rafts of new mirthful books will be announced at the San Diego Comic - Con this week , but here ’s a doozy with a pedigree . In January , Dark Horse Comics will publish Star Wars ( full blockage ) , an on-going comic set during the original Star Wars trilogy by fecund generator Brian Wood ( DMZ , Channel Zero , Northlanders , The Massive ) ,
More will be bring out about Star Wars at Comic - Con , but in the meantime , here ’s an single sneak peep at this comic . suss out out our interview with Dark Horse editor Randy Stradley , some interior art by Carlos D’Anda ( who designed characters for the television games Batman : Arkham Asylum and Batman : Arkham City ) , and a monumental covering to the first exit by none other than Kingdom Come creative person Alex Ross .
First off , what differentiates Star Wars from old stories we ’ve visualise in the Expanded Universe ? And why now for this serial publication ?
Randy Stradley : We — the Dark Horse column team and the folks at Lucas Books — felt that the time was right to rack centering back on the core characters of the Original Trilogy . It has been a few years since there had been any comic strip level set up in the era of the OT , as it ’s called , and the fourth dimension was just right . Both we and Lucasfilm had ideas for how to return to the classical characters , and all told it necessitate us about a yr to work out a plan with which everyone was well-chosen .
As for how this serial publication is “ unlike ” from retiring entries in this metre period , I reckon the answer would be that we ’re trying very had to keep everything unused — as if Episode IV had just come out in theaters . This is the Star Wars serial for everyone who has loved the moving picture , but has never delved into any of the strip or novel . There is no vast continuity that a reader needs to know beyond the upshot in A New Hope . This is the source of the adventures of Luke , Leia , Han , and Chewie .
Would you characterize this as a back - to - basics approach to the Original Trilogy , or a different wildcat exclusively ?
RS : It ’s back - to - BASIC in the sense that we ’re going back to the beginning , but Brian Wood is explore aspects of the characters and their relationships that have , in many mode , been glossed over in the past , or shoved apart in favor of big activity rig pieces . Do n’t get me wrong , this serial has plenty of activeness , but all of it is informed by , or springs out of , the characters ’ reaction to events in A New Hope . Remember , Luke is , quite literally , a farm male child shove into the front lines of a galactic warfare . He may be the guy who blew up the Death Star , but that does n’t straight off set up him for his new situation . And Leia , well , she ’s been so busy execute the Rebellion , has she even had a moment to grieve for the expiration of her family or her homeworld ? And what does give in all that emotion do to a soul ? Brian is using those emotion to impel his story , which makes reading this series a more solid experience than only dogfight in space .
Can you give us any kind of steer about what reference and story line fan can look ?
RS : I hesitate to say too much , especially as this serial does n’t debut until January . But let me put down just a few hints : Vader mystify a particular assignment , the Rebels suspect a traitor in their ranks , and one more thing … stealth squadron .
What sort of new perspective to the Expanded Universe does Brian Wood work ?
RS : Brian is the sort of writer I welcome on Star Wars . He ’s a longtime fan of the film , but he ’s not absorb in the persistence or the minutiae of the flourish Universe . He ’s not afraid to do his research , but he ’s also not driven to draw connecting line between between everything he ’s writing and some previously established piece of Star Wars history . An approach like that , in my judgement , leads to the kind of dense persistence that scares new readers by from Star Wars . Brian , I ’m happy to say , is more concerned in tell good account .
What sort of stimulation has the Lucas camp had on this projection ?
RS : As with every Star Wars project we do , there are editors and continuity expert at Lucasfilm who vet the scripts and artistic production to make certain we ’re not controvert plant persistence or characterizations . But I ’ve been superintend Dark Horse ’s Star Wars line for over a ten now , so I have a somewhat good idea of what pitfalls to avert . And Brian has been a agile subject field . It helps that he ’s more concerned about telling practiced story than with putting his fingerprints all over the franchise .
Alex RossComicsSdcc 2012Star war
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