Star Wars: The Force Awakens Comic Adaptation Announced by Marvel Comics
In an announcement at ComicsPRO in Portland, Oregon, Marvel Comics unveiled a five-issue Star [...]
In an announcement at ComicsPRO in Portland, Oregon, Marvel Comics unveiled a five-issue Star Wars: The Force Awakens adaptation is on the way. The series will launch in June 2016, written by Chuck Wendig and drawn by Luke Ross, with covers by Esad Ribic.
"The Force Awakens knocked out socks off from the very first time we saw it, and we could not wait to start being able to play with these new, awesome characters!" said Marvel's Star Wars line editor Jordan D. White to CBR.
The series will simply be an adaptation, though Marvel did not announce whether it will be taken from the script or the on-screen interpretation of it. Other adaptations, including a young adult novel and an adult novel, included additional dialogue and descriptions from the script that didn't make the film's final cut, so it's possible some of that will be added in for the comic, as well.
Wendig wrote Star Wars: Aftermath, one of the "Journey to The Force Awakens" novels that took place shortly after the events of Return of the Jedi. After the book's release, it was announced that it will be the first of a trilogy, with the second, Aftermath: Life Debt hitting in Summer 2016, and Aftermath: Empire's End planned for a Summer 2017 release.
The previously announced Star Wars: Poe Dameron will launch in April 2016.
