GIANT-SIZED DARTH VADER EPIC! The longest-running DARTH VADER comics series ever reaches its stunning conclusion as THE DARK HEART OF THE SITH comes full circle! Darth Vader finally unleashes the unfathomable power he's accumulated through the SCHISM IMPERIAL against the only person in the galaxy he hates more than he hates himself - EMPEROR PALPATINE! Also featuring the final twists in the saga for key characters like LUKE, LEIA, SABÉ, OCHI, ZED, SLY MOORE, the members of the Schism Imperial and more!
Greg Pak is an award-winning Korean American comic book writer and filmmaker currently writing "Lawful" for BOOM and "Sam Wilson: Captain America" (with Evan Narcisse) for Marvel. Pak wrote the "Princess Who Saved Herself" children's book and the “Code Monkey Save World” graphic novel based on the songs of Jonathan Coulton and co-wrote (with Fred Van Lente) the acclaimed “Make Comics Like the Pros” how-to book. Pak's other work includes "Planet Hulk," "Darth Vader," "Mech Cadet Yu," "Ronin Island," "Action Comics," and "Magneto Testament."
I’m really not sure what to think of this series overall. It had some really out there stuff in it, several of the story arcs are pretty odd, and a lot of it was very hard to mesh with the overall timeline between Empire and Jedi in my head. I guess it ended up where it needed to, but it took a really weird convoluted path to get there. I’ll re-read it at some point because I don’t know that I really absorbed it. Did we really need this much adult Kittster? And how many Frakooooms, skrakoooms, and brakoooooms need to be in one issue?
Been reading the Vader comics on and off since 2020 when the Ani brainrot hits, and I have to say this is the absolute PERFECT finale to this series and leads us right into Return of the Jedi in a way that makes everything Luke senses within Vader make so much more sense. The way he realizes that even at his strongest he cannot beat Palpatine's brainwashing, the way he tries to convince himself he isn't Anakin anymore because of it. God.