SW7N Review: Marvel’s Darth Vader #7
Issue seven of Marvel’s comic book series Darth Vader is out now. Check out our review after the jump.
Excerpt from the review:
This week we begin a new Darth Vader arc. Make sure to keep that in mind or you may find yourself a bit confused.
The Dark Lord’s attention is now fixed on Luke Skywalker, as we saw at the end of issue #6. We find him and his new sidekick back on Tatooine at the remains of the Lars moisture farm. The pieces of what Obi-Wan Kenobi did to protect Luke for so many years are falling into place for Vader.
This is a very interesting angle that Kieron Gillen is taking. Vader is using the echoes of the Force to put together what happened with Luke. At the Lars home Vader feels the pain Luke felt when he discovered the charred remains of his adopted family. Vader is also able to put together what happened when Luke encountered Boba Fett at Obi-Wan’s hut.
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I can’t believe he has been there after tranformation
The more I hear about the Marvel series, The more I hate it. It specifically said that he never went back after he left save for that one time in Clone Wars. This is just stupid for continuity reasons because why wouldn’t he have done that in the 19 years between II and III if true. I had high hopes for the new EU but it looks like they are making all new mistakes now.
That is a silly complaint Grant. You’re essentially saying “This is bad because Vader did something I didn’t want him to.” Also between II & III he was fighting a war and his mother was dead. He had no reason to go back. If you meant the 19 years between III & IV then I ask you what reason could he have to go back. He had no ties to the Lars family and he despised the planet. That being said it would make sense that he would return to decipher what his old enemy Kenobi was up to and futher clues that could help him find his son. His son being his main concern at this point.
So Anon, the argument “vader did something that I didn’t want him to do” is irrelevant?
In that case, let me throw verbal mud into the faces of every Star Wars “fan” who whines and bitches whenever they didn’t like the way Hayden Christensen portrayed vader.
We whine and bitch about Hayden Christenson because he’s a poor actor. He was tall, and did a decent job during the Tusken Raider scenes in Ep 2, but other than that he wasn’t a good fit for the role because he couldn’t act most of the time. He was miscast. If someone is going to be taking on a lead role in a film, they should know how to act and know the character they’re portraying.
Sadly, we all have taken shots at various actors for their “inability to act” when it’s the director’s responsibility; that’s right, a director “directs” the actors. It’s not a free-for-all and any blame for the mechanical acting of any of the actors (Christensen, Lloyd, etc.) should be given to the director for misdirection or lack thereof. I don’t want to insult Lucas,but this is the truth of the matter. And no, I’m not a sycophant for either Lloyd nor Christensen.
Hayden can act just fine. Lucas is just a horrible director.
Agreed. I liked him in Jumper and Life as a House.
the whole problem is the voice acting of christensen. His expressions dubbed by people who can voice act in other languages worked well.
Where in ESB or RotJ did they state that Vader never went back?
I’m not sure what Grant is talking about…
“It specifically said that he never went back after he left save for that one time in Clone Wars.”
Where is this said? Am I missing something?
Was it in one of the movies or Clone Wars or something?
Even if it is said in Clone Wars that predates this story, in universe, by around 20 years so it’s pretty irrelevant.
The clone wars movie is when he went back
Why the hell is Vader on Tatooine?!!
Vader does what Vader wants.
all the love for this junk…. and yet nobody can accept the concept of midichlorians?
It’s not the concept, it’s the fact there was even any kind of pseudoscientific explanation for the force in any way shape or form added to this series.
It was stupid and unnecessary. Served no important purpose to the plot that couldn’t have been achieved in a better way. I.e. Anakin starting out older and proving himself Jedi material through his actions and not a blood test.
This is a two way ideal; the tangible & the ethereal. Midi-clorians are the physical representation of the Force, or the scientific proof, like what scientists need to believe in ghosts (whether real or not). That’s the other side of the coin to the spirituality of it as we were shown in The Empire Strikes Back via Yoda’s explanations.
I never said anything against them. I personally don’t have an issue with them as it’s just another layer to the force. Besides, it’s a FANTASY story anyway, so who gives a flop?
And your point? Midichlorians okay? Vader going back to Tatooine not okay?
Glad you’re not writing any of this.
Slightly poor artwork there vader doesn’t look right
Don’t give them a reason to start tracing over screenshots like the Star Trek comics. They do that with too many comicbooks these days.
Ugh. All this hatred for the prequels gets so old. Are they perfect movies? No. But there’s a lot of good stuff in them. Midichlorians isn’t that farfetched. We’re talking about an established order thousands of years old. Makes sense they’d take they desire to understand the force in a scientific direction. The force is more mystical in the originals because jedi culture is gone save two individuals, both of whom live off the radar in out of the way planets. And Quigon senses the force in Anakin first and checks using science to confirm second.
An old established order in the future wouldn’t approve of cloning humans for warfare. Aside from that people living in such an advanced age wouldn’t make half of the stupid choices/mistakes the characters in the prequels make.
uhm… that’s an issue that came up when in episode IV Obi wan mentioned the clone wars then. clones were supposed to be involved anyways because of that sentence.
That was kind of the point of the prequels. Things like the jedi order and the Republic were idealized in the OT and the PT showed how these things could be taken down. Not from an external threat but from the inside out. The Jedi were caught up in events they could not see through clearly. That’s how most human history plays out. You’re so close to something you can’t see it for what it is. You’re just swimming with the tide. The Jedi were so blind to what was really going on they were actually serving the dark side. The Jedi did not initiate cloning. They used them to rescue their people on Geonsis. From that point on the snowball had momentum.
This has nothing to do with the comics, but has anyone else played “Star Wars commander” on their phones? The game has this ‘trap’ that activates and brings down a drop ship ladened with stormtroopers, I have a feeling those dropships might be the same that we saw Finn in in the trailer perhaps?
too far time periods
True, though I still wonder if it’s a little Easter egg of sorts for those who put two and two together,
If Vader was interested in finding Luke on Tatooine, why didn’t Vader sense him from the battle above it in beginning of ANH? This is just a bad story getting worse. SW is synonymous with Tatooine and many characters being related to each other, but these new stories are ridiculous.
he wasn’t looking for luke in ANH. in the comics vader faces luke and gets an odd feeling of familiarity, he remembers seeing luke the day vader killed obiwan, and he remembers the pilot that destroyed the death star. and so, a suspisous vader hires boba fett to find out who luke is. bobba fet tells vader that lukes name is skywalker and vader heads to tatooine and figures out for sure that luke is his son. is that ridiculous? no that actually makes alot of sense and explains vader’s certainty in ESB.
Vader wasn’t even aware that Obi-wan was on Tatooine at that time, let alone his own living offspring. His only interest was chasing down and retrieving the stolen DS plans. As far as “sensing” either of them is concerned, he didn’t even sense Obi-wan’s presence until the MF (pun maybe intended) was pulled into the DS hangar station, and even then he had to see him to believe it (even though we all know that he was pretty confident about it prior to their final duel when he tells Tarkin of it.)
I seriously doubt that Vader was really interested in stepping foot down on Tattooine prior to the events of ANH for all of the obvious emotional reasons. Let us pray that this notion is NEVER retconned.
TATOOINE! TATOOINE! TATOOINE!!!! Stop mis-spelling tatooine. It’s been written everywhere for 38 years now. you have no excuses. sorry for attacking you, you’re the fifth person I see mis-spelling Tatooine in a couple of days.
Oh thats just rich. An obvious Star Wars spelling bee champion throwing a nerd-fit over the spelling of a place that EVERYBODY is familiar enough with to know not to get confused about smh.
Do you feel better now chump? I hope so… I REALLY hope so coz you just needlessly made a complete jackass of yourself over- NOTHING.
(Besides…the poster spelled it correctly in the beginning of the post anyway so it’s not exactly as if he/her doesn’t know how it’s spelled.) Get the fuck over yourself punk.
That’s just one more mysterious thing about the force. Why didn’t he sense Obi-Wan when he was above Tatooine at the beginning of ANH? Why did he sense Obi-Wan, but not Luke onboard the Death Star? Why didn’t he sense Leia’s force presence when she stood right in front of him in both ANH and TESB (well, she wasn’t supposed to be force-sensitive at that time, but since we have ROTJ, you know)? Why didn’t the Jedi council sense Palpatines force presence?
As you see, in the movies itself there are countless occasions where someone doesn’t sense the force presence of a force user even if he is not far away from him. So the Marvel comics are consistent with the six films.
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Yeah! What he said!!
My problem with any other new EU crap being put out there: if I was a kid watching and reading all this junk then EP IV ANH, if watched thereafter, meant nothing. There was no truth to Gran Moff Tarkins threats on Death Star I of, “We will crush the rebellion once and for-all!” Meaning with all those rebel tangos of the past we are to believe that as the Death Star heads to Tantive IV!? Those kids will then not chew nails during Death Star run and think, “we saw all this before, yawn, hurry up rebels and get to the next plot point!” AND THEN, AS I HAVE NOT READ THE OTHER ISSUES: We know from opening credits of EP V ESB that Darth Vader was searching planets for the rebellion but he still did not completely understand the X-Wing pilot who destroyed the Death Star until he could not find him with Leia, Han, Chewbacca and droids in Bespin trap! I mean on Hoth I would suspect him to be among the X-Wing fighters who have abilities to fly off to planets, thereafter contradicting Darth Vader focusing specifically on Luke!? No Darth has to go after the non-Jedi in Hoth’s bunkers!? A Jedi there in hiding away from brave men dying outside!?
what the hell is wrong with you? This thinking simply makes no sense. I am sure that knowing luke’s name he got to know that his son was the guy that blew on the death star.
In the title crawl, it states clearly “obsessed with finding young Skywalker”, so Vader knew exactly who the hell he was looking for.
What are you even talking about, your comment makes no sense.
Opening crawl TESB, it states that Vader specifically searches for Luke Skywalker. Never seen that?
And no one wants to pick at the point that Obi-Wan calls his old apprentice “Darth”? Not even the familiar ‘Vader’ that everyone else calls him?
I always thought he was mocking him.
The archaeologist character is bantha poodoo.
Why does IG-88 talk like HK-47?
Why are people hating on this so much?
I’m not the only one who likes these comics, or am I? I’ve read the first three of ‘Vader’, at least, and I’m planning to do the rest over the next few days.
Maybe most here are sad that the never-canon EU which they errounously believed was canon is not continued. They search for every little detail to bash about the new canon.
Cool. So when does Star Wars #7 come out. The fight with Luke and fett was awesome
I haven’t really been keeping up on the comics but from what I’ve seen there seems to quite a bit of action that’s a little TOO close to what the movies cover.
Luke fighting Vader pre-TESB is ok,
Vader investigating Lars’ farm is ok,
Han having a wife is ok,
individually, these things are within reason to where they’re not messing up SW that bad,
But ALL TOGETHER, it’s too much IMO.
It would have been wiser for them to have maybe held back HALF of the movie pseudo-retconning, because these little things are adding up fast and the continuity restraint seems to be a tad out of control.
That said, this scene where Vader inspects the ruined house is 100% legit IMO, the thought never crossed my mind that this Vader would step foot there, but thinking about it, this makes perfect sense and ought to be an awesome scene.
It sounds like the kind of scene that really could have been the beginning of TESB [except it wasn’t, because, you know, spoilers].
Overall they need to exhibit a little more restraint on the movie-references, but in this case, it’s spot on. I wanna see how this scene plays out.
Loved that Vader thought Kenobi was a failure for not training Luke…
a Sith Lord wouldn’t waste 20 years. Perfect.
And how long before Aphra gets a lightsaber through the back? December at the latest.
That’s a big fat no, Anon. Aphra isn’t getting whacked for stealing the “contraband”. She’s recruiting the bounty hunters to hijack the shipment FOR Vader. Odd that smugglers aren’t being considered there, but we have to remember, Vader said he had a delicate mission for her…. more than meets the eye for sure.
And yes. It is dumb that Vader goes to Tatooine now… and not when the troopers informed the bridge that new owners of the droids had been found. Having been to that exact location before and all, makes these comic developments on “Tat-too-eeeeeen” ;o) feel extra weird.
Anyone else getting the feeling that he’s going to kill off Aphra at the end of this arc to tie up some loose ends?