The Comics Continuum has the upcoming Dark Horse Comics for January, including those very cool two Star Wars titles:

STAR WARS: EMPIRE #5

By Randy Stradley, Davide Fabbri and Christian Della Vecchia, cover by Bryan Ching.

In the weeks prior to the events in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Princess Leia Organa undertakes a covert mission to deliver much needed supplies to the Rebel Alliance on the planet Ralltiir, only to have her mission thwarted when the forces of the Empire - including Darth Vader - take control of the planet. Leia escapes without the Imperials discovering the true reason for her visit, but she realizes that the time may be past for talk and "mercy missions." Turning her attention to another of the galaxy's trouble spots, Leia finds herself up to her neck in Imperial trouble and comes to terms with the need to take up arms against an evil enemy. Before she was a political firebrand, driven by an outraged sense of justice. Now she must fight to save a people targeted for extinction. Expanded from the National Public Radio dramatization of Star Wars, this two-issue story reveals for the first time the pivotal events that transformed Leia from a princess…to a warrior.

32 pages, $2.99, in stores on Jan. 2.

STAR WARS: REPUBLIC #50

By John Ostrander, Jan Duursema, Haden Blackman, Scott Allie and Stephen Thompson, cover by Jon Foster.

Two months after the Battle of Geonosis…with the forces of the Republic and the armies of the Confederacy of Independent Systems stalled in a series of indecisive battles, the Separatists risk a devastating strike at the heart of the Republic's war machine: they attack the cloning facility on Kamino! Their hope is to permanently destroy the Republic's ability to create new clones for its army. The Republic's defense rests on a squadron of Jedi Starfighters and a battalion of Jedi-led clone troopers within the facility itself. It's a battle fought on three fronts - in space, on the ground, and underwater.

64 pages, $5.99, in stores on Jan. 22.