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joysweeper (joysweeper) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-09-28 07:55:00

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char: wedge antilles, group: rogue squadron, publisher: dark horse, title: star wars

Young Wedge Antilles
I really like Wedge Antilles. This is a bit from "The Phantom Affair", an arc of the X-Wing Series comics known for really good art, which has a flashback to when his parents were killed.

Sorry, I'd write something witty and catchy, but nothing's coming to mind.

Wedge is negotiating with these small birdlike aliens over a superweapon they're said to have developed, and although the Mrlssti are on good terms with the New Republic, the Empire wants it too.

They get it done and the section on fire detaches. "We are out of foam, Jagged!" "Never mind, Zena, we did it!" The section falls towards the sun - we don't see it explode so much as recede, and their speech bubble sort of shreds. "Wedge? Do you hear me?" "Yes." "We love you, son." The last panel just has a little fire with the sun behind it.

There's another subplot here about Loka Hask and his pirate crew; the pirates showed Loka some eyeless octopus things infesting the engines, and a few pages later while Wedge was shooting at him Loka got into a space suit and fled, even though his pirates didn't have suits and died. Loka sucks like that. He started as an Imperial pilot, got kicked out for associating with pirates, and after this apparently the Empire took him back as a diplomat. Not a great call, Empire.

So yeah, that's a bit from "The Phantom Affair" that I posted on old s_d. Thinking about more x-wing posts. This series has its ups and downs, but I like it.

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	kamino_neko 2009-09-28 01:47 pm UTC (link)
	... What in the name of God is going on with that Imperial's face? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	thanekos 2009-09-28 06:50 pm UTC (link)
	at one point, said imperial had to evacuate a ship. while donning his evac suit, he discovered a parasite had crawled into it. by the time they found him, the thing was pretty much stuck for life. (Reply to this) (Parent)

joysweeper
2009-09-28 09:52 pm UTC (link)

I love the pathos of Wedge's opposition to Loka, but even in the next issue, when Loka is talking about how he wished someone had killed his parents and taunting Wedge into attacking him, then getting fried by the cell bars, I cannot ignore the limpet.

Half the time I just call him Captain Limpet-Face. The limpet is reaching into his mouth and nose. I can't imagine why he wouldn't have it removed; even if it had made him lose his eye and ear and a chunk of his face, he's Imperial, and Imperials love cybernetics.

It's probably just a Red Right Hand, a deformity that underlines a character's evilness. Stackpole uses this a lot - Isard has one blue and one red eye, Semtin has prosthetic eyes, Krennel has a red prosthetic hand, that one guy Thrawn helped take out had diamond-shaped pupils.

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	midnightvoyager 2009-09-28 10:41 pm UTC (link)
	It's Star Wars. Red Right Hands are a side effect of being evil. ...frankly, it amuses me on some level that you could literally walk up to people in the Star Wars Universe and guess if they are evil or good with a pretty decent success rate. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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