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zechs27 (zechs27) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-02 20:13:00

Entry tags:

char: darth sidious/emperor palpatine, char: darth vader/anakin skywalker, char: luke skywalker, creator: darko macan, creator: dave gibbons, publisher: dark horse, title: star wars

Vader's Quest Part II

The bulk of #3 is mostly Luke having to do the usual princess resucueing with a twist. That being she really doesn't need to be rescued. She's with her Rebel cell, just that they pulled the move to sway her pop to the Rebel side.

Luke fights a monster then accidently turns on his lightsaber in an area of the mine that heightens the light from a lightsaber blinding him temporarily. For all his efforts Luke is then captured. Not soon after, word reaches him of a certain vistor coming to his planet. Speaking of said vistor:

As for our bounty hunter, Maya well she took out some Stormtroopers, but as they continue to swarm the area and she's out of helpful little droid henchmen.

The king just loves telescasting the news to his subjects via reporter droid. But after a squabble of what to report and not the droid fibs to the King. He states the order Vader gave is that Luke must be terminated.

Yeah.. good going idiot king. #4 starts with said king being deposed by Vader. Beaten to heck and chained like an animal with orders to execute his life. Still he gives word to his people via reporter droid of how much of an idiot he's been. The droid gets word to the entire planet of just what kind of fate they're in for under Imperial rule.

As for Luke of course the daughter shot him with the blaster on stun. She tries to smuggle the young Rebel out. Instead she finds Jal also looking for Luke. In turn the group finds Vader with a squad of Stormtroopers blocking the only exit of the building.

However, an unrulely crowd is gathers behind Vader. The move distracts the troopers long enough for Jal to get into Luke's X-Wing. The crowd screams he's a coward. With bloodshed very easily about to be spilled Luke agree's to surrender himself. HOWEVER:

With that Vader leaves but making a promise the princess will pay dearly for this. Luke mourns his fallen comrade and the princess assures him she'll make sure he'll get transport before Vader returns.

As for our poor bounty hunter Mala Mala and her fate (and the reason I didn't scan said stand off and sacrifice of the king):

Originally, Macan at the end of this mini Vader was supposed to learn Luke being the cause of the Death Star's destruction. I do enjoy this ending far more with Palpatine finding out at the end. Not to mention for all his attempts to denying Palpatine the knowledge if he stayed behind he could have avoided Maya from ratting this to his master. Poor Vader.

I also remember Macan wished to do another Vader mini though this one on Darth Vader the urban legend with various people around the galaxy telling tales of Vader.

Now updated with completely random Darth Vader commercial:

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	greedyslayer 2009-10-03 02:22 am UTC (link)
	That sounds really cool, all those people telling different stories/legends about Vader. (Reply to this)

	jeyl 2009-10-03 03:01 am UTC (link)
	So much more interesting stories to be had here instead of that Clone Wars nonsense that only makes two brief mentions in the original trilogy. "You fought in the clone wars?" Let's make not one, but two whole series about THAT! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	greedyslayer 2009-10-03 03:32 am UTC (link)
	I KNOW. Granted, I LOVED Gendy's Clone Wars 2D cartoon, and wouldn't mind seeing more of that...but w/ the new CGI Clone Wars cartoon, I'm just really craving some OT cartoons. A series in between the different parts of the trilogy? An animated anthology version of Star Wars Tales? (I'd love to see animated Vader.) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

jeyl
2009-10-03 03:57 am UTC (link)

I will always stand by Gendy's work on the Clone Wars. I always tell the fans that his portrayal of Star Wars is the closest thing to the short movie serials that Star Wars has ever gotten to convincingly.

It stood it's ground, never overstayed it's welcome, gave other (albeit more interesting) characters a chance at the spotlight. I still find that episode with no dialogue to be one of the best action oriented sequences that Star Wars could deliver, yet when episode III started with "Get back to work. Dat nothin." I knew future Clone Wars material was doomed.

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cmdr_zoom
2009-10-03 09:01 pm UTC (link)

Genndy knows how to tell a story. There's a segment in the cartoon where Anakin hallucinates some pictograms coming to life, and over 30? seconds or so they tell a more compelling (IMO) story of a hero who goes to fight a great evil, is corrupted by the same power, and ends up destroying all that he loves and fought for than the entire 6 hours of the prequel trilogy. Maybe it's just because it's more compressed, I dunno.

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	joseph_k101 2009-10-03 03:05 am UTC (link)
	I like that "You'll fight a planet? Alone?" part. Just for a second you can tell Vader is seriously considering not backing down, whatever happened he'd make sure that at least half the people in the immediate area would be dead in the next few seconds. Quite chilling. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	zechs27 2009-10-03 03:07 am UTC (link)
	Why I love that page and the inclusion of that one panel. Exactly in Vader's mind thinking for a moment of how much damage he can lay waste. But alas he lose Luke and that's why he yields. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

I actually plotted out the pages of Vader attacking in my head.

proteus_lives
2009-10-03 06:56 am UTC (link)

It would be like Kid Miracleman. That's one of things that always bothered me about the SW universe. They've rarely shown what the Jedi and the Sith are truly capable of.

One of the few examples I can think of is Mace Windu verious the droid army in the older clone wars cartoon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A07WNupEXk

Now imagine the Sith version of that with the Kitty people. And they don't even have the big stomper thingie. There was enough metal and rubble lying around, Vader could have simply turned the whole area into a giant blender.

I get why he didn't. But the frightening thing about Vader is that he could.

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Re: I actually plotted out the pages of Vader attacking in my head.

joysweeper
2009-10-03 07:58 pm UTC (link)

How powerful Jedi or Sith are or even can be depends on the writer. In the movies, you see that Yoda's lifting the X-Wing out of the swamp takes effort, and he's the Grand Master. The Force isn't very flashy, even considering Force Lightning.

The Expanded Universe sometimes kept to that, sometimes didn't. There was a book where Luke took some sand and turned it into a fortress with really weird gravity, for instance. Timothy Zahn, who is awesome, infamously did not retcon this kind of power away so much as have Luke realize that he felt uneasy doing "flashy" stuff, and it drowned out the subtler whispers of the Force, as well as priming him for the Dark Side. Of course, other authors didn't keep to that...

It's also been said that the Clone Wars cartoon is in-universe propaganda. Making Jedi into demigods would also help with the backlash after Order Sixty-Six, and how easily public opinion turned against them at the new Emperor's say.

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	Re: I actually plotted out the pages of Vader attacking in my head. joysweeper 2009-10-03 08:01 pm UTC (link)
	Hmm. If "Vader takes on a planet" was written with more Zahn-like power levels, it would be less "giant blender" and more "all the cat aliens within a certain radius clutch at their heads and scream, some collapse, some run in panic, the stormtroopers get up and mass slaughter commences". That would be more Zahn's style. (Reply to this) (Parent)

Re: I actually plotted out the pages of Vader attacking in my head.

zechs27
2009-10-03 11:56 pm UTC (link)

I always imagine if Vader did do something it be VERY methodical. He use the entire enviroment against the cat people. Any building, vehicle, or part if it could be used into a good weapon.

He take out the people who be the most experienced first, probably take out the leader, then the harden soldiers, and make a violent move to frighten any civilian into not attacking him. Use the lightsaber to make sure nobody would get anything close to him. Yep, I could totally see Vader doing something like that.

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	mcity 2009-10-04 12:49 am UTC (link)
	If it was Mace Windu, it wouldn't be "half". (Reply to this) (Parent)

	greedyslayer 2009-10-03 03:34 am UTC (link)
	I like this new, feline looking princess. A lot of spunk. Would be kinda neat seeing her again. (Though admittedly, reminds me a lot of Leia--'course, I think that's sorta of a good thing.) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	zechs27 2009-10-03 03:46 am UTC (link)
	I loved Mala Mala. I wish we saw more of her as well. Such a spunky bounty hunter who stuck it good to Lord Vader and lived to tell the tale. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jedd_the_jedi 2009-10-03 05:11 am UTC (link)
	I can't get over how much Palpatine looks like a wrinkly bear in some of the panels. (Reply to this)

	silverzeo 2009-10-03 05:18 am UTC (link)
	Is just me, or did the artist made the Emperor an combination of W. Bush with McClain? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	zechs27 2009-10-03 02:21 pm UTC (link)
	Just you and Gibbons couldn't have done the likeness on either given this was made in 1999. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	proteus_lives 2009-10-03 06:31 am UTC (link)
	Great story, I feel for the Kitty-people though. Like Vader not's going to return with an Imperial fleet and drop the hammer on these people. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	zechs27 2009-10-03 02:22 pm UTC (link)
	Oh yes, or Vader come's back by himself and agree's to be just one person against an entire planet slaughtering an entire city or so. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	joysweeper 2009-10-03 08:04 pm UTC (link)
	The good old blaster-on-stun trick. I can't see a name like Mala without thinking of Wedge's girlfriend, the one who was killed by the Empire. Gets a little confusing with this comic or anything that references Chewie's wife. (Reply to this)