Star Wars: Jedi — The Dark Side (Marvel Edition) (2015) is the Marvel Comics digital and collected edition of the earlier Dark Horse miniseries.
Overview
- Original series: Star Wars: Jedi — The Dark Side (5 issues), published by Dark Horse Comics from May to September 2011.
- Writer: Scott Allie
- Artist: Mahmud Asrar
- Colorist: Paul Mounts
- Letterer: Michael Heisler
- Marvel Edition (2015): Digital release (and related collections) by Marvel Entertainment, released around January 8, 2015. It collects the full 5-issue story. It was also included in Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: Rise of the Sith Vol. 1 (September 2015).
Story Summary
Set in 53 BBY (21 years before The Phantom Menace), the story follows young Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his Padawan Xanatos. The Jedi Council sends them to Telos IV, Xanatos’s homeworld, to prevent a civil war after a political assassination. Xanatos’s father is the king.
The mission forces Qui-Gon into close contact with the dark side and has lasting consequences for the Jedi Order. For the headstrong Xanatos, returning home stirs up buried resentments and emotions.
Continuity Notes
- This is a Legends (non-canon) story.
- It expands on and adapts elements from Jude Watson’s Jedi Apprentice novels (especially the backstory of Xanatos and the Telosian Civil War), though the comic follows a different plot.
