" I find you, Vader. I kill you filthy. "

[thanekos]

Hiromoto Sinichi's Perfect Evil, part of Tokyopop's Star Wars manga dealie (basically Tales, but first published in Japan and only as two one-shot anthologies,) was one of those stories that concerned Vader taking on some secret apprentice.

This one, a boy named Tao (whose origins are vaguely Galen Marek-esque,) was soon discovered by the Emperor, who ordered his death. Vader complied with a grievous lightsaber stroke..

..and then took him back to his home planet of Shumari, to drop the body off or something because just go with it.

But then suddenly, out of nowhere..!





..a Tusken Raider. Well, that is certainly a surprising twist!



..fucker's got a bit of a swing with that stick, hasn't he?

And a hell of a reason, too:



vengeance: increases your lingustic and deductive reasoning abilities!



Lightsabers and Force sensitivity or projected laser blades and rage? You decide.

At any rate, the angry Tusken's tried so hard, he's come so far, but in the end:



yup, Tao's somehow still alive.

Weird little character dynamic he had with Vader, too; not that great, but serviceable for a one-shot Infinities thing.

(Looks a bit like the author's later depiction of the Beastman Viral, too.)



Farewell, vengeful Tusken man. This story may well have been more interesting were it about you, instead.

Really, that's how most of the Tokyopop SW manga stuff goes, better for the art than the story (like this one, whose conclusion proceeds as expected.)

(Amusingly, Sinichi also did character design for Pokemon Colosseum... which isn't as hard to see in this as you'd think.)

Comments

[silverzeo]

HOLY CRAP! THAT IS AWESOME! No wonder why Padame went for Annie after he said he murder women and childern of that race! ... no... no wait... it's still kinda bad...

[nezchan]

George Lucas: Making genocide sexy.

[crinos]

Yep, Padme had a major mass murder fetish. You know that if Obi Wan hadn't stowed away on her cruiser, Padme would have gone down on Ani right there on Mustifar.

[icon_uk]

So blowing up of Alderaan was Tarkin's idea of foreplay?

[crinos]

Also, anyone else see this and think of Achmed the puppet?

"I kill you!"

[proteus_lives]

Very cool.

I like the Tusken angle.

[fungo_squiggly]

Vader: "Your people had tortured and brutalized my mom to death. I killed them for revenge."

Tusken: "Swore revenge for your revenge!"

Vader: "Yeah, well, if you kill me, my son will take revenge for your taking revenge for my taking revenge. So there."

[crinos]

Tusken: Wait Wait.... this get us no where. Need alternate solution to resolve this.

Vader: What do you have in mind?

Tusken: You Play DDR?

Vader: Do I play DDR, he asks me. BRING IT ON!

And thus, did the most epic dance off in the history of the SW Galaxy begin.

[darkblade]

Of course they both lose to Batman who has trained to be the best at EVERYTHING (and can breathe in space).

[tacobob]

That's why I liked the first Knights Of The Old Republic game. They made the Tuskens into major bad asses. But you could still actually gain their respect and learn their super secret history.

quant suff!

[cmdr_zoom]

Gully Foyle is my name
And Terra is my nation
Deep space is my dwelling place
And death's my destination

Re: quant suff!

[skjam]

Until the end, of course, when his motivations change considerably.

[tsunamiwombat]

That was a badass Tusken.

[hyperactivator]

Nicely done.

[joysweeper]

Oh, Perfect Evil! I've heard of that, but didn't know it was translated.