Star Wars #16
The brief interaction between Solo’s gender-swapped doppelgänger and his former partner-in-crime is a microcosm of everything good and bad, genius and cringe-worthy, since Marvel reclaimed the Star Wars license.
The brief interaction between Solo’s gender-swapped doppelgänger and his former partner-in-crime is a microcosm of everything good and bad, genius and cringe-worthy, since Marvel reclaimed the Star Wars license.
If Aphra is evil Han, Queen Triton is the dark mirror of Leia, daughter to a world in rebellion who instead sides with Vader.
Palpatine grooming Anakin to question his Jedi teachings brings the padawan to a place of spiritual danger and darkness.
The temptation to intercede, to go from cloister to crusader, is particularly potent, practically palpable in this issue.
Star Wars #14 constitutes the terrible events which preamble the coming eucatastrophe. Without such tremendous trepidation, the requisite relief would hardly prove a providence.
Vader is ruthless and relentless, the intimidation he exudes punctuated by definitive displays of death and destruction, more so than ever here in Vader Down
Soule and Checchetto dare to take Star Wars places the overly cautious and calculated Awakens dares not. Episode VII was a disappointment. “This will begin to make things right.”
It was not all too long ago that I too was nineteen and naïf, a neophyte initiate into an ancient religion, studying at the feet of wizened masters as their most precocious and prodigious pupil.
The Force Awakens is a new A New Hope… the very particular plot points of Episode IV hit with the precision Kenobi strangely attributed to Imperial Stormtroopers.
In Darth Vader Annual #1, the power of the Dark Side is on display, upping the ante once again, not by destroying the world of Shu-torun, but by subjugating it. Vader tightens his grip, but to Leia’s inevitable dismay, this star system does not slip through his fingers.