I was looking through people’s opinions on Star Wars books/comic books on Reddit. For comic books someone suggested the Darth Vader comics. I read through the first few chapters and it’s just him being an idiot and manipulated by Palpatine, slaughtering his own troops and then committing atrocities on non-combatants. Does it get any better? He is gonna remain the bad guy until the end so I am not sure what the value is in reading this. Sounds like it’s made for Star Wars wehraboos.
For books some people suggested the trilogy about Thrawn. I know nothing about him except he is a villain too so I am not optimistic about that either. Haven’t started reading it yet.
I remember reading a couple star wars novels like 20 years ago. They were pretty good. There was a 3rd book in that series that I never read. Couldn’t tell you the name of any of them an probably wouldn’t recognise them to see them.