Selena Halcyon
Jedi Master
Due to the extreme lack of hype here about all the current Star Wars stuff coming out I am taking it upon myself to get the ball rolling on some discussion. Right now there are some fantastic Star Wars comic series existing right now. One of them is the fantastic series called Darth Vader. Normally I am not into the stories focused on the bad guys but this is probably my favorite of the current running comics.
Okay so this series is just great. The first issue of it starts right after the third issue of the Star Wars. It is not essential to read the Star Wars comics to understand this series but it certainly does not hurt. The story is obviously focused on Darth Vader and it does him justice.
Any Discussion After this picture will likely contain some spoiler content.
Starts off right where Star Wars #3 ends. It gets into a meeting with both Jabba the Hutt and another with Emperor Palpatine. The meeting with Jabba is evidently early and it is because Vader is personally trying to make a deal with him outside of just what the Empire wants. In his meeting with the Emperor he just gets crapped on for his recent failures both at the Death Star and at Cymoon I. It also shows that Palpatine is keeping secrets which Vader does not like. Ends with a great two page spread of Vader destroying a tusken camp. This comes after hiring a Wookiee Bounty Hunter to find a guy that Palpatine met with, and Boba Fett to go after Luke.
So here we get another fun issue. Vader gets crapped on some more and shows just how much he lives in this awkward place in the Empire. It is interesting because these are the same kinds of situations where he would have just choked a guy out. So it is obvious that he is going to have to do some great stuff to once again re-earn his status as top dog because General Tagge (a dude that left the Death Star that was in the meeting and nay-sayed) just treated him like garbage. Vader stomps on some pirates.
Things were already good but this is where things get better. So Vader ends up discovering a traitor amidst Tagge's officials. Stomps some more pirates and ends up enlisting the girl seen in the cover, named Aphra. Aphra's a bit of a weird character. She is a bit of an archealogist, kind of is similar to Indiana Jones in her hands on approach. She has an odd respect and admiration for the Empire and of Darth Vader. She also does something with designing droids or somesuch. She ends up working alongside Vader to activate 0-0-0, the protocol droid, and BT-1, the astromech. These droids are hilarious. Literally evil C-3P0 and R2-D2. Hilarious. USing information gained from them it leads to them going into issue #4
Vader, Aphra, 0-0-0 and BT-1 go to Geonosis to try and secure an army for Vader. Yep, he is building his personal army. The find a queen who evidently has been having robot babies. Its weird but whatever. The B1 Battledroids are a bit modified to look like Geonosians. Vader and Aphra end up securing the device needed to make the droids. There is an awesome scene where BT-1 just lays waste to the B1s. I know ridiculous but fantastic. They leave, there is an interesting scene where Aphra expects Vader to kill her, which confuses him. He ends it all with saying as long as she is useful she'll live. The Wookiee shows up with the dude Palpatine met with. 0-0-0 then proceeds to interrogate him. This leads to one of the funnier exchanges. 0-0-0 says that he has good news and bad news. Vader says to get on with the good. 0-0-0 says he found out the information Vader wanted, to which Vader responds by saying 0-0-0 can dispose of the man. To which 0-0-0 just says well then I have no bad news. I laughed out loud at that moment.
Then the bomb drops. Vader is heading to the planet where the dude was at. He inquires why the dude was going there and Triple-0 (that the group calles 0-0-0 ) informs him that the guy was overseeing the training of Vader's replacements. YEP! Next issue is going to have Vader throw down with the guys Palpatine was looking to maybe take his spot. Get hype.
This series is baller and the art is great.
Okay so this series is just great. The first issue of it starts right after the third issue of the Star Wars. It is not essential to read the Star Wars comics to understand this series but it certainly does not hurt. The story is obviously focused on Darth Vader and it does him justice.
Any Discussion After this picture will likely contain some spoiler content.
Starts off right where Star Wars #3 ends. It gets into a meeting with both Jabba the Hutt and another with Emperor Palpatine. The meeting with Jabba is evidently early and it is because Vader is personally trying to make a deal with him outside of just what the Empire wants. In his meeting with the Emperor he just gets crapped on for his recent failures both at the Death Star and at Cymoon I. It also shows that Palpatine is keeping secrets which Vader does not like. Ends with a great two page spread of Vader destroying a tusken camp. This comes after hiring a Wookiee Bounty Hunter to find a guy that Palpatine met with, and Boba Fett to go after Luke.
So here we get another fun issue. Vader gets crapped on some more and shows just how much he lives in this awkward place in the Empire. It is interesting because these are the same kinds of situations where he would have just choked a guy out. So it is obvious that he is going to have to do some great stuff to once again re-earn his status as top dog because General Tagge (a dude that left the Death Star that was in the meeting and nay-sayed) just treated him like garbage. Vader stomps on some pirates.
Things were already good but this is where things get better. So Vader ends up discovering a traitor amidst Tagge's officials. Stomps some more pirates and ends up enlisting the girl seen in the cover, named Aphra. Aphra's a bit of a weird character. She is a bit of an archealogist, kind of is similar to Indiana Jones in her hands on approach. She has an odd respect and admiration for the Empire and of Darth Vader. She also does something with designing droids or somesuch. She ends up working alongside Vader to activate 0-0-0, the protocol droid, and BT-1, the astromech. These droids are hilarious. Literally evil C-3P0 and R2-D2. Hilarious. USing information gained from them it leads to them going into issue #4
Vader, Aphra, 0-0-0 and BT-1 go to Geonosis to try and secure an army for Vader. Yep, he is building his personal army. The find a queen who evidently has been having robot babies. Its weird but whatever. The B1 Battledroids are a bit modified to look like Geonosians. Vader and Aphra end up securing the device needed to make the droids. There is an awesome scene where BT-1 just lays waste to the B1s. I know ridiculous but fantastic. They leave, there is an interesting scene where Aphra expects Vader to kill her, which confuses him. He ends it all with saying as long as she is useful she'll live. The Wookiee shows up with the dude Palpatine met with. 0-0-0 then proceeds to interrogate him. This leads to one of the funnier exchanges. 0-0-0 says that he has good news and bad news. Vader says to get on with the good. 0-0-0 says he found out the information Vader wanted, to which Vader responds by saying 0-0-0 can dispose of the man. To which 0-0-0 just says well then I have no bad news. I laughed out loud at that moment.
Then the bomb drops. Vader is heading to the planet where the dude was at. He inquires why the dude was going there and Triple-0 (that the group calles 0-0-0 ) informs him that the guy was overseeing the training of Vader's replacements. YEP! Next issue is going to have Vader throw down with the guys Palpatine was looking to maybe take his spot. Get hype.
This series is baller and the art is great.
