History ComicBook / StarWars

* ''ComicBook/MarvelStarWars'': ''Star Wars'' comic book series by Creator/MarvelComics from 1977 to 1986, set in ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' continuity.
* ''ComicBook/MarvelStarWars2015'': Ongoing ''Star Wars'' comic book series by Creator/MarvelComics since 2015, set in Creator/{{Disney}}'s rebooted Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse.
* ''ComicBook/DarkHorseStarWars'': ''Star Wars'' comic book series by Creator/DarkHorseComics from 2013 to 2014, also set in ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' continuity.

'''''Franchise/StarWars''''' comic books may refer to:

* ''ComicBook/MarvelStarWars2015'': Ongoing ''Star Wars'' comic book series by Creator/MarvelComics since 2015, set in Creator/Disney's rebooted Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse.

* ''ComicBook/DarkHorseStarWars'': ''Star Wars'' comic book series by Creator/MarvelComics from 2013 to 2014, also set in ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' continuity.

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'''''Star Wars''''' is a 2015 Creator/MarvelComics series set in [[Franchise/StarWars the eponymous fictional universe]], and the first series to be officially written by Marvel Comics since [[ComicBook/MarvelStarWars the series written in the seventies and eighties]]. Due to the ContinuityReboot, it is also the first canonical comic book released since ''ComicBook/DarthMaulSonOfDathomir'' was released ([[Creator/DarkHorseComics Dark Horse]]'s only canon contribution to the franchise before Creator/{{Disney}} bought the rights to publish comics from them).

The story is set between ''Film/ANewHope'' and ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' and revolves around the continuing adventures of Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, Han Solo, Chewbacca, R2-D2, and C-3PO as the Rebellion gains traction following the destruction of the first Death Star.

Not to be confused with the 2013 Dark Horse comic of [[ComicBook/DarkHorseStarWars the same name]] written by Creator/BrianWood, which is set in the exact same period but within the ''[[Franchise/StarWarsLegends Legends]]'' continuity.
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!!Tropes featured in this comic include:
* ActuallyIAmHim: Subverted. Vader orders Luke to take him to the pilot who has destroyed the Death Star. Luke, wisely chooses ''not'' to reveal himself.
* AffablyEvil: Grakka's Gamemaster may be rough, but he's overall a ReasonableAuthorityFigure who neither sugarcoats things for Luke, nor talks down to him. Considering he lives on [[WretchedHive Nar Shadda]], this probably makes him the best person on the entire moon. [[spoiler:But it turns out he is also an Imperial Agent trying to capture Luke]].
* AsYouKnow: In the very first issue, C-3PO explains that Leia and the others intercepted and replaced a diplomatic envoy sent by Jabba the Hutt. He's telling this to ''Leia'', who of course already knows all this, and tells him to shut up.
* BadBoss: Darth Vader [[UpToEleven even more than in the movies]]. While until this comic series he was best known for handling out YouHaveFailedMe judgements for even the smallest mistakes, here he uses the Force to turn two Stormtroopers into his {{Bulletproof Human Shield}}s and snapping another Stormtrooper's neck just for seeing him without his helmet on.
* BadGuyBar: Luke enters one on Nar Shadda. [[spoiler: It goes about as well as you'd expect.]]
** Later, Chewbacca and Threepio enter the same bar looking for Luke. They ask the patrons for information on Luke's whereabouts, but to no avail. [[spoiler: Cue [[DestinationDefenestration Chewbacca throwing one of the patrons through a window]].]]
* BullyingADragon:
** Luke's decision to challenge Vader is ''not'' a smart one.
** Jabba continues annoying Darth Vader [[spoiler: [[ComicBook/StarWarsDarthVader even after Vader has proven he is a threat to Jabba.]]]] Justified, since he knows Vader won't kill him as long as he continues giving supplies to the Empire.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: This conversation between Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader.
-->'''Darth Vader:''' You hold that weapon like an untrained child. You have no right to it. You, boy, are no Jedi. WhoAreYou\\
'''Luke Skywalker''': YouKilledMyFather.\\
'''Darth Vader:''' I've killed very many fathers. You'll have to be more specific.
* ButtMonkey: The Rodian gang members on Tatooine make the mistake of trying to extort money from Sana and end up getting shot in the kneecaps and hands. Then Boba Fett shows up after Sana leaves.
* {{Cameo}}: [[spoiler: Shaak Ti from the prequels appears in an old holocron message Luke finds]].
* TheCollector: Grakkus the Hutt is a collector of Jedi artifacts, and has a sizable private museum devoted to them. [[spoiler: When he finds out Luke is one of the last living Jedi, he decides to add him to the collection]].
* ContinuityNod: In issue #9, a number of Jedi artifacts can be seen in Grakkus the Hutt's private collection. This includes a holocron message from Shaak Ti and a Jedi Temple Guard helmet from ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars''.
* ContinuityOverlap: In issue 6, the scene where [[spoiler:Boba Fett tells Vader Luke's name]] is also shown in the 6th issue of ComicBook/StarWarsDarthVader. Both issues released on the same day, to boot.
* {{Cthulhumanoid}}: The scavenging species of Cymoon 1 have yellow eyes, along with tentacles protruding from their hooded robes.
* CurbstompBattle: Luke Skywalker's first duel with Darth Vader is ''decidedly'' not in his favor, as Vader succinctly notes.
* ADayInTheLimelight: The in-between story arcs comics feature a one-shot episode from Kenobi's journal detailing his time on Tatooine after the events of ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''.
* DiscontinuityNod:
** A variant cover of the first issue features the much-maligned [[FunnyAnimal Jaxxon]] trying to force himself into the comic while the rest of the cast resists.
** In the old Expanded Universe, Leia became a Jedi after the events of ''Return of the Jedi'', and eventually got her own lightsaber. When she briefly wields a lightsaber in the comic, she says "Always wanted to try one of these."
* DramaticIrony:
** In the canonical first duel between Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader, Luke tells Vader that the Sith Lord murdered his father while Vader demands that Luke lead him to the pilot that destroyed the Death Star or he would join his father in death. Both of the people being discussed are standing right there.
** In issue 4, Jabba the Hutt notes the irony that the mighty warrior who destroyed the indestructible Death Star is a mere boy that hails from the empty dunes of Tatoonie. He then rhetorically asks [[FromNobodyToNightmare Vader]] [[Film/ThePhantomMenace if he knew anyone of note that was born on this planet]].
* EarlyBirdCameo: The alien that appeared in a promotional video for ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' makes a small cameo as one of the slaves in the first issue.
* EnemyMine: Sana [[spoiler: teams up with Han and Leia when she realizes that the Empire is after ''her'', too]].
* ExactWords: [[spoiler: After interrogating the bartender, Chewbacca tells Threepio that he "let him go." Threepio is happy to hear this and thinks this means Chewie let him return to the bar, but in reality, Chewie meant that he ''dropped him off the roof''.]]
* FacePalm: Han, when he sees [[spoiler: Sana]] has walked back into his life. The fact that she announces her relation to Han right in front of Leia probably didn't help matters.
* FlyOrDie: Grakkus the Hutt holds Luke at gunpoint and demands that he use the Force to activate the old holocrons in his collection. Luke initially has no idea how to do that, but he manages to tap into the Force at the last possible second.
* ForegoneConclusion: Due to its nature as an interquel, any characters that appear in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', and/or ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' will make it through this series.
* FromBadToWorse: Luke finds that Obi-Wan's hut has been taken over by Tusken Raiders. He drives them off, only to find himself attacked by [[spoiler: Boba Fett]].
* GovernmentInExile: The Rebel Alliance invokes this with Mon Mothma's title being Chancellor, no doubt a TakeThat to Sheev Palpatine's title Emperor and the Galactic Empire's status as the official successor to the Galactic Republic.
* HeroicBSOD: Towards the end of issue 3, the Rebel heroes along with the slaves escape Cymoon 1 but Luke feels depressed because of his performance there (namely that his presence caused the Imperials to mow down on several slaves, and that his attempt to avenge Obi-Wan and [[DramaticIrony his father]] in the first duel with Vader ended in a CurbstompBattle) and that he's not the Jedi he could be. He heads off to Tatoonie by the end of the issue 4, with the intent of finding himself.
* HighAltitudeInterrogation: Chewbacca [[spoiler: dangles the bartender from Nar Shadda over a building]].
* HisNameIs: Non-lethal variant. Darth Vader realizes that the lightsaber he takes from Luke is the same one he used to use back when he was Anakin Skywalker. He gets as far as a surprised "This once belonged to--" before an Imperial Walker foot crashes through the roof.
* HoverTank: The Imperials roll out an upgraded version of the Trade Federation's [=AATs=] to stop the walker Han and Leia commandeered.
* {{Interquel}}: As mentioned above, the comic (initially) takes place between ''A New Hope'' and ''The Empire Strikes Back''.
* InSeriesNickname: Luke's childhood nickname of "Wormie" is made canon again as of #6.
* JabbaTableManners: The [[TropeNamers Trope Namer]] himself can be seen in his usual capacity in Issue 4 -- twice.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Let's just say you don't want to be interrogated by Boba Fett and leave it at that.
* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: In issue 4, Vader tells Jabba [[spoiler: not to mention the bounty hunters the latter lent to the former.]]
* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: Jabba's seal of business venture with the Empire is to invite Darth Vader and his Stormtroopers on a tour where Jabba's goons fire upon a wild Bantha herd. Jabba mentions how their dying screams are a soothing song and when he gets bored of that, he demands to be taken to the Sarlacc pit for the real entertainment.
* MarriageOfConvenience: [[spoiler:Turns out Sana and Han's marriage was actually a cover for Han to pull a heist. Sana still considers it legally binding and technically she is right]].
* MindOverMatter: In the second issue, Vader telekinetically stops an AT-AT from stomping him, before he starts to tear it apart.
* NeverMyFault: When Han blows his cover (see below), he blames the Imperials for not accepting his politeness.[[note]]Well, he wasn't exactly convincing.[[/note]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Han blows a cover Leia had been trying to establish while she is flying a stolen shuttle, causing two TIE fighters to come after them. The irony is that if he had waited a few seconds more, the pilots would have cleared them!
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Han manages to fire the laser canon of an AT-AT at Vader at point blank range. Afterwards he assumes that they won't hear of Vader again. Luke doubts it, however.
* OutOfTheInferno: As the Cymoon-1 base crumbles and burns around him, Darth Vader walks out of the flaming wreckage.
* SpiritAdvisor: Obi-Wan keeps in touch with Luke after becoming one with the Force.
* StylisticSuck: The Cymoon-1 aliens, while not necessarily bad-looking, were deliberately made with the limitations that the aliens in the Original Trilogy had in terms of visual effects, according to WordOfGod.
* RunningGag: C-3PO once again, gets dismantled.
** Han and Leia are [[SnarkToSnarkCombat hurling insults at each other]]...again....
* TemptingFate: Han has a tendency to do this a ''lot''. Not only in regards to just about everything related to Darth Vader but also when he tells Leia that nobody else knows about his little hideaway after escaping the Imperial fighter patrol. Cue a probe droid watching their arrival and beaming the information back to Sana.
* TheDitz: Threepio subverts this ''gloriously'' in Issue 10. [[spoiler: He asks two droids to help him find Luke. The droids are ObviouslyEvil, but Threepio does what they tell him without question. However, the comic soon reveals that this had been Chewbacca's plan all along -- he tears the droids to pieces, and it becomes apparent that Threepio was knowingly bait for Chewbacca's tour de force]]. However, Threepio is a little disgusted with the [[spoiler: droids' demise]].
* ThisCannotBe: [[FlatEarthAtheist Han]] continues to deny the existence of the Force, even as Vader holds the AT-AT he's piloting in place, and starts to tear it apart with nothing but a gesture.
* VehicularTurnabout: Han and Leia hijack an AT-AT to escape from the Cymoon weapons factory. They even attempt to kill Vader with it. Vader is not impressed.
* VerbThis: After being blinded by Boba Fett's flash-bang grenade and grazed in the shoulder during their confrontation in Kenobi's old hut, Luke repeats Kenobi's lesson about a Jedi feels the Force flowing through him and that he doesn't need to see to fight. Fett responds by saying "Feel This" and opening fire again.
* VillainTeamUp: In issue 4, Vader [[ComicBook/StarWarsDarthVader has Jabba provide him with supplies]] in order to rebuild what the Empire lost after the destruction of the Death Star and the damage from the attack on Cymoon 1.
* WhamEpisode: #6. [[spoiler:We find out that the woman in the mask and cloak pursuing Han is not a bounty hunter but Sana ''Solo'', his wife. Oh, and Boba Fett tells Darth Vader Luke's surname.]]
* WhoAreYou: Vader asks Luke who he is after telling him he was a Jedi.
* YouKilledMyFather: When Luke confronts Vader, this is the first thing he says.

* WhoAreYou: Vader asks Luke who he is after telling him he was on Jedi.

* HisNameIs: Non-lethal variatnt. Darth Vader realizes that the lightsaber he takes from Luke is the same one he used to use back when he was Anakin Skywalker. He gets as far as a surprised "This once belonged to--" before an Imperial Walker foot crashes through the roof.

* DiscontinuityNod: A variant cover of the first issue features the much-maligned [[FunnyAnimal Jaxxon]] trying to force himself into the comic while the rest of the cast resists.

* AffablyEvil: Grakka's Gamemaster may be rough, but he's overall a ReasonableAuthorityFigure who neither sugarcoats things for Luke, nor talks down to him. Considering he lives on [[WretchedHive Nar Shadda]], this probably makes him the best person on the entire moon.

* ContinuityOverlap: In issue 6, the scene where [[spoiler:Boba Fett tells Vader Luke's name]] is also shown in the 6th issue of ComicBook/StarWarsDarthVader.

* AffablyEvil: Grakka's Gamemaster may be rough, but he's overall a ReasonableAuthorityFigure who neither sugarcoats things for Luke, nor talks down to him. Considering he's in the employ of a Hutt crime lord, this probably makes him the best person on Nar Shadda.

** Later, Chewbacca and Threepio enter the same bar looking for Luke. They ask the patrons for information on Luke's whereabouts, but to no avail. [[spoiler: Cue [[DestinationDefenestration Chewbacca throwing one of the patrons through a window]].

Not to be confused with the 2013 Dark Horse comic of [[ComicBook/DarkHorseStarWars the same name]] written by Creator/BrianWood, which is set in the exact same period in the ''[[Franchise/StarWarsLegends Legends]]'' continuity.

Not to be confused with the 2013-14 Dark Horse comic of [[ComicBook/DarkHorseStarWars the same name]] written by Creator/BrianWood, which is set in the exact same period in the ''[[Franchise/StarWarsLegends Legends]]'' continuity.