Star Wars: The Force Awakens Adaptation Books in Order

This series is a comic adaptation of The Force Awakens, so the core story will already be familiar to most readers. Rey is still the scavenger on Jakku, Finn is still the stormtrooper who breaks away, Poe still kicks the plot into motion, and Kylo Ren still arrives carrying all the conflict, rage, and inherited weight the film gives him.

The difference is in the form.

As a comic, the story moves through the film's major beats in a more segmented, issue-driven rhythm. That means chases, reveals, and character pairings are broken into cleaner visual chunks, which can make the structure of the story feel a little more obvious. It is not trying to replace the film so much as translate it into another medium and give readers a brisk page-by-page version of the same big swing back into the sequel era.

That makes the adaptation useful in two ways. First, it is an easy way to revisit the movie in comic form. Second, it shows where Wendig fits in Star Wars beyond the Aftermath novels, as someone writing not just original stories in canon but also helping reshape major screen material for the page. The focus stays on pace, clarity, and recognizable emotional beats rather than deep expansion.

If you like comics and want a straightforward retelling of the film's story, this does the job. The pleasure is in seeing familiar scenes rendered in panels while the larger Star Wars conflict tightens around Rey, Finn, Han, Leia, Poe, and the First Order.