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A Star Wars #33 Micro-Review – The Broken Saber
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TITLE: Star Wars #33
AUTHOR: Charles Soule
ARTISTS: Madibek Musabekov, Rachelle Rosenberg (Colorist), Clayton Cowles (Letterer). Cover by Stephen Segovia & Rain Beredo.
RELEASED: April 5, 2023
By Rob Siebert
Fanboy Wonder
Luke’s gold lightsaber gets destroyed in this issue…kind of? It’s honestly a little confusing. Hopefully the damn thing is gone. I’ve never liked it.
Something else I don’t like? When Star Wars harps on too much about hope. There’s a big line in this issue about hope, and it’s an eye-roller.
We get more with Lando and Amilyn Holdo in this issue. I won’t lie, now that the initial shock of them hooking up has subsided, Soule is doing a decent job selling us on them being together. Or at least that there’s a quasi-romantic dynamic between the two.
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A Star Wars: Jabba’s Palace #1 Micro-Review – “…Disintegrated?”
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TITLE: Star Wars: Return of the Jedi – Jabba’s Palace #1
AUTHOR: Marc Guggenheim
ARTISTS: Alessandro Miracolo, Dee Cunniffe (Colorist), Clayton Cowles (Letterer). Cover by Ryan Brown.
RELEASED: March 29, 2023
By Rob Siebert
Fanboy Wonder
It’s always fun to come back to Jabba’s palace. It’s one of those classic Star Wars locations that rarely disappoints. This issue delivers in that respect, with a story about the protocol droid in Jabba’s palace who we see being tortured in Return of the Jedi.
I always get a kick out of how writers are able to mine story ideas from extras in these now 40-year-old movies. Case in point, this robot that was only on screen for a few seconds.
Tremendous cover by Ryan Brown. The best I’ve seen on a Star Wars book recently.
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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: Han Solo & Chewbacca #7 Micro-Review – A (Quick) Prison Break!
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TITLE: Star Wars: Han Solo & Chewbacca #7
AUTHOR: Marc Guggenheim
ARTISTS: Paul Fry, Alex Sinclair (Colorist), Joe Caramagna (Letterer). Cover by Phil Noto.
RELEASED: November 16, 2022
By Rob Siebert
Fanboy Wonder
Han Solo & Chewbacca continues to fire on all cylinders, delivering on the kind of rip-roaring adventures one pictures when they think of Han and Chewie’s pre-A New Hope antics. My biggest complaint is that the two-pronged story with Chewie in prison and Han marooned on a strange planet wraps up too quickly for my taste. But I suppose there’s something to be said for not overstaying your welcome.
Guggenheim, Fry, and this crew even manage to sell me on the inclusion of Ponda Baba and Doctor Evazan in the prison stuff. Well done, gentlemen.
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A Star Wars #29 Micro-Review – A Masquerade Ball! (Or Not…)
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TITLE: Star Wars #29
AUTHOR: Charles Soule
ARTISTS: Ramon Rosanas, Rachelle Rosenberg (Colorist), Clayton Cowles (Letterer). Cover by E.M. Gist.
RELEASED: November 2, 2022
By Rob Siebert
Fanboy Wonder
Another awesome cover from E.M. Gist this month. I love the concept of our Rebel heroes going to some kind of masquerade ball in disguise. Granted, that’s not what actually happens in the issue, which is a downer. But the outfits are still a lot of fun. Especially Luke in the domino mask.
I know I talk about this every few months or so. But I feel passionate enough about it that it’s worth repeating: I hate Luke’s gold lightsaber. Things would be so much more interesting without it.
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Epic Covers: Star Wars: Darth Vader #28 by Rahzzah
By Rob Siebert
Fanboy Wonder
They’ve been doing a long-term storyline in Star Wars: Darth Vader where Vader teams up with one of Padme’s former handmaidens, Sabe. While I can’t say I’ve been following along, this cover for today’s issue by Rahzzah caught my attention. The Emperor tends to have that effect, doesn’t he?
This cover has a lot going for it. The blocking is wonderful, placing Palpatine behind Sabe with his hand on her shoulder, like he’s a vampire or some undead creature reaching for her. The detailed fashion in which Rahzzah renders his face certainly accentuates that idea. Along those same lines, Sabe looks just like Natalie Portman. That might actually be the one thing I dislike about the image, as Sabe was played by Keira Knightley in The Phantom Menace. Do they not have the rights to her likeness?
Then you have the obvious color contrast between the two characters. Palpatine is in black, while Sabe is all in white. Good and evil, etc. The red background also gives the image a certain intensity. Of course, it helps that red is synonymous with the Sith in Star Wars.
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A Star Wars: Obi-Wan #5 Micro-Review – Doing the Best with the Least
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TITLE: Star Wars: Obi-Wan #5 (of 5)
AUTHOR: Christopher Cantwell
ARTISTS: Adriana Melo, Wayne Faucher (Inker), Dono Sanchez-Almara (Colorist), Joe Caramagna (Letterer). Cover by Phil Noto.
RELEASED: September 14, 2022
By Rob Siebert
Fanboy Wonder
This final issue is the best one to come out of this Obi-Wan mini, and yet it’s the one where the least actually happens. It’s simply a tale of our hero showing compassion to an injured stormtrooper.
On the cover, Phil Noto looks like he’s channeling a little bit of Mike Mayhew’s take on the character.
All in all, this mini-series wasn’t mind-blowing. But it did make for a nice companion to the Obi-Wan Kenobi show on Disney+.
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A Star Wars #26 Micro-Review – Going a Simpler Route
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TITLE: Star Wars #26
AUTHOR: Charles Soule
ARTISTS: Andres Genolet, Rachelle Rosenberg (Colorist), Clayton Cowles (Letterer). Cover by E.M. Gist.
RELEASED: August 17, 2022
By Rob Siebert
Fanboy Wonder
I love this cover. It’s got a great old fashioned movie poster feel to it, and the background is a delightfully simple blue and white. I even like Luke’s leather jacket, which has a vague Indiana Jones feel to it.
The interior art is a little bit more simple too, compared with issues past.. It’s something of a pleasant change, actually. Star Wars artists tend to go into such rich detail, which is great. But this more animated style is welcome too.
All these issues in, and I still don’t like the gold lightsaber…
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