These Star Wars comics go against everything I believe in when it comes to augmenting licensed properties, but goddamn are they enjoyable.
Nailbiter #19
The last few issues have been taking us on a different journey, splitting up the cast we've grown to love and taking us out of Buckaroo, Oregon. We're now in the middle of a very interesting twist where we find out Warren has been helping children of Buckaroo Butchers escape Buckaroo and their pasts via a strange underground railroad of sorts. I didn't see this kind of twist coming, but its a good one.
It lends a lot of credence as to why we're off following Finch and the FBI to Atlanta and getting a little broader with the story. Seeing how Joshua Williamson and Mike Henderson tell the story of the butchers across the country is pretty neat.
Henderson's art is still great. No drop off here, folks. And the new turn in the story has breathed new life into a series that I was afraid would have no where natural to go after one or two arcs.
Star Wars #14
The penultimate chapter of Vader Down fucking delivers. Like I said above, I don't like stories that tell potentially contradictory stories to the movies they're based on, and these Marvel books aren't necessarily doing that, but they come awfully close.
Despite all that, I'm enjoying the hell out of the Vader Down crossover. And this is the issue where everything comes together and we see just how the layout of the story falls into place. Keiron Gillen and Jason Aaron set up all the pieces of the mousetrap properly to really create a fun issue.
Choosing one artist to work on both the Star Wars and Darth Vader issues of Vader Down was a great choice that really makes the story feel like something that stands on its own. Mike Deodato, besides a couple blatant movie screen grabs has been penciling one heck of a story.
Panel of the Week:
If you don't know this face from the Original Trilogy, you're just not a Star Wars fan. I also find this panel comically funny.
-Gint
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