The Return of Starweird to Star Wars, Courtesy of Marvel Comics

As scooped by Bleeding Cool from the Marvel Star Wars Panel at Star Wars Celebration this weekend, the Starweird are returning to Marvel Comics’ Star Wars sequence, courtesy of Star Wars: Doctor Aphra author Alyssa Wong and canopy artist Kyle Hotz.

Created in 2004 for a sourcebook for the Wizards of the Coast’s revised version of the Star Wars Roleplaying Game, Ultimate Adversaries by Eric Cagle, Michelle Lyons, Michael Mikaelian, Steve Miller, Owen Ok.C. Stephens, and Wil Upchurch, Starweirds are elongated incorporate large humanoid creatures who stay in Deep Space, and goal spaceships being repaired or travelling in hyperspace. Creatures of the Force, they hate different Force customers, use telepathic horror screams (that you could even hear in area) and have attacked each Jedi and Sith.

They don’t stroll, however hover and float by means of objects, they’re skeletally skinny, with lengthy, floating white hair, and put on nothing however rags, They do not use any language, save for telepathic screaming, however they do have very sharp claws, which is typically all of the language you want.

There was additionally point out of a Jedi battle with a Starweird Queen within the Star Wars: The Old Republic online game, however little extra. Now Alyssa Wong will get to “flesh” them out because it have been… and she or he was the one who introduced them again to Marvel and Lucasfilm consideration for this sequence.

Star Wars comics have been produced by varied comedian ebook publishers for the reason that first Star Wars got here out. Marvel Comics launched its unique sequence in 1977, starting with a six-issue comedian adaptation of the movie and operating for 107 points. After that, it was picked up by Dark Horse Comcis for many years, however after Disney acquired Marvel in 2009 and Lucasfilm in 2012, the Star Wars comics license returned to Marvel in 2015, half of the brand new Star Wars canon.