![]() The designers do a great job of illustrating moments from all over, including books, by using so many different comic panels, variant books covers, and pieces of promotional art. ![]() I’ve never been a fan of the BBY/ABY system because of how confusing it can make the existence of zero year/s right in the middle of the timeline but this is the cleanest way to handle it in my opinion. In terms of how the BBY/ABY system works, the book takes the stance that every event before A New Hope begins is technically in the year 1 BBY, including Rogue One, and the year 0 ABY starts with the film.There’s also a couple of the stories from Tales from a Galaxy Far, Far Away: Aliens and nothing from Canto Bight. Similarly, there’s only a small handful of the Vader’s Castle stories. Aside from one Life Day Treasury story, books made up of in-universe tales or similar short stories are generally left off the timeline, so there’s nothing from Myths & Fables, Dark Legends, or Legends of Luke Skywalker.Novelizations, which have always occupied a similar vague space, are pretty well represented in the book (including Poe surviving with Naka Iit from The Force Awakens, Galen’s introduction of exhaust ports in the Death Star from Rogue One, Luke’s third lesson from The Last Jedi, Enfys giving Saw coaxium while meeting Jyn from Solo, and Kylo’s encounter with the Eye of Webbish Bog from The Rise of Skywalker). Neither From a Certain Point of View book is referenced at all, which was a bit of a surprising exclusion but it also does make sense given the vague canon status they have and the fact that including them would pretty quickly clutter the film timelines.The only main issues I didn’t see on the timeline at all were Padmé Amidala and Captain Phasma. Almost all of the stories from the Age of Republic/ Rebellion/ Resistance comics are given logical placements in their respective eras when most of them were previously vague, though there are a couple of oddities that I’ll mention below when relevant.I didn’t even expect to see many of the ones that the book did cover and I imagine the ones left out were mostly for practical reasons like page count and clutter. Maybe roughly half of the Adventures comics, Forces of Destiny shorts, Insider short stories, and Rebels magazine comics are sorted by the book’s timeline while the other half are left out.Comics are covered through the events of War of the Bounty Hunters and books go through The Princess and the Scoundrel. With its long gap between writing and release, the most recent show covered in the book is Obi-Wan Kenobi, meaning there’s no reference to Andor (Cassian’s old birthdate and Fest homeworld are included, so I think Maarva faked these records too).I definitely recommend anyone with even a vague interest in the premise pick up a copy because it won’t disappoint. The designers of the book also deserve a lot of love because the way it’s laid out with the artwork and images it uses adds a lot of experience of reading it. All five of the authors (Kristin Baver, Jason Fry, Cole Horton, Amy Richau, and Clayton Sandell) did an excellent job with their individual sections and deserve a ton of recognition for the intimidating challenge of making this franchise’s timeline digestible. I was excited for the book the moment I found out about it and it still managed to surprise me with how comprehensive and well-executed it was. ![]() Following an early release at Star Wars Celebration, DK’s Timelines reference book is now widely available.
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