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zechs27 (zechs27) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-16 01:40:00

Entry tags:

char: boba fett, char: darth vader/anakin skywalker, char: han solo, char: luke skywalker, creator: john wagner, creator: steve perry, publisher: dark horse, title: star wars

Shadows of the Empire Part II

#4-6 of the Shadows of the Empire Mini. With bonus awesome the Brothers Hildebrant art from the card series.

Dial Uppers Beware!!

#4 is mostly a Boba Fett issue for the most part. It starts where #3 left off with Fett surrounded by his bounty hunter "brothers" with no escape.

"Solo" is transported aboard Bossuk's. By the time he gets to check his prize he finds the remains of the said dead hunters above. The section of the ship also goes boom thanks to an explosive planted with the bodies. Bossuk is down but not out promising as Fett escapes he'll get him.

As for Jix he gets this one page appearance, better than Vader who gets nothing this issue. Like I said they cut all the best stuff involving Vader.

#5 is more related with the book somewhat. We get the Xizor seducing Leia scene with kick to the balls later on, we also get this exchange between Vader and Jix:

As for Fett in this issue he does a system check on Slave-I and talks to Zuckuss for three pages. Utterly pointless there so I'll just skip to finale.

#6 just plows through the climax of the book it isn't funny. Guri is taken out with one smack by Leia who smacks her with an object. Xizor and Luke's gang barely have time to fight before Luke blows up the palace and then bam epic space battle with Vader arriving. Using this as the "evidence he needs" in a rather sorry scene we see Xizor looking like a baby and not get the chance to savoir his end with him all terrified at Vader's words to him. Damnit all. So why did the conclusion get rushed? So they could spent the remaining ten on Fett and they're own end (involving Vader arriving at Endor). Here's the Fett part:

During this all Fett touches down with Slave-I and not soon after the remaining bounty hunters with Bossuk in tow are looking to get that bounty.

Spiker actually survives, with he and the Swoop leader from #2-3 have they're own adventure in "the Jabba Tapes" which is post RoTJ dealing with Jabba's will (it appeared in Star Wars Galaxies). They also appear in Star War Tales taking on a rogue Dark Trooper Phase One. Jix also gets his own adventure in Star Wars Galaxies (though I forget his arc was called). I do have both in magazine format so if you want I can post some of it.

But as promised here's the Hildenbrant Bros art:

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	aaron_bourque 2009-10-16 08:22 am UTC (link)
	I forget, did they include Vader's finale in the one-upsmanship between Xizor and he? Aaron "The Mad Whitaker" Bourque; you may keep the title . . . for another two minutes. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	zechs27 2009-10-16 03:28 pm UTC (link)
	Nope. All they did was have Vader appear via holo-crom and state Xizor better surrender his ass to him or get blown up. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	proteus_lives 2009-10-16 08:54 am UTC (link)
	Is Boba Fett the SW Keyser Soze? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	aaron_bourque 2009-10-17 02:11 am UTC (link)
	No, he's the SW Man With No Name. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	snugglebitch 2009-10-16 02:46 pm UTC (link)
	How early was this in Killian Plunkett's career? His work on "The Jabba Tape," for instance, is soooo much better, and I always wondered if he was still refining his craft here, or if this was just a rush job for him. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	zechs27 2009-10-16 03:29 pm UTC (link)
	Well that was about a year after this. I agree the art was so much better there than here. It REALLY felt rushed in #5-6. Xizor looked different in each panel. Not to mention the art just didn't look epic enough when the final battle happened. (Reply to this) (Parent)

joysweeper
2009-10-16 04:30 pm UTC (link)

Huh. The Hildebrant stuff is actually rather nice. I hadn't seen it before. Intere- grk - I mean, cool.

I really don't care for Fett in just about any story, but I do like his look. Sometimes I fantasize about a comic adaptation of Side Trip. Thrawn pretending to be the Mandalorian Jodo Kast! Yes please!

...I fantasize about a lot of Zahn's stuff being adapted.

Thanks for this.

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	foxhack 2009-10-16 07:43 pm UTC (link)
	This is kinda funny that you've been posting these. I bought the Shadows Of The Empire soundtrack album two days ago. Hee. (Reply to this)

sir_mikael
2009-10-26 07:42 pm UTC (link)

Hey I have this! And well I loved it, even bought Prince Xizor and Dash Rendar as action figures. I also later got the book but I think it might have been a shortened version of it o something.
Boba Fett is freakin awesome in this, I mean cooly haggling with Jabba? He might have been a bit talkative over the series but that's nothing I noticed.

Ok so a thing that really gets to me in this series is the portrayal of Zuckuss. I've read two different versions of the character in various EA-books. One cowardly and talkative, like displayed here, pretty much a loser. The other is silent, brave and mysterious, basically using his ppls magic to track down pray, but in the end he turns over a new leaf and joins the Rebels.
It's hard to say which is the true version, but the last one is probably more in line with majority of other sources and the movie (not that he did much but u know, he was silent and mysterious). Anyone reading this got a definitive answer?

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