Dark Horse has sent out solicitations for their April titles, including 4 Star Wars comic books, a Kotobukiya Sandtrooper, and a special trade paperback with EXCLUSIVE Bust-Ups! It's a big month for Star Wars. For more information on these comics, head on over to StarWars.com.

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith #1 - #4
Writer: Miles Lane
Artist: Doug Wheatley
Colors: Chris Chuckry
Covers: Dave Dorman

Based on the screenplay by George Lucas—the official comics adaptation of the most anticipated of the Star Wars films! The action of the Clone Wars comes to a dramatic conclusion, and events are put in place for A New Hope.

Battles rage in space, armies clash on alien worlds, heroes become martyrs, and friends become enemies—and the galaxy is forever changed!

Shipping weekly, this four-issue series features art by Doug Wheatley (Star Wars: Empire volume 2—Darklighter)—who brings a level of life and detail to the adaptation that rivals that of the films themselves—with covers by Dave Dorman!

Pub. Date, Issue #1: April 2, 2005
Pub. Date, Issue #2: April 13, 2005
Pub. Date, Issue #3: April 20, 2005
Pub. Date, Issue #4: April 27, 2005

Format: Full color, 32 pages
Price: $2.99


Star Wars: Empire #32
“Sons” part 3 (of 5)

Writer: Thomas Andrews
Artist: Adriana Melo
Colorist: Michael Atiyeh
Cover: Tomás Giorello

On the planet Jabiim, Luke Skywalker’s situation has gone from bad to worse. Having managed an escape from the rebel group who wants revenge for his father’s actions during the Clone Wars, and having fought his way clear of the Imperial stormtroopers who are after any Rebel on which they can lay their hands, Luke ends up the captive of third party players. A group of wealthy Jabiimi have made a deal with the Empire: in exchange for their own freedom, they’re going to give the rest of the planet’s population to the Empire as slaves!

Luke’s only hope lies with Leia and the droids—but they have problems of their own!

It’s all part of an action-packed story that looks at some of the events from the Clone Wars in a new light!

Pub. Date: April 6, 2005
Format: Full color, 32 pages
Price: $2.99


Star Wars: General Grievous #2
Writer: Chuck Dixon
Penciller: Rick Leonardi
Inker: Mark Pennington
Cover: Lucas Marangon

General Grievous and his forces invade the planet Gentes and take it’s population and their production facilities as trophies of war. Meanwhile, Flynn Kybo and the Jedi, who seek to kill Grievous, team up with a grizzled band of space miners who hope to see Grievous dead as well. But they’re unaware that the General holds hostage a group of Padawan children captured during a raid on a Republic fleet. And what Grievous has planned for the Padawans is a fate far worse than death...

• A four-issue must-read series featuring one of the Episode III villians!

Pub. Date: April 20, 2005
Format: Full color, 32 pages
Price: $2.99


Star Wars: Republic #76
Writer: John Ostrander
Penciller: Jan Duursema
Inker: Dan Parsons
Cover: Jan Duursema/Brad Anderson
“The Siege of Saleucami” (part 3 of 4)

Two Jedi heroes have fallen and the Republic forces on Saleucami are on the verge of being overrun by the Separatist’s Morgukai clones.

As the Sith move toward their final revenge, it seems only one Jedi can help piece together a plan that might yet give the Republic a chance for victory. Unfortunately, that Jedi is Quinlan Vos—and his plan may be the final betrayal of all the Republic forces on Saleucami!

Pub. Date: April 27, 2005
Format: Full color, 32 pages
Price: $2.99

Kotobukiya Sandtrooper (Orange) Soft Vinyl Model Kit
Imagine you’re a somewhat notorious bounty hunter standing under the desolate heat of Tatooine’s twin suns, scavenging the rogue planet for work and connections. You try to keep to yourself and remain unnoticed as you step into the cantina for refreshment and maybe drum up some work. After a quick chat with the locals you exit the cantina hopeful you will be able to make use of this desolate outback spaceport as a means to an end. Before you can get too far you run straight into one of the Empire’s most feared and menacing enforcers, an Imperial Sandtrooper! You dodge them after answering a few questions about some missing droids and you know you’ve been lucky this time. Sandtroopers usually shoot first and ask questions later. You know this will be your last visit to Tatooine for long time…

The Sand Trooper is a memorable part of the original, classic Star Wars movie. Questioning the renegades, searching buildings, and just as out of place in a city where they aren’t any more welcome than a young, curious farmer’s nephew trying to order a drink in a bar full of suspicious creatures.

Pub. Date: April 20, 2005
Format: 11" tall vinyl figure, packaged in a color window-box
Price: $99.99


Star Wars: Crimson Empire Book and Exclusive Bust-Up Set
Writer: Mike Richardson, Randy Stradley
Artist: Paul Gulacy

Dark Horse has teamed up with Gentle Giant Studios to bring you an exclusive Star Wars graphic novel and micro-bust package. Enclosed in the box is Dark Horse's classic Star Wars tale, Crimson Empire, and 2 Gentle Giant bust-ups, including an exclusive blue holographic Darth Sidious figure. This figure will never to be replicated and is only available in this highly limited package! The other bust-up is a gorgeous ruby red Royal Guard. Both bust-ups are between 2"-3" tall.

Crimson Empire is one of Dark Horse's most popular Star Wars titles. In all the Empire, there are no more fearsome warriors than the Emperor's Imperial Guard, and none is more loyal than Kir Kanos. But when Carnor Jax—the most formidable of this elite brotherhood—betrays the Emperor and orders the murder of the Guard, Kir must escape to carry out his duty to avenge his master.

This exclusive Crimson Empire package is only available to the Direct Market.

Pub. Date: April 27, 2005
Format: Package includes Star Wars: Crimson Empire trade paperback and two Bust-ups
Price: $24.99







Star Wars: Visionaries Trade Paperback
Creators: iain McCaig, Warren Fu, Derek Thompson, and more

They’ve been responsible for some of the most dazzling and awe-inspiring visuals ever put to film, and now the concept artists, behind the Star Wars prequels are bringing their considerable talents to comics.

Just in time for Star Wars: Episode III, the wildly gifted minds of the Lucasfilm art department and visual effects powerhouse Industrial Light & Magic come together to tell their own Star Wars tales in this compilation of short stories. Given free reign to explore any and every aspect of the Star Wars universe, each artist offers a new twist or a deeper view into that galaxy far, far away. Nowhere else will you find a more pure or more different look at George Lucas’ enduring creation than through the eyes of the Star Wars: Visionaries.

• This is the first time a group of Star Wars movie concept artists and designers have written and drawn comics stories.


• With the release of the motion picture, Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith in spring 2005, Star Wars mania will be at a fever pitch.

Pub. Date: April 2, 2005
Format: Full color, 136 pages, 7" x 10", SC w/end flaps
Price: $17.95