Marvel’s Star Wars series is coming to an end in November
By Scott Brown
Nearly five years after it began, Marvel’s Star Wars series is coming to an end.
As reported by Newsarama, Marvel is ending its flagship Star Wars title on November 20th, just one month before The Rise of Skywalker premieres in theaters. The final issue will be Star Wars No. 75, which will also serve as the finale for Greg Pak and Phil Noto’s arc, “Rebels and Rogues.” Pak and Noto had just taken over the series with Star Wars No. 68. When the series comes to an end, the only ongoing Star Wars comic series left at that point in time will be Doctor Aphra.
With the series coming to an end at around the time The Rise of Skywalker releases though, it feels inevitable that the series will be relaunched in some form. What that form will be is all speculation at this point, but there are plenty of eras and stories to mine from the Star Wars universe that wouldn’t be necessarily be told in another form.
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There’s the 30 years between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens that is still mostly a mystery. The year gap between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi has hardly been explored.
There’s even potential to explore the time between The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones, or possibly even farther back than that. Potentially, it could even be set after The Rise of Skywalker. There’s plenty of opportunity for a relaunched Star Wars series to explore so much more than just the time between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back.
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But with the series ending, it really is the end of an era. The comic first launched in January 2015, eleven months before The Force Awakens released and became the only comic in the 21st century to sell over 1 million copies. But like all good things, it must come to an end. Star Wars No. 75 will be released on November 20, 2019.