Two main plots this time: good guys and bad guys—it’s all in your point of view and the Big Three steal something even bigger.
It’s fascinating how these stories at once seem smaller and more compact—not able to stretch out on the big screen—and at the same time tackle things the movies couldn’t dare to approach in two hours.
Worth a read!
On a side note: how much or how little the artwork looks like Mark Hammill/Harrison Ford/Carrie Fisher varies widely, especially if you include issue covers.
Backstory! Work Obi-Wan and Luke’s uncle. A prison hidden tucked right up against a sun. Hearding Nerfs. Sana, Leia, and Aphra… working together?
It’s a decent enough adventure with quite the set pieces. I just wish I had more time in Obi-Wan’s backstory now!
And now things get complicated… Vader Down is a crossover between Star Wars (2015), Star Wars: Darth Vader (2015) and a single standalone issue. It’s a neat story, but out so I wish there were easier to read on Marvel Unlimited…
Turns out Anakin can still fly…
Anyways, Vader is forced down. One thing leads to another and the Rebellion decides that an entire battalion might be needed to keep him down.
This may not be enough.
It’s nice to see Dr. Aphra again. Been a a bit. And oh the droids.
For as annoying as it is to switch from series to series, that’s quite an enjoyable story.
The continuing in between adventures of all our original trilogy friends!
It’s a fun one, a dueling pair of adventures and a bit of backstory bridging the original trilogy and the prequels. I think that’d be an interesting era to read more about. How exactly did things go so badly so quickly.
Let’s read another Marvel Star Wars series! This time, getting a bit away from Vadar, we have Star Wars (2015). Set (initially) right after A New Hope, we have the fallout of the (first) Death Star and the whole gang out on a variety of adventures!
Overall, it’s a fun start. I’m looking forward to seeing where they go from here!
And so ends the Year of Sanderson. Tress and Yumi already hinted at new and interesting worlds in the far future of the The Cosmere, but the connections were (relatively) small parts of the story.
The Sunlit man is a bit more tied in.
It’s still in the far future. And oh, the hints we get at where the Cosmere is going… but this time, we have a protagonist we’ve met before, chock full of references to stories we’ve seen–and a few that haven’t happened yet. I won’t go into who it is–spoilers!–but it’s a neat surprise.
Overall, it’s a solid story as all the Cosmere secret projects have been. I think I prefer Tress and Yumi over Sunlit Man, but it’s by absolutely no means a bad book.
I think my only real negative is… I want more! More of protagonist. More of the Night Brigade. More of this weird offshoot society. More worldbuilding and magic.
And I’m worried we won’t see more/any of this for at the very least a very long time.
It’s still very worth the read.
Ooh, now that’s a fun one. It’s been a bit since we’ve seen Molly and the Trueblood family–what with killing her sister gone evil and all. I missed them. The dynamic between Jane and Molly was interesting, as was the relationship between Molly and her husband Evan (from what relatively little we saw of it). And Angie is fascinating–so much potential for crazy things to happen there.
So when Evan almost literally blows into town, blaming Jane for Molly gone missing? Only for some of Katie’s girls gone missing as well. And a new (old) vampire from out of town come visiting. All at the same time?
Well, things are bound to get interesting–all together perhaps my favorite book of the series thus far.