Warning: Spoilers ahead, obviously.
Early in 2014, shortly after Disney’s acquisition of Lucasfilm, the House of Mouse announced that it was dumping almost all of the Star Wars "expanded universe" with its complex alphabet soup system of classifying what’s real, what’s almost-real, and what’s not-really-real-but-you-can-believe-it-if-you-want. This cleared the way for Disney to tell its own stories without worrying about whether or not they conflict with the old EU’s dense layers of material, which has been added to by so many hands that it’s difficult to find two characters whose backstories don’t touch each other in one way or another.
We’ll get our first big-screen exposure to where Disney—and J.J. Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan—want to take Star Wars this December with the release of Episode VII: The Force Awakens, but the new Disney Star Wars universe is already leaking out in a number of different mediums—including comics. Marvel’s new Star Wars series is firmly canonical under the new rules—Lucasfilm has been explicit on this point—and the latest edition (the sixth of nine planned issues) ended with a hell of a cliffhanger: it turns out that Han Solo might have been married—and not to Leia.
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