masterghandalf

I do not like Luke's face on that cover. It might just be that my eye isn't quite back to normal yet (getting closer though; I think I'm allergic to one of the soothing drops I was prescribed because as soon as I stopped using them things started healing way fast) but it looks like the top and bottom halves of his face don't belong to the same person. I'm getting flashbacks to a Classic Doctor Who story called The Mind Robber, where the Doctor, Jamie, and Zoe are all trapped in a world of fiction, and the Doctor is forced by Weirdness to recreate Jamie's face from cutout pieces and gets it wrong.


Glad your eye is doing better (but sorry to hear that you might be allergic to the drops!); Luke's lower face is heavily in shadow here, and I think that might be messing it up for you.

The World Destroyers are a great concept that I wish the series made more use of. A series of giant machines that literally eat planets and produce materiel to make more of their fleet and presumably more of themselves? That's TERRIFYING. That's an existential threat on a level that can barely be comprehended. I'd honestly be quite happy for a series focussed entirely on dealing with them.


Agreed!

Aaaaaand he's back, with the exact same explanation that would make us all groan in Rise of Skywalker. At least the imagery is on point, excellent use of shadows on the artist's part.


Hey, Dark Empire did it first! And in fact one can make an argument that with Rise of Skywalker the sequel trilogy in general takes a sharp turn into being a loose adaptation of Dark Empire (and, admittedly, I'm generally of the opinion that most of the ST's problems are downstream from the really obvious behind the scenes tug of war about what it even was supposed to be). Agree about the imagery; the Byss scenes in general really play to the art style's strengths.

Overall I kinda feel like this series needed a lot more issues to really be told properly, and we're only in the second entry. That worries me.


I'm actually going to mention this explicitly in some of my later reviews, but I really do think Dark Empire could have expanded each arc to nine or even twelve issues rather than six and been the better for it.