#dark horse star wars

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October 2000 and May 2001. The Dark Horse STAR WARS TALES anthology had a very high dross-to-gems ratio, but it did feature one of a handful of SW stories drawn by Argentinian artist Carlos Meglia, best known as the co-creator of CYBERSIX with Carlos Trillo. Originally published in STAR WARS TALES #5, "Lando's Commandos: On Eagle's Wings," written by Ian Edginton, seems to have been intended to kick off a new series focused on Lando Calrissian and a group of misfit pilots doing special missions in the wake of RETURN OF THE JEDI, although it didn't catch on like the Mike Stackpole Rogue Squadron series did. Meglia also drew STAR WARS UNDERWORLD: THE YAVIN VASSILIKA, a five-issue miniseries with Lando, Han Solo, Chewbacca, and various other nefarious characters engaged in a treasure hunt for a mysterious artifact the Hutts are after (whose actual purpose is finally revealed at the end). It's fluff, but it has a sense of humor (dishearteningly rare in the Dark Horse SW comics), and Meglia's fluid, cartoony artwork is a joy.

[oh-no-eu-didnt]

Sharad Hett was a human and former Jedi Knight. Hett left the Order as he became disillusioned with the Jedi’s lack of humility. After a tragedy prevented him from reconnecting with his family, Hett exiled himself to Tatooine. He became involved with the local Tuskens, eventually becoming accepted into their culture, leading them in battle against the Hutts. Hett was trained by Eeth Koth, and wielded a crimson blade.

Source: Star Wars 10 (Art: Ken Kelly; 1999)

First Appearance: Star Wars 7 (1999)

Read more on Wookieepedia.

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Over 200 comic being auctioned off!

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Star Wars: X-Wing - Rogue Squadron #26 (Family Ties #1 of 2) Cover Art by John Nadeau

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Star Wars: X-Wing - Rogue Squadron #32 (Mandatory Retirement #1 of 4) Cover Art by John Nadeau

[the-sleepy-silurian]

If Dark Disciple has a million haters im one of them. If it has a 1000 haters im still one of them. If it has 1 hater its me....

[curiouscatmatt]

Part 2 respect post for the original mando daddy jaster mereel

[melymigo]

Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories #10 will feature The Bad Batch in the Variant Cover B* written by Michael Moreci, pencils by Ricardo Faccini, color by Nicola Righi and letters by Comic Craft. Cover B by Cary Nord. Available on November 1st 2023. Published by Dark Horse Comics.

UPDATE! A synopsis of the comic has dropped!

"Trapped behind enemy lines! Surrounded on all sides by deadly battle droids! All in day's work of the Bad Batch! While investigating reports of strange modified battle droids, the squad find themselves at the mercy of a sinister separatist scientist, who plans on using the team as part of his twisted experiments. Caught in a lethal game of cat and mouse, this mission may prove too dangerous even for the Bad Batch!"

[across-stars]

''this is about power, and who is allowed to use it.''

please don't portray the Jedi as oppressive, please don't potray the Jedi as oppressive, please don't...

[cantsayidont]

November 1979. It's hard to know where to start listing the many flaws of the 2018 SOLO movie, but one of the big ones was the casting of the perennially lifeless Emilia Clarke as Han Solo's dull childhood girlfriend Qi'ra, who, aside from being bland as porridge, is also an awful lot whiter than many of Han's past girlfriends in the STAR WARS books and comics.

The earliest example of Han's exes of color, at least in terms of publication history, is Fiolla of Lorrd (shown above and below), the costar of HAN SOLO'S REVENGE, the second Brian Daley Han Solo novel, first released in late 1979. Fiolla (whose full name is Hart-and-Parn Gorra-Fiolla of Lorrd) is a Corporate Sector Authority auditor who crosses paths with Han. Deplorably, fan art of Fiolla, and some more recent book jacket cover art, has tried to make her look white, or at least much lighter-skinned than the text describes her. These illustrations by Mike Vilardi from the 1993 HAN SOLO AND THE CORPORATE SECTOR SOURCEBOOK attempt to follow Daley's description, but only the one below is as dark as Daley says Fiolla is:

Appearing on newsstands just weeks after HAN SOLO'S REVENGE was the first Marvel STAR WARS ANNUAL, written by Chris Claremont, which introduces another of Han's old flames: his former smuggling shipmate Katya M'Buele:

Katya unfortunately meets a bad end at the hands of the old enemy to whom their conversation in the panels above alludes. (Chris Claremont's tendency to introduce Black women into his stories and then use them as punching bags is a whole other conversation.)

While Fiolla would probably regard Han as a dubious flirtation that would never have worked out anyway, and the Claremont story leaves some ambiguity about whether Han and Katya were lovers or just good friends, Salla Zend, introduced by Tom Veitch and Cam Kennedy in the 1992 DARK EMPIRE miniseries, is unequivocally Han's former girlfriend:

More recently, the 2015 STAR WARS series introduced Sana Starros, who actually introduces herself to Leia (in a story set between STAR WARS and EMPIRE) as Han's wife:

Their marriage is subsequently revealed to have been part of a scam, and Sana's later appearances indicate that she prefers women (meaning that Han has the dubious honor of sharing an ex with everyone's favorite unscrupulous disaster lesbian, Chelli Lona Aphra).

However, all this means that Han's checkered relationship history includes at least four Black women. I'm well aware that the likelihood of this being reflected in a big-budget STAR WARS movie was very low, and the racism of the studio and of fandom would have almost certainly made life hellish for any Black woman cast in the role of Han Solo's first girlfriend. Given how dismissively SOLO kills off the Val character (played by Thandiwe Newton) — a death Newton says originally wasn't supposed to be final — the misogynoir was already pronounced. However, the above prose and comics stories were all approved by Lucasfilm and are, or at least were, as close to canonical as any STAR WARS tie-in ever is.

[oh-no-eu-didnt]

Marka Ragnos was a half-Sith and Dark Lord in ancient times. A powerful Force user, Ragnos ruled the Sith of Korriban for many years with an iron fist, pitting his enemies against one another to secure his throne. Ragnos returned from the grave as a spirit, haunting many powerful Sith who dared listen to his counsel.

Source: Tales of the Jedi - The Golden Age of the Sith 2 (Art: Dario Carrasco Jr.; 1996)

First Appearance: Tales of the Jedi - Dark Lords of the Sith 6 (1995)

Read more on Wookieepedia.

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Star Wars: X-Wing - Rogue Squadron #28 (Masquerade #1 of 4) Cover Art by John Nadeau

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Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi - Golden Age of the Sith #0 - Concept Art by Dario Carrasco

[extraordinary-heroes]

Star Wars: Heir to the Empire #4 (Cover art by Mathieu Lauffray)

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Thrawns nose in dark force rising

[balu8]

Star Wars: Dark Empire #3

by Tom Veitch (W.); Cam Kennedy (A.) and Todd Klein (L.)

Dark Horse and Marvel