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This month saw the release of Marvel’s newly relaunched Star Wars franchise of comics.\u00a0 Freshly ripped from Dark Horse’s loving clutches (who had been publishing the book since 1991) Marvel has thrown an outstanding creative team on the book.\u00a0 Does it live up to the hype?<\/p>\n

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Art by John Cassaday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I’ll admit, I wasn’t sure what to make of Marvel instantly going with a story that takes place between Episode IV and V, as Dark Horse just wrapped up a great series taking place during the exact same time.\u00a0 Oh well though, they have the right to play with all the toys in the toy box now, hard to blame them too much for it.<\/p>\n

Star Wars #1 starts out just as any self-respecting Star Wars movie would.<\/p>\n

“A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…” Cue scrolling yellow text, shot of space – shot of a ship – shot of said ship descending to planet.\u00a0 Immediately, the comic feels ripped from a movie storyboard.\u00a0 The creative team quickly lets us know that we were deep in empire territory, and rebellious actions quickly ensued.<\/p>\n

Jason Aaron clearly cares about the source material with his story and dialogue.\u00a0 It all feels instantly classic, with every character given room to feel organic.\u00a0 The cast of characters we see in just this first issue are: Han Solo, Chewbacca, C3P-O, R2-D2, Luke, Leia, Darth Vader, and more Storm Troopers than you can shake a lightsaber at.\u00a0 Sounds like classic Star Wars, right?<\/p>\n

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Art by John Cassaday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The story really hits the ground running after a quick bit of set-up.\u00a0 All of the characters featured in the issue feel right at home with the characterization of the original movies,<\/p>\n

and Aaron gives everybody the right things to say.\u00a0 We have Han, who immediately falls into his scruffy-looking smuggler charm. Threepio and R2 along for the ride, continuing their claim to fame as the only characters present throughout main Star Wars cannon.\u00a0 Luke and Leia are just as noble as ever, with Luke coming to the rescue of the downtrodden, and Leia commanding the operation.
\nA huge part of the success of this issue comes with John Cassaday (with Laura Martin on colors).\u00a0 All of the characters are incredibly accurately rendered as\u00a0 Harrison Ford, Carrie Andrews, and Mark Hamill.\u00a0 R2 and Threepio are picture perfect, and Vader succeeds at looking as menacing as ever.<\/p>\n

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Art by John Cassaday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You wouldn’t think, after reading the last few paragraphs, that I would have anything negative to say about the book.\u00a0 But I do, even though it’s a small complaint.\u00a0 The whole book is almost too perfect. Too iconic.\u00a0 Any Star Wars fan would have a hard time complaining about that, but my concern falls in the future of the book.\u00a0 We have an incredible amount of fan-service in here, with the icing on top of the cake being the cliff-hanger (which I will not spoil here).\u00a0 There’s only so many times we can be floored by awesomely iconic moments before it starts to feel forced.\u00a0 By no means does this mean I won’t be reading the series as long as this creative team stays on the book, but I hope they don’t try to do too much, too fast.<\/p>\n

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We have been given a kingly gift in this comic book.\u00a0 We will have true-blue new, movie-quality Star Wars, every month leading up to the release of Ep. VII, available to anybody who wants it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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