Is Star Wars the only franchise that didn't start as a comic

>>91903243
Pretty sure, yeah.

Marvel Television can't even get Marvel Studios to treat the shows they pump millions of dollars into as canon.

>>91903243
Star Wars franchise has historically had an absolutely massive lore thats proved profitable. Its not just comics, its video games (Battlefront II's story is confirmed canon) and books, animated shows. IMO it can do it because Star Wars is a universe, not a singular story. Aphra, Vader, BFII - all taking place at a distance from the main material. You can bet that if they come up with a point for the movies that contradict something from a game, book or comic, the Movie will ride roughshod over it.

>>91903243
Are we counting Young Justice (the TV show)? Because that one has an explicitly canon tie-in comic. The writers of the show even wrote most of the issues.

>>91904415
>franchise that didn't start as a comic

>>91903243
Are there any comics set in the Post-Jedi era? Because so far as I can tell, the thirty years between Jedi and TFA are really fucking boring because "lol it's more realistic than the old EU." I used to heavily dislike the EU as a whole but shit, it at least had highs with its lows. From what I can tell, in the "new EU era," Luke, Han, and Leia all fuck off and go their separate ways because fuck adventure and fuck continued character development, right?

I fucking hate the Lucasfilm story group already.

I guess the Buffy and Firefly comics, specially since Whedon wrote a bunch of them.

Doctor Who, maybe, sorta

>>91904616
Poe Dameros comic is the only post jedi comic right now, aparently Lucas arts wants the new sequel to finish before unleashing the hounds to fill everything in.

>>91907790
Oh and there is the Aftermath trilogy and a few short stories here and there.

As far as I know, radio, tv, movies, comics, novels, it doesn't matter, all of dr. Who is cannon. Which is fine, cause it's a wildly inconsistent series

>>91907877
I can see the stuff produced in the UK being canon, but would they really add in what is produced by the US? All those Titan comic series?

>>91905429
Could probably add the Dollhouse comics too. The shows producers wrote them.

>>91903243
Buffy and Back to the Future both seem to regard their comics as canon given the comics are, to one degree or another, overseen by the original writers.
Doctor Who has also made subtle reference to it's comics on the show.

>>91904616
There's also the Shattered Empire miniseries that takes place right after ROTJ (Not sure if this counts) and an upcoming Phasma miniseries that will be set between TFA and TLJ.

Don't really understand your frustration with Lucasfilm here. The films are always going to take the lead when it comes to shaping the canon, so if you want a media environment where everything has an equal standing in terms of continuity that means some measure of patience is going to be necessary until the broad strokes are completed. It's not like the time period is exactly being ignored either, because while comic releases for the time period are a bit anemic, we've seen a fairly healthy coverage of the gap with through novels (Aftermath trilogy + Bloodline), in addition to BF2 claiming to cover the entirety of the gap.

>>91907790
Also Shattered Empire in terms of comics

and Bloodline in novels