The second wave kicked off last month with a novel called The Rising Storm by Scott, a YA novel called Out of the Shadows by Gray, a middle gray novel called Race to Crashpoint by Older, and an audio drama from Scott called Tempest Runner. In that batch of stories, they introduced readers to a sort of renaissance in the Republic’s history: an egalitarian period where the Republic was slowly expanding its reach into the galaxy’s rim through trade and diplomacy, only to run into trouble when they encounter an organized group of marauders utilizing some new hyperspace technology, who cause a devastating hyperspace accident and kick off a war between them and the Jedi. Lucasfilm kicked off The High Republic earlier this year with an initial wave of books and comics: Light of the Jedi by Soule, Into the Dark by Gray, and A Test of Courage by Ireland, and an initial batch of comics from Older at IDW and Scott at Marvel. The High Republic is the latest example of this sort of event: a sprawling story that’s told through a number of works by a team of authors - in this case, Gray, Soule, Ireland, Older, and Cavan Scott.
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.
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