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| A Guide to Star Wars e-Comics
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![[ Dark Horse Mobile - Star Wars comics on your iPhone/iPod Touch ]](../articles/images/dh-mobile.jpg)
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In May 2009 Dark Horse Comics, official publisher of
Star Wars comics since 1991, launched Dark Horse Mobile,
the name for their e-Comics App for the Apple iPhone, iPod
Touch and iPad.
Their first title was an adaptation of The Terminator:
Death Valley and was available in four downloadable
chapters (the first chapter being offered free of charge). 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 (both purchasable).
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![[Dark Horse Mobile]](images/dark-horse-mobile-animated.gif)
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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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| Dark Horse Mobile comic stories available from
Apple App Store (requires iTunes): |
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![[Legacy: Broken (click for more information on this story)]](../legacy/images/legacy-vol1-ecomic.jpg)
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![[Empire: Betrayal (click for more information on this story)]](../rebellion/images/gn-empire-vol1-ecomic.jpg)
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![[The Clone Wars: Shipyards of Doom (click for more information on this story)]](../clonewars/theclonewars/images/dark-horse/shipyards-doom-ecomic.jpg)
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Legacy: Broken
[more
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Empire: Betrayal
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on this story] |
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Shipyards of Doom
[more
on this story] |
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Purchase Chapter 1 via: |
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Purchase Chapter 1 via: |
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Purchase full story via: |
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![[Apple App Store]](../images/logos/istore.jpg)
[298 screen pages]
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[96 screen pages]
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[388 screen pages]
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Purchase Chapter 2 via: |
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Purchase Chapter 2 via: |
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[294 screen pages]
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[85 screen pages]
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Purchase Chapter 3 via: |
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[95 screen pages]
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Purchase Chapter 4 via: |
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[81 screen pages]
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![[Resurrection]](../infinities/images/resurrection-ecomic.jpg)
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![[Knights of the Old Republic: Commencement (click for more information on this story)]](../oldrepublic/images/gn-kotor-vol01-ecomic.jpg)
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![[Legacy: Claws of the Dragon (click for more information on this story)]](../legacy/images/legacy-vol3-ecomic.jpg)
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Resurrection |
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Commencement
[more
on this story]
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Legacy: Claws of the
Dragon
[more
on this story] |
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Purchase full story via: |
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Purchase full story via: |
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Purchase full story via: |
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[174 screen pages]
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[606 screen pages]
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[608 screen pages]
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![[ Agent of Doom (click for more information on this story)]](../newrepublic/images/comics/agent-doom-ecomic.jpg) |
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Boba Fett: Agent of Doom
[more
on this story]
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Boba Fett: Enemy of the
Empire
[more
on this story]
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Purchase full story via: |
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Purchase full story via: |
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[77 screen pages]
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[368 screen pages]
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