Thanks...
I'm about to get into the new canon... By y'alls opinions is it worth getting into now or is it still rocky and bare bones
If you're looking to only read stuff that's tied to the new movies after 6, it's pretty bare bones rn.
If you're looking to see the new version of what happens offscreen in the OT, the stuff between 6 and 7 and some cherry picked prequel stuff, then it's rad as hell. Especially if you're into comics too. I've read a chunk of the stuff, and I just ordered thirteen books/comic trade paperbacks to go all in.
Inferno Squad was a cool orig trig era story about imperial superspies, also ties into BF2. It's a slowish character piece featuring well-meaning imperials fighting the ruthless remnants of Saw's partisans. It's grey vs grey and I liked it a lot.
Tarkin was sort of dry, but it was a sick character piece and did a lot of meaningful world building. It did a TON to connect the prequels and the cartoon (never watched it, the references were sparse) to the orig trig in meaningful/cool ways. Explains what sort of guy Tarkin is and his relationship with the Sith duo. How he became Grand Moff. It also shows some of palpatine's day-to-day emperoring, which was super cool
Phasma is, no exaggeration, one of my favorite books ever. I'm a sucker for frame stories, and the premise is that phasma's rival in the first order is torturing phasma's backstory out of a resistance spy he caught. She provides a secondhand account of phasma's life on her post apocalyptic mad max planet. The book also delves into the training process of first order stormtroopers, Armitage Hux and his dad, what sort of /people/ the first order are, and what sort of Wonder Woman/mad max hybrid phasma is. Really great read.
Death Troopers is a legends book, but enough stuff from it is considered canon that the book itself is canon for me. It's nuts. A supervirus that goes wild on an imperial prison ship and the characters pretty much just have to escape. They're not like, shambling zombie zombies: they're a gravemindish hive mind. Really good book!!!
I read the first two trades of the Vader comic and I love it. The art is pretty good, I dig all the wild shit that happens, and I like the sort of dude the new canon is consistently painting Vader as. The new canon is obviously watched over by a pantheon of lore lords, and I'm totally okay with that. All the fiction I've read FEELS like it's from the same universe in a really good way.
I ordered Lords of the Sith (sideous/Vader buddy cop book) Catalyst (rogue one prequel about Galen and Krennic) the Aftermath Trilogy, all the trades of the Star Wars comic, Vader Down, and the Maul prequel comic. Honestly I plan on reading literally everything!
Now is honestly a great time to jump in before there's an overwhelming amount of stuff to catch up on. It's all been great!
