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| A Guide to Star Wars e-Comics
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LATEST NEWS & RELEASES | DIGITAL
COMIC TITLES |
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In May 2009 Dark Horse Comics, official publisher of
Star Wars comics since 1991, in collaboration with THQ,
launched Dark Horse Mobile, the name for
their e-Comics App for Apple iOS systems. In August 2009 Dark Horse Comics adapted their first
Star Wars title, Legacy:
Broken, for this medium and published it as a two
chapter download. By the time THQ's license had
expired two years later only eleven Star Wars comic stories
had been made available from Dark Horse
Mobile via Apple iTunes. With the digital publication market
expanding, lead by thge increasing popularity of e-book
readers, Dark Horse Comics took
production of e-comics in-house and launched their own digital
service, Dark Horse Digital, in
early 2011. Their digital service allows users to purchase
individual comic book issues (previously unavailable from THQ/iTunes)
as well as full-story collections (as bundles of individual
comic book issues). In June 2011 Star Wars comic titles were
added to the Dark
Horse Digital store and in early 2012 new comic book
releases were made available in e-comic form on the same day as the
traditional printed edition was released. Currently Dark Horse Digital
purchases can be read on iOS & Android systems (via Apps from relevant
App Stores) as well as any modern web browser. Selected graphic novels
can now be purchased for e-book readers including Kobo, Nook and
Kindle (available from relevant e-book stores). |
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Wednesday
15th May |
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Thursday
9th May |
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Free Comic Book Day
comic available free digitally
Dark Horse Comics
has made this year's Free Comic Book Day
Star Wars story,
The
Assassination of Darth Vader by Brian Wood
(author of the ongoing
Star
Wars series), available digitally for free from the
Dark Horse Digital
store.
Digital comics from Dark Horse
Digital can be read on any modern web browser or
on iOS and Android devices (apps available from
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Published comic story series:
Not all issues in a series may be available - where limited
issue numbers of a series are available this is indicated. |
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Adapting a comic book for the
small screen of a mobile phone presents certain challenges as Randy
Stradley, Dark Horse Comics' editor, acknowledges: "Obviously,
certain things that work in one medium don't work in another. For
instance, tall vertical panels don't work as well in the iPhone's 'widescreen'
format, and careful editing is required to make sure visual story
information isn't compromised. On the other hand, wordy panels can
sometimes be split into two or more separate screens to actually
improve the pacing of the story and the ratio of text-to-art. It
sorta needs to be seen to be fully understood."[1]
Dark Horse Mobile's reasons for choosing which titles are
adapted is dictated by having "something easier to adapt to
the small screen"[2]
because "every artist tells their stories differently in the
print versions: varying the size and shape of panels, etc. Each
story we do for the iPhone requires different considerations on how
to transition the storytelling from one medium to another. There's
no set formula like 'one print panel equals one iPhone screen',
every image is a judgment call. Every new story is a new challenge,
but I think we've come up with some satisfying solutions."[1] |
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Published comic story Apps
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Please note that these Apps are no longer available. |
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