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(More customer reviews)Star Wars goes to the Dark Side
This month Dark Horse will release the first in a series titled Star Wars Jedi: The Dark Side. Scott Allie writes the latest plotline for the long running comic book series. This new line takes place in the time of the first trilogy, when the Republic is still a Republic. It follows the fate of two Jedi masters and their two students, Qui Gon with his padowan Xanatos and Tahl and her potential padowan Orykon (which sounds like a gaming convention name to me). Xanatos is a troubled youth, rash, stubborn and a braggart. Why do these Jedi masters keep letting these hot heads into the club? As becomes apparent in the inaugural issue, Xanatos has family problems. When there is a political assassination on his home world the Jedi council, headed by Yoda, dispatch both masters and their padowan to try and keep war from breaking out on the distant planet.
Xanatos thinks he is about to be dumped, and jumps over a railing of a very high structure (these architects and their 50+ story buildings with outside steps - I mean, OSHA would kill us Earthlings for that) but he is not suicidal. With a little help from the force he lands on a - well, maybe it's a flag pole or an antenna, but it is conveniently sticking out of the side of the building about 30 stories below. Master Qui Gon convinces the youth this is a test of his composure - a test he has failed twice already, so why keep testing? But off they go, and are immediately attacked when they get there. The last half of issue #1 is action with lots of words like "Voosh", "Bdow", "Bdaow", and "Bzank" in big letters all over the place. As an actioner it is typical Star Wars fare. The art is passible and the story seems to have a point that is coming in some future issue. But overall this is tried and true genre stuff.
In typical format, things are said aloud which would be unlikely to actually be stated more than thought. I have always found it odd, in any format, when a character gives his motivation for an action in voice DURRING the action. Case in point, a group who joins the battle at the end of the issue has a leader who, in the midst of a firefight, proclaims "You've attacked emissaries from Corcusant. My men will shoot to kill." This after he already shot and killed a guy. This kind of presentation always takes me out of the moment. I mean, this would be a known thing, not something that needs to be proclaimed in the fight. And with Star Wars, they miss more than they hit when they shoot anyway, so how can you tell if they are shooting to kill or maim?
In the end - this could be a decent series, could be a way too predictable series, but there is just not enough to make a judgment out of issue one. If you like Star Wars comics already, you'll like this.
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