Jeremy Konrad got the chance to chat with A New Dawn author John Jackson Miller at San Diego Comic Con 2014 about the new book and the current state of canon.
BC: Did you have complete access to the first season’s worth of scripts?
JJM: I had enough information. Obviously these things are always changing in time. But the purpose of the story group is to get talking early enough that conflicts will be headed off.BC: As far as the tone of A New Dawn, it seem like a time of discovery and fun, but also a bit more serious. Did you aim specifically for that?
JJM: Well, it is serious in tone in the fact that this is a miserable place these people are living. This is a place where the sun cannot rise or everyone will die. Gorse is a planet that is tidily locked to its sun so it doesn’t turn and the only place people live is the dark side. No metaphor there! It is a depressing, miserable place, Kanan is living a miserable life and he is trying to make his own way through the galaxy. Even when things are dark I put in some black humor, there’s fun bits in there, but it is not something that is laugh a minute. Star Wars, if you watch Episode 4, there is a lot of wisecracking, lots of joking. These are characters who did not want to be together. That is a definite feature of this book. These are characters who did not want to be together to do this thing they have to do. They are definitely worried about their own problems and their own lives. And this was never something they planned to go do.
