Exactly the comic I was looking for Marvel to create! New adventures for Luke, Han and Leia after "Return of the Jedi"! The only problem is, as the saying goes, "all roads lead to the sequel trilogy": Han and Leia split apart, Luke becomes a bitter old man, Ben Solo becomes Kylo Ren.
But with a 30 year gap between "Return of the Jedi" and "The Force Awakens", maybe all of the "bad stuff" can be pushed to occur in the last 10 years prior to "The Force Awakens", leaving "good stuff" for the 20 years prior.
I'm going to do a comparison, sorry for the segway:
One of the things about "Conan the Barbarian" novels/comics is that you can set it in 3 different periods:
1. When Conan is a young thief scraping by and taking challenges, still getting used to the world outside of his homeland Cimmeria.
2. When Conan is an adult mercenary soldier, fighting battles and seeking riches. There's 2 distinct sub sections for this era - first, early in this period, in his early 20's, when he's a pirate and with the love of his life, the pirate Queen Belit, and then his late 30's/early 40's, when he's serving in the Aquilonian army and rising in popularity, eventually to take over the kingdom.
3. When Conan is a King: From his early to mid 40's, to the end of his life, he's the King of Aquilonia (and the comics also explored him being a husband and father, but mostly it's about him defending his kingdom and conquering other kingdoms).
Conan writers tend to shove most of the made up adventures into the middle section, from say Age 20 to 40. /end segway.
We're now able to do the same thing with Star Wars:
1. Have stories set during the Empire (from "Revenge of the Sith" to "A New Hope"). That's an 18 year period that's wide open, but they've been mining that area for stories for years (both by Marvel Comics and previously by Dark Horse).
2. Have stories set during the original trilogy period (from the "Battle of Yavin" to "Battle of Endor" - or to the "Battle of Jakku", I suppose). That's been the main focus for Marvel the last several years.
3. And now we can finally explore from "Return of the Jedi" to "The Force Awakens".
I'm looking forward to it, as long as they don't try and tie every single plot detail into the sequel trilogy (the story cutting to what's happening with a revived Palpatine, or cutting to the creation of Snoke). Just do something new, Marvel/Disney!
I'd posted this back in 2016, over ten years ago!