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A Star Wars: Yoda #7 Micro-Review – Yoda vs. General Grievous
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TITLE: Star Wars: Yoda #7
AUTHOR: Marc Guggenheim
ARTISTS: Alessandro Miracolo, Annalisa Leoni (Colorist), Joe Caramagna (Letterer). Cover by Phil Noto.
RELEASED: May 3, 2023
By Rob Siebert
Fanboy Wonder
As the cover indicates, we get a fight between Yoda and General Grievous in this issue. It manages to be a pretty good fight, with Yoda being more formidable than one might initially anticipate. “Size matters not,” etc.
Have we officially established that the voice Yoda hears during the Dagobah scenes is Qui-Gon Jinn? Who else could it be…?
This Yoda series is working for me. You wouldn’t necessarily think Yoda would work as the subject of an ongoing. But here we are.
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A Star Wars: Yoda #6 Micro-Review – “Always Present, the Dark Side is.”
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TITLE: Star Wars: Yoda #6
AUTHOR: Jody Houser
ARTISTS: Luke Ross, Nolan Woodard (Colorist), Joe Caramagna (Letterer). Cover by Phil Noto.
RELEASED: April 19, 2023
By Rob Siebert
Fanboy Wonder
There’s some good dark-side related stuff in here. Namely about how the dark side is part of the Force itself, and always there as a temptation. I like that notion. It rings true to how certain temptations work in the real world.
At the risk of harping on, I really can’t say enough good things about how Luke Ross and Nolan Woodard render Yoda. There’s so much detail there that he almost looks drawn from life. It’s a big selling point for this series, as far as I’m concerned.
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A Star Wars: Yoda #5 Micro-Review – A Planet of the Apes Vibe
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TITLE: Star Wars: Yoda #5
AUTHOR: Jody Houser
ARTISTS: Luke Ross, Nolan Woodard (Colorist), Joe Caramagna (Letterer). Cover by Phil Noto.
RELEASED: March 15, 2023
By Rob Siebert
Fanboy Wonder
Luke Ross is a tremendous Star Wars artist at large, beyond simply drawing an amazing Yoda. There are a lot of wookiees in this issue, and Ross does a fine job making them distinct from Chewbacca. I get a little bit of a Planet of the Apes vibe, which works for me.
As a longtime Star Wars geek, I appreciate Houser incorporating the feud between wookiees and Trandoshans into this story. That’s been a part of Star Wars lore for a long time, dating back to a feud between Chewbacca and Bossk.
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A Star Wars: Han Solo & Chewbacca #10 Micro-Review – A Jumbled Conclusion
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TITLE: Star Wars: Han Solo & Chewbacca #10
AUTHOR: Marc Guggenheim
ARTISTS: David Messina, Alex Sinclair (Colorist), Joe Caramagna (Letterer). Cover by Phil Noto.
RELEASED: March 1, 2023
By Rob Siebert
Fanboy Wonder
This issue contains an origin story for the remote that was on the Falcon in the original Star Wars movie. Because that’s something everyone was calling for, right?
We also get the equivalent of a post-credits scene in this issue. Which is kinda neat, but also odd considering Star Wars movies don’t do them.
I wasn’t enamored with this issue. But it brought the “Dead or Alive” story to a reasonable conclusion, albeit a bit of a jumbled one.
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A Star Wars: Yoda #4 Micro-Review – A Young Christopher Lee
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TITLE: Star Wars: Yoda #4
AUTHOR: Jody Houser
ARTISTS: Luke Ross, Nolan Woodard (Colorist), Joe Caramagna (Letterer). Cover by Phil Noto.
RELEASED: February 22, 2022
By Rob Siebert
Fanboy Wonder
For Count Dooku, this issue’s artistic team do a nice job evoking a young Christopher Lee, all while giving him a look (i.e. hair and beard style) he apparently never adopted in his real life.
By virtue of a young Dooku being present, this story might make a nice companion to some of those Tales of the Jedi shorts that came out on Disney+ awhile back.
Luke Ross draws an absolutely amazing Yoda. The level of detail he injects into the character is stellar.
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A Star Wars: Yoda #3 Micro-Review – Yoda Out Yonder
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TITLE: Star Wars: Yoda #3
AUTHOR: Cavan Scott
ARTISTS: Nico Leon, Dono Sanchez-Almara (Colorist), Joe Caramagna (Letterer). Cover by Phil Noto.
RELEASED: January 25, 2023
The book’s inaugural story wraps up here. I haven’t necessarily been enthralled with the story up to this point. But Scott, Leon, and their crew stuck the landing with this story about a conflict between two alien races, and an ending that feels true to what the Jedi Order fight for. This is the strongest Star Wars: Yoda has been yet.
Leon and Sanchez-Almara’s renderings of Yoda really stood out to me this month. They may have a better handle on the character than any team I’ve seen recently.
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A Star Wars: Han Solo & Chewbacca #9 Micro-Review – Drawn From Life
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TITLE: Star Wars: Han Solo & Chewbacca #9
AUTHOR: Marc Guggenheim
ARTISTS: David Messina, Alex Sinclair (Colorist), Joe Caramagna (Letterer). Cover by Phil Noto.
RELEASED: January 18, 2023
By Rob Siebert
Fanboy Wonder
David Messina and Alex Sinclair make a great team on this book. I especially enjoy Messina’s renderings of Chewbacca, as he’s got a great handle on the big guy.
I was less impressed with a rendering of Han late in the issue, which is clearly drawn with reference to a still from The Empire Strikes Back. I can’t help it. Stuff like that pulls me right out of an issue.
Still, the series remains fun. It’s near the top of my stack when it comes out.
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A Star Wars: Yoda #2 Micro-Review – Diminutive Yet Powerful
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TITLE: Star Wars: Yoda #2
AUTHOR: Cavan Scott
ARTISTS: Nico Leon, Dono Sanchez-Almara (Colorist), Joe Caramagna (Letterer). Cover by Phil Noto.
RELEASED: December 28, 2022
By Rob Siebert
Fanboy Wonder
Yet another great Star Wars cover by Phil Noto. I love that Yoda looks diminutive, yet still so powerful.
This series sees Yoda take up residence on the planet Turrak to help a village. It’s interesting to see Yoda live somewhere that isn’t the Jedi Temple or Dagobah. That’s something we’ve rarely, if ever, seen.
Question: Could this story have taken place during the High Republic era? It feels like we haven’t gotten a lot of Yoda stories from that time period. Thus far there’s nothing in this story that specifically ties it to the prequel era. So why not?
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A Star Wars: Han Solo & Chewbacca #8 Micro-Review – “Oh Bull@#$%!”
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TITLE: Star Wars: Han Solo & Chewbacca #8
AUTHOR: Marc Guggenheim
ARTISTS: David Messina, Alex Sinclair (Colorist), Joe Caramagna (Letterer). Cover by Phil Noto.
RELEASED: December 28, 2022
By Rob Siebert
Fanboy Wonder
This series continues to deliver on the trademark Star Wars hijinks, action, and adventure. But this issue did contain what I’ll call an “Oh bull@#$%!” moment. Han and Chewie take out about eight Imperial Death Troopers in the space of about one panel. Nice try, but no.
As the cover indicates, Grand Moff Tarkin pops up in this issue. David Messina excels at rendering Peter Cushing’s trademark sunken cheeks.
I also dig the design of the marshal we briefly see in this issue. I assume the design is Messina’s.
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