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I want them back on Star Wars comics

 

They did come back. It was called Dawn of the Jedi. It was terrible.

 

That's not how I remember it and it was also a decade ago

 

Yeah hey now I liked DotJ. The book was also way different than a lot of stuff coming out at that time. The quandary the hero faces at the end was pretty memorable (reveal their society's presence to the rest of the universe, or keep the stasus quo?).

Also I think we're being a little overdramatic here. Who the heck cares if Ostrander wants to name a squadron in his comic or not? Let people have fun with things. Details make the stories more interesting.

 

Dawn of the Jedi is also when everything had to be a series of mini series. Nothing could maintain any momentum and get their feet under them as a story.

 

To answer this seriously just because I have a serious answer: I've wanted to see an OOU wook for a while now. It could still cover all the minutiae it does now but would be able to present things in their real-world context rather than having to bend over backwards to pretend it's not all fiction. It wouldn't really need tabs, either--case in point.

 

"Writing for the trade" has definitely been a net negative for comics. Although this is off-topic.

 

I'd like to see a Star Wars wiki in the style of the Transformers 'TFWiki' lmao

 

I don't know, of the ten jokes the Star Wars fanbase has, 9 are old enough to have children.

Don't think it would work.

 

Maybe if Dawn of the Jedi didn't stop for half a year every 5 issues, it would have gotten to the event that we wanted to see before Legends novels and comics were cancelled.

 

I'm on board with ya that details make the story more interesting --- Legacy Volume II is a prime example of how a lack of details made the story less interesting, after all --- but there was something about the way Te Corso said "We'll form a squadron --- Sword Squadron --- and fly with you" that felt like it was a detail for the sake of a detail. Or, more likely, for the sake of a Wookieepedia article.

It was already an issue where Jan & John were hurrying their asses off to tie up the loose threads of the Dac storyline in twenty-two pages after being blindsided by Legacy's cancellation, and yet it felt like Te Corso took a minute within all that franticness to look at the camera and make sure Wookiepedia editors wouldn't have to create an "Unidentified Jedi squadron" article. It was an unimportant ad hoc mini-squadron of three Jedi that existed for about one page of a comic, and in a pre-Wook age I really doubt any author would have felt they needed to give it a name.

The five-issue miniseries format was always flawed. Especially when Legacy Volume II followed its format despite being a year-round monthly. Every arc had to be five issues long even if it didn't have enough story to fill five issues, and that third story arc where Ania was on the glass-raining planet realllllllllly suffered for it. That story had barely enough meat to fill two issues, and so it featured tons of full-page spreads and endless time-wasting on its way to a conclusion that was incredibly anticlimactic for five issues worth of buildup. Legacy and KOTOR both had the freedom to do one-, two-, three-, or four-issue arcs, and I never understood why Legacy Volume II --- which was a monthly, and which didn't take any breaks between arcs --- had to be locked into the five-issue model.

Seriously, Dark Horse's final four years with the license were an incredibly unnecessary own goal in so many ways. As cliched as "... needs to be studied" is, the premature axing of Legacy and KOTOR, and the abandonment of the model that allowed them to thrive as both best-sellers and fan-favourites, needs to be studied.