Marvel announced yesterday that the Stars Wars franchise would be moving to Marvel Comics for 2015. This coincides with the first Marvel Stars Wars movie release.

The comic franchise has been published for years by Dark Horse comics. Marvel said that they hope to continue the quality that readers have come to expect from the comics.

“Dark Horse Comics published exceptional Star Wars comics for over 20 years,” said Carol Roeder, director of Lucasfilm franchise publishing, Disney Publishing Worldwide said in a press statement, “and we will always be grateful for their enormous contributions to the mythos, and the terrific partnership that we had. In 2015, the cosmic adventures of Luke, Han, Leia and Chewbacca will make the lightspeed jump back to Marvel, to begin a new age of adventures within the Star Wars universe.”

“We here at Marvel could not be more excited to continue the publication of Star…