Star Wars Comics returning to Marvel

[andrew8798]

When Disney bought LucasFilm some questions arose about the status of the current Star Wars comics that are currently being developed over at Dark Horse Comics. The contract Dark Horse had with LucasFilm only ran until 2013. In a rather unsurprising move, Disney has decided to not renew that contract with Dark Horse. Instead they will return the titles to Marvel. Check out the report from Blue Sky Disney below.

The Suits in the know have determined that no new contracts will be given to Dark Horse after the current ones expire. So all new projects after 2013 will be handled internally by Marvel.

It’s not known yet if titles will be worked into the regular line up, or will Marvel create a special branch of the company that deals with Star Wars. It’ll take a couple of years for the old deals to work there course, but the stories that Dark Horse have coming down the pipeline will be the last. And you can expect anything new from Marvel dealing with Star Wars to arrive around 2015.

Once again this isn't a huge surprise that Disney would pull this move. Like the report states you can expect to see some new Star Wars material from Marvel around 2015, which just happens to be the target release date for Episode VII.

[BorneAgain]

Feature comics for Jax the Rabbit and Don-Wan Kihotay please.

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If they know what's good for 'em, they hire John Ostrander and Jan Duursema and John Jackson Miller and Dan Parsons and Haden Blackman and Doug Wheatley and just pretend nothing changed other than the company logo on the cover.

[CMWaters]

So will we see a Jedi Spider-Man then?

[AFN: Judge Shred]

Yes! It is going to happen!

[Cyno]

Dec 20, 2012 22:54:37 GMT -5 CMWaters said:

So will we see a Jedi Spider-Man then?

With all the crap Spidey's gone through the past few years, sure why not?

[El Pollo Guerrera]

Dec 20, 2012 22:16:54 GMT -5 BorneAgain said:

Feature comics for Jax the Rabbit...

It's Jaxxon, and...

[Push R Truth]

I'd love to see Spiderman go through the Jedi Temple.

He's got the agility, and spider sense would be his bread and butter if he could handle a lightsaber. He might not be an offensive powerhouse, but he should be an amazing defensive jedi.

Lack of Force Push/Jump is probably offset by wallclimbing and his acrobatics. Webshooters would allow for some impressive moves and for surprise. But in dueling a Sith, a counter force push sending the webbing right back into Spidy's face would be funny.