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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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(Anonymous)
2009-10-09 05:30 pm UTC (link)

*sigh* "Space Chess"*

At the opening, yes, everything has a name, because there's only so many combinations of first moves, but towards the middle, there's little way to tell what anyone's ultimately doing, insofar as their Endgame is concerned. This is what I believe is called the FUN part.

But under the Writer's Modern Tropes and Clichés Handbook, if you're trying to establish someone as a ridiculously talented tactician, have them playing a game of chess where they name every damn movement and seemingly know how the entire game will unfold after the first piece is laid down. Not that this would actually denote a skill at planning and tactics, they've just memorized lots of other chess matches (which frustratingly, a lot of kids and adults think constitute a "good game") and want to play things out by a textbook.

*I just get tired of endless Chess variants in sci-fi, when there are countless other games of strategy to homage, especially the Eastern world's games.

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