On the Comlink: The Legacy of Lucasfilm Animation

On the Comlink is a feature in which StarWars.com writers hop on a call (virtual or old fashioned) and discuss a specific Star Wars topic. In this installment to celebrate the new trailer for Star Wars: The Bad Batch, Dan Brooks, Kristin Baver, Amy Ratcliffe, and Lucas Seastrom talk about the legacy of Lucasfilm animation, from George Lucas’s first short to The Star Wars Holiday Special segment that introduced Boba Fett, the 2-D Clone Wars microseries and the epic seven season run of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and beyond.

Dan Brooks: We’re here to talk about the legacy of Star Wars animation. I wanted to start at the beginning because I think that when we talk about Star Wars animation and understanding animation’s role in Star Wars and Lucasfilm, it’s important

The Hunt for Han Begins in Marvel’s Star Wars: Bounty Hunters #11 – Exclusive Preview

In the world of bounty hunters, friends can quickly become enemies. And vice-versa.

In StarWars.com’s first look at Marvel’s Star Wars: Bounty Hunters #11, bounty hunter Beilert Valance recruits a rival to help track down Han Solo. Whether they’ll succeed — or at least not kill each other — remains to be seen. Meanwhile, Bossk awakens on the forest planet Malastare to find himself the hunted…   

Star Wars: Bounty Hunters #11, from writer Ethan Sacks and artist Paolo Villanelli, with a cover by Mattia de Iulis, arrives April 14 and is available for pre-order now on Comixology and at your local comic shop.

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These Star Wars Stamps Will Make a Fine Addition to Your Collection

The new Star Wars droids stamps are almost here! Announced earlier this year and going on sale this Star Wars Day, May the 4th, the set of 10 stamps from the United States Postal Service commemorates some of the most popular droids from all of Star Wars, from the iconic duo of C-3PO and R2-D2, to newer heroes like D-O, Chopper, and L3-37. While the United Kingdom’s Royal Mail has issued a set of Star Wars stamps every other year since 2015, it has been a long time since the USPS has brought the Force to the upper right corner of our envelopes — the only previous American Star Wars stamps were issued for the 30th anniversary of Star Wars: A New Hope in 2007. But this year’s release of the droids set

Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters Variant Covers Revealed – Exclusive

Get ready for a bounty of stunning Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters art!

It’s War of the Bounty Hunters Week on StarWars.com, and every day we’ll be revealing artist Giuseppe Camuncoli’s variant covers for Marvel’s upcoming crossover epic. Kicking things off is the cover for Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #12, featuring a portrait of the notorious rogue archaeologist. Check it out below!

Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #12 (available July 21)

And that’s not all the War of the Bounty Hunters goodness coming this week. On Friday, we’ll take you inside Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters Alpha #1 artist Steve McNiven’s sketchbook, and offer a first look at over 40 variant covers for the issue, and more.

War of the Bounty Hunters, starting this May, will tell the tale

It’s Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters Week on StarWars.com!

Marvel’s epic Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters is coming soon, and we’re celebrating.

Telling the tale of Boba Fett’s struggle to deliver Han Solo to Jabba the Hutt, War of the Bounty Hunters begins this May and will cross over into the House of Ideas’ entire post-Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back line. It promises to be the biggest Marvel Star Wars event yet, and StarWars.com is thrilled to announce that we’ll be offering first looks at never-before-seen art and more, all week long. Here’s the plan:

Every day this week, StarWars.com will reveal one of fan-favorite artist Giuseppe Camuncoli’s stunning variant covers for comics from the War of the Bounty Hunters event. On Thursday afternoon, This Week! In Star Wars will reveal one variant featuring a certain bounty hunter.

Keeve Trennis Faces her Fears in Marvel’s Star Wars: The High Republic #4 – Exclusive Preview

How could it have gone so wrong?

In StarWars.com’s exclusive first look at issue #4 of Marvel’s Star Wars: The High Republic comic, Jedi Padawan Keeve Trennis must confront what’s become of her master, the legendary Jedi Sskeer, as he holds her and other Force users hostage on Sedri Minor. In stark contrast to her current predicament, the preview takes us back in time to Keeve’s earlier years training with the Trandoshan for a glimpse at his teaching style.

Star Wars: The High Republic #4, from writer Cavan Scott and artist Ario Anindito, with a cover by Phil Noto, arrives April 7 and is available for pre-order now on Comixology and at your local comic shop.

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The Star Wars Vintage Collection Has Arrived on Disney+!

Some lost Star Wars classics have been found.

The Star Wars Vintage Collection arrives today on Disney+, featuring several long-out-of-print and previously unavailable movies and series. The full list includes:

Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure

Ewoks: The Battle for Endor

The Story of the Faithful Wookiee

Star Wars: Ewoks

Clone Wars 2D Micro-Series — Volume 1 & 2

In addition, the Star Wars: Droids animated series is slated to join the Star Wars Vintage Collection later this year.

So set your coordinates for Disney+ — and enjoy your first steps into the larger world of the Star Wars Vintage Collection.

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Myth and Poetry are Allies in the Force in The Odyssey of Star Wars: An Epic Poem – Exclusive Reveal

The Odyssey of Star Wars: An Epic Poem, a new book by Jack Mitchell, owes its genesis to the unique combination of Mitchell’s scholarly background and his children’s taste in bedtime stories.

“I was reading Homer and Vergil in the daytime, then Star Wars books to my kids at night,” the Stanford-educated poet tells StarWars.com. “And I realized this was our modern mythology, which I was already passing on.”

Like the tales of Odysseus and Beowulf that have come before it, the adventures of Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Darth Vader are larger-than life mythologies, filled with legendary battles, archetypal heroes and storied warriors, sleek ships and dangerous monsters lurking along the way. Alongside illustrations inspired by the terracotta art synonymous with Greek antiquity, Mitchell uses the ancient literary form of epic poetry to