Interesante historia paralela: Darth Vader pierde el favor del Emperador luego de la desastrosa destrucción de la Estrella de la Muerte. Así que debe buscar medios para recuperar su influencia mientras trata de averiguar los enrevesados planes de su horrible Amo.
Mientras reencontramos a muchos de nuestros personajes favoritos, aunque sea muy de pasada, y descubrimos a algunos otros, como esos droides asesinos.
El dibujo es precioso, aunque se ve mucho menos artesanal que una BD o un manga típico. 1614795207 I was nervous about the Marvel Star Wars titles, but I decided to pick up this one. The art is gorgeous and captures the details of the Star Wars universe that we know. The story sets up many mysteries that draw the reader in. The high point is Vader's confrontation with Jabba the Hutt. I enjoyed this issue very much but I will probably wait for the collected graphic novel to read the story.
There are two negatives to this title. The first is the price tag. The issue casts $4.99. I do believe that with the page count and quality you get your money's worth, but $4.99 for a comic is too much for someone who grew up paying less than a dollar for them. Marvel is going to make a ton of money on these Star Wars comics. The second negative is that unlike Dark Horse, who was able to use the expanded universe to add elements, this issue mainly takes existing canon and reuses it. I think it is done well but I will be wanting some new characters or ideas injected into the series. 1614795207 Ultimately too simplistic and well, Marvel. 1614795207 Just as well done as Star Wars #1, and showing the same time period and events as that series, although through the dark lens of Lord Vader's helmet. 1614795207 Darth Vader #1? I would say this is more like Darth Vader #32, in that I've probably seen or read 31 better depictions of everyone's favorite Sith Lord. This is the first depiction of Vader I've read in the new canon, and he is an altogether less fearsome and less important figure than he is in earlier Star Wars comics. I kept thinking of how much more evil, how much closer to the evil, silent, fearsome original, Vader is portrayed in Ron Marz's comic Extinction, where he battles one of the last of the Jedi, known only as the Dark Woman. In Extinction, after Vader kills the Dark Woman, her force ghost appears and tells him: Do you now see? Your might is nothing compared to mine. Remember, Skywalker, even a faint light shines brightest when it is surrounded by darkness. (You can see an animated version of Extinction here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2dEp...)
Even this simple metaphor and symbolism is beyond the capabilities of the Darth Vader #1 writers. The art is capable and inventive, but the dialogue really falls apart. Darth Vader sounds like a whiny pastiche of the Sheriff of Nottingham, with an interest in Eastern religion. One sample line: Enough! I would meditate. Prithee, Sir Vader, dost thou possess a darksome chamber suitable for thine meditation? *Sigh*
I'm reading these mostly to get into the new Star Wars canon, and it's working. I'll keep reading. But I'm hoping for better dialogue. 1614795207
Kieron Gillen ñ 6 Read
Darth Vader meets with Jabba the Hutt to hire bounty hunters Boba Fett and Black Krrsantan to help him pursue a personal vengeance against the rebels and investigate the Emperor's secret machinations. Vader: Volume 1
No les voy a negar que fui testigo de unas imágenes espectaculares, sobretodo cuando Darth Vader esta en Tatooine.
Me parece que abundan ilustraciones impecables y espectaculares. 1614795207 Bad Vader, very bad Vader. Kako si smeo dozvoliti unistenje zvezde smrti :)))
Odlican pocetak jos jednog serijala. Odlican artwork, realni dijalozi i likovi koji se ponasaju kako treba.
Samo dalje tako. 1614795207 absolutamente TUDO na minha carreira esse começo!!! Sidious com problemas, Vader querendo se provar e primeiro contrato Vader-Fett ALÉM DE UM WOOKIE CINZA!!!!!!!1!1 1614795207 I shouldn't be loving this Darth Vader comics (I am a Jedi for the love of Hutt's butt) but I am a Star Wars junkie and everything about Star Wars have a special place in my heart (except for many parts un the second SW trilogy, I mean that would be an awesome triumvirate if not because of the exposition and a lot of stuff that bogged them down). So Darth Vader issue one? Yeah, it is great.
This extended canon (I believe so) happened right after the events of Episode IV where we all know that the rebels stole the plans of the planet-weapon and ultimately destroys it. Vader is to be blamed for the disaster, at least the only one alive to take the responsibility.
A casual fan would right away feel at home with the comics, with the familiar text crawl and the galaxy far, far away phrase at the start. So familiar that the fanfare Star Wars music rings in my mind when I started reading it. The familiarity then extends to the characters, from Hutt the bounty hunter, the emperor and jedis.
Subtle elements that give references to the movie are abundant here as well, Gillen doesn't force-feed to the readers other things, instead gives them as subtle hints, either in imagery or in dialogue.
Vader is the protagonist in this series obviously. And he us effectively portrayed here as an intimidating, yet broken inside character. Vader is Vader. He is one of the villains that we care for.
I am happy to have collected all 25 issues of this series. Darth Vader will surely be a memorable read for me. 1614795207 The stench of the prequels hovers over this comic as if the ghost of Jar Jar (you know he hanged himself after Revenge of the Sith) blundered into the presses and farted on the paper before the comic was printed.
It’s interesting that Marvel chose Kieron Gillen to write this Darth Vader solo series because he also wrote a (terrible)Wolverine miniseries, Origin II. The two characters are comparable in that they are standouts in an ensemble cast but take them away and bring the focus entirely on them? They lose their magic.
That was arguably the biggest problem of the prequels: making Vader, or Anakin Skywalker, so central to those movies. Vader has always been brilliant as part of a bigger story - he should never BE the story. And, while Gillen doesn’t totally fail, he hasn’t made as convincing an argument for the character in Darth Vader #1.
Like Jason Aaron’s main Star Wars comic, this series is set between A New Hope and Empire, with this issue taking its cue from the ending of last week’s Star Wars #2 - Marvel’s cross-pollination has begun! The rebels have blown up an Empire-run weapons factory and Vader is now forced to barter with Jabba the Hutt. This is a villain-packed issue as Vader has interactions with the biggest and baddest in the Star Wars universe from one scene to the next. Vader trades threats with Jabba, Vader gets scolded by the Emperor, and a certain fan favourite bounty hunter makes a cameo at the end. That’s essentially it, which, for a bumper-sized issue, doesn’t add up to much.
The comic opens the classic Star Wars way: “A long time ago” etc. followed by a splash page STAR WARS: DARTH VADER, and the title crawl, which, I guess, is how Marvel are going to handle every new Star Wars comic, so that’s not going to get old anytime soon(!). But it’s the title crawl where the prequel stench begins wafting its way to the reader, mentioning Vader’s “rebirth on volcanic Mustafar”. Yuck, Revenge of the Green Screen!
Later on we’re on Coruscant in rooms that heavily reminded me of the prequels - though it is interesting to see Vader and the Emperor set against the sunlight rather than the moody iridescence of space. There’s also a panel that looks like artist Salvador Larroca copied it straight out of Episode 3 and once more there’s another scene of Vader butchering Tusken Raiders, like he did as Anakin in Episode 2.
It’s not a lot - there are far more references to the original trilogy in this comic - but it’s enough to cast a pall over the issue. I was hoping Gillen would ignore the prequels altogether but it looks like he’s challenging his audience to embrace them for this series. A challenge I’m not sure everyone’s up to and I’m hoping we’ll hear less and less about his past and more about his present as the series progresses.
The first half of the comic is quite good as Vader enters Jabba’s palace for an audience with him, mimicking the same scene Luke would play out in Jedi. Their exchange is dark and, as Vader stands over the trapdoor, there’s the possibility that Vader might fight the Rancor, Gillen playing off of the audience’s memories. Larroca’s art looks extremely slick and stylish in this sequence. Vader looks terrific, as does Jabba, and everything looks suitably high quality. The action is enjoyable if predictable - guards shoot lasers, Vader easily kills them with his lightsaber.
The second half unfortunately isn’t as fun. Set the day before Vader’s scene with Jabba, Palpatine and Vader have a dull conversation, the upshot of which is what we’ve already seen: Vader has to go to Tatooine to barter with Jabba. The Emperor doesn’t do much else than talk down to Vader and tell him off for putting the Empire at a disadvantage - it’s page after page of very dull dialogue.
The comic ends, as it began, with Vader meting out death. And though the final image is a reminder of the crapfest that was Attack of the Clones, a cameo from one of the best loved Star Wars characters lifts the spirits to end the issue more or less favourably.
Salvador Larroca’s art, along with colourist Edgar Delgado, is what makes the issue stand out as grand and epic as the reader would expect. The wide panels throughout are a good choice for a story that began on the big screen and continues on the comic book page, lending a fittingly cinematic look to the issue.
And though this isn’t a bad comic, it’s not a great one either. That’s partly, for me, the prequel flavour that’s undeniably here, but also the uneven script which is at times crisp, like in the Jabba scenes, and slow and boring in the Emperor scenes. There’s also a lack of a distinct storyline for this title - will it play back and forth with Aaron’s Star Wars story, filling in the blanks for when Vader’s off-page, or will it try and do something separate? Because, going off this first issue, it’s the former, which is unsatisfying for what you would rightly expect to be a separate series with its own story. Otherwise, why not just call this Star Wars #3 rather than Darth Vader #1?
You won’t be yelling NOOOOOOOO!!! by the end of the issue but you’re not going to be yelling YEEEEEEESS!!! either. Darth Vader #1 is a directionless, though sometimes entertaining, start to a potentially good series. 1614795207