Dark Horse Comics has been the publisher for the Star Wars line of comic books for many years and have released a number of comics based on various Star Wars video and PC games. Today Dark Horse and BioWare jointly announced plans to release an online-only comic book based on Star Wars: The Old Republic, the upcoming MMO game that BioWare is developing for LucasArts and EA.

The online comic will launch later this month with new "issues" appearing every other Friday on the game's official web site. The series will be written by BioWare's own Rob Chestney and feature art by Alex Sanchez. It will serve as a prequel to the events that will occur in the game. You can check out a early pencil page from the comic right here.