Star Wars Legends: The New Republic Omnibus Volume 1 Overview | Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squadron 

Agreed. Its a must buy for me

Hi, I too plan on getting Vol. 2, but would you say I need to get this to understand any stories in the second volume?

@@zeldasaberjr i certainly wasn’t planning on getting vol 1 either, but the art looks gorgeous

Me too

Tales of the Jedi would be great!

tales of the jedi omnibus will be probably after vol.3 epic collection

Yeah

Tales of the Jedi probably won't be happening for awhile since they releasing the collections rn :(

Thank you and yes!

And with so mant star wars omnis. We will probably need a reading order of omnis

The New Republic Omnibus 2 (set to be released in September) will collect the comic adaptation of the Thrawn Trilogy & it's sequel, the Dark Empire Trilogy (which is referenced in a lot of the EU novels set after that).

I agree but at the same time we already have a bunch of the old omnibuses that do that. There's a lot of comics inbetween those collections that just don't fit a specific theme while the Marvel omnibuses seem to be more for collecting everything in chronological timeline order. I do wish some of the longer running series got the same treatment as lot of the canon SW Marvel omnibuses or even the KOTOR one. I'd kill for a Dark Times omnibus that collects all of the storyline in one instead of having it split like it is between Empire vol 1 and vol 2 since I couldn't care less about the droid comics that make up half of the latter.

@@OneRandomVictory none of those are OHC though, and all are out of print. Trying to put the decades of EU material into timeline order just... doesn't work between overlapping retcons and casual "as you know" spoilers. The KOTOR omni is so good precisely because it doesn't do that and is purely publication order. Some stuff getting put together is ok, but the way the Marvel omnis do EU material really impacts the reading experience - which is the whole point of getting an OHC edition in the first place.

@@eVeNmOrEiNsAnItY Again, I'm not disagreeing with you but I think their goal is simply to have everything in legends available for those that want it. The older omnis were far more readable but there's a lot of comics that just wouldn't see the light of day again if they did that. Maybe they'll do more themed ones once they reprint everything. Who knows.

Completely agree with you. It's all over the place. Throwing everything together like this, especially longer runs with other miniseries, is just not working for me. I own the KOTOR omnibus and I'm so glad it stands alone, without interruptions. Certain SW stories do intertwine with the miniseries of those eras (like Dark Times and the DH Vader comics and Republic/Clone Wars with stuff like Obsession) but those were all released concurrently for the most part and planned to work together so it works when reading. Other cases, like the stories here in this New Republic omnibus, have no relation to each other other than the in-universe time period. Also, because of this you'll have excellent stories paired up with sub-par ones. Or in my case, stories that are tagged onto others that I am not interested in.

I think that's in the empire vol. 2.

Droids and Ewoks is already its own Omnibus.

He answered that question on last Saturday's live stream. He said something like 14 omnis before Mark Millar's run. So, maybe by 2030. Being serious, an OHC sounds more likely in the near future.

@@marcelo-ramos Thanks for the reply, didnt get around to seeing the live stream so thats my bad. Appreciate it. Ill probably buy the single issues then and do a custom bind maybe.

Thank you for checking. Odd.

I checked the original Dark Horse floppy for the X-Wing Rogue Squadron: The Phantom Affair, where it did show up

Not really.

@@NearMintCondition thank you! So many books coming out need to save when I can

Not quite true regarding these being adaptations. The Rogue Squadron series which represents the bulk of this omni came out a couple of years before the first Rogue Squadron game (which btw takes place between A New Hope and Empire, unlike the comics). Also, Shadows of the Empire was a larger project involving a novel, a video game and comics all released at roughly the same time. Haven't read this particular miniseries myself, but I believe it complements the game/book rather than being a straight-up adaptation. Anyway, I get that you might not be interested in the subject matter, so no argument there :)