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zechs27 (zechs27) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-08 16:21:00

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char: darth vader/anakin skywalker, creator: alan moore, publisher: dark horse, title: star wars

Vader Week: Dark Lord's Conscience

I'll be posting my first part of Shadows of the Empire tonight involving Jix and some of the Boba Fett storyline parts to it. Before that though, from Classic Star Wars: Devilworlds #1. These scans aren't mine. They where posted on the original Scans Daily.

God I love that last panel. Such cockiness and bad assery from Vader. Though, let this be a lesson to all, never play a game with Darth Vader. You'll probably end up losing you're life. Case in point again here:

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	ex_stig213 2009-10-09 12:31 am UTC (link)
	Typical Alan Moore weirdness. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	thandrak 2009-10-09 12:49 am UTC (link)
	Typical Alan Moore Britishness, rather. It is similar to the Tales of the Green Lantern Corps in style and tone, but it also shares a bit with Pratchett and Carroll. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jmacq1 2009-10-09 01:13 am UTC (link)
	But awesome weirdness. A cunning, confident, unrepentant Vader who's at the top of his game (no pun intended). (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	zechs27 2009-10-09 05:53 am UTC (link)
	Yeah at first I didn't like the story. But upon multiple readings it gets better. (Reply to this) (Parent)

icon_uk
2009-10-09 12:07 pm UTC (link)

Maybe it's because I'm British too, but this just didn't strike me as "weird". It's a neat little story, but not weird per se. A psi with an ability to trigger guilt (Which anyone with a Catholic/Jewish/"99.9% of all others" mother will tell you as a vastly under-rated motivating influence) attacks Vader, Vader ignores the attack and uses the game he's playing to eliminate two opponents.

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	ex_stig213 2009-10-09 12:37 pm UTC (link)
	I'll just mention that I wasn't making a negative comment back there, I was merely pointing out that it's a story that would be typical of Alan Moore. And I was more referring to the weirdness of Darth Vader plays Giant Exploding Space Chess against a talking octopus in a hamster ball. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-10-09 12:48 pm UTC (link)
	I was relieved that the pieces weren't expendable slaves (A classic Magnificent Bastard ploy, but veering towards cliché), and as for the talking octopus in a hamster ball, well, if you lived in Northampton, you'd see weirder on a regular basis! :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

jmacq1
2009-10-09 01:24 pm UTC (link)

That's part of why I think it's awesome weirdness though. Everything from the language, to the scenario, to the characters genuinely seems a lot more "alien" than Star Wars usually is. Little touches like "colder than a Jedi's eyes" just seem to make it a lot more imaginative than a lot of the Star Wars stuff that was coming out at the time. Or at least having a lot more thought towards the cultures that would underly the setting.

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