This year's San Diego Comic-Con included a special announcement from Marvel regarding the massive "Star Wars" franchise.

Marvel, which was awarded the official "Star Wars" comic-book license earlier this year, announced their launch of three "Star Wars" comic-book series that would begin rolling out in January through March of next year.

The new "Star Wars" comic-book series announcement was made during Marvel's "Cup O' Joe" panel on Saturday afternoon in San Diego, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The creators behind the series include Jason Aaron, Kieron Gillen, John Cassaday, Salvador Larocca, Mark Waid, and Terry Dodson.

Aaron and Cassaday will be teaming up to create the main on-going "Star Wars" comic book series that will roll out in January, while Gillen and Larocca will team up to create another on-going series titled "Star Wars: Darth Vader" that will roll out in February.

Lastly in March, Waid and Dodson will rollout out their five-issue miniseries titled "Star Wars: Princess Leia."

The LA Times reports, the three newly announced "Star Wars" series would pick up the story immediately following the end of the original "Star Wars" movie.

Cassaday, Aaron, and Marvel Editor Jordan White were in attendance for Marvel's Comic-Con announcement and offered up their perspectives of what "Star Wars" fans can expect from the new comic books.

Aaron explained that for the main "Star Wars" series, he wants fans, "to feel like I felt when I was a kid and first met these characters ... I want you to feel that same childlike wonder and glee, because that's exactly what I feel when I sit down to write it." [LA Times]

White explained that for "Star Wars: Darth Vader," fans will learn more about what happened to Vader in between his transition to becoming a feared and powerful character in the "Star Wars" franchise.

"At the end of 'Star Wars,' Vader is the sole survivor of the biggest loss the Empire has ever had," White recited Gillen's pitch for the comic book series. "But when we see him at the beginning of 'The Empire Strikes Back,' he's even more powerful than ever. In the first movie, they literally make fun of him for using the Force. And in the second one, everybody's afraid of him at all times. So what happened in between? ... We're going to show that story of him rising to his full, full power." [The LA Times]

"Star Wars: Princess Leia" will focus on Leia's struggle and sorrow following the destruction of her home planet.

"Obviously, in the first film, [Princess Leia's] home planet is blown up, and as she says, there is no time for her sorrows right then -- but there is time for her sorrows in this," White explained. [The LA Times]

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