Star Wars: Splinter of the Mind's Eye

Star Wars Legends: Comics

by Terry Austin, Chris Sprouse

Deep in the swamplands of the planet Mimban lies a powerful crystal, capable of giving its possessor an invincible mastery of the Force. In the right hands, it could save the galaxy. In the wrong hands, it could destroy it! While the explosion of the first Death Star still reverberates through the cosmos, Luke and Leia find that the war they thought they won was only a battle and that the dark side of the Force still stalks the galaxy.

Genres: Star Wars, Comics, Science Fiction, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Fantasy, Comic Book

112 pages, Paperback

First published December 10, 1996

Reviews

[Benji's Books · Rating 4 out of 5]

A product of its time, for sure, but it does what it should as an adaptation, and for that, I give it 3 stars. I give it a fourth star for featuring a panel based on the cover art by Ralph McQuarrie on the original novel by Alan Dean Foster.

It's cheesy---Vader is sent off in the dumbest way---but it's fun, and the art is pretty good, too. Recommended, but don't expect Watchmen quality stuff.

May the Fourth be with you!

[Ray · Rating 2 out of 5]

Splinter of the Mind's Eye is an interesting footnote in the history of Star Wars, one of the first 'Expanded Universe' stories in a sense, and objectively speaking it is not very... good.

Basically, the idea is what if Star Wars wasn't a hit and the sequel had to be low-budget. That's what the 1978 novel basically was. So no Han Solo, no big space battles, just Luke and Leia crashing on a planet and having somewhat dull adventures with minimally expensive backgrounds. A few aliens. Darth Vader also shows up, and its not very impressive. There is the first mention of Kaiburr crystals, that's something of a legacy. The mythology is bare bones compared to what came after, and it's not like this story goes in any directions that deviate what we now know was the whole Star Wars universe, and in fact Luke's character is portrayed quite douchey. It's just a meh episode, frankly.

Overall, a shame, because the medium of novels (and comics) should tell stories with more imagination. Not less.

The 1996 comic adaptation is of decent quality, doing its best to adapt the Alan Dean Foster novel with good art by Chris Sprouse. Unfortunately, there's just not that much to work with. Worth reading for the Star Wars geek completist, but don't pay for it. At least all Star Wars comics ever published are easily downloadable on Marvel Unlimited.

[Sud666 · Rating 1 out of 5]

Well okay then. That was really disappointing. I had heard so much about Splinter of the Mind's Eye. Maybe the novel is better than the GN adaptation. I wouldn't be surprised. This is cheesy stuff. It has the feel of an early 80's Star Wars comic. The art is only slightly better.

So Leia and Luke are heading to a conference to bother some more peaceful worlds into a state of Rebellion. But, along the way their fighters crash on a sparsely inhabited planet. But, it isn't sparsely inhabited-the Empire is here! Then what follows is Luke and Leia meeting some idiot who calls himself a Jedi Master (and is somehow still wandering around in Imperial held turf). There a few dumb adventures of the sort that seemed awesome in the 80's (though this book seems to be from the 90's). Apparently there is a crystal that magnifies Force powers. Vader comes to investigate- but this is the Vader from the first movie. Stupid, vicious, a mindless killer. The writer uses all the old 80's tropes for the Force and for Vader. I found it tiresome.

Anyways, after a few dumb adventures..Luke and Leia are captured by the Stormtroops and run into Vader. But, this Vader is an awful fighter. He allows a basically trained Luke to not only go toe to toe, but gets his arm chopped off. The entire thing. Apparently, they forgot that only Vaders forearm was cut off..and if Luke cut higher, as it was drawn, then he cut off real flesh. But no worries, Vader doesn't care. Then some more dumb fighting and Vader. Darth Fucking Vader. Dark Lord of the Sith. That guy. Yeah, he trips over his own severed arm and falls down a hole. Yup. That really happened. Luke and Leia happily wander off to save the Rebellion.

Bad writing, aged style of Star Wars, mediocre art- all of which mean the comic adaptation of Splinter of the Minds eye must be avoided by all thinking people. This is pretty much overrated crap. Pass on this. I am sorry I didn't. I did not care for this abortion.

[Lisa · Rating 1 out of 5]

I read this book twice. The reason I read it the second time was because I looked at and said, "No, it can't possibly be as bad as I remember."

It was.

[Matthew Ward · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5 stars. This one was just okay. I enjoyed a few aspects of this book, but for the most part, it felt pretty bland. I did enjoy the art though!

[Emily · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was dated in the "obviously from the early days of Star Wars" way and also the cringe way.

[Neil · Rating 4 out of 5]

Four stars for the artwork alone. It's beautiful art, in my opinion. I also liked how some of the story was "updated/altered" to "fit better" with Empire Strikes Back such as Vader and Captain Piett being onboard the Executor when he receives word of the two prisoners on Mimban, and the shuttle platform on the planet's surface a la Return of the Jedi.

The story is an adaptation of one of the first Star Wars novels, written by Alan Dean Foster (who "ghost wrote" the Star Wars novelization as well). It's been well over 30 years since I read the novel, so perhaps I will read the novel pretty soon after having read this adaptation (for comparison's sake and to see how well or poorly it has held up over time). In any case, this is a fun story to read, despite some weird/goofy moments in it like Darth Vader tripping over his severed arm and falling down a hole. The character development is decent; I would say Luke and Leia are accurately portrayed (as the story takes place shortly after the events in Star Wars). I liked the addition of the Yuzzem and Halla, as well. The action is pretty non-stop, with the heroes going from one frying pan into another until the end of the story.

I always thought it was amusing that the Empire felt the need to hide whatever it was doing on Mimban's moon like it did. On the one, the Empire is portrayed as being this cosmic monolith that nobody can ever escape from, that it is "all-powerful" and everywhere. On the other hand, it is portrayed as being weak, filled with incompetent officers and soldiers, and barely able to hold its own. One cannot help but wonder how it became a "galaxy-spanning empire" when small systems and even planets seem able to break free and resist the galactic government's rule. I mean, during the Clone Wars, there were entire armies and space fleets opposing the Galactic Republic as the Separatists tried to break free, to no avail in the end. Yet we are expected to believe that individual planets and even small star systems were able to do what just under half of the galaxy could not do during the Clone Wars?!? So it has never made any sense to me that the Empire needed to 'hide' whatever it was doing on Mimban in either the novel or the comic adaptation.

It is still funny to read about Leia being able to hold her own against Darth Vader, considering she has zero training and he really should have been able to just hold her in place with the Force and cut her to shreds. I remember it being "so cool" when I first read it in novel back when, but I do not think it holds up very well today. I am not so sure the argument that Leia may have had some kind of latent Force skills would really work, either, as one would think Vader would have caught on to that skill set on her part even if she were not aware of it herself. He noticed how "strong" the Force was with Luke, and it is implied in the last movie(s) that Leia may have been stronger than Luke was in the Force despite not having near the amount of training Luke ended up having.

The story felt really choppy, which surprised me. I did not remember the novel feeling so choppy when I read it. There was a "serial aspect" to it in that they seemed to move from one "moment of peril" to the next, but it was not a smooth flow. It did feel forced. It also felt like pieces of the story were missing with some of the changes in direction. I don't know if that had to do with Dark Horse trying to limit the story to four issues or not, but I kept messing with the pages in this compilation to see if some pages were stuck together and I was missing elements of the story.

Plus, Luke and Company are traveling for 7-10 days after escaping from prison, yet we are expected to believe that an Imperial Star Destroyer (let alone a Super Star Destroyer) is going to take more time than that to arrive at Mimban?!? Darth Vader is notified before Luke and Leia escape from prison that they have been captured, yet he does not arrive at Mimban until 7-10 days later?!? Just how slow was he trying to go? Why would he not have arrived sooner? Especially with how important the capture of Luke and Leia would have been, for different reasons?

I also found it funny how Luke really didn't get that much training from Obi-Wan Kenobi, yet he is able to fight off Darth Vader like he does in the "final climactic battle" and soundly defeat a Dark Lord of the Sith with very nil training. Luke also credits Ben with teaching him "everything he knows," which really is not all that much. Luke has been trying to learn it on his own as he goes along (which helps explain why he is so quick to believe and trust Halla despite not knowing that much about her; he apparently trusts what the Force is telling him about her, on some level). I think it is implied that Luke is supposed to be some kind of "wunderkind natural powerhouse" or something, based on Vader's shock and surprise at being bested by Luke like he was. Still, though, it did not feel believable, which was unfortunate. Granted, it was almost like the scene in The Courtship of Princess Leia, where Luke is not only flying the Millennium Falcon while using the Force but also controlling the Falcon's weaponry via the Force. He hadn't exhibited that level of skill or control before that story in terms of the "timeline," so it made it hard to believe he was that skilled in Courtship when he was quite a bit "weaker" in his skills and control in subsequent books "further down the timeline." Luke's (and Leia's) fighting Vader felt like it was "misplaced" or something and should not have gone down the way it did.

At least they got rid of the "retconned incestuous moment" between Luke and Leia! As story was written in 1978 or so, it had not been revealed Luke and Leia were twins. So there is a "moment" where Luke and Leia are wrestling in the mud and end up in a suggestive embrace with Leia's coveralls partially unclasped. It was a "steamy moment" in the original novel during a time when Luke and Han were both vying for Leia's attention in the comics and was "acceptable" for when it was written. With the revelation of Jedi of their familial relationship, it went from "steamy" to "icky!" (and hopefully that change stemmed from Lucas making it up as he went along and deciding that "at the last minute," otherwise the man has some issues). I can't quite decide if there are still any "undercurrents of attraction" between the two or not in this adaptation, however, but at this time they do not know they are siblings, so what do you do? You'd think the Force would at least let Luke know "having the hots for Leia is BAD!" or something, hahahah! Or when they got their respective medicals done, the medical personnel would have been, "hey, wait a minute! Your genetics are identical to each other, like you're twins or something" and that would have alleviated a lot of problems right then and there. You know the Rebellion would be keeping track of potential blood donors and whatnot for wounded soldiers because of their limited medical supplies, so they should have some kind of genetic database set up that would have alerted them to Luke and Leia's being twins.

I think the best part for me was towards the end when Luke and Leia are looking toward the temple entrance and Darth Vader is standing there. I loved that image because of it being a nearly exact copy of the original novel's cover. It was a pretty cool image.

It was still a fun read for me; I am sure a lot of it was because of nostalgia. I loved the artwork in it; I think it has some of the best artwork of Luke and Leia in it. I always wished the Yuzzem had survived; it would have been "fun" to read about them traveling around with Luke on potential missions for the Rebellion or being Leia's bodyguards or something. The story is probably 2.7 - 2.8 stars, rounded up, but the artwork for me pushes it to 4 stars (that and how they adapted the story to fit in better with Episodes IV, V, and VI). I am glad that I revisited this adaptation despite its imperfections.

[Stasia Bruhn · Rating 1 out of 5]

How in the world anyone gives this book anything other than a 1 star is beyond me..In this book Luke has feelings for Leia..umm this book was written before the movie script The Empire Strikes back..What I don't understand did George not tell this author that they were brother and sister..I mean it has cringe worthy undertones since U know this..Kinda creepy actually..George must of signed off on it since he wrote a introduction at the beginning..Did George in the beginning have the idea to write Luke and Leia as a couple but then somehow changed his mind..What gives? No wonder the library put this in a book sale..It is that awful..Now maybe without the undertones it might be a okay book but with the undertones I am not even finishing it..I have read all I can take..to me it belongs in the trash and actually that is where it is going..I don't think I have ever thrown a book away but this one deserves it..

[Keon · Rating 1 out of 5]

Ugh. Uninspired and boring. Chris Sprouse's art is magnificent as always but the story itself is just bland and the dialogue expository. Avoid.

[Malcolm Cox · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is based off of the 1978 book of the same name by Alan Dean Foster. The first expanded universe story. It was supposed to be a low-key sequel if the just-released movie did not do so well. Needless to say, the film was a success and a much bigger movie was subsequently made, but many elements from this story found their way into it and some of the later films. Most notably was Leia's lightsaber face-off against Darth Vader, in 1978! It wasn't until Rey faced off against Kylo Ren that a female wielding a lightsaber clashed blades, nearly 30 years later!!! Anyway, by design, the story is quite low key, lots of swamps and dark tunnels. At the time of writing Harrison Ford hadn't even signed up for another film, so there’s no Han, Chewie or the Falcon. There's a lot of hype between the relationship between Luke and Leia and there is a certain sexual tension between the two in this story. Of course, it takes another two films until the truth is out and something that, back then, was still only a possibility. I liked how this book updated the novel by adding a few features from The Empire Strikes Back. The Executor helmed by Captain Piett was a nice touch (and a scene not in the book). I felt that the Imperial governor ass was a bit pointless, though his demise was quite the thing. The artwork was okay, the likenesses may have been off from time to time, but they were still identifiable.
All in all, a strong story to fit between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back though one I’m glad didn’t make it to the big screen. It’s also a nice companion to the novel.

[Tony Romine · Rating 2 out of 5]

There's quite a bit about this I liked including the use of Luke, Leia, and Darth Vader in appropriate roles. Surviving a crash landing on an unfamiliar planet is a great premise for them and Darth Vader tracking them down to confront Luke is awesome.

My biggest gripe is the old lady named Halla who is their guide on the planet with her giving them a mission to help her find a mythical force crystal in exchange for a ship off the planet. Halla comes off as a hillbilly stereotype and seems extremely out of place for a character in the Star Wars story, but this story was written in 1978 and American audiences were really, really obsessed with Southern characters back then (that really doesn't explain why they wouldn't tone it down almost 20 years later when they adapted this for comics).

The force crystal storyline doesn't make much sense either really. Luke and Leia, two of the highest level leaders of the Rebellion just blindly agree to help this old lady find a crystal that may or may not exist. No one in the Rebel alliance were tracking their original mission or ships and thus could figure out where they crashed? Their only option to get home was going on what could have been an impossible wild good chase? I've never read the actual book, but I assume it gives more closure than the end of the comic does.

It's kind of fun if you've ever wanted to see what would happen if an old Southern granny hung out with Luke and Leia for a while.

[Gloria Cook · Rating 2 out of 5]

In the final scene of the book, C-3PO wakes up from a reboot, and asks "have I missed anything important?" and while the characters laugh at his ignorance of their adventure, I frankly don't think he did. I kind of love the idea that birthed the original Splinter of the Mind's Eye novel, trying to create a small budget sequel to Star Wars in case it bombed, but the fun of that premise after the film became a franchise is to see how it contradicts the official canon and goes in its own weird direction, and I know some of that is dialed back for this graphic novelization decades later to make it fit a bit more into canon, but even the core plot just doesn't feel very daring or risky which makes one wonder why you'd even bother making a sequel if it wasn't going to really conclude the series or push it into new territory. Of course, the real sequel would do the latter. I can't compare the graphic novelization to the original novel (I would if there was an audiobook of the original available) but I can say that the art is solid enough but the plot just isn't more than a decent comic arc from the early Marvel run.

[James · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the “graphic novel” aka “comic book” version of the Star Wars sequel that was written before the original 1977 movie came out, just in case its source material wasn’t a success and George Lucas could make a cheap follow-up to his pet space opera. But as we know, the film did very well and so this book was never used as a movie plot. Although the action sequences are well-rendered, the story comes across as cheesy and disappointing - the narrative is weak and Darth Vader is less threatening than any of the other dangers Luke and Leia face throughout their adventure. However, Leia appears to have some Force ability, which is interesting given the plot twist that she is Luke’s sister was not part of the canon when this was written. The artwork is good but I suspect that Foster’s novel version, which would fill in a lot of the gaps, is better. As a rule, I prefer prose to comics and read this comic book more out of curiosity than any real desire to dive into the Star Wars Expanded Universe. Strictly for avid fans only.

[Biblioteca de evocaciones · Rating 2 out of 5]

Muy floja la historia. Me di a la tarea de leerlo porque era la primera novela de Star Wars y la verdad se nota que le falta recorrido a la franquicia. Si bien fue escrita entre las dos primeras películas y se entiende que es algo que perfectamente podía haber ocurrido, a mí me resulta muy incómodo leer las escenas de interés romántico entre Luke y Leia y ver a un Darth Vader muy poco preparado para enfrentar a un Luke recién iniciado en la fuerza. Hay que tenerle respeto por haber sido el primer producto del universo expandido y por eso no voy a aplazarla, pero tampoco puedo aprobar ni recomendar esta historia. Buscaré una mejor experiencia con la trilogía de Trawn.

[Colin · Rating 3 out of 5]

The original book was written as the basis of a sequel to the original Star Wars movie but it was never made, perhaps because it's not actually that great and doesn't have Han Solo or Chewbacca in it. Its pretty decent though, and comes from a more innocent time, before we knew about the family ties between the characters, and before the casting and plotting of these movies became such a controversial topic.

[Andrew Alvis · Rating 4 out of 5]

On its own merits it's quite a minimalist story but taking heed from what Foster says in the introduction, it's still largely works on the notion that a Star Wars sequel would not be granted a huge budget.

Despite lore-breaking inconsistencies towards the end of the book, Luke and Leia worked great as squabbling siblings (a fact Foster points out wasn't established at the time of his writing this novel!) and Vader was suitably terrifying and far more ruthless than even A New Hope portrayed.

[Joseph · Rating 1 out of 5]

Thank The Maker this didn't become Episode V. Pretty bad story with worse dialogue. Though it did have Leia wielding a lightsaber, something Episode VII failed to deliver, to my extreme disappointment. I never liked the idea of the kaiburr/kyber chrystal, so I didn't expect much from this, but I felt like it was part of my Star Wars homework to at least give it a try.

[Danny · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing art and colors

[Donavon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very faithful adaption of the novel. Dialog and visual depictions are spot on.

Some of the Luke fantasizing over Leia are gone now that we know they are related, but everything else is there.

[zar · Rating 2 out of 5]

was just bored most of the time 😭

[Tim Gray · Rating 3 out of 5]

Decent, but not amazing, does avoid the (now) cringeworthy snog between Luke and Leia that the original novel had.

[Nicolas · Rating 5 out of 5]

This might be an overly kind review, but I just love the weird place this story sits in the Star Wars canon. I'd read the book years ago and it was fun to revisit it in graphic novel form. It's cool to see a Luke and Leia adventure. But, the thing that pushes it over the edge for me is the Vader/Leia saber battle, brief though it may be.

I interviewed Alan Dean Foster in a special episode of the All the Books Show: https://soundcloud.com/allthebooks/ep...

[Max · Rating 2 out of 5]

I definitely didn't enjoy this as much as the novel it's based on. I will say that the comic version has pretty nice art, and I enjoyed how the artist used a few designs and things from later Star Wars movies that came out after the novel. For example, Vader is traveling in the Executor, and he lands on Mimban on the shuttle pad from Return of the Jedi. However, the lack of Alan Dean Foster's writing robs this version of a lot of the charm for me. There's no chance to really get into Luke's head and see how he's dealing with these events, and because this was only four issues long, the plot has to go quickly without any room for real character development or expansion of plot points beyond the bare minimum. Plus, whereas I was forgiving of the oddities in the original novel, I'm less so when this adaptation came out well after the whole original trilogy. A chance could've been taken to change things to put them more in line with the later movies, and they did at least remove the creepy vibe of Luke and Leia's relationship, but otherwise the plot is just as weird and awkward as it was originally. I enjoyed seeing Alan Dean Foster's Star Wars, but I didn't much enjoy the comic book version, although it was fun to see some of the stuff from the novel illustrated. Whether you like the novel version or not, I think it's best to take a pass on this adaptation.

[Vitek Novy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Po nedávné premiéře Rogue One jsem shlédnul na Youtube různá videa o Star Wars a upoutala mě zmínka o románu Splinter of the Mind's Eye. Je to taková docela zajímavá kuriozita. Jeho napsání zadal George Lucas někdy v době kdy natáčel epizodu 4, odehrává se to v době mezi čtvrtou epizodou a Empire Strikes Back. Spisovatel Alan Dean Foster k tomu dostal jen ranou verzi scénáře, takže podle toho to do značné míry vypadá. Já tedy zvolil comicsovou variantu z roku 1996, kterou jsem našel na Marvel Unlimited.
Luke a Leia v tomto příběhu hledají posvátný Kayburr krystal který dovede znásobit sílu rytíře Jedi, ale pátrá po něm i Darth Vader, jak jinak. Tím že scénář v té době nebyl zcela dopsaný, chybí tu např. Han Solo a Chewbacca, ale jsou zde droidi C3PO a R2D2. Zakliknul jsem spoilery, o tohle se prostě musím podělit. Závěrečný boss fight - Luke je zavalený nějakým kamenem, takže Leia se pustí do Vadera lightsaberem, ten s ní nemá moc těžkou práci a párkrát ji "ožehne". Luke je osvobozen, a bojuje s Vaderem. Ten na něj zkusí nějaké to házení kamenů Silou, to Luke zvládne. Pak přijde Force-lightning (což jinak dle všeho Vader nikdy neuměl), Luke to kupodivu také zvládne odklonit a dokonce Vaderovi usekne ruku. Vader se zvedá s tím že Skywalker tedy měl jeden šťastný zásah, ale teď to jde ukončit...a zakopne o svou vlastní useknutou ruku a zřítí se do propasti! To jako fakt?!? Luke zázračně oživí Leiu Kayburr krystalem a říká že cítí že Vader je stále naživu, překvapivě. Happy end.

[Adam Oster · Rating 3 out of 5]

As a Star Wars fan who isn't all that rabid (meaning I have consumed little outside of the standard canon), I've long held an interest in Splinter of the Mind's Eye, due to its place within the Star Wars history. So, when I came across the graphic novel version of the book, I figured it must have been kismet to ensure I would actually read the thing.

I have to say...I was disappointed. However, I have a feeling that the disappointment lies more with the graphic novel adaptation that the story itself. The reason I want to focus on the fact that my issues were with this adaptation is that the abridgment of the original work is obvious. There are pages were one panel moves into the next incredibly abruptly. Battles end without reason and the story moves on rather haphazardly. If I were more familiar with the source matter, it may not have been so bad, but as it is, this is not a complete story, but, at best, an homage to the original.

With that being said, the artwork is beautiful. A true testament to the greater series of movies, this looks like a Star Wars book should look. The implementation of the story, however, is just lacking.

I'll be looking out for the novel sometime soon, but this is not a title I'd suggest for those who enjoy a well-told story...it's purely a bad adaptation with some pretty pictures.

[Eric · Rating 3 out of 5]

All in all it was a fun read, though it did start out with some forced dialogue. I would have preferred to have some of it explained in captions instead. There were actually a lot of elements of Return of the Jedi in here mostly from the Battle of Endor on.

I could have done without the Yuzzem and Conway. Besides the bad names they seemed pretty flat for Star Wars aliens. The green Mimbanites in the beginning were interesting and could have served for the rest of the story.

There were some forced transitions and the character of Halla seemed almost unncessary to the plot. These might have more to do with the compressed story of the graphic novel, though. I do like Halla's name. Seems very Scandanavian like Vader, Hoth, etc.

There was a note that this was updated to fit continuity. I'd be interested to see what was changed. Luke and Leia's relationship still seemed a bit ambiguous at times.

[Willow Redd · Rating 4 out of 5]

The first time I read this, I didn't realize it was based on a novel, nor did I realize that the story was supposed to be the second installment of the movie series because they were expecting a TV-movie with a smaller budget. This would have been an interesting direct follow-up to A New Hope, but I'm glad things went the way they did because Empire is such a better second part. This is a fun adventure, however. It was interesting seeing the new dynamic of Luke and Leia on their own, learning to deal with one another while fighting for their lives. It was also interesting to see Luke immediately jump in with a woman who claimed to be a Jedi Master, even though her abilities and morals were questionable from the start; but due to the loss of Ben, still fresh, he was just happy to find a new potential teacher. The Yuzzem were a nice touch, two giant Wookie replacements that Luke could understand because he had practiced their language. I wonder if any one else has written about them.

[Bradley · Rating 4 out of 5]

1990s Comic adaption of Alan Dean Foster's 1978 novel delivers the goods. It has some minor updates including Vader's star destroyer and any references to Luke and Leia's.... feelings (considering the revelation in Return of the Jedi hadn't been put on paper yet in 1978 but was in 1996). The art work has an old 1970s/80s Star Wars comic style to it which I thought was great and the comic covers are incredible, having the feel of unused Star Wars posters. This story while not all that epic marks the first lightsaber fight between Vader and the Skywalker twins therefore its not to be missed!

[B. Reese · Rating 4 out of 5]

A vast improvement over the novel. You can probably read this in one sitting rather than the months of agonizing reading in the novel. The cover art is good and it's an OK early story once someone has adapted it to a different medium.

[Josh · Rating 2 out of 5]

I enjoyed the story itself, but the writing was not good. I'm curious now if the actual novel this is based on remedies that problem. However it is a pity that Chris Sprouse hadn't done more Star Wars because, other than just being good, he kind of draws the perfect comic Leia.