Star Wars Comics Going to Marvel in 2014

It’s a bittersweet day.

Today, on the Blue Sky Disney blog, it was announced that due to Disney’s acquisition of Lucasfilm, Star Wars comics will be coming to Marvel in 2014. This is due to Disney now owning both Lucasfilm and Marvel, so it doesn’t come as a surprise.

The good part of this is that, cool, Marvel will once again be creating Star Wars books. The bad part: this marks the end of Dark Horse Comics line of Star Wars books, which have been amazing for years now. Check out the what the blog says below

Star Wars has a large, expansive universe beyond the films…

From television, games, toys, clothing, books to comics, the galaxy George Lucas created is vast and filled with boundless opportunities. If you love Star Wars and you collect comics, then you know that Dark Horse Comics has had the licensing rights to the Galaxy Far, Far Away for a long, long time. And they’ve done some very interesting, and quite high quality tales over the years.

One of the things that many people wondered after Disney bought Lucasfilm was how long will this relationship continue? Especially since the Mouse owns Marvel, the largest comics publisher in the world. Well, it appears we now have the answer. The Suits in the know have determined that no new contracts will be given to Dark Horse after the current ones expire. So all new projects after 2013 will be handled internally by Marvel.

It’s not known yet if titles will be worked into the regular line up, or will Marvel create a special branch of the company that deals with Star Wars. It’ll take a couple of years for the old deals to work there course, but the stories that Dark Horse have coming down the pipeline will be the last. And you can expect anything new from Marvel dealing with Star Wars to arrive around 2015.

Interesting year for that to happen…