After the unexpected success of the first Star Wars movie, George Lucas turned to marketing to keep making money. And, of course, he allowed people who knew nothing about his franchise to release all kinds of material, from novels to comics. This is how the legendary Marvel series was born, in which a green rabbit and a galactic Don Quixote ended up together, which now, of course, is not canon. Years have passed and now everything is canon, everything is valid… and everything is ending.
Goodbye, wars. Goodbye, galaxies
Both ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Darth Vader’, the regular comic series published by Marvel (although this time, with respect for the original and a team of people supervising them), will end with issue 50 as they approach the events of ‘Return of the Jedi’. For the past five years, they’ve filled the gaps between ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ and episode VI, and now it’s time to start over.
Because in ‘Star Wars’ nothing begins or ends, nothing grows or diminishes, nothing appears or disappears. Not really, at least. Perhaps new number 1’s will begin to fill the void between ‘Return of the Jedi’ and the next in the saga, ‘The Force Awakens’. For obvious reasons, however, it will be without Darth Vader in its parallel collection. Do not fear, padawans, there is still a long way to go before the Force stops being felt in the universe…
