![]() ![]() And he’s not a particularly emotive, talkative, expressive or colorful bad guy. Vader is, obviously, not the ideal candidate for his ongoing comic book because, despite the prequel trilogy’s attempts to make him a sort of tragic figure, he’s still the bad guy. In the pages of Vader, we see some scenes that feed directly into the Star Wars comic, others that serve as the result of what occurred there, and the last moments in both trade collections are the exact same scene told slightly differently: Vader being informed of the last name of the rebel pilot who blew up the Death Star and, more recently, embarrassed him by helping destroy an Imperial weapons factory right under Vader’s nose…er, respirator. ![]() Marvel’s second monthly ongoing Star Wars series is also the first to star Darth Vader, although the Dark Lord of The Sith has been the protagonist of several excellent miniseries created by the franchise’s previous license-holder, Dark Horse Comics.ĭespite having a different writer in Kieron Gillen, the series is tied so incredibly closely to the Jason Aaron-written Star Wars ongoing that Vader’s storyline seems to criss-cross in and out of them both. ![]()
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