New Star Wars line!

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Hello Star Wars fans! Fencer6 here, and today I will be talking about the latest Star Wars news! As you all probably know, Star Wars Episode 7 is coming out this December!
Now, what first threw me for a loop when first hearing that Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, and Carrie Fisher would all be in the next movie is that they are much older. I mean, no offense to them, but Carrie is already past fifty (almost sixty), Mark has passes sixty, and Harrison is in his seventies! How could these character, once so lively, suddenly become gray haired and wise? What happened to them? How can we take such a big gap?
Well, that's exactly what a new set of novels and comics are going to do. Tell us what happened between the 30 year gap of Episodes 6 and 7. This new series line is called Journey to Star Wars: Force Awakens. But, it isn't just a straight forward, chronological order of books. While they may all be working under Disney, lots of different authors, comics, and publishing houses will all be contributing to this ongoing series. It is basically a canon version of the Expanded Universe novels, which have now been deemed 'legends' which never officially happened. Marvel has released a cover art for its new event series, which will be coming out September of this year, seen below.

Not only will these provide cool, canon stories telling us what the trio did while no new movies were made, but these also will hint at what is to come in Episode 7, a sneak peak I am dying to see. Alas, it looks like we will have to hold our anticipation until fall. Overall though, I am very happy we will be seeing new Star Wars content that will finally be canon after the elimination of the Expanded Universe, and I can't wait to learn what crazy adventurers these five went on.

Thanks for reading, stay tuned, and goodnight!

-Fencer6