I honestly hope we get another "Age Of" series. Writer's might have a harder time with Republic and Resistance era villains, they did the bulk of them already. But Rebellion era has tons of untouched characters: Hera, Nien Nunb, Lobot, Bossk, General Veers, Sim Aloo ... There was a Dark Horse series called "Star Wars Tales", short stories about a character or two (one of my favorites was Apocalypse Endor - it's exactly what you think), I think Marvel would be wise to revisit this idea. Any type of anthology series would be a great idea.
While I did really like Soule’s Darth Vader, I thought the first series by Kieron Gillen was done even better and it’s easily my favourite Star Wars comic.
@@StarWarsExplained I know for me anyway I enjoyed it a bit more because of the seeds of distrust that were growing between Vader and Sidious, as Vader has his own agenda that he tries to hide from his master. It was just a really interesting dynamic in my opinion
Comics are my favorite medium for Star Wars for the past few years. I absolutely love the novels, and movies and games but I just like the amount of comics compared to the other mediums. There are comics from pre-TPM all the way to during the Sequel trilogy.
Overall I've been enjoying all of the comics, I'll admit some issues were weaker than others but they do feel coherent which I can't say with the films.
I loved the first Darth Vader series. I find it quite difficult to keep up with comic, but this one was worth it. The Geonosians, Aphra, it was all fabulous.
I’ve bought over 20 volumes of the new canon SW comics and the vast majority are so good! The ones I recommend and are worth getting are Star Wars main comic run Darth Vader Kieron Gillian Darth Vader Charles Soule Lando, Obi-Wan, Darth Maul, Shattered Empire
Outside of the movies, Dr. Aphra has been my favorite character introduced under Disney. She's just so much fun to read and I've loved her ongoing series. Both of the ongoing Vader comics were also highlights for me, as was the Kanan series. I've enjoyed the main Star Wars series, but I agree that it's been up and down. At it's best, it's giving some epic stories between IV and V. At it's worst, it just kind of exists and moves the timeline forward, and usually in a somewhat interesting/entertaining way.
I definitely believe that's the case. Not least because comics are much easier to pirate than books, so there's also a public that doesn't show in the comics sales.
I'd be very interested to have a source either way. I assume the books and comics have similar audiences, but I should probably figure out if one has a definite "lead" over the other.
I'm also I interested in the truth of this. For me, it's always been easier to find someone who has read the novels than someone who has read the comics.
One thing I hope to see in the next Dr aphra series is a really fresh start for the character. I love the character, but the series felt like it was going in circles at some point: she reunited with Tolfan again, messed up again, run into Vader again, survived Vader again (seriously if she keeps doing that every ten issues it's going to become ridiculous in the long run) and so on.
Along with Lando, I rather liked Shattered Empire and the Han Solo miniseries. But those three are really the only good ones and they're relatively old. The more recent miniseries, and I would kind of lump the "Age of" runs in there, have been a chore to get through.
My only issue with the Darth Vader comics (and this is just me nitpicking here) was the Inquisitors were just there. Not only that but visually they look exactly the same as they did 15 years later in the Rebels TV series. I would have liked to have seen some in transitional gear, using their old Jedi weapons with only the Grand Inquisitor having a double bladed spinning lightsaber at that point. By the time of the Mon Cala arc then we would see a more uniformed Inquisitorious, all with spinning double bladed lightsabers.
I know this may sound dumb, but I can find a cohesive list of all canon material. I don't mean a timeline, just a list of all the books, comic series, shows, movies, short stories and so on that are canon. What do you think about doing a video like that?
Charles Soule’s Darth Vader is the best but I’d like more Star Wars comics outside of the original trilogy era. There have been far too few set in the prequel or sequel trilogy time by comparison and Vader’s being used far too much as a character recently.
@Star Wars Explained Have you heard about the re-setting of the Star Wars universe timeline to center on the sequel trilogy's destruction of Star Killer base? if so, what do you think about the change?
@@StarWarsExplained cool, thank you for the reply. I'd asked b/c of a video I watched on S W Theory's page where he was talking about it. But the post you linked to explains it a bit better. thanks. really like ya'lls content. keep on keeping on :-)
Comics is the second biggest love in SW, but the marvel ones are really boring, except some parts. Highlights The Vader series (both are great) The minisseries are interesting Down Movie adaptations are boring, and some with bad art. (the best is rogue one) SW series itself, starts well, but going to be boring, let´s see if the new era will be better
@@alberteinstein3419 Legends is overrated. It had 35+ years of content and most of the time it did was borrow tropes like zombies and resurrections from other media and pass it off as "unique", that is not including it's multitude of contradicting canons. I'm not saying that the new media is all that great either, but look back after equal amount of years while not slam-dunk in narrow minded nostalgia. It just started unravelling and can go either ways, having seen tons of similar retcons in comicbooks and that most of them had gotten better, I think same would happen here as well.
Lucas Diego I'd say the fault is they're not exploring as much as they can and just playing it safe. But on the other hand those that went off like Dr Aphra had been pretty great. The Kylo Ren series also seems promising, written by Charles Seoule as well.
Speaking as a lover of Marvel comics in general, the entire 25 issue Kieron Gillen Vader series is absolutely one of the best comic series I've ever read. One thing I was really keen on was the seamless way the main Star Wars comic series and the Vader one had incredible overlap. It never felt necessary that you read both at the same time but had incredible pay off if you did. The best example for me being when Boba Fett tells Vader in the main series and the Vader one and the different perspectives your shown. I regret that they kinda stopped doing it after Vader Down. Though I'm hopeful the new main series and Vader comics pick that up again.
My favorites are journeys from old ben kenobi, son of dathomir, thrawn adaptation, age of R Grievous, Jabba the hutt, Boba fett, Jango Fett, Kylo Ren, Qui Gon, Count Dooku, and Darth Vader 2017
I still have yet to do it, but I probably should try to pick up some trades of the comics. You've reviewed a number of stories that have sounded really interesting and I'd like to experience some of them for myself. One of the issues of Vader that you reviewed made me wish it was a some sort of animated show with the crew of Clone Wars and Rebels voicing all the characters, and I really should just pick up the trade if it exists.
I never expected the movies to go too deep into concepts introduced in the comic books, but it still sucked how they fully ignored every little detail of the lead-ins to the movies (except for Ackbar junior to appear in the background of Rise of Skywalker here and there). I mean, Poe's parents had Luke's Force tree, and yet he seems to be the only one in the sequel trilogy who ISN'T Force sensitive. And Allegiance was such a waste of pages.
There has been talk that there might be a Doctor Aphra live-action TV series in development, and I haven't even read the comic, but as it has been described, it really interests me. I want to see adventures that are just fun. It was my favourite part of The Rise Of Skywalker and it sounds like Doctor Aphra is the best way to get that same approach. Whether it would work as a TV show or not, or even get to stage 2 in its development, who knows, but it certainly intrigues and excites me. And yes, Chloe Bennet would be ideal.
Alex, I love your honesty when it comes to games and comics. You dont know everything, but that's ok! You still give your very best review and honest opinion. I know there was a time when I got mad at a comment you made, but I'm learning to be better at accepting others opinions. Thank you for everything you do on you channel.
4:07 I agree with your point about separating the material away from the Skywalkers. In the end, I found the ST to not live up to it's promises. While TLJ is easily one of the best films in the franchise, I'm exasperated from playing things so safe. Star Wars works so much better when writers dig into the sheer scale of the lore and what they have the work with. E.g. Darth Plagueis is one of the absolute craziest novels in Legends, James Luceno gave incredible pay off to anyone that indulged in Legends material. The media outside of film has been so much better. Rebels is probably the best start to finish narratives the series has produced. TCW was an incredible way for George Lucas to flesh out so many concepts he never could in film. I roll my eyes over the fact that Maul could survive his bisection. However, when putting that aside his and the Nightsisters arcs were some of the strongest. I what bolder, stranger, and braver stories. More Aphras, more Republic Commandos, like in Legends. There's so much lore to dig into that hyperfocusing on the Skywalkers is a waste of potential.
I have never read a proper comic in my entire life... I think they are too expensive compared to books when you look at reading time... Might someone explain what is a good reason for people to buy a comic instead of a book? I really have no experiences with comics at all...
I really like Aphra. It's just refreshing to see new characters instead of always focusing on the main characters.
Soule's Vader comics make me feel like they should be a tv show between the Mon Cala falling, the early Inquisitorius, and everything about Momin.
My favorite Star Wars comic by far
Can't wait to read more from Charles Soule, I've loved basically everything he's done in the canon.
Same, I never want him to stop writing Star Wars comics. He is able to really get each character he writes for.
I honestly hope we get another "Age Of" series. Writer's might have a harder time with Republic and Resistance era villains, they did the bulk of them already. But Rebellion era has tons of untouched characters: Hera, Nien Nunb, Lobot, Bossk, General Veers, Sim Aloo ...
There was a Dark Horse series called "Star Wars Tales", short stories about a character or two (one of my favorites was Apocalypse Endor - it's exactly what you think), I think Marvel would be wise to revisit this idea. Any type of anthology series would be a great idea.
What about another revist to Star Wars Infinities? I always enjoyed seeing how things played out differently when a small detail was changed.
While I did really like Soule’s Darth Vader, I thought the first series by Kieron Gillen was done even better and it’s easily my favourite Star Wars comic.
Ooh, hot take, care to tell me why? I liked Gillen's a lot too. Soule's just grabbed me more.
@@StarWarsExplained I know for me anyway I enjoyed it a bit more because of the seeds of distrust that were growing between Vader and Sidious, as Vader has his own agenda that he tries to hide from his master. It was just a really interesting dynamic in my opinion
Comics are my favorite medium for Star Wars for the past few years.
I absolutely love the novels, and movies and games but I just like the amount of comics compared to the other mediums. There are comics from pre-TPM all the way to during the Sequel trilogy.
God. Finally a level headed Star Wars channel. Thanks for the great content.
Overall I've been enjoying all of the comics, I'll admit some issues were weaker than others but they do feel coherent which I can't say with the films.
Charles Soule is one of the better SW writers today
I loved the first Darth Vader series. I find it quite difficult to keep up with comic, but this one was worth it. The Geonosians, Aphra, it was all fabulous.
I’ve bought over 20 volumes of the new canon SW comics and the vast majority are so good! The ones I recommend and are worth getting are
Star Wars main comic run
Darth Vader Kieron Gillian
Darth Vader Charles Soule
Lando, Obi-Wan, Darth Maul, Shattered Empire
I wish I had time for comics. I hope they do A Certain Point of View for Empire so they give Afra another short story.
RoseBoot comics are so short to read
I miss the days of the Legends Star Wars: Republic series, especially the Clone Wars era ones with tie ins like Jedi and Obsession...
Those old Dark Horse comics were great material in-between the Prequels
@@CardCaptorDeadpool yeah, I've even heard Outlander (introduction of A'sharad Hett) get called a better version of episode 1
I say give it time it took 30 years for legends to get good anyway
Outside of the movies, Dr. Aphra has been my favorite character introduced under Disney. She's just so much fun to read and I've loved her ongoing series. Both of the ongoing Vader comics were also highlights for me, as was the Kanan series. I've enjoyed the main Star Wars series, but I agree that it's been up and down. At it's best, it's giving some epic stories between IV and V. At it's worst, it just kind of exists and moves the timeline forward, and usually in a somewhat interesting/entertaining way.
QNA: were are Kare Kun and Jessika Pava in the rise of Skywalker?
Anything by Charles Soule is great. I have spoken.
This is the way
This is the way!
The Dr Aphra comics are my favorite alongside anything Soule did!
No 5 issue Klaud miniseries? BOOOOOO
I believe star wars comics have a higher public than the books, can someone confirm it?
I definitely believe that's the case. Not least because comics are much easier to pirate than books, so there's also a public that doesn't show in the comics sales.
I'd be very interested to have a source either way. I assume the books and comics have similar audiences, but I should probably figure out if one has a definite "lead" over the other.
I'm also I interested in the truth of this. For me, it's always been easier to find someone who has read the novels than someone who has read the comics.
One thing I hope to see in the next Dr aphra series is a really fresh start for the character. I love the character, but the series felt like it was going in circles at some point: she reunited with Tolfan again, messed up again, run into Vader again, survived Vader again (seriously if she keeps doing that every ten issues it's going to become ridiculous in the long run) and so on.
If I were to read ONE of these comics, which should I go for? The vader one ?
Along with Lando, I rather liked Shattered Empire and the Han Solo miniseries. But those three are really the only good ones and they're relatively old. The more recent miniseries, and I would kind of lump the "Age of" runs in there, have been a chore to get through.
Can you make a video on what happened to the first order after the return of Skywalker!?
My only issue with the Darth Vader comics (and this is just me nitpicking here) was the Inquisitors were just there. Not only that but visually they look exactly the same as they did 15 years later in the Rebels TV series.
I would have liked to have seen some in transitional gear, using their old Jedi weapons with only the Grand Inquisitor having a double bladed spinning lightsaber at that point. By the time of the Mon Cala arc then we would see a more uniformed Inquisitorious, all with spinning double bladed lightsabers.
i'd love more comics in the prequel and sequel eras
I know this may sound dumb, but I can find a cohesive list of all canon material. I don't mean a timeline, just a list of all the books, comic series, shows, movies, short stories and so on that are canon. What do you think about doing a video like that?
I really enjoyed the Poe Dameron comics. I'm glad I had a chance to really get to know Snap Wexley before things happen in Ep 9.
If you're curious, he has a major role in the Aftermath trilogy.
@@CardCaptorDeadpool I heard those were not so good. Do you concur?
They aren’t great but definitely worth a read.
Great video Alex 🙂
Charles Soule’s Darth Vader is the best but I’d like more Star Wars comics outside of the original trilogy era. There have been far too few set in the prequel or sequel trilogy time by comparison and Vader’s being used far too much as a character recently.
Barsenthor Battlemaster yess we need more prequel era comics. So many stories could be told.
Is there anybody that has a list of all the titles for Starwars canon comics
Who’s the charecter in the photo of the video
@Star Wars Explained Have you heard about the re-setting of the Star Wars universe timeline to center on the sequel trilogy's destruction of Star Killer base? if so, what do you think about the change?
twitter.com/StarWarsExplain/status/1215330979793063937?s=20
@@StarWarsExplained cool, thank you for the reply. I'd asked b/c of a video I watched on S W Theory's page where he was talking about it. But the post you linked to explains it a bit better. thanks. really like ya'lls content. keep on keeping on :-)
Is there a good place to get digital copies of comics? I have never read any but interested to at least check them out.
Mike W ComiXology,
Vincent Faust thank you!
Comics is the second biggest love in SW, but the marvel ones are really boring, except some parts.
Highlights
The Vader series (both are great)
The minisseries are interesting
Down
Movie adaptations are boring, and some with bad art. (the best is rogue one)
SW series itself, starts well, but going to be boring, let´s see if the new era will be better
The new era will be garbage too. Legends is the true Star Wars.
@@alberteinstein3419 Legends is overrated. It had 35+ years of content and most of the time it did was borrow tropes like zombies and resurrections from other media and pass it off as "unique", that is not including it's multitude of contradicting canons.
I'm not saying that the new media is all that great either, but look back after equal amount of years while not slam-dunk in narrow minded nostalgia. It just started unravelling and can go either ways, having seen tons of similar retcons in comicbooks and that most of them had gotten better, I think same would happen here as well.
Lucas Diego I'd say the fault is they're not exploring as much as they can and just playing it safe. But on the other hand those that went off like Dr Aphra had been pretty great. The Kylo Ren series also seems promising, written by Charles Seoule as well.
Aphra is the best by far!
Here's my comment! 👍😊
Speaking as a lover of Marvel comics in general, the entire 25 issue Kieron Gillen Vader series is absolutely one of the best comic series I've ever read.
One thing I was really keen on was the seamless way the main Star Wars comic series and the Vader one had incredible overlap. It never felt necessary that you read both at the same time but had incredible pay off if you did.
The best example for me being when Boba Fett tells Vader in the main series and the Vader one and the different perspectives your shown.
I regret that they kinda stopped doing it after Vader Down. Though I'm hopeful the new main series and Vader comics pick that up again.
My favorites are journeys from old ben kenobi, son of dathomir, thrawn adaptation, age of R Grievous, Jabba the hutt, Boba fett, Jango Fett, Kylo Ren, Qui Gon, Count Dooku, and Darth Vader 2017
I still have yet to do it, but I probably should try to pick up some trades of the comics. You've reviewed a number of stories that have sounded really interesting and I'd like to experience some of them for myself. One of the issues of Vader that you reviewed made me wish it was a some sort of animated show with the crew of Clone Wars and Rebels voicing all the characters, and I really should just pick up the trade if it exists.
I never expected the movies to go too deep into concepts introduced in the comic books, but it still sucked how they fully ignored every little detail of the lead-ins to the movies (except for Ackbar junior to appear in the background of Rise of Skywalker here and there).
I mean, Poe's parents had Luke's Force tree, and yet he seems to be the only one in the sequel trilogy who ISN'T Force sensitive.
And Allegiance was such a waste of pages.
There has been talk that there might be a Doctor Aphra live-action TV series in development, and I haven't even read the comic, but as it has been described, it really interests me. I want to see adventures that are just fun. It was my favourite part of The Rise Of Skywalker and it sounds like Doctor Aphra is the best way to get that same approach. Whether it would work as a TV show or not, or even get to stage 2 in its development, who knows, but it certainly intrigues and excites me. And yes, Chloe Bennet would be ideal.
Can’t wait 😊
Alex, I love your honesty when it comes to games and comics. You dont know everything, but that's ok! You still give your very best review and honest opinion. I know there was a time when I got mad at a comment you made, but I'm learning to be better at accepting others opinions. Thank you for everything you do on you channel.
Nice Video :)
I have a lot of comics I didn't read yet...
But I really liked shattered empire .
A comic would be similar to a cartoon. Story is first always, art style is second
I've been reading the Poe comics and so far I've enjoyed what I've read more than I thought I would
Really enjoying these 'Phase One' videos!
Agreed, more of star wars universe less Skywalker crap
4:07 I agree with your point about separating the material away from the Skywalkers.
In the end, I found the ST to not live up to it's promises. While TLJ is easily one of the best films in the franchise, I'm exasperated from playing things so safe.
Star Wars works so much better when writers dig into the sheer scale of the lore and what they have the work with. E.g. Darth Plagueis is one of the absolute craziest novels in Legends, James Luceno gave incredible pay off to anyone that indulged in Legends material.
The media outside of film has been so much better. Rebels is probably the best start to finish narratives the series has produced. TCW was an incredible way for George Lucas to flesh out so many concepts he never could in film. I roll my eyes over the fact that Maul could survive his bisection. However, when putting that aside his and the Nightsisters arcs were some of the strongest.
I what bolder, stranger, and braver stories. More Aphras, more Republic Commandos, like in Legends. There's so much lore to dig into that hyperfocusing on the Skywalkers is a waste of potential.
Vader v2 was the best comic of star wars in this era with no doubt
No one can say first now
because you were third and everyone before you said First already?
Oh, and First!
Which was your favorite “Age of” comic? Personally, I really liked what they did with “Age of Republic: Grievous.”
That was really good. I wish we'd get more Grevious stories. The Maul one was great too.
my favortie was the dooku one
I have never read a proper comic in my entire life... I think they are too expensive compared to books when you look at reading time...
Might someone explain what is a good reason for people to buy a comic instead of a book? I really have no experiences with comics at all...
It’s simple really. Comics = wonderful visual art plus story. I hope that helps.
I really gotta read me that second Vader comic series.
I still think Dark Horse Star Wars was much better than anything Marvel has done
So when does Phase 2 end? After the next trilogy? (so in 2026)
*2027
Thanks, Alex! ⚛️
I already miss weekly Star Wars :( I need the clone wars please
First?
13th
Legends >>> Disney Canon.
yeah lets compare a canon thats only started to one thats been only around 35+ years. Yawn.
What an original take
Your opinion _not_ a fact. And it’s not called Disney canon, just canon.
@@StuartLugsden It's a fictitious universe, "canon" can be subjective.
@@bigfootisreal7197 I know. I'm just saying that it's not called Disney canon.