On Friday, we asked you what you’d like to see Marvel do with their Star Wars license after their titular “Star Wars” series wraps up. 42% of you said that you would like to see the book shift to telling stories after Return of the Jedi and before The Force Awakens. This is an area that has been mined a little by the prose novels, such as the Aftermath trilogy, as well as Last Shot and Bloodline.
What the comics could do, after The Rise of Skywalker, is focus on some aspects that the novels were very reticent to discuss, which would include Luke’s new Jedi temple, a young Ben Skywalker, and basically the twenty years between the end of Aftermath and Bloodline. That’s where the most grey area exists in the new canon, and so would be the best place for new stories.
30% of our reader said that they want brand new stories with no connection to pre-existing characters. This option surprised me, but it shows how much Star Wars, already, means more than just the Skywalker Saga. 10% wanted to see a return to certain elements of the Dark Horse era of Star Wars comics, which may be tricky, but would certainly be fun.
Every option got at least one vote, including the idea to simply stop Star Wars comics, which is the only option I would truly be against. But, as commenter David Richards pointed out, I forgot a good option: pick up the threads of the old, now non-canon Marvel run from the early 1980s. While certain characters from there have popped up here and there, I think doing a continuation of that run, sort of like IDW’s “G.I. Joe: Real American Hero,” would be a ton of fun.
Come back on Friday for our next reader poll!
