I don’t even know if they have access to the original art (surely Lucasfilm does?) I don’t know Marvel’s staffing situation or the amount of time they had to throw this all together. I’m sure there are a lot of factors I’m unaware of here. There’s nothing wrong with the Dark Horse covers, and certainly Lucasfilm owns the typography just as much as they do the art. But surely a quick general ‘Archive’ template and text treatment (Well, maybe two, given the omnibus layouts) would make this look a little less skeevy. I don’t expect Marvel to have artists whip up completely (mostly?) new covers for digital, the way they’re doing for print. By the time digital came along, all the old Marvel stuff had Dark Horse covers ready to go. But they also started long before digital comics and the ability to publish several dozen collected editions at the drop of a hat. It’s not the biggest issue in the fandom, and it’s certainly not without precedent – Dark Horse reprinted all the old Marvel stuff, probably several dozen times a piece. Other than those three things, they are using the Dark Horse covers verbatim. The only changes on any of them are a Marvel logo and the Legends banner. Okay, this one is a touch ironic.īut one thing: Everything you see in ‘Marvel’s’ Star Wars store is reusing old Dark Horse covers, sans Dark Horse logo. This is the way the comics license works: All or nothing, no matter who actually produced the work. That’s all well and good – or at least, inevitable. Most of the big publishers use comiXology for digital these days, but Dark Horse has stayed an outlier, maintaining their own app, so this is the first time these works have been available through the more popular service.
If you’re a digital comics fan, the news of the day is pretty big: Star Wars comics became available on comiXology today under new licensee Marvel.
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