Luke Skywalker Dark Horse comics Reading Order

[tib2d2]

I'm looking for all the Dark Horse Star Wars comics featuring Luke Skywalker, and which order to read them in.

So far all I know is there's the Thrawn Trilogy comic adaptations followed by the Dark Empire comics. And then maybe its Crimson Empire after that? Anyone know?

[ChrisIII]

Kind of a tough one.

Splinter of the Minds Eye and Shadows of the Empire were also adapted for comics, although with major differences to the novels (SOTE's comic was mainly intended to show Boba Fett's POV of everything and opens with a scene of Luke still recovering with his new hand).

The relaunched SW title that ran for about twenty issues before the license went to Marvel featured a fair amount of Luke.

REBELLION and EMPIRE featured Luke here and there but it depended on the storyline. Also we finally found out who Tank was.

Luke appears mainly in the third part of Crimson Empire with the OT heroes.

He also appears in the Jedi Academy miniseries but I think mainly at the beginning. Also the Invasion! series.

[bob.schoonover]

Are you planning to track down the individual issues or collections of some kind? If you get the Epic collections, the timeline will be VERY straightforward but there's a lot of non-Luke material.

Beyond what ChrissIII mentioned, there's Vader's Quest (right after ANH), some minor appearances in Mara Jade: By the Emperor's Hand (during and after ROTJ), then he's in Rogue Leader and Union (last series before NJO/Invasion). And he's a Force ghost in various issues of Legacy.

[tib2d2]

What would you say is the reading order of-

Thrawn Trilogy comics
Dark Empire
Crimson Empire
Invasion
Mara Jade By the Emperor's hand

Really looking for post-RTOJ Luke Dark Horse stories

[ChrisIII]

That's pretty accurate as is-Dark Empire takes place a few months after the Thrawn trilogy, and CE is set after Dark Empire, although there a few time jumps but the third one is set around the time of the Barbera Hambly books/Darksaber. Invasion is set around the NJO.

Mara Jade by the Emperor's Hand is mostly set right after Return of the Jedi.

[bob.schoonover]

Yeah, put Mara Jade first, then the rest of the list (Thrawn, DE, CE, Invasion) is in the right order. If you toss in Union (which is a pretty important Luke story), that goes between CE and Invasion.

If you're doing book reading, too, let us know - I can definitely help w/Luke book appearances after ROTJ