Marvel Announces Star Wars/Darth Vader Crossover Event: Vader Down.
Marvel’s Star Wars and Star Wars: Darth Vader comics have done exceptionally well since they’ve launched, but aside from the end of the Cymoon 1 attack and Boba Fett going after Luke Skywalker, there has been little crossover between the story arcs of the two titles. This November, Marvel’s first cross-title story arc – Star Wars: Vader Down – will bring the two titles together.
From ComicBook.com:
The crossover event will see Darth Vader forced to face the entire might of the Rebel Alliance alone, after he crash lands on a planet. The Alliance – Including heroes Leia, Han, Luke, and Chewie – decide they cannot pass up the opportunity to rid themselves of their most fearsome foe.
The story will kick off in the oversized Star Wars: Vader Down #1, then continue in the pages of Star Wars and Darth Vader. The story will be told by writers Jason Aaron and Kieron Gillen, and artists Mike Deodato and Salvador Larroca.
But that’s not all. The official Star Wars website held an interview with Aaron and Gillen, both of whom shed some more light on the project. The comic will feature the ensembles of both casts coming together, with a meeting between Doctor Aphra and Han Solo, and a face-off between R2-D2, C-3PO, 0-0-0, and BT-1 being discussed as key events in the story. The crossover will be the third story arc for both comics.
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This sounds like it could be cool, but are we already at the point where we need crossovers? I guess that is what Marvel does best…
When I first read “crossover” I thought vader was going to fight iron man or something #dumb
I was worried that people might think that too when including “Crossover” as part of the title of the article. I included “Star Wars/Darth Vader” – the names of the series that are crossing over with one another – in the title as a way of saying “this isn’t another Phineas & Ferb Star Wars kind of thing”.
I wonder if maybe this will be the end of the comics set in between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back. That era is relatively small so it has to end some time. Perhaps Vader Down will lead us straight into The Empire Strikes Back.
If i’m not mistaken, there’s something like a year or two between IV and V. The comics only seem to be a month or two after the Battle of Yavin so far… maybe you’re right, but I would expect it to go on a while longer.
The gap betwixt ANH and TESB is officially three years. The TESB and ROTJ gap is only one year.
Technically, the era between TESB and ROTJ is much more compact. I think they’ll go for the current era for a while after this and then jump into that era and beyond.
I also think they’ll experiment with some chronological jumps in the narrative along the line, like what they just did with the Obi-Wan Kenobi one-shot in the main Star Wars comic.
yes. I agree. i think its time to move on to the TESB and ROTJ era. i wanna see how luke and vader prepare for this final conrfontation because luke is a little more experienced after his duel but still not a official jedi. hes more focused and mature at this point and vader and the emperor knows it
Comics are lame.
Yes, comics industry and stories are lame but the medium of pictographic literature is AWESOME!!
Pictographic Literature… please, don’t.
Well I didn’t use the force to make your finger move toward the left button on your mouse to open this page.
He’s just upset there’s no Jar Jar comic.
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Hummm… I don’t know what to think.
I just hope Vader doesn’t face Luke again…
Why? Afraid of who might win? Good grief, we know how this all ends up (original trilogy wise) so does it matter how many times father and son play patty-cake?
Same plot as Dark Lords of the Sith . . .
Hey, Anakin use to regularly crash his ships in enemy territory!
Damn. I feel like marvel has way too many Star Wars comics out now. It’s getting too difficult and expensive to stay on top of things.
Torrents.
Yep. If you end up loving any series, buy it later in graphic novel form. But there’s a lot that won’t make the cut so torrents are a great to screen through.
i agree, they should just keep the main series and the darth vader comic for the villians story and perspective
So far, it’s only 4 comics at a time, which averages to one a week. That isn’t so bad. This one isn’t a new comic anyway. This story takes place across the two already existing comics, “Star Wars” and “Darth Vader”.
May the cash be with you
Money grab…As Usual! FREAKN’ Disney! Not sure how much I am looking forward to “The Force Awakens” Has anybody seen what they did to the Avengers? Come on!!!
What exactly is wrong with avengers? The fact that its received millions of dollars and has received positive acclaim from both critics and fans? *sign* it seems we got yet another EU whiner here everyone.
Nothing to see here. Move along…move along..
I want to see Han Solo kill Aphra like Indiana Jones shot the Cairo Swordsman. BANG! Dead. Move along and good riddance.
Would prefer something in the era before a new hope where vader was supposedly at his peak, we never really got to see him reach his full potential in1-3 and he was old and slow in 4-6
Read Lords of the Sith if you haven’t already- it’s Vader in his prime during the era you mention and it is by far the best book in the new canon IMO. 🙂
How about a Guardians of the Galaxy / Star Wars crossover?
Now that sounds awesome!
But can they also do it with Evangelion too?
GOTG and NGE does not seem like a good idea from a tonal perspective.
NGE and SW, on the other hand? It could work.
Awful idea! I just hope you were being sarcastic– ggah!
I wasn’t being sarcastic man.
Don’t give them any ideas.
Since the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy will crossover in Infinity War, that’s like saying Luke Skywalker exists in the same galaxy as Iron Man. And plus, that wouldn’t be possible because Star Wars takes place in a galaxy far far away. Not Guardians of the Galaxy. Guardians of the Galaxy is in a close galaxy to Earth
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[sigh] SO predictable.
The end of this comic will be Vader realizing Luke is his son, and dramatically staring at the distance having a “What Now??” moment.
Leading perfectly into the beginning of TESB.
Awesome, but super predictable.
You’re wrong.
Vader already did find out Luke is his son in Darth Vader #6, so this won’t happen in the Vader Down crossover event.
It’s always amusing when someone tries to critizise a comic but hasn’t read it.
Cross over stuff is just stupid. Vader and Marvel WTF lol.
I don’t really like the idea of Vader fighting the main 3 prior to ESB, particularly Luke. It seems ridiculous that Vader can “sense” Luke’s pain over his Aunt and Uncle’s death but can’t sense his own relation to the person (first encounter) and any subsequent encounter takes away from the drama of their duel in Cloud City. No more confrontations between Luke and Vader!
Thank the maker you have such a strong grasp of how the Force works and how one should actually sense something before they even know what it is they’re supposed to know what it is they’re sensing.
You’ll never be anything but a youngling mentally until you can conceptualize more than 2+2=4.