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| A Guide to Star Wars e-Comics
(Dark Horse Mobile & Dark Horse Digital). |
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![[ Dark Horse Digital - Star Wars e-comics ]](images/digital-icon.jpg)
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In May 2009 Dark Horse Comics, official publisher of
Star Wars comics since 1991, in collaboration with THQ,
launched Dark Horse Mobile, the
name for their e-Comics App for the Apple iPhone, iPod
Touch and iPad.
In August 2009 Dark Horse Comics adapted their first
Star Wars title, Legacy:
Broken, for this medium and published it as a two
chapter download. By the time THQ's license had
expired two years later only eleven Star Wars comic stories
had been made available from Dark Horse
Mobile via iTunes. With the digital market
expanding particularly in books, Dark Horse Comics took
production of e-comics in-house and launched their own digital
store, Dark Horse Digital, in
early 2011. Their digital store allows users to purchase
individual comic book issues (previously
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as well as full-story collections (as bundles of individual
comic book issues) and be able to read them on
multi-platforms, not just iOS systems. In June 2011 Star Wars
comic titles were added to the Dark
Horse Digital store. |
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Published comic story series:
Not all issues in a series may be available - where limited
issue numbers of a series are available this is indicated. |
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Adapting a comic book for the
small screen of a mobile phone presents certain challenges as Randy
Stradley, Dark Horse Comics' editor, acknowledges: "Obviously,
certain things that work in one medium don't work in another. For
instance, tall vertical panels don't work as well in the iPhone's 'widescreen'
format, and careful editing is required to make sure visual story
information isn't compromised. On the other hand, wordy panels can
sometimes be split into two or more separate screens to actually
improve the pacing of the story and the ratio of text-to-art. It
sorta needs to be seen to be fully understood."[1]
Dark Horse Mobile's reasons for choosing which titles are
adapted is dictated by having "something easier to adapt to
the small screen"[2]
because "every artist tells their stories differently in the
print versions: varying the size and shape of panels, etc. Each
story we do for the iPhone requires different considerations on how
to transition the storytelling from one medium to another. There's
no set formula like 'one print panel equals one iPhone screen',
every image is a judgment call. Every new story is a new challenge,
but I think we've come up with some satisfying solutions."[1] |
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Published comic story apps
(in order of release):
Apps are no longer available. |
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