The Crushing Comics Guide to Star Wars – your guide to watching, reading, and collecting Star Wars Expanded Universe canon films, TV shows, novels, and comic books. Last updated April 2017 with titles scheduled for release through December 2016.
There is no exact placement of the beginning of this period, but for the purposes of this guide it begins sometime after 6 ABY. It ends in 34 ABY with Poe Dameron’s mission to Jakku.
Note that some short stories, comic strips, young readers adaptations and activity books, and web browser games have been omitted from this order.
The Rise of the Republic era canon story order
Novel: Bloodline Novel by Claudia Grey (hardcover / paperback / digital)
Novel: Phasma by Delilah S. Dawson (hardcover / paperback TBA / digital)
Short Stories: “The Perfect Weapon” by Delilah S. Dawson / “High Noon on Jakku,” “All Creatures Great and Small,” “The Face of Evil,” “True Love,” and “The Crimson Corsair and the Lost Treasure of Count Dooku” by by Landry Q. Walker / “Bait” by Alan Dean Foster
Novel: Before the Awakening by Greg Rucka (hardcover / paperback TBA / digital) – tells the separate stories of Finn, Poe, and Rey leading up to The Force Awakens
Comic: Star Wars Special: C-3PO #1: The Phantom Limb (oversized hardcover / paperback)
Collected with Star Wars: Journey to Star Wars: the Force Awakens #1-4, which directly follows Return of the Jedi.
Comic: Poe Dameron (2016) #1-6 in Star Wars: Poe Dameron Vol. 1: Black Squadron
Comic: Poe Dameron (2016) #7-13 in Star Wars: Poe Dameron Vol. 2: The Gathering Storm
Comic: Poe Dameron (2016) #14-19 & Annual 1 in Vol. 3
Young Readers: Join the Resistance (hardcover / paperback TBA / digital)
Young Readers: Join the Resistance: Escape from Vodran (hardcover TBA / digital)
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