What novel would you have liked to see get a comic adaptation?
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reddit.comPosted May 7, 2023, 9:18 PM UTC
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reddit.comWould really dig an adaptation of James Luceno's "Darth Plagueis."
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Seconded, that would be really interesting to see. I’m unsure how it would lend itself to a visual medium, though, since so much of what is great about that book comes from the inner thoughts of Plagueis and Palpatine.
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Most Wanted. It's pretty short and lends itself well to the comic format. I also just caught up with the Hidden Empire saga, so it'd be cool to visually see more of Han and Q'ira's backstory.
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None of them. I've already read those novels. At best a comic adaptation will provide some visuals and a heavily abridged version of the story. At worst, it'll just be the same story but worse.
I will always prefer that a comic team spends their time on an original story over an adaptation. I don't buy adaptations, and I never will, so from my perspective it's just wasted effort.
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That's completely fair. The majority of the adaptations I haven't felt were that great in terms of making the transition (either too choppy or important plot points left out/glossed over). Still I like being able to visualize things again after reading a novel. The only comic adaptation I've liked was Smuggler's Run though I've never read the novel personally.
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Didn't think I'd have to spell this out for so many in the comments but the images in the OP are all novel adaptations we've already gotten.
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darth bane trilogy, rest of the thrawn canon books, plagueis, dark disciple, high republic books
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I think Jedi Academy trilogy, or children of the jedi /callista trilogy would be great gns
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I'd like comic adaptations for all the main High Republic books
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I guess maybe the VR games. (I know of two, not sure how many there are.) If nothing else, it's because I'll never experience them firsthand.
Otherwise, I'll agree with another commenter. I'm generally opposed to adaptations. We've already experienced the story and a retelling will often result in a lesser product.
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Come to think about it, I still have no idea what happens in Vader Immortal.
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Among other more specific spoilers for those games they kinda set up Mustafar having plant life regrowing as seen in the beginning of Ep 9. Also a lot of lore about the Mustafar natives and a mythological macguffin of theirs you and Vader are both pursuing
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It also first to established >!Weyland!< as a thing prior to its recent animated appearances.
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The New Jedi Order
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Yes!! I was reading comics monthly when they announced Invasion and was so excited because I thought it was a new jedi order adaptation... but then it wasn't. I would have loved NJO in comic form. Could have run for 100 issues.
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Exactly :)
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The Clone Wars Breakout Squad books. Need more Chiss Jedi in comics.
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Gimme them Lando Calrissian novels instead of stuff that's already comics, please.
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Thrawn Ascendency because I want more drawings of Ar'alani and I want drawings of Thalias, Che'ri, and Wutroow.
I don't really care about the adaptations beyond seeing art of characters that don't usually get much art.
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Splinter. But the original cover shot is why.
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Dark Disciple or Shadows of the Sith. More Quinlan Vos and Ventress is never a bad thing. And for Shadows of the Sith, I really like the character Dathan (Rey's father/Palpatine clone) but feel like he was just a means to an end to show how Rey came to be. Just to see him get illustrated would be nice to see.
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Hmmm, Matthew Stover’s Shatterpoint or Traviss’s Republic Commando series?
I’m considering the difference between a great novel and a great comic, so I’m trying to imagine stories that would be visual feasts in a comic but were also incredibly enjoyable reads.
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It's criminal we never got more of the clone commandos in the comics. They barely show up at all and when they do it's only in short anthology stories like Tales and Clone Wars Adventures.
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I’ll never argue with these points! To me, the Commandos are one of the most well-liked yet least-recognized groups of characters in Star Wars. The video game and novels were everything to me in the early-mid 2000s. Generally speaking, I was really disappointed when GL wiped away a lot of the first Clone Wars canon established in young adult books, adult novels, Dark Horse comics, games, and more. Understandably, this was all in favor of his animated Clone Wars project, but that decision really limited the Commandos’ ability to exist within the canon.
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I would happily accept any that they haven’t yet produced.
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I would happily accept any that they haven’t yet produced.
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If not Plagueis, I’d want them to redo the bane comics and have them span out the whole story
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Star Wars novel's cover art has it's own EU in my brain.
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The remaining Thrawn novels and the Thrawn Ascendancy trilogy. I also agree with u/thrawnadelrey’s choice of Most Wanted.
Yes!!!