{"id":11396,"date":"2018-02-01T17:21:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T17:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/?p=11396"},"modified":"2018-04-26T17:31:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T17:31:44","slug":"space-capes-star-wars-comics-reviews-january-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/?p=11396","title":{"rendered":"[Space Capes] Star Wars Comics Reviews – January 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

This month gave us a mixed pile of issues.\u00a0 While the “Ashes of Jedha” arc in Star Wars is a major high point other comics like Doctor Aphra and Poe Dameron fall on the lower end of quality.\u00a0 Despite that, this was a good month overall and many of these books are well worth reading.<\/p>\n

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Star Wars 41-42:<\/strong> The Jedha arc moves forward with some great moments.\u00a0 Things start to get heated up with the rebel forces taking on the nearly unstoppable mega mining craft while Luke sees the corruption of the dark side first hand.\u00a0 The battle gets bigger in issue 42 with each one of the main heroes having a good part in the plan.\u00a0 The writing is great with some fun one-liners, nice nods to Rogue One, and Han getting some character development.\u00a0 Sadly, the art is a bit of a mess.\u00a0 The standard issue of the odd mix of hyper realistic faces combined with the \u2018normal\u2019 comic designs of everyone else still sticks out like a sore thumb.\u00a0 Worse yet, in issue 42 the backgrounds are either near gradient or look like someone spilled ink on the page.\u00a0 Despite the visual missteps this is a good book and this arc has been one of the best in a long time.<\/p>\n

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Darth Vader 10:<\/strong> The Dying Light arc comes to an end with a few welcomed surprises.\u00a0 The story picks up where the last issue ended with Jocasta battling Darth Vader and the battle takes them to the streets of the city and hits some emotional places as well.\u00a0 The writing benefits from the \u2018less is more\u2019 model that this series has had thus far.\u00a0 The ending has some great moments that may lead into another story down the road.\u00a0 The art is average, with the fight looking pretty good, but sometimes movement doesn\u2019t make sense.\u00a0 Backgrounds and facial expressions seem to be improved over previous issues.\u00a0 While this run of Darth Vader (Soule, 2017) has its problems it is still worth reading if you want to see more of the Rogue One kill \u2018em all Darth Vader.<\/p>\n

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Poe Dameron 23:<\/strong> The stupid ending of the previous issue brings us into a battle with Commander Malarus of the First Order (AKA Pearl from MST3K) attacking Black Squadron while Terex starts up a plan of his own.\u00a0 This issue feels rather dry and empty.\u00a0 There is nothing that happens that can be predicted from page one and this just feels like filler to maximize the arc length.\u00a0 The writing is fine, but forgettable.\u00a0 The art has the same ugly faces as before and the battles still feel static.\u00a0 This series is overall rather bad, but when this arc ends it will have caught up with The Force Awakens.\u00a0 Sadly, that won\u2019t be the end, instead we get an arc about what happened to Poe after the crash.\u00a0 Despite another six months of this comic it will hopefully end this year.<\/p>\n

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Doctor Aphra 16:<\/strong> This might actually be the worst issue of this series so far.\u00a0 The story is nothing special with Aphra\u2019s team trying to get the information Triple-Zero wants, but then face off with the Empire and a monster.\u00a0 However, the execution of this is all wonked up.\u00a0 The scene shifts are abrupt, moments of action aren\u2019t explained and the art does not clarify the scene, and the tone is all over the place.\u00a0 This goes from dark humor, to action to drama to bad humor to romance in a whirlwind of bad.\u00a0 Two writers is clearly not helping this series.\u00a0 Despite the talents of both this collaboration just ruins the product.\u00a0 The art makes a bad script even worse.\u00a0 When discussions on forums exist to explain or figure out what was going on then you know there is a major issue with this book.\u00a0 It seems like Emilio Laiso put all his effort into drawing one kiss that he didn\u2019t have enough time\/effort to make the rest of the book look good.\u00a0 Beyond that the relationship between Aphra and Tolvan feels forced and pandering.\u00a0 Any of the subtly of this book has gone out the window and the series is suffering because of it.\u00a0 Hopefully things can turn around as this is one of my favorite of the new canon comics, but it feels like it\u2019s going to continue to go downhill until this arc ends.<\/p>\n

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DJ- Most Wanted #1:<\/strong> This one-shot is done by the same creative team as the previous tie-in book (The Storms of Crait) and tells another mostly pointless story.\u00a0 DJ finds himself getting in trouble with a casino during a con job that leads him to a chase through the city.\u00a0 You learn a little bit more about the character, but it doesn\u2019t add up to much.\u00a0 The writing is fine, possibly better than the previous book the team worked on.\u00a0 The art is a marked improvement from the previous book with everyone looking much more on point.\u00a0 Overall this is a better book than the Crait book, but it won\u2019t add much to your Last Jedi experience.<\/p>\n

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Jared the Greek
Twitter: @JaredTheGreek
Insta: @JaredTheGreek<\/p><\/div>\n

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