But what about the authors who put together “Light of the Jedi?” We’re glad you asked. Cavan Scott is once again writing a new High Republic comic series for phase two, which will launch from Marvel Comics in October. Charles Soule will explore the backstory of legendary, mysterious Jedi Porter Engle—a long-living character first introduced in Soule’s novel Light of the Jedi—in “another Marvel project,” and the aforementioned Older will be writing an “all-ages original graphic novel” over at Dark Horse Comics, which we recently found out is making Star Wars comics again. There will, obviously, also be more adult, YA, and young reader novels to come as well, but most details beyond new comics for the phase are still being held back. One tiny morsel revealed today: Justina Ireland, who wrote phase one’s A Test of Courage, Out of the Shadows, and the new release Mission to Disaster, is co-writing the first YA novel of “Quest of the Jedi” with new addition, Tessa Gratton.
While fans might be a tad frustrated in the knowledge that the futures for all the characters they’ve come to know and love in The High Republic are going to be kept up in the air, we love the fact the series is just going deeper and deeper into Star Wars mythology. More building blocks, more history—and, frankly, while we want to see what’s next for the surviving High Republic characters coming out of the events of The Fallen Star and other new stories, furthering these adventures go into the “future” of The High Republic, the more likely it is they’ll intersect with known Star Wars canon. That might sound good—and we’re going to get a taste of it in the Disney+ series The Acolyte at some point, set at the tail end of the era—but the true joy of The High Republic is it being a space for Star Wars stories that largely live on their own, away from the mainline continuity of the movies, and it seems like phase two will be more of that.
“Quest of the Jedi” will begin in October 2022.
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