The Dawn of the Jedi era, set around 25,000 years before the events of the Skywalker Saga, is named after the 2012-2014 Dark Horse comic series written by John Ostrander and drawn by Jan Duursema.

The Jedi are central to the Star Wars mythology and thus embedded into American popular culture. It’s weird then to consider how rarely Lucasfilm shows what the life of a Jedi and their role in ...