Over the years, Lucasfilm has launched a number of cross-medium story events, starting in the mid-1990s with Shadows of the Empire (which included a novel, video game, comics, and action figures), X-Wing (games, comics, and novels), The New Jedi Order (novels), The Clone Wars (novels, cartoons, comics, short fiction), and more. This latest era of storytelling in the Star Wars universe is a big, cross-platform event - like a mini-connected universe that’s playing out across novels (adult, YA, and Middle-grade), and comics, all set generations before the events of the main Skywalker Saga that took place between Episodes 1-9.
It’ll be a while before we see Star Wars back in theaters, but one of the franchise’s more interesting publishing experiments is moving forward next year: The High Republic.ĭuring the 2021 San Diego Comic-Con, Lucasfilm unveiled its next phase of its prequel High Republic series, featuring new books and comics from the core story team of Claudia Gray, Charles Soule, Justina Ireland, and Daniel José Older.