SWNN Review: Marvel’s Darth Vader #11

Darth Vader #11This arc is finally starting to ramp back up for me. If you haven’t been following along, it’s been a confusing and bloated last few issues of Darth Vader. This series started out great, but this arc is a bit more of a slow burn than the previous one. That’s fine, but some of the writing started to feel redundant and the characters were chasing their tails (an act that is excruciating to the reader). I’m happy that Darth Vader is gaining steam.


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We open with Doctor Aphra in a tourist destination called The Spire, a station at the edge of a cosmic storm. I love seeing these new, strange, and extraordinary locations in the Star Wars universe. She is pressing a source for information about Luke Skywalker. Apparently, the price on Luke’s head is possibly higher than the one Jabba had on Han’s. Doctor Aphra pays the fee with her newly acquired wealth and finds out he is on a planet called Vragos Vos, which makes me think we are headed for another series convergence. Luke is not there yet in the other series, but it could very well be later than we have seen so far.

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Vader and Thanoth are hot on the trail of the arms dealer called the Dragon. It has brought them to the Spire as well. The back and forth between Vader and the investigator is becoming a little tired to me. Thanoth intrigued me, at first, but now I’m just waiting for Vader to get fed up with him and take a lightsaber to his monocle. Vader is still nervous and that becomes clear when they catch up with Ante, the same person who sold Doctor Aphra Luke’s location.

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Ante is quick to give her up, but Vader realizes Aphra has been playing him the whole time and resorts to some drastic measures to catch up with her while avoiding any chance for Thanoth to get a word in. Vader, as we expect, offers nothing more than a quick death to Aphra. She lets him know that she knows where Luke is, but Vader had to pay to play.

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After Vader stages her elaborate escape, it turns out Thanoth had plans of his own on how to keep Aphra from escaping.

This arc seems to have a bit more direction now. I’m excited to read the follow-up issue. I wouldn’t pick this over Shattered Empire if I were watching my pennies, but it’s definitely worth a read at some point.

 

@Hard Case pointed out this is the second only canonical appearance of a Yoda species character. Good eye!

Darth Vader #11

 

You can order a digital copy at Marvel.com or at Comixology.comor visit the nearest comic book store.

 

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Kyle Larson lives in Portland, Oregon. When he's not running trails, he's reading and writing.

Kyle Larson

Kyle Larson lives in Portland, Oregon. When he's not running trails, he's reading and writing.

17 thoughts on “SWNN Review: Marvel’s Darth Vader #11

  • October 22, 2015 at 5:20 pm
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    Wrong this is the third such seeing. There is a female Of Yoda’s on the Jedi Council in Phantom Menace.

  • October 22, 2015 at 5:34 pm
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    yaddel wasn’t it?

  • October 22, 2015 at 6:07 pm
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    please take put the pop up ads I can’t stay quiet for 5 seconds

    • October 22, 2015 at 6:29 pm
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      Which ads pop up? They shouldn’t. Can you make a screencapture? And what OS and browser are you using?

      • October 22, 2015 at 10:35 pm
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        Can you make a scroll up button as well on the side a well that takes that takes you right to the top of the page? This site is very active now and it can take awhile to get there using the mouse/up button.

          • October 22, 2015 at 11:06 pm
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            I just wanted to say thanks. This place is awesome and you all do amazing work. This has become the BEST place for SW news on the Internet. You are all very appreciated!

          • October 23, 2015 at 8:51 am
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            Right on. Only other suggestion is that the Disquis system is a little wonky at times. Not sure due to the traffic here or it’s just at my end, sometimes it takes minutes to load up and other times like now it has “slow type”. I know it’s probably not Disquis itself because nearly all the Star Wars sites now use it and it tends to load faster on average.

      • October 22, 2015 at 11:46 pm
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        I’m using safari on my ipad. What’s really strange is that sometimes these ads (the usual “there’s a price for you” stuff, but that forces the browser to leave the page even if I click “undo”) immediately appear when I open a page, but e.g. while I was browsing the page now, they didn’t appear. Maybe it’s some other page that does this, or I dunno what…

        • October 23, 2015 at 2:31 am
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          Sounds like you’ve got a virus my man

          • October 23, 2015 at 2:33 pm
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            Yet it’s strange that ads pop up only on star wars news net…. And that they pop up in iOs at all… for what I know iPad is supposed to be virus-free unless you jailbreak it, wich I havent done

  • October 22, 2015 at 6:24 pm
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    “After Vader stages HER elaborate escape,” am I reading that right?

    • October 22, 2015 at 8:03 pm
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      Her meaning Aphra.

  • October 22, 2015 at 6:44 pm
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    Funny that Vader brought the ceiling down on himself this issue.

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