Who cares about Lando Calrissian? I apologize to the fans, but that was my first thought upon seeing the character’s miniseries come up next in my trek through Star Wars comics. Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against Lando, but in terms of arc and story, there just does not seem to be much left on the bone...
Alongside their tentpole Star Wars comic book series, Disney launched a variety of solo and side titles when it acquired the franchise in 2015. Princess Leia from the team of Mark Waid, Terry Dodson, Rachel Dodson, Joe Caramagna, and Joordie Bellaire was one of the new books set to prop up the burgeoning expanded universe...
The Star Wars universe owes much of its popularity to the expansive, varied nature of its science-fiction setting and its vast cast of characters. Across media, productions in a galaxy far, far away tend to lean on ensembles and often have the grander conflicts serve as the centerpiece rather than a singular character. If there is a main character of the series, especially in the first and second trilogies, it is Anakin Skywalker, later known as Darth Vader...
2015 was a year of fresh starts for Star Wars with The Force Awakens kicking off a new era for the film franchise after a long-dormant period. A few months before the movie was released, the expanded universe canon of the series was wiped clean, with almost all media outside of the main films and television show being labeled under the banner “Legends” by Disney. A decade later, reading the collection of canonical comics is almost as convoluted as the Legends line ever was, but the 2015 Star Wars series drawn by John Cassaday and written by Jason Aaron remains an intuitive starting point for modern readers who want to get deep into the franchise.
The year was 2014, and the landscape of the Star Wars property, the comics in particular, had never been more unstable. By a weird quirk of fate, Darth Maul: Son of Dathomir, published by Dark Horse, would become the inaugural entry in the new Disney-Star Wars comic book line.
