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scans_daily7 pages from Star Wars #3 and 4 pages from Star Wars #4
That means there are some big explosions, some political discussions of the post-Death-Star-kablooey! situation (They don't call it that, but you know they would if they could) and also rather a lot of Luke in a vest doing Jedi training. (Look, no one else has posted from this issue, so I get dibs on what pages get posted!)
The rebels have decided to launch an attack on Cymoon-1, a major weapons manufacturing plant... en route they have found slaves being kept there and are determined to save them too.
These sort of stories, particularly those set between Star Wars and Empire, have the tricky issue of trying to bridge the gap, featuring the main cast, but knowing that they can't interact too often, as there wasn't much indication that, say, Luke and Vader had met between those two movies... here they have, and Darth is realising that Luke, who he still doesn't know the name of, is something rather special, a protege of Kenobi's it would seem (And one wonders how he feels about someone else being Kenobi's pupil), and one whom he felt enough for to give Anakin's old lightsabre to. Luke does NOT do well in that encounter, as he really has had bugger all training in how to use a lightsabre effectively, but more on that later....
This page sort of summarises what's going on...
Oh, and Leia and Han are piloting that AT-AT by the way. Hey, it was just standing around with the keys in the ignition, why waste it?
Chewbacca and C3-PO are elsewhere trying to get the Millenium Flacon working properly after it had a bit of a mishap.
Whilst Luke zips in and out on his bike, and Vader really gets into his meaningful striding about... Han and Leia find...
And we see where Luke developed a little of his speeder-bike skills as seen in Return of the Jedi.
Vader is really getting into his stride now, he's actually taking down Han and Leia's AT-AT single bladed by "simply" walking around underneath it (Where it's guns won't reach... bit of a design flaw there) and hacking it's ankles out from under it.
Say what you like about Vader, the guy has STYLE.
Despite the Falcon being just barely functioning, so their window of escape is TINY, Luke is determined to complete the mission that they originally set out to do, to make sure that Cymoon-1 is out of action for a long time by blowing up the power core.
By dint of Force-throwing a hapless stormtrooper pilot from out of a fighter, Vader decides he's going to stop him.
Yeah, yeah Darthie-boy, we believe you...
You have to feel sorry for the poor Overseer and the Engineering guy here... they make be serving the Empire, and the Overseer may be an ACTUAL slave-driver but...hang on... that means no, I DON'T feel sorry for either of them)
So much to his own surprise, Luke DOES make it (The Force is clearly with him), and even makes it to the Falcon, which takes off and Leia manages to get it into Hyperspace (Piloting clearly runs in the family) and as they all take a breath to recover their wits, Leia sees that Luke is looking a little down...
"...I never will be"
Vader muses that whoever this boy is, he's powerful in the Force, but is confident that he can be turned to the Dark Side.
Meanwhile, we pan into Ben Kenobi's old shack on Tattooine, which has, hidden away inside it, a box labelled "For Luke".... DUN-DUN-DUN!
And so ends issue #3
Issue #4 (the most recent issue) has a quick scene of the leaders of the Rebellion discussing matters following the events of #3
Now it's interesting (Well, to me at any rate) that as of this point in the timeline, Luke's entire Jedi training consisted of whatever Ben managed to tell him between taking off from Tattooine and arriving near the Death Star and the remains of Alderaan, and the bit about training against the flying balls of pain (bring your own subtext) is the only practical exercise he knows.... so it's natural that he would default to it....
..and so Luke heads off to Tattoine with only R2-D2 for company... unaware that through a terribly convenient quirk of destiny, Darth Vader has also returned to his homeworld for the first time since... Attack of the Clones probably, to arrange some matters (both Imperial and personal) with Jabba the Hutt.
Well, this can only end well!
That means there are some big explosions, some political discussions of the post-Death-Star-kablooey! situation (They don't call it that, but you know they would if they could) and also rather a lot of Luke in a vest doing Jedi training. (Look, no one else has posted from this issue, so I get dibs on what pages get posted!)
The rebels have decided to launch an attack on Cymoon-1, a major weapons manufacturing plant... en route they have found slaves being kept there and are determined to save them too.
These sort of stories, particularly those set between Star Wars and Empire, have the tricky issue of trying to bridge the gap, featuring the main cast, but knowing that they can't interact too often, as there wasn't much indication that, say, Luke and Vader had met between those two movies... here they have, and Darth is realising that Luke, who he still doesn't know the name of, is something rather special, a protege of Kenobi's it would seem (And one wonders how he feels about someone else being Kenobi's pupil), and one whom he felt enough for to give Anakin's old lightsabre to. Luke does NOT do well in that encounter, as he really has had bugger all training in how to use a lightsabre effectively, but more on that later....
This page sort of summarises what's going on...
Oh, and Leia and Han are piloting that AT-AT by the way. Hey, it was just standing around with the keys in the ignition, why waste it?
Chewbacca and C3-PO are elsewhere trying to get the Millenium Flacon working properly after it had a bit of a mishap.
Whilst Luke zips in and out on his bike, and Vader really gets into his meaningful striding about... Han and Leia find...
And we see where Luke developed a little of his speeder-bike skills as seen in Return of the Jedi.
Vader is really getting into his stride now, he's actually taking down Han and Leia's AT-AT single bladed by "simply" walking around underneath it (Where it's guns won't reach... bit of a design flaw there) and hacking it's ankles out from under it.
Say what you like about Vader, the guy has STYLE.
Despite the Falcon being just barely functioning, so their window of escape is TINY, Luke is determined to complete the mission that they originally set out to do, to make sure that Cymoon-1 is out of action for a long time by blowing up the power core.
By dint of Force-throwing a hapless stormtrooper pilot from out of a fighter, Vader decides he's going to stop him.
Yeah, yeah Darthie-boy, we believe you...
You have to feel sorry for the poor Overseer and the Engineering guy here... they make be serving the Empire, and the Overseer may be an ACTUAL slave-driver but...hang on... that means no, I DON'T feel sorry for either of them)
So much to his own surprise, Luke DOES make it (The Force is clearly with him), and even makes it to the Falcon, which takes off and Leia manages to get it into Hyperspace (Piloting clearly runs in the family) and as they all take a breath to recover their wits, Leia sees that Luke is looking a little down...
"...I never will be"
Vader muses that whoever this boy is, he's powerful in the Force, but is confident that he can be turned to the Dark Side.
Meanwhile, we pan into Ben Kenobi's old shack on Tattooine, which has, hidden away inside it, a box labelled "For Luke".... DUN-DUN-DUN!
And so ends issue #3
Issue #4 (the most recent issue) has a quick scene of the leaders of the Rebellion discussing matters following the events of #3
Now it's interesting (Well, to me at any rate) that as of this point in the timeline, Luke's entire Jedi training consisted of whatever Ben managed to tell him between taking off from Tattooine and arriving near the Death Star and the remains of Alderaan, and the bit about training against the flying balls of pain (bring your own subtext) is the only practical exercise he knows.... so it's natural that he would default to it....
..and so Luke heads off to Tattoine with only R2-D2 for company... unaware that through a terribly convenient quirk of destiny, Darth Vader has also returned to his homeworld for the first time since... Attack of the Clones probably, to arrange some matters (both Imperial and personal) with Jabba the Hutt.
Well, this can only end well!
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Date: 2015-05-06 07:08 am (UTC)That's a nice thing about the Lucasfilm Story Group policy under Disney
Date: 2015-05-06 07:46 am (UTC)