John Jackson Miller is an American comic-book writer, novelist and commentator, known for the Knights of the Old Republic and Knight Errant comic series published by Dark Horse Comics. He also wrote the short story Labor Pains, the novel Kenobi, and co-wrote the Knights of the Old Republic Campaign Guide, among many others. Many of Jackson's stories explore the responsibilities held by Jedi.^[1]

He has edited magazines including Comics & Games Retailer, Comics Buyer's Guide, and Scrye: The Guide to Collectible Card Games, and written books including The Standard Catalog of Comic Books. He also researches comic-book circulation figures on his history site The Comics Chronicles. His first professional comics work appeared in 2003 in Crimson Dynamo for Marvel Comics, which led to a run on Iron Man. His first Star Wars work appeared in 2005 in Star Wars: Empire.

Miller also wrote the comic adaptation of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in 2009.^[2]

In 2015, Miller released his first Star Trek novel, Star Trek: The Next Generation: Takedown, to greatly positive reader acclaim.^[3]

His most recent book will be Batman: Resurrection, an original novel set in between the 1989 live action film adaptation of Batman and it's 1992 sequel Batman Returns, due for release in late 2024.

Works[]

Bibliography[]

Year	Title	Format	Contribution(s)	Continuity	Notes
2005	Empire 35	Comic	Writer[4]	Legends
2006	Knights of the Old Republic 0	Comic	Writer[5]	Legends
2006	Knights of the Old Republic 1	Comic	Writer[6]	Legends
2006	Knights of the Old Republic 2	Comic	Writer[7]	Legends
2006	Knights of the Old Republic 3	Comic	Writer[8]	Legends
2006	Knights of the Old Republic 4	Comic	Writer[9]	Legends
2006	Knights of the Old Republic 5	Comic	Writer[10]	Legends
2006	Knights of the Old Republic 6	Comic	Writer[11]	Legends
2006	Knights of the Old Republic 7	Comic	Writer[12]	Legends
2006	Knights of the Old Republic 8	Comic	Writer[13]	Legends
2006	Knights of the Old Republic 9	Comic	Writer[14]	Legends
2006	Knights of the Old Republic 10	Comic	Writer[15]	Legends
2006	Knights of the Old Republic 11	Comic	Writer[16]	Legends
2007	Knights of the Old Republic 12	Comic	Writer[17]	Legends
2007	Knights of the Old Republic 13	Comic	Writer[18]	Legends
2007	Knights of the Old Republic 14	Comic	Writer[19]	Legends
2007	Knights of the Old Republic 15	Comic	Writer[20]	Legends
2007	Knights of the Old Republic 16	Comic	Writer[21]	Legends
2007	Knights of the Old Republic 17	Comic	Writer[22]	Legends
2007	Knights of the Old Republic 18	Comic	Writer[23]	Legends
2007	Knights of the Old Republic 19	Comic	Writer[24]	Legends
2007	Knights of the Old Republic 20	Comic	Writer[25]	Legends
2007	Knights of the Old Republic 21	Comic	Writer[26]	Legends
2007	Knights of the Old Republic 22	Comic	Writer[27]	Legends
2007	Knights of the Old Republic Handbook	Comic	Writer[28]	Legends	Guide to the comic series
2007	Knights of the Old Republic 23	Comic	Writer[29]	Legends
2007	Knights of the Old Republic 24	Comic	Writer[30]	Legends
2008	Knights of the Old Republic 25	Comic	Writer[31]	Legends
2008	Knights of the Old Republic 26	Comic	Writer[32]	Legends
2008	"Labor Pains"	Short story	Author[33]	Legends	Published on Star Wars Hyperspace
2008	Knights of the Old Republic 27	Comic	Writer[34]	Legends
2008	Knights of the Old Republic 28	Comic	Writer[35]	Legends
2008	Knights of the Old Republic 29	Comic	Writer[36]	Legends
2008	Knights of the Old Republic 30	Comic	Writer[37]	Legends
2008	Knights of the Old Republic 31	Comic	Writer[38]	Legends
2008	Knights of the Old Republic Campaign Guide	Roleplaying supplement	Author[39]	Legends	Hardcover supplement to the Star Wars Roleplaying Game
2008	Knights of the Old Republic 32	Comic	Writer[40]	Legends
2008	KOTOR Campaign Guide Web Enhancement 2: Captain Dallan Morvis	Roleplaying supplement	Author[41]	Legends	Online supplement to the Star Wars Roleplaying Game
2008	Knights of the Old Republic 33	Comic	Writer[42]	Legends
2008	"Interference"	Short story	Author[43]	Legends
2008	KOTOR Campaign Guide Web Enhancement 4: Heirloom Items	Roleplaying supplement	Author[44]	Legends	Online supplement to the Star Wars Roleplaying Game
2008	Knights of the Old Republic 34	Comic	Writer[45]	Legends
2008	Knights of the Old Republic 35	Comic	Writer[46]	Legends
2008	Knights of the Old Republic 36	Comic	Writer[47]	Legends
2009	Knights of the Old Republic 37	Comic	Writer[48]	Legends
2009	Knights of the Old Republic 38	Comic	Writer[49]	Legends
2009	Knights of the Old Republic 39	Comic	Writer[50]	Legends
2009	Knights of the Old Republic 40	Comic	Writer[51]	Legends
2009	Sword of the Empire	Roleplaying adventure	Author[52]	Legends	Adventure in the Dawn of Defiance campaign
2009	Knights of the Old Republic 41	Comic	Writer[53]	Legends
2009	Lost Tribe of the Sith: Precipice	Short story	Author[54]	Legends	Published on StarWars.com
2009	Knights of the Old Republic 42	Comic	Writer[55]	Legends
2009	Knights of the Old Republic 43	Comic	Writer[56]	Legends
2009	Lost Tribe of the Sith: Skyborn	Short story	Author[57]	Legends	Published on StarWars.com
2009	Knights of the Old Republic 44	Comic	Writer[58]	Legends
2009	Knights of the Old Republic 45	Comic	Writer[59]	Legends
2009	Knights of the Old Republic 46	Comic	Writer[60]	Legends
2009	Knights of the Old Republic 47	Comic	Writer[61]	Legends
2009	Knights of the Old Republic 48	Comic	Writer[62]	Legends
2010	Knights of the Old Republic 49	Comic	Writer[63]	Legends
2010	Lost Tribe of the Sith: Paragon	Short story	Author[64]	Legends	Published on StarWars.com
2010	Knights of the Old Republic 50	Comic	Writer[65]	Legends
2010	Lost Tribe of the Sith: Savior	Short story	Author[66]	Legends	Published on StarWars.com
2010	"The Secret Journal of Doctor Demagol"	Short story	Author[67]	Legends	Published on Star Wars Hyperspace
2010	Knight Errant 1	Comic	Writer[68]	Legends	Preview issue for the series
2010	Lost Tribe of the Sith: Purgatory	Short story	Author[69]	Legends	Published on StarWars.com
2010	Knight Errant: Aflame 1	Comic	Writer[70]	Legends
2010	"Knight Errant: Influx"	Short story	Author[71]	Legends	Published on StarWars.com
2010	Knight Errant: Aflame 2	Comic	Writer[72]	Legends
2010	Knight Errant: Aflame 3	Comic	Writer[73]	Legends
2011	Knight Errant: Aflame 4	Comic	Writer[74]	Legends
2011	Knight Errant	Novel	Author[75]	Legends
2011	Knight Errant: Aflame 5	Comic	Writer[76]	Legends
2011	Lost Tribe of the Sith: Sentinel	Short story	Author[77]	Legends	Published on StarWars.com
2011	Lost Tribe of the Sith: Pantheon	Short story	Author[78]	Legends	Published on StarWars.com
2011	Knight Errant: Deluge 1	Comic	Writer[79]	Legends
2011	Knight Errant: Deluge 2	Comic	Writer[80]	Legends
2011	Knight Errant: Deluge 3	Comic	Writer[81]	Legends
2011	Knight Errant: Deluge 4	Comic	Writer[82]	Legends
2011	Knight Errant: Deluge 5	Comic	Writer[83]	Legends
2012	Knights of the Old Republic: War 1	Comic	Writer[84]	Legends
2012	Knights of the Old Republic: War 2	Comic	Writer[85]	Legends
2012	Lost Tribe of the Sith: Secrets	Short story	Author[86]	Legends	Published on StarWars.com
2012	Knights of the Old Republic: War 3	Comic	Writer[87]	Legends
2012	Knights of the Old Republic: War 4	Comic	Writer[88]	Legends
2012	Knights of the Old Republic: War 5	Comic	Writer[89]	Legends
2012	Knight Errant: Escape 1	Comic	Writer[90]	Legends
2012	Knight Errant: Escape 2	Comic	Writer[91]	Legends
2012	Lost Tribe of the Sith: Pandemonium	Short story	Author[92]	Legends	Published on StarWars.com
2012	Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith: The Collected Stories	Anthology	Author[93]	Legends	Book collection of the nine short stories
2012	Knight Errant: Escape 3	Comic	Writer[94]	Legends
2012	Lost Tribe of the Sith—Spiral 1	Comic	Writer[95]	Legends
2012	Knight Errant: Escape 4	Comic	Writer[96]	Legends
2012	Lost Tribe of the Sith—Spiral 2	Comic	Writer[97]	Legends
2012	Knight Errant: Escape 5	Comic	Writer[98]	Legends
2012	Lost Tribe of the Sith—Spiral 3	Comic	Writer[99]	Legends
2012	The Knight Errant Gazetteer	Reference supplement	Author[100]	Legends	Online supplement to The Essential Atlas
2012	Lost Tribe of the Sith—Spiral 4	Comic	Writer[101]	Legends
2012	Lost Tribe of the Sith—Spiral 5	Comic	Writer[102]	Legends
2013	"Incognito"	Short story	Author[103]	Legends	Published in Star Wars Insider 143
2013	Kenobi	Novel, audiobook	Author[104]	Legends
2014	A New Dawn	Novel, audiobook	Author[105]	Canon
2015	"Orientation"	Short story	Author[106]	Canon	Published in Star Wars Insider 157
2015	"Bottleneck"	Short story	Author[107]	Canon	Published in The Rise of the Empire
2017	"Rites"	Short story, audiobook	Author[108]	Canon	Published in The Rise of the Empire
2017	"The Ride"	Novella, audiobook	Author[109]	Canon	Published in Canto Bight novella collection
2017	"Lord Vader Will See You Now"	Short story, audiobook	Author[110]	Canon	Published in From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back
2018	"Mind Your Manners"	Comic	Writer[111]	Canon	Published in Star Wars Adventures Annual 2018
2024	The Living Force	Novel, audiobook	Author[112]	Canon

Sources[]

• "Launchpad" — Star Wars Insider 150
• Star Wars Rebels and More at San Diego Comic-Con 2014 – Updated! on StarWars.com (backup link)
• SDCC 2014: Star Wars: A New Dawn Panel - Liveblog on StarWars.com (backup link)
• Star Wars Invades Comic-Con on StarWars.com (backup link)
• "Rebel Rouser" — Star Wars Insider 152
• "The Making of A New Dawn" — Star Wars Insider 152
• "Blaster" — Star Wars Insider 152
• "200 Reasons Why We Love Star Wars" — Star Wars Insider 200
• Looking for a Star Wars Summer Reading List? Found One, You Have! on StarWars.com (backup link)
• "Launchpad" — Star Wars Insider 213
• NYCC 2023: 13 Highlights from the Lucasfilm Publishing Panel on StarWars.com (backup link)
• "Launchpad" — Star Wars Insider 222
• The Jedi Council Debates Its Future in Star Wars: The Living Force - Exclusive Excerpt on StarWars.com (backup link)
• "Launchpad" — Star Wars Insider 223
• Star Wars: The Phantom Menace 25th Anniversary Gift Guide on StarWars.com (backup link)
• Who's Who on the Jedi Council in The Phantom Menace and The Living Force on StarWars.com (backup link)
• Heavy Metals: Exploring Cortosis and Beskar on StarWars.com (backup link)

Notes and references[]

External links[]

• Official website
• John Jackson Miller on StarWars.com (backup link)
• John Jackson Miller on Wikipedia
• John Jackson Miller on Writing ALL TWELVE Jedi Council Members for The Living Force – No Spoilers on the Star Wars Explained YouTube channel (backup link)
• John Jackson Miller Talks SPOILERS for The Living Force! on the Star Wars Explained YouTube channel (backup link)