You have no idea what you're missing, man. Though we probably do have different ideas of what makes a great comic. The Rogue Squadron series has X-Wings shooting other ships down, Plourr Illo beating people up, and Wedge picking up Sate Pestage by the collar and saying "Don't make me go Vader on you" it does not, in fact, have Vader or any close equivalent.
The EU says that the Rebels hung around Yavin Four for a while, and nothing explains why they stayed there for so long. And when the Empire finally did get around to it, they caught the Rebels off guard enough that General Jan Dodonna (he was that bearded older man) got captured, and the rumor was that he was killed. Which got resolved in the X-Wing novels, but again, no reason why they didn't get out of there as soon as the hangovers wore off.