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Vader and Tagge begin their cold war with one another while trying to work together to track down the source of an automated pirate attack on Imperial supplies. Vader won’t take his demotion from Palpatine lightly…
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It’s nice to finally get back behind Vader’s helmet after spending so many years with Anakin Skywalker in the prequels and The Clone Wars, but all that time spent with Anakin provides a new perspective on the fear inspiring enforcer of the Emperor. Darth Vader #1 revolves around a recent string of failures for Vader, just what exactly those failures mean for the Empire and his place in it, and it finds a unique way to express the Skywalker hidden deep inside the helmeted menace.
During the Cup o’ Joe panel at San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel finally announced some new series for their recently acquired Star Wars comics license. While more exciting than the pricey reprint of their original Star Wars run from some decades ago, Marvel’s three new series all take place in-between A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back, ground well-traveled for the saga in comics. This has a lot of people worried and/or uninterested, but the creative teams behind each series, Star Wars, Darth Vader, and Princess Leia all seem enthusiastic about working on the license, are fans themselves, and will be under the eyes of the Lucasfilm Story Group, all of which means not giving these a chance seems like a mistake.
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