Freedon Nadd seizes his sarcophagus, and the Jedi discover that the Sith are not a historical…
A single-issue Dark Horse reprint of Marvel’s Star Wars #98 — "Supply and Demand", in which Han Solo escorts two passengers to a world whose…
Dark Horse’s Boba Fett line: a trilogy of blackly comic bounty jobs by John Wagner and Cam Kennedy, plus two shorter pieces reprinted from magazines.
A second Droids series, running monthly through 1995, taking the pair from the Kalarba system into open opposition to the Empire.
Two issues to finish the Dark Empire trilogy: Palpatine makes one last attempt at immortality by seizing the body of Han and Leia’s infant son, and…
The comics adaptation of Timothy Zahn’s 1991 novel — Grand Admiral Thrawn’s campaign against the young New Republic, and Mara Jade’s standing order…
Four one-shots in which Jabba is the protagonist and the joke is that he is very good at his job: rival gangsters, a hungry princess, a dynastic…
An Imperial officer posted to a mining world starts to notice what her own side is doing there, in a four-issue story built around an ordinary…
The comics adaptation of Alan Dean Foster’s 1978 novel — Luke and Leia stranded on a swamp world hunting a Force-amplifying crystal, written before…
Exar Kun and Ulic Qel-Droma take their war to the Republic. It ends with a Jedi library world scorched, a fratricide, and a Dark Lord who cannot be…
Wedge Antilles’ squadron between Endor and the liberation of Coruscant: thirty-five issues of fighter pilots doing unglamorous work, the first…
Two issues collecting the short, strange Star Wars stories Alan Moore and company wrote for Marvel UK at the start of the 1980s, recoloured and…
Boba Fett against IG-88 over the carbonite-frozen Han Solo, published as a pop-up book rather than a comic.
The comics leg of the 1996 Shadows of the Empire multimedia project: Prince Xizor of Black Sun moves against Luke Skywalker while Vader hunts him…
Two hyperspace prospectors stumble out of the Republic and into the Sith Empire, which has spent two thousand years assuming it was alone in the…
The 1980–81 newspaper strip adaptation of Brian Daley’s first Han Solo novel, collected into three comic-book issues.
A brand-new comics adaptation of the 1997 Special Edition cut of the first film, timed to its theatrical re-release.
An exiled member of the Emperor’s Royal Guard tracks down the guardsman who let Palpatine die, in a revenge story that ends with a twelve-page duel.
The middle book of Zahn’s trilogy: the hunt for the lost Katana fleet, Thrawn’s clone cylinders, and a Jedi Master who has spent decades going…
C-3PO gets to negotiate a peace treaty, in a one-shot co-written by the actor who plays him.
A one-shot expanding on Jix, the Imperial agent introduced in the Shadows of the Empire comic.
Naga Sadow invades the Republic, loses, and burns his own empire behind him — the war that supposedly ended the Sith and demonstrably did not.
The end of the Thrawn trilogy, and the best-drawn of the three adaptations: the assault on Coruscant, the cloning caves of Wayland, and a Grand…
Three companion volumes — character and hardware guides to X-Wing Rogue Squadron, Crimson Empire and Dark Empire, assembled from the comics…
Hisao Tamaki redraws the 1977 film as shonen manga — same screenplay, entirely different visual grammar — in four fat black-and-white volumes.
A twelve-page giveaway comic that reprinted the very first Star Wars newspaper storyline — a Sunday-only Russ Manning serial that had never been…
Kir Kanos, still the last loyal Royal Guardsman, is hired to protect the Imperial Interim Council — a body of warlords whose members keep being…
Four of Luke Skywalker’s students — Streen, Kyp Durron, Dorsk 82 and Kirana Ti — are sent to Corbos and find something old enough to have eaten a…
Mara Jade’s last mission as the Emperor’s Hand, and what happens to an assassin whose employer dies mid-assignment and leaves a final order ringing…
Dark Horse’s prequel-era flagship: eighty-three issues that begin a year before The Phantom Menace, become the main Clone Wars comic at issue #49,…
Guri, Prince Xizor’s human-replica droid assassin, goes looking for the man who can rewrite her programming so she can stop being what she was built…
Ulic Qel-Droma, cut off from the Force and living as a hermit, is found by the son of the man he killed. The last Tales of the Jedi miniseries and…
Jabba is dead and his surviving retainers are fighting over the estate, which turns out to include a recording nobody wants released.
Darth Vader hires Boba Fett, then decides the bounty hunter knows too much — a chase story in which both hunters are the same person’s problem.
Shin-ichi Hiromoto’s adaptation of the 1983 film, and the most stylised of the four Dark Horse manga — closer to caricature than to likeness.
Toshiki Kudo’s manga adaptation of the 1980 film, adapted from the Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan screenplay.
Kia Asamiya — Silent Möbius, Batman: Child of Dreams — adapts the 1999 film in two volumes, and is the only one of the four manga artists to draw…
A quarterly sixty-four-page anthology where the licence was allowed to be strange: gag strips, prestige short stories, and a standing policy that…
The official four-issue adaptation of the first prequel, published weekly across May 1999 so that the last part landed a week after the film opened.
Four character one-shots retelling The Phantom Menace from a single point of view apiece — Anakin, Obi-Wan, Qui-Gon and Amidala — with a…
Three 1999 one-shots, each following a different bounty hunter: Aurra Sing before the prequels, Dengar in the original-trilogy years, and Kir Kanos…
Luke Skywalker marries Mara Jade, and half the galaxy treats the wedding as an opportunity — for reconciliation, for politics, or for an…
Darth Vader learns the name of the pilot who destroyed the Death Star and goes looking for him, in the weeks before he learns anything else about him.
The Jedi Council as a body under pressure: a full Council delegation sent to stop a war, and a Republic that has forgotten what an army is for.
An oral history of Chewbacca, told in short chapters by the people who knew him, each one drawn by a different artist.
Han Solo, Chewbacca, Boba Fett, Bossk, Dengar and Greedo sent after the same relic on a bet between two Hutts — a caper with the entire…
Luke’s proton torpedoes miss. The Death Star survives, and everything the trilogy assumed goes sideways from there.
Obi-Wan Kenobi and a teenage Anakin Skywalker on a training mission, in the gap the films skip over entirely.
Luke dies in the Hoth wampa cave, and the Rebellion has to win without him.
The original-trilogy companion to Republic: forty issues told largely from the Imperial side of the line, where the interesting question is not who…
The four-issue comics adaptation of the 2002 film, shipped weekly across the fortnight before it opened.
A sixty-four-page digest-format Jango Fett caper, drawn in a deliberately un-Star-Wars cartoon line, about an artefact two bounty hunters both want.
Jango Fett’s origin as Legends told it: a Mandalorian orphan, a massacre on Galidraan, and a grudge against a Jedi that outlives the Jedi.
The other half of the same caper, from the shapeshifter’s side: Zam Wesell wants to sell the artefact, and Jango Fett wants it destroyed.
Leia’s attempt on Jabba goes wrong, and the third film unravels from the first act onward.
Five Clone Wars one-shots, each handing a single Jedi — or a single Sith — a full issue and asking what the war has done to them.
Ten pocket-sized digests of short Clone Wars stories drawn in the style of the Genndy Tartakovsky animated shorts, and aimed squarely at readers who…
Obi-Wan Kenobi cannot let go of the belief that Asajj Ventress survived, and drags Anakin across the galaxy to prove it.
The four-issue adaptation of the 2005 film, drawn by Doug Wheatley and released weekly in the month before the premiere.
A hunt for a rogue Jedi, told from the point of view of the Separatists’ cyborg general in the months before Revenge of the Sith.
Darth Vader against a gathering of surviving Jedi, months after Order 66, drawn as a slaughter rather than a duel.
Eleven short stories written and drawn by the concept artists who designed Revenge of the Sith, given free rein and no continuity obligations.
The direct continuation of Republic, carrying its numbering on the inside cover from #84: a surviving Jedi, a crew of smugglers, and an Empire that…
A Padawan is framed for the murder of his own classmates, goes on the run with a con artist and a droid, and spends fifty issues discovering that…
A Sith empire rules the galaxy openly, the Jedi are hunted again, and the last Skywalker is a bounty hunter and spice addict who wants no part of…
Empire’s replacement, and a tighter book: an Imperial officer and a Rebel childhood friend on opposite sides of the same war, plus the Vector…
The monthly tie-in to the animated series, drawn in the show’s style and pitched at the show’s audience, whose first arc the television series later…
Eleven digest-sized original graphic novels for younger readers, drawn in the animated series style and published alongside the monthly comic.
One character, one Sith artefact, and four thousand years: a crossover that runs straight through Knights of the Old Republic, Dark Times, Rebellion…
Six digest-sized all-ages graphic novels, each giving one of the original-trilogy leads a self-contained adventure.
Dark Horse’s only comics adaptation of the Yuuzhan Vong war, told from the ground: one family on one invaded world, watching the New Republic fail…
A one-shot in Dark Horse’s Purge line: Sha Koon, niece of Plo Koon, refuses to hide from the Jedi purge.
A free webcomic published on the Old Republic game’s own site, covering the Treaty of Coruscant that sets up the MMO’s cold war.
Two Fetts, two decades apart, and a fully painted four-issue miniseries about what a bounty hunter passes on.
The second Invasion miniseries, in which the survivors of Artorias reach the Jedi and discover the war is worse than the one they escaped.
A thousand years before the films, a Jedi Knight is stranded alone in Sith space between two warring brothers who each rule a slice of it.
The six-issue finale to the first Legacy run: three galactic powers, one Sith Emperor who cannot be killed by ordinary means, and a Skywalker who…
A Purge one-shot following the Jedi Master Bomo Greenbark’s contemporaries into hiding, painted throughout by Chris Scalf.
The second Old Republic webcomic, told from inside the Sith Empire rather than the Republic.
An Imperial Intelligence agent works the Corellian underworld in a series that is openly a James Bond pastiche and entirely unembarrassed about it.
Thirteen years after Endor, Kir Kanos is dragged back into Imperial politics for a third and final time, with the original creative team reassembled.
The fifth Dark Times arc, published under its own numbering: Dass Jennir taking the kind of work that leaves a trail, and the hunter who follows it.
The first of four Dark Horse miniseries with Darth Vader’s name on the cover: a search-and-rescue mission he does not want, close enough to Mustafar…
The third and final Invasion miniseries, which closes the Galfridian story well short of the end of the Yuuzhan Vong war.
Qui-Gon Jinn before Obi-Wan, on the mission to Telos IV that cost him his first apprentice.
The second Knight Errant miniseries, with Kerra Holt still behind Sith lines and still without a way home.
The only printed comic miniseries tied to the Old Republic MMO, and the first appearance of Theron Shan.
The second Jahan Cross miniseries, in which the spy story turns into a succession thriller and the Empire stops looking like an employer.
A sequel miniseries built on a rumour: word goes round that Boba Fett has died, and everybody he ever crossed starts collecting.
Maul and Savage Opress loose in the middle of the Clone Wars with a bounty on them, in the first Dark Horse comic to use the revived Maul of the…
A coup inside the first year of the Empire, a cadet who has to guard the Emperor, and a secret prison full of people the Republic never admitted…
Twenty-five thousand years before the films, on a world where the Force has two moons and no orthodoxy, an order that is neither Jedi nor Sith meets…
The second Dawn of the Jedi arc: the Je’daii exile system meets a man who has been on the dark moon long enough to build a philosophy out of it.
The final Knight Errant miniseries, and the last Star Wars comic John Jackson Miller wrote for Dark Horse.
A five-issue coda to the fifty-issue ongoing, dropping Zayne Carrick into the front line of the Mandalorian Wars he had spent the whole series…
The final Purge story, split across two issues: Darth Vader on an occupied world and the Jedi who does not get away.
Brian Wood’s ongoing, set in the months after A New Hope and written as though the Empire is a competent military organisation and the Rebellion is…
The last Dark Times story: the surviving Jedi stop hiding and go after Darth Vader, which goes about as well as it can.
A Jedi Master and a shipload of surviving Padawans hidden on a refugee world, in the Dark Times arc that is about children rather than soldiers.
The last of Dark Horse’s Vader miniseries, narrated by a clone trooper who worshipped the Jedi and then watched what replaced them.
A wealthy man loses a son to the Empire and spends his fortune hiring killers to reach Darth Vader, one at a time.
The third and final Dawn of the Jedi arc, in which the Infinite Empire arrives in force and the Je’daii become something closer to what the films…
An eighty-page all-ages graphic novel set on Endor shortly before Return of the Jedi, written and drawn by Zack Giallongo.
A second Legacy series with a different lead: Ania Solo, a scrap dealer with no Force powers and no interest in destiny, who picks up a lightsaber…
George Lucas’s 1974 rough-draft screenplay, adapted straight: General Luke Skywalker, a green-skinned Han Solo, Annikin Starkiller, and a Jedi-Bendu…
Four issues adapted from unproduced Clone Wars scripts, covering Maul’s war with Darth Sidious — and the only Dark Horse Star Wars comic that…
Four issues, four new characters, each narrating an encounter with Han, Leia, Luke or Chewbacca — and each finding the legend hard to work with.
Dark Horse’s first new Star Wars comic in seven years: a self-contained anthology, one or two issues per story, ranging across the whole saga.
Dark Horse takes over The High Republic Adventures from IDW and moves it into Phase II, with Daniel José Older still writing.
Twenty issues of Phase III High Republic Adventures: the young Jedi trapped behind the Nihil’s Stormwall, and the uprising they build there.