|
Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 23, 2024 22:27:01 GMT -5
Dark Empire #5 Cover dated : August 1992 Issue title : Book 5: Emperor reborn Script: Tom Veitch Artwork: Cam Kennedy Letters: Todd Klein Cover art Dave Dorman Overall rating: 9 of 10 Summary : We open with Ninx and Salla hiding out with a freighter captain buddy when Han calls for a pick up. They get way laid by a 'hunter-killer probe droid'.. which seems capable of taking out a starship. Meanwhile, Leia is hanging out with the Emperor. He tries to convince her he's just a kinda old man, and shows her some junk from his attic, THE Jedi Holocron. While Leia is checking it out, he springs on her he plans to steal her unborn child to live in, and she strikes out at him and feels with the holocron. The anger WAS part of the plan, but losing the Holocron it seems was not, so the Emperors hollers for the guards. Meanwhile, Han and Chewie try to break out of prison, when Salla turns up having stolen the probe droid and breaks him out.. just in time for Leia and Luke to turn up. Han is ready to blast him, but Leia convinces him not toand they all board the Falcon, with R2 chock full of battle plans to take out the Devastators (apparently that's still going...) Once they are in hyperspace, Luke fades out (he was using a Dark Side trick to fool them into thinking he was there). LOVE the effect here: Back on Byss... Luke thinks he's ready to take out the Emperor.. the Emperor seemingly immolates himself (the art isn't super clear) and Luke starts slashing clones... but he misses one. The newly young and virile Emperor outduels Luke and promises he WILL surrender to the Dark Side.. to be concluded! My View : The scene with Leia and the Emperor is my favorite one in the series.. so good, and it really, to me, is the first time they really treat Leia as Luke's equal and a jedi in her own right... she outsmarts the Emperor in her own way, and give Luke every chance she can. My gripe with the issue is the probe droid... exactly how big is it? In the first scene it seems bigger than the Falcon and is shrugging off missiles, but then Salla hot wires it and uses it to blast a hole in the wall, which makes it seem, well, probe droid sized. The art is not at all clear and it annoys me greatly. It seems like being a big smart Jedi Master Luke could have planned the confrontation with the Emperor better... like why leave light sabers lying around for him to use? And why run around and try to slash each clone, why not just blow up the room? Also, while it makes sense in context, Luke duelling the naked Emperor is very creepy. This is another of those times Han is wrong too... he absolutely would have just blasted Luke on site at that point... instead he monologued. I'm not sure if it's just the wording or what, but the dialogue seems to indicate Leia is pregnant and Han doesn't know about it? I double checked, and it's not mentioned before this, so maybe just the Emperor sensed it? Or maybe he's talking about the future? The time line is a bit fuzzy, but pretty sure Anakin is born within the year at least. The back matter this time was about the Holocron, which serves as a summary of the upcoming Tales of the Jedi series... it talks about the Krath and Ulic Qel-Droma. The letters are pretty boring (almost generic and mostly positive)...the only negative was another person questioning the twins. The response actually plugged Dark Force Rising, which I thought was nice. Other responses promised another series to follow in 1993 and Tales of the Jedi in the meantime. What they DONT mention is Classic Star Wars, which reprints the newspapers strips from Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson, which is odd. (I won't be reviewing those here since Confessor covered them just fine) Continuity Notes: I'm struggling with how long all this has been taking... have our heroes been on Byss a couple hours... or weeks? It seems like it should be the latter, but if that's the case why is the battle for Calamari still going on? Its very unclear. I don't recall Obi-Wan ever telling Luke about the Jedi Holocron, but it seems like it could have happened (on or off camera) easily enough so I'll allow it. Of course here it's just the one, and its part puzzle box... sort of like the one they used most recently in the Mandalorian... of course not too much later. There's LOTS of stuff in the back matter. It mentions Carbonite is not just used to freeze people. But in hyperdrives.. I don't ever recall that being mentioned before or since, but maybe that's just a detail I missed. Of course the recent High Republic stuff kinda puts any of the Tales of the Jedi stuff set thousands of years ago out of continuity, but then again nothing directly contradicts it, it just doesn't make sense that would be doing things like just getting around to Starlight station if they had been around thousands of years prior. It also mentions that '10000 jedi' got together to decide what do to on Krath, so there were ALOT of Jedi then and apparently they were a Democracy, and not rules by a council. Seems impractical, but is kinda cool. It also mentions Ulic was on the case for the Krath because it was his region of space, ALA the Green Lantern Corps. That's clearly not a thing any other time.
|
|
|
Post by codystarbuck on Jun 24, 2024 21:38:30 GMT -5
Dark Empire #5 Cover dated : August 1992 Issue title : Book 5: Emperor reborn Script: Tom Veitch Artwork: Cam Kennedy Letters: Todd Klein Cover art Dave Dorman Overall rating: 9 of 10 ............... Also, while it makes sense in context, Luke duelling the naked Emperor is very creepy................ Have you ever seen the Blake Edward's movie Skin Deep (with John Ritter)?
|
|
|
Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 24, 2024 21:51:49 GMT -5
I have not... I take it there is some connection (I looked on wiki real quick...I'm very curious to know what the link is).
|
|
|
Post by codystarbuck on Jun 25, 2024 10:07:25 GMT -5
I have not... I take it there is some connection (I looked on wiki real quick...I'm very curious to know what the link is). There is one scene in particular. In deference to sensibilities, I'll just provide a link....... Skin Deep "lightsabers"The movie is rather mixed; but, there are some really good scenes in it. John Ritter is a writer who has a weakness for women and it constantly messes up his life. The story is uneven; but, Edwards makes great use of Ritter's talent for physical comedy, especially in one scene, where he runs into an ex-girlfriend, who gets some revenge with an electrical muscle stimulator machine (like a TEMS device).
|
|
Confessor
CCF Mod Squad
Not Bucky O'Hare!
Posts: 9,981
|
Post by Confessor on Jun 25, 2024 10:15:48 GMT -5
Dark Empire #5 ![](https://i.imgur.com/ZI2WG17.jpeg) Another excellent front cover from Dave Dorman. They get way laid by a 'hunter-killer probe droid'.. which seems capable of taking out a starship. My gripe with the issue is the probe droid... exactly how big is it? In the first scene it seems bigger than the Falcon and is shrugging off missiles, but then Salla hot wires it and uses it to blast a hole in the wall, which makes it seem, well, probe droid sized. The art is not at all clear and it annoys me greatly. I'm not sure where the Hunter-Killer probe droids originated from -- whether it was a West End games SWRPG invention or whether Dark Empire is their first appearance. I'm gonna assume that it's the latter. Anyway, I agree that the size of the Hunter Killers isn't all that clear and, on top of that, I've always thought they had a crappy name. Basically, this is just a super-dooper, super-scary probe droid, which is a bit eyeroll-inducing for me (mind you, Archie Goodwin used much the same idea in the "Death Probe" story from issue #41 of the old Marvel series). The other thing I disliked about the Hunter-Killer probe droid episode is that having Salla and Shug Ninx get inside it and hot wire the thing just kind of comes out of nowhere. From a story-telling perspective is seems a bit clunky. We didn't necessarily need to see them getting inside the droid or actually hot wiring it, of course, but I feel like a panel at least suggesting that Salla had a plan involving the probe droid would've worked well. ...the Emperor seemingly immolates himself (the art isn't super clear)... I always interpreted it as the Emperor using his own Dark Side Force lightning on himself or something... ![???](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/huh.png) The scene with Leia and the Emperor is my favorite one in the series.. so good, and it really, to me, is the first time they really treat Leia as Luke's equal and a jedi in her own right... she outsmarts the Emperor in her own way, and give Luke every chance she can. I agree that Leia really shines in this scene. On the downside, the Emperor seems like an idiot to let her throw him off his bed and steal the Holochron (you didn't foresee that turn of events, did ya, Palpy?!). It seems like being a big smart Jedi Master Luke could have planned the confrontation with the Emperor better... like why leave light sabers lying around for him to use? And why run around and try to slash each clone, why not just blow up the room? OK, I'm gonna address the elephant in the room: Luke's whole plan is ludicrous! For one thing, Luke allowing himself to succumb to the Dark Side of the Force and become the Emperor's right-hand man, like his father had been, just seems like a really reckless thing to do, given how dangerous and seductive Luke knows the Dark Side to be. Also, Luke must know that that the Emperor will see through his deception -- which he absolutely does! Yet, Luke carries on regardless and -- even more amazingly -- Palpatine goes along with it too, knowingly letting Luke sabotage the battle on Mon Calamari from afar because he vaguely hopes that Luke's plan will backfire and he will become mired in the Dark Side. Then there's Palpatine knowing full well that Luke intends to try and kill him, which is apparently of no concern, even though the Emperor knows that Luke is a very powerful Jedi. To me, both Luke and the Emperor's motivations in this seem really stupid and out of character. ...Luke duelling the naked Emperor is very creepy. I agree. It makes for a really memorable sequence. ...the dialogue seems to indicate Leia is pregnant and Han doesn't know about it? I double checked, and it's not mentioned before this, so maybe just the Emperor sensed it? Or maybe he's talking about the future? The time line is a bit fuzzy, but pretty sure Anakin is born within the year at least. Yeah, Leia is pregnant with Anakin Solo in Dark Empire and, no, she hasn't told Han about it at this point. In fact, re-reading this issue earlier today, I found myself wondering whether Leia even knew she was pregnant herself, prior to the Emperor revealing it. The back matter this time was about the Holocron, which serves as a summary of the upcoming Tales of the Jedi series... it talks about the Krath and Ulic Qel-Droma. Yeah, more world-building for the up-coming Tales of the Jedi series, which is kinda cool. I think it's interesting that clearly Dark Horse were planning to have a sprawling, well planned out continuity and history in their Star Wars comics right from the very start, which is something that sets them apart from Marvel's earlier approach. What they DONT mention is Classic Star Wars, which reprints the newspapers strips from Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson, which is odd. (I won't be reviewing those here since Confessor covered them just fine) Actually, I didn't...it was thwhtguardian who reviewed the newspaper strips. I just did the original Marvel run. ... mentions Carbonite is not just used to freeze people. But in hyperdrives.. I don't ever recall that being mentioned before or since, but maybe that's just a detail I missed. Hmmm…I wonder if this is a mistake and they meant tibanna gas, not carbonite? Tibanna gas being used as a coolant in hyperdrive systems was something that originated in the supplementary material for the West Games' Star Wars: The Role-Playing Game in the late '80s. So, that fact was second tier cannon by 1991, when Dark Empire was published. I've never heard of carbonite being used in hyperdrives though. EDIT: A quick Google search seems to reveal that something called a "carbonite insert" is used in hyperdrives, but that's something that was apparently first mentioned in Dark Empire II in 1994. So, maybe they did mean carbonite after all, and this was new cannon they were just creating…and then they went into a bit more detail in DE II? Wookiepedia also tells me that prior to the invention of hyperdrives, carbonite was used to put spacers into hibernation for long journeys. I'm struggling with how long all this has been taking... have our heroes been on Byss a couple hours... or weeks? It seems like it should be the latter, but if that's the case why is the battle for Calamari still going on? Its very unclear. My impression has always been that, yes, the battle over Mon Calamari is still taking place and that Leia and Han have, by issue #5, been on Byss a couple of days at most. Don't ask me exactly why I think that, but that has always been the impression I've gotten. I agree that it isn't especially clear though.
|
|
|
Post by Calidore on Jun 25, 2024 13:45:21 GMT -5
At first glance, that cover looked to me like Doc Savage holding a lightsaber. Which would be awesome.
|
|
|
Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 25, 2024 14:14:00 GMT -5
I definitely never thought that before (I don't think I knew who Doc Savage was when I first read this) but I can see that... I wonder if it was on purpose.
That's a good call that maybe they got Tibanna gas and carbonite confused...or even if you want to go with Tibanna gas is used to create carbonite somehow.
I agree that Luke's plan is dumb, but I do think it's in character. He gets increasingly arrogant as his power grows... from taking on the Emperor in RotJ to that stuff in Heir to the Empire with both Mara Jade and Joruus Ca'boath. He goes from being insecure in his skills to complete confident he can spawn a new Jedi Order in a few years.
Incidently, that confidence/arrogance is exactly why the bitter, secluded Luke from the new movies doesn't work for me at all.
As far as the Emperor goes, I think he simply underestimated Leia.. clearly he was testing her to see if she had the 'Skywalker anger'... I'm sure he wanted her to attack him. Stealing the Holocron was the bit he didn't forsee. Perhaps that's a sign that Leia is less suseptible to the dark side... which would make sense.
|
|
|
Post by Calidore on Jun 25, 2024 16:19:20 GMT -5
Now that I look again, he's also in the Terminator time-travel crouch. This is rapidly approaching awesomeness critical mass.
I want a Doc Savage: Terminator Jedi comic, dammit!
|
|
|
Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 25, 2024 17:35:43 GMT -5
Chat GPT gave me this:
ChatGPT Title: Doc Savage: Jedi Terminator
Synopsis:
In a daring fusion of genres, "Doc Savage: Jedi Terminator" combines the iconic elements of pulp adventure, futuristic sci-fi, and mystical martial arts. Set in a dystopian future where technology and the Force collide, the story follows Clark Savage Jr., a brilliant scientist and explorer who was genetically enhanced to become the ultimate human specimen known as Doc Savage.
As the last surviving member of an ancient order of Jedi, Doc Savage harnesses the mystical powers of the Force to fight against a tyrannical empire ruled by a ruthless AI overlord, Xeres. Xeres seeks to control the galaxy by enslaving humanity through advanced technology and cybernetic enhancements.
Unbeknownst to Xeres, Doc Savage possesses a unique ability to meld his Jedi training with cutting-edge cybernetic implants, turning him into a formidable force—part man, part machine, and entirely dedicated to restoring balance to the galaxy. With his loyal team of specialists—each with their own extraordinary skills—Doc embarks on a perilous mission to infiltrate Xeres' fortress, where the fate of the rebellion hangs in the balance.
Facing relentless waves of robotic assassins and mind-controlled minions, Doc Savage must confront his own inner conflict between humanity and machine. Alongside his Jedi mentor's teachings and his team's unwavering support, Doc Savage uncovers the key to defeating Xeres—a long-lost artifact that can amplify his Force abilities to unprecedented levels.
As the climactic battle unfolds, Doc Savage merges his Jedi prowess with the unyielding determination of a Terminator, leading a rebellion that sparks hope across the galaxy. In a final showdown with Xeres, Doc Savage unleashes a fusion of Force lightning and cybernetic enhancements, culminating in an epic struggle that will determine the future of humanity and the balance of the Force itself.
"Doc Savage: Jedi Terminator" is a thrilling adventure that blends the timeless heroics of Doc Savage with the futuristic allure of Jedi mysticism and Terminator-like resilience, creating a unique cinematic experience that pushes the boundaries of imagination and action.
|
|
|
Post by Duragizer on Jun 27, 2024 1:08:41 GMT -5
Meanwhile, Leia is hanging out with the Emperor. He tries to convince her he's just a kinda old man, and shows her some junk from his attic, THE Jedi Holocron. That's my favourite moment in the issue. ![](https://i.imgur.com/fODdTez.jpg) And here's another instance of Veitch's Palpatine being a much more compelling villain that Lucas'. Veitch's Palpatine seeks to dominate and control everything, including the Jedi. He wouldn't have the Jedi exterminated due to sectarian rivalry or vengeance, not when he could corrupt them instead. That's also why I don't like the idea of him being a Sith, either. He should be a complete egoist motivated by nothing other than his own self-interest. They were quite decentralized in TOTJ. You see Jedi masters like Vodo Siosk-Baas running their own schools, but no hierarchy greater than that. How the Jedi should ideally be, IMO.
|
|
|
Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 29, 2024 8:00:00 GMT -5
I agree about the Emperor...I feel like he is his own thing. Before the EU, I always imagined HE was the Sith essentially, and Dark Empire was sort of leaning into that with mentioning him writing books about it. But then in just a short while we'll see that it was a whole thing from many years ago. The perils of retcons and prequels. I think more and more people agree with you that the Jedi should have been de-centralized... since we get more and more non-Jedi force users as time goes by. I'm fine with them having a council and all that, but I agree some should not work for the government, and, most importantly, it shouldn't be a thing were they scour the universe for recruits and steal children.. That's really just bad. Dark Empire #6 Cover dated : October 1992 Issue title : Book 6: The Fate of a Galaxy Script: Tom Veitch Artwork: Cam Kennedy Letters: Todd Klein Cover art Dave Dorman Overall rating: 5 of 10 Summary: We start off with Han trying to get the data to stop the World Devastators out of Artoo, and struggling. They get it done and the Devastators all stop, but can still run their weapons factories so it's not that helpful. Artoo then has 'delusions of grandeur' (nice call back to one of my favorite quotes) and figures out how to take over the Devastators instead of just shutting them off and makes them all smash into each other.... Rebels win!! The victory is short lived though, back at Pinnacle base we are told the Emperor has consolidated all the Imperial remants and as made the deep core an 'inviolable fortress'. Mon Mothma asks for a plan and the meeting splits up. Later, the Emperor turns up and offers a truce in exchange for Leia and his Holocron back. Of course Leia goes. The conflict is.... not very interesting... Leia (without too much trouble) convinces Luke to come back from the brink and he cuts off the Emperors hand in a very brief light saber battle. The Emperor then gets mad and creates a 'dark side storm' which starts to eat the rebel fleet. Leia and Luke the join in the forces and overpower the dark side and make the storm eat the Emperor's ship instead. Jedi Win! Everything is good? Maybe! My thoughts : talk about making your big superweapon irrelevant quick. Artoo didn't even bother to keep them for the rebels and just smashes them up. Apparently the new fighters and Lando generaling was not really needed, just a plucky Astromech. And while the battle with the Emperor was pretty boring, it WAS fun that the page had Yoda quotes throughout. Its not clear if Luke was using them as a mantra of sorts of if it was just for us readers, but it either way I appreciated it. What was less fun is the psychoanalysis part... Luke did all this to understand his dead father? Just a bit selfish, no? Han's dialogue was really, really bad.. 'Did Luke pull a fasty on us?' really? The cover though... SO good.... Leia in Jedi mode! Not sure why the lightsabers look like flashlights, but otherwise very memorable. Overall, I think the pacing just is too off for the plot to really hold well together, and there are just too many details we don't see. Maybe if this was a novel and not a comic it could have been more fleshed out, or if it was an ongoing series and not a mini. The back matter was not very exciting, and in fact was a bit repetitive. It finally names Jacen and Jaina though! The letters page has a fun bit about the Star Wars Echo BBS... made me giggle. I wish I had known about it in 1993! Classic Star Wars is mentioned in the letters pages as completely unconnected to what Tom Veitch is doing. Continuity Notes: Going a step beyond just the wonky coloring... on the cover the Emperor has a red lightsaber and Luke a yellow one. In the book.. the Emperor has the same light blue one every lightsaber in the series has been, but LUKE'S is red. Not sure if that's on purpose or not. If you think about it for a bit, it makes NO SENSE that Artoo wrecked the Devastators...even if they kept them as factories they would be amazing assets to the alliance... and don't tell me he didn't think of it because he hacked the things. It seems like Pinnacle base was a secret, but clearly the Emperor found it easy enough... so why have the nonsense with the bats leading ships deep into the cavern if its not a secret? Finally, the story has a pretty definite ending, I know its NOT the end, but maybe it should have been. I guess we'll see in Dark Empire II.
|
|
|
Post by Duragizer on Jun 29, 2024 18:33:42 GMT -5
Going a step beyond just the wonky coloring... on the cover the Emperor has a red lightsaber and Luke a yellow one. In the book.. the Emperor has the same light blue one every lightsaber in the series has been, but LUKE'S is red. Not sure if that's on purpose or not. I feel it must've been intentional, because it's the only time a non-blue lightsaber appears in DE 1 or 2. In this context, blue = isolation, darkness, frigidity, red = communion, light, warmth. It's a nice inversion of the cliched colour symbolism of the films. Overall, though, I think it's a mistake to take the lightsaber colours in this series literally. I doubt Luke swapped out his distinctive green lightsaber for a blue one, and later a red one, only to go back to green afterward for no particular reason. Kennedy's art is Expressionist, and should be evaluated through that framework.
|
|
Confessor
CCF Mod Squad
Not Bucky O'Hare!
Posts: 9,981
|
Post by Confessor on Jun 30, 2024 8:02:37 GMT -5
OK, some thoughts on issue #6 and responses to Wildfire2099's excellent review… Issue #6 was probably the weakest part of the whole story for me. For one thing, the dialogue was pretty dire across most of the issue. For another, the climax with Luke, Leia and the princess's unborn child joining their Force talent together to defeat the Emperor just didn't work that well on the comics page: it was too static, with not enough visually to engage the reader. And finally, having R2 just introduce a gizmo supercode to knock out the World Devastators smacked of Veitch running out of page space to sort the situation on Mon Calamari out. Later, the Emperor turns up and offers a truce in exchange for Leia and his Holocron back. Of course Leia goes. The conflict is.... not very interesting... Leia (without too much trouble) convinces Luke to come back from the brink and he cuts off the Emperors hand in a very brief light saber battle. I thought that Luke cutting off the Emperor's hand was a nice symbolic touch, alluding to both Luke losing his hand to Vader on Cloud City and to Vader then losing his hand to Luke on the second Death Star. To me it just seemed like an obvious callback to the original trilogy. talk about making your big superweapon irrelevant quick. Artoo didn't even bother to keep them for the rebels and just smashes them up. Apparently the new fighters and Lando generaling was not really needed, just a plucky Astromech. Well, I guess that General Calrissian and the rest of the Alliance and Mon Calamari forces did at least hold the World Devastators at bay until Han and Leia could arrive in the Millennium Falcon with R2-D2 to sort them out. Without the Alliance's participation, the fate of Mon Calamari would've been much, much worse. And while the battle with the Emperor was pretty boring, it WAS fun that the page had Yoda quotes throughout. Its not clear if Luke was using them as a mantra of sorts of if it was just for us readers, but it either way I appreciated it. Yeah, the Yoda quotes were a nice touch. Something I also thought was kinda cool in retrospect was that Luke says that he found tremendous fear within the Dark Side; that ties in very nicely with Yoda's comment to young Anakin in The Phantom Menace that, "Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." What was less fun is the psychoanalysis part... Luke did all this to understand his dead father? Just a bit selfish, no? Yeah, that was a real…"Ooooookay then" moment for me. Very selfish and needlessly dangerous, I'd say. It kinda makes Luke seem like a bit of a d*ck. Han's dialogue was really, really bad.. 'Did Luke pull a fasty on us?' really? Yeah, I completely agree. Han's dialogue has been hit and miss throughout this series, but in this issue, I found a lot of the various characters' dialogue to be mildly excruciating. Overall, I think the pacing just is too off for the plot to really hold well together, and there are just too many details we don't see. Maybe if this was a novel and not a comic it could have been more fleshed out, or if it was an ongoing series and not a mini. I agree. This issue felt a bit rushed to me, in a way that the previous five hadn't. It almost makes you wonder if Veitch could've done with another two instalments to play with. Classic Star Wars is mentioned in the letters pages as completely unconnected to what Tom Veitch is doing. Yeah, the Star Wars newspaper strips that Classic Star Wars is reprinting at this point are a completely separate continuity to the old Marvel series and the current Dark Horse comics. Back in the day, I remember being a bit disappointed when I realised that these new Dark Horse comics weren't gonna use the same "comics continuity" as the Marvel comics. I soon got over that disappointment and realised that the DH stories worked much better as their own thing, but yeah...as a massive fan of the Marvel run, I was slightly bummed that those stories had been cast aside. In the book.. the Emperor has the same light blue one every lightsaber in the series has been, but LUKE'S is red. Not sure if that's on purpose or not. I think the colouring of Luke's lightsaber red was absolutely done on purpose. Back when these comics were published, there was hardly any lore about the significance of lightsaber colours – all we knew was, the Sith used red sabers and the Jedi use white/blue ones (or green at a push). Kennedy's decision to colour Luke's saber red is to show us that he is now very much "in the Dark Side", just as Vader was. That said, I have no idea why the Emperor's saber is coloured blue (surely it should be red too), but I can only assume that was a design choice that looked better on the page. Actually, I almost wondered if the Emperor had picked up Leia's lightsaber to battle Luke with, but I don't think so. Personally, I'd rather the Emperor's lightsaber was red as well. If you think about it for a bit, it makes NO SENSE that Artoo wrecked the Devastators...even if they kept them as factories they would be amazing assets to the alliance... and don't tell me he didn't think of it because he hacked the things. Good point. That hadn't occurred to me. Finally, the story has a pretty definite ending, I know its NOT the end, but maybe it should have been. I guess we'll see in Dark Empire II. Is the ending really that definite? It very much seems like it's been left open for a continuation, should this inaugural series prove to be popular with readers. Mind you, I think it was a nicely satisfying ending. Great set of Dark Empire reviews, wildfire2099. Well done! I've really enjoyed following them and commenting. So, what’s next? Do you plan to review all the Dark Horse series in their published order? I believe the first Tales of the Jedi mini-series would be next. Or are you going to follow storylines across various sets of mini-series, so Dark Empire II with be next, followed by Empire's End?
|
|
|
Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 30, 2024 9:18:35 GMT -5
My initial plan was to do Dark Empire II and Empire's End first, the go back to do Tales of the Jedi... but I had forgotten the connections between the two, so I think I'm going to (for now) stick with publication order and do Tales of the Jedi next.
I definitely will wait on the Droids series until after these two story run their course.
One thing I just realize I forgot to ask about... see if one of you UK guys know. The letters page referenced that Tales of the Jedi would be in 'Star Wars #7-#9'... looking at Mike's I see it seems maybe a magazine size book just called 'Star Wars' that reprinted Dark Empire, with Indiana Jones as a back up and maybe some other stuff. Did that have anything different/extra in it? It seems like Tales of the Jedi maybe got delayed. because instead of it appearing right after reprinting Dark Empire they did some of the Classic Star Wars stories then put the 1st Tales of the Jedi in the (last) issue #10.
|
|
|
Post by chaykinstevens on Jun 30, 2024 10:08:23 GMT -5
According to Wookiepedia, Dark Horse International's Star Wars #7-9 reprinted Indiana Jones from Dark Horse Comics #3-6, apparently in 8-page chunks. These were half the length of the Indy reprints in #1-6, leaving room for Tales of the Jedi 8-pagers, reprinted from Dark Horse Comics #7-9.
|
|