Maybe we’d have been better off if Lucas just made “The Star Wars” into a novel series. Who knows, maybe it would’ve been adapted into a set of movies?
Maybe. Sometimes I consider the sw77 novelization (The Adventures of Luke Skywalker), Splinter of the Mind’s Eye and the three Han Solo Adventures books to be “true” Star Wars.
My favorite adaptation of Splinter was the Blue Milk Special version.
https://www.bluemilkspecial.com/comic/splinter-of-the-minds-eye-part-40/