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A collection of Tolkien's unpublished manuscripts dealing with events from the Elder Days of Middle-earth …
This is one of the best books in the Legendarium. Christopher Tolkien's work is so exquisite that this book can be considered the precursor of the History of Middle-Earth. Definitely a must read to anyone who wants to delve into Tolkien’s legacy.
It’s a great installment of old Star Wars Expanded Universe and it was made to be an epic (with all its hits and misses included). Tom Veitch writing emulates the dialogues from the classical trilogy (episodes IV, V and VI) and the artwork by Cam Kannedy is amazing.
There are some minor loopholes here and there and some bad design choices for starships and vehicles. I must also mention Empatojayos Brand, one of the most bizarre character designs I’ve ever seen. The main villain is also poorly written, despite being a major villain in Star Wars universe. I can't understand why, if the great villain, who claims to predict the whole future, lets slip so many banal things.
The first two thirds of this trilogy are great, mostly because of Veitch/Kennedy collaboration. Kennedy’s artwork is really remarkable and stands off everything else.
Nonetheless, despite its flaws, it has a lot …
It’s a great installment of old Star Wars Expanded Universe and it was made to be an epic (with all its hits and misses included). Tom Veitch writing emulates the dialogues from the classical trilogy (episodes IV, V and VI) and the artwork by Cam Kannedy is amazing.
There are some minor loopholes here and there and some bad design choices for starships and vehicles. I must also mention Empatojayos Brand, one of the most bizarre character designs I’ve ever seen. The main villain is also poorly written, despite being a major villain in Star Wars universe. I can't understand why, if the great villain, who claims to predict the whole future, lets slip so many banal things.
The first two thirds of this trilogy are great, mostly because of Veitch/Kennedy collaboration. Kennedy’s artwork is really remarkable and stands off everything else.
Nonetheless, despite its flaws, it has a lot of accolades. The Dark Empire trilogy was responsible to revamp the Star Wars vibe in the 1990s’ altogether with Timothy Zahn’s Thrawn Trilogy and it’s a big deal because it launched the old Expanded Universe (called Legends nowadays). It is a must read to every Star Wars fan.
If you like the political intrigue from Star Wars episodes I-II-III this book is for you. It tells how Palpatine ascended to power in detail and it’s quite great to know how he became a Sith Lord. He is not a mastermind alone: he’s following his Master’s steps, Darth Plagueis. The book is well written and it feels you’re seeing the prequel trilogy from behind the scenes. Several important questions are answered in this installment. Darth Plagueis is a great character in this grand scheme of the Revenge of the Sith, although the book is misleading. Although the book is called Darth Plagueis, the character is practically secondary to his apprentice, Darth Sidious.
My problem with this title is that it’s quite exemplary of how bad old SW Expanded Universe has become in its final days (I’m not saying that the Disney Cannon is better either; I still prefer the …
If you like the political intrigue from Star Wars episodes I-II-III this book is for you. It tells how Palpatine ascended to power in detail and it’s quite great to know how he became a Sith Lord. He is not a mastermind alone: he’s following his Master’s steps, Darth Plagueis. The book is well written and it feels you’re seeing the prequel trilogy from behind the scenes. Several important questions are answered in this installment. Darth Plagueis is a great character in this grand scheme of the Revenge of the Sith, although the book is misleading. Although the book is called Darth Plagueis, the character is practically secondary to his apprentice, Darth Sidious.
My problem with this title is that it’s quite exemplary of how bad old SW Expanded Universe has become in its final days (I’m not saying that the Disney Cannon is better either; I still prefer the old EU). It shows this unnecessary (and quite annoying) urge to connect all the dots between movies, previous books, videogames and comic books as well. I was constantly thinking about the huge library research Luceno did to “fill all the gaps” just to fulfill the LucasBooks Licensing editorial demands. Sometimes it seems it was more important to know when and where this or that came from than the story itself (ie. if you want to know why Count Dooku uses his well tailored cape, you will find the answer here; what that matters to the main plot Is the big question).
What do Dooku, Tatooine, Kamino, Jabba, the Hutt and those beautiful chrome-nosed Nubian starfighters of Naboo have in common? Apparently everything, and that is the problem. I have this feeling that Star Wars galaxy is amazingly small because everyone knows everyone and everyone lives and/or goes to the same places because of this unjustified need to connect all previous publications. I still don’t understand why they have to be at Tatooine all the time (I don’t know what’s so appealing with that huge dust ball) or even to meet Jabba the Hutt just because he’s an iconic character.
Anyway, if you’re looking to take a different look at what happened before the prequel trilogy and you really dig the political schemes from episodes I-II-III, it’s a must read.
I really liked this new beginning. They’re reigniting those old and gold grand Star Wars epic sagas from the Expanded Universe, and that’s great.
The best part is when Vader finally kills Zed Six Seven, the most annoying droid in the galaxy.
This comic book reminds me why I don’t like Star Wars comic books. This urge to connect all the dots of what happened in the movies is what makes these comics silly sometimes.
