Star Wars: Poe Dameron, Vol. 1: Black Squadron

Star Wars: Poe Dameron (collected editions)

by Charles Soule, Chris Eliopoulos (Artist), Phil Noto (Illustrator)

Collects Poe Dameron #1-6.

Poe Dameron, former Republic flyer turned Resistance fighter, is the best pilot in the galaxy. Hand-picked for the resistance by General Leia Organa to lead a squadron on a top-secret and vital mission, Poe sets off to investigate sites of historical importance to the Force — revealing backstory leading directly into The Force Awakens! Follow Poe and his X-Wing squadron on covert missions against the First Order, brought to you by writer Charles Soule (STAR WARS: LANDO, DAREDEVIL) and artist Phil Noto (STAR WARS: CHEWBACCA, BLACK WIDOW)!

Genres: Star Wars, Comics, Graphic Novels, Science Fiction, Marvel, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics

138 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 13, 2016

About the author

Charles Soule is a #1 New York Times-bestselling novelist, comics author, screenwriter, musician, and lapsed attorney. He has written some of the most prominent stories of the last decade for Marvel, DC and Lucasfilm in addition to his own work, such as his comics Curse Words, Letter 44 and Undiscovered Country, and his original novels Light of the Jedi, The Endless Vessel, The Oracle Year and Anyone. He lives in New York.

Reviews

[Sam Quixote · Rating 1 out of 5]

Oscar Isaac’s Poe Dameron was arguably the best new character in The Force Awakens. The perfect blend of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, Poe stole every scene he was in and it wasn’t surprising when rumours of a spinoff solo movie started doing the rounds. I’m all in favour of that, Disney, but one thing: please, please, please NEVER hire Charles Soule to write the script, he will torpedo any interest in the character like he did in this crappy comic!

Remember Poe’s first scene where he’s talking to Max von Sydow - ever wonder how he found him? No? Me neither, but that’s what Black Squadron is about. In his quest to find Lor San Tekka (which sounds like an Asian curry dish and the premise for a Star Wars food show - “Join Poe and BB8 as they look for the best cuisine the galaxy has to offer!”), he encounters an egg cult and has to bust out Grakkus the Hutt from space jail.

For a book about a dashing pilot having adventures in his X-Wing, this one turns out to be astonishingly dull. Bad, unexciting action permeates with unmemorable characters in a pointless storyline that’s impossible to care about. The egg cult story had a derivative flavour to it too like when the Engineer awakens in Prometheus crossed over with corny Japanese kaiju fighting. And the bad guy, Terex, is basically a Star Wars version of Dick Dastardly but not nearly as amusing.

If you’re hoping to learn more about Poe and BB8’s past, up yours buddy! The characters are still being developed by the movies and no comics writer like Soule is gonna be allowed to make up canon that might end up contradicting the on-screen character’s history so Poe’s basically a one-dimensional, static character here. Phil Noto’s art is serviceable but as bland as the writing - it’s nowhere near as fresh or vivid as it was in his Black Widow run.

Black Squadron was mega-boring. Charles Soule manages to take the most charismatic figure in the new Star Wars movies, suck the personality out of him and drop him in into by-the-numbers forgettable stories. I loved The Force Awakens and I’ll all for comics with those characters but Marvel need to keep Charles Soule away from anything Star Wars in the future - ever since he went Marvel exclusive he’s become such an unreadable hack!

[Calista · Rating 3 out of 5]

There were some good ideas in this story. I don't think Poe's Charisma came through the novel very well. He was very different. I didn't care for the members of Black Squadron at all. There was no characterization. They were dull. The beginning was a little interesting and then we were introduced to the foil or antagonist - Tekka. He is dull also and I didn't like him at all.

I thought the idea for the prison with the anti-gravity gun was interesting and creative. I don't know how something like that would begin to work, but that's besides the point. Seeing the hutts was interesting at least. Tekka was so boring, someone please kill him and give us a better villain. Also, can Poe get his personality back please. This is the Pan sexual space pilot full of charm. He was not in these pages at all.

I will probably give the next one a try and see if it gets better. This got some things right and things wrong. Poe is searching for the guy who knows where Luke is at the beginning of the Force Awakens.

[Paul · Rating 3 out of 5]

Phil Noto's artwork was great as always on this book... shame about the story.

Nah, that's a little harsh. It was OK. You'll probably get more out of it if you actually enjoyed The Force Awakens....

[Alexandra Elend Wolf · Rating 3 out of 5]

“Tell me… al this time, all those generations down here… Did you guys have any idea what was actually in that egg?
No. But that was never the point.”

This was... okay.

Black Squadron happens a bit before the start of The Force Awakens, which is actually kinda good because it answers a question I've had since I first watched the movie. Who is the guy Poe is talking to at the beginning of the movie?

Of course, the whole plot is about Poe, and Black squadron, looking for information on this guy and, in extension, Luke Skywalker.

The first half of the story was... fine but a bit dull.

I don't know why but it just... didn't really catch my attention.

It's in the second part where I really had fun!

That little Hutt tidbit was cool. Though, I'm still deciding if it looks okay or just weird. But the idea was cool, that's for sure.

And the droids. I loved the part they play.

As a whole, is not a bad introduction for the characters. We get to know a tiny bit of them and see them in action.

The art was a bit weird at times. It wasn't bad but some drawings looked just weird.
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It's been a while since the last time I read a Star Wars related comic or book and it's about time I fixed that.

Deciding to read this series of comics focused on Poe Dameron, the one character with whom I fell in love since the first moment I saw the first sequel movie -something that didn't happen with anyone else- was an easy enough thing to do.

I really didn't have an idea this existed until a few days back.

Anyway, it should be fun!

[Oscar · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was not good.

[Holden Johnson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Marvel has done amazing so far with the new star wars canon comics.

Poe Dameron Vol 1: Black Squadron contains issues 1-5 of the new Poe Dameron comic from marvel. This is one of the few series in the new marvel comic selection that takes place in unknown time periods during and around the events of episode 7, The Force Awakens. So, of course, this makes me very excited to see more into the new universe.

This volume was very exciting and showed me several things that I love in any star wars media:

New planets.
New aliens.
X-Wing Squadrons.
BB8.

Poe is a confident, charming pilot and the Black Squadron, consisting of Snap Wexley, who is one of the main characters from the Aftermath Series by Chuck Wendig, is Black 2. I have a love of X-Wing squadrons and any story that deals with average, ordinary citizens doing amazing things.

Sure I love the force, Jedi, Sith, Lightsabers, etc, but there's just something about ordinary joes taking on evil that puts me on the edge of my seat.

Can't wait for the rest of the series and Volume 2!

[Lata · Rating 3 out of 5]

Charming Poe Dameron is sent on a mission by General Leia Organa to find Lor San Tekka. With the help of BB-8 and the members of Black Squadron, Poe travels from place to place, with First Order Agent Terex (I kept thinking T-Rex!) showing up on the same mission.
Some action, a little mystery, with more to be revealed, hopefully, of how the First Order seems a little ahead of the Resistance.

[Chad · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was the first one of the Marvel Star Wars books I was bored with. Disney has such a tight control on what can be done with any of the characters that all these EU stories involving anything with the new movies are bland and uninteresting. Adding Charles Soule to the mix doesn't help. His writing for Marvel has been uninteresting at best and that trend continues here. The plot of this whole series is the hunt for Max Von Sydow. He's supposed to be this big explorer now so each story line is just going to a new planet to get leads to the next planet on a never ending hunt until sales decline enough to kill the series. In the second story in the book, Lors is supposed to have visited a Hutt on a prison planet. Soule couldn't even be bothered to give us a reason why Lors would go to a penal colony in the first place. Grrr, this book just makes me mad after seeing how good Marvel's other Star Wars books are.

[Jesús De la Jara · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fue un cómic que me gustó bastante aunque tampoco me fascinó. Se supone que esto sucede antes del episodio VIII, no estoy seguro si antes del VII.
Poe Dameron siendo un piloto de la Nueva República es reclutado por la General Organa quien le da bastante libertad para actuar. Poe forma con un buen grupo de pilotos expertos: Snap Wexley, Karé Kun, L'ulo y Jess Pava, el grupo élite "Escuadrón negro" y por lo pronto están detrás de un posible gran informador Lord Santeka, les interesa sobre todo conocer el paradero de Luke Skywalker. Pero en el camino se encuentran con un agente de la Primera orden a suelto que es muy rebelde el Agente Terex. En este número vienen aventuras interesantes entre estos dos bandos.

[Allie · Rating 5 out of 5]

My rating is me being a bitch. Kind of.

Usually before I read any book I'll look up the reviews, to see if my bookish friends liked them or just to see what the ratings have averaged out to. If I would've seen the reviews before reading this, I wouldn't have read it. Fortunately, a friend came and dropped this on my table and told me to read it. He does this often and, truthfully, some of his recommendations are pthhhpbb.

That said, I'm glad I read this. I liked the story and the illustrations. Seems like a lot of reviewers had a problem with Charles Soule, but I'm still fairly new to the graphic novel world so I'm pretty unbiased.

I planned on giving this 4 stars, but because I want to up the overall rating average, I'm giving it 5. So there.

[Clarissa · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was okay. I wanted to love it. I really did but the plot felt predictable and a little boring at times. Of course, this is a direct prequel to The Force Awakens, so that may be part of it but I wasn't pulled into the story.

I adore Poe Dameron and BB-8 but I don't get the same charm that I loved from the movie that I do here. The artist does a good job making him look almost exactly like Oscar Isaac but, alas, the writer could not transfer his persona to the page. BB-8 is still great though.

I hope this gets better.

[Anthony · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was expecting a lot from this, but it's overall pretty average. I won't complain about BB-8 and Poe getting their own comic, but we don't really get into their history much. Instead, we're introduced to a lot of other characters that'll be supporting players coming up. Probably why this arc was called Black Squadron. I hope the next arc is better.

[Jonathan Maas · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just awesome. I highly recommend it!

[Michelle Curie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Poe Dameron was my favourite new character in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, so the fan in me was curious to find out how a series with him as the protagonist would play out.



Not that anyone would forget, but the former Republic flyer turned Resistance fighter is the best pilot in the galaxy. Black Squadron is set before the events of The Force Awakens and focusses on his and General Leia Organa's efforts to find the map revealing Luke Skywalker's current location. In the adventures that follow he has to find Lor San Tekka, who might know more, a quest which confront him with things like space jail and a cult worshipping a giant egg.



The art by Phil Noto is pleasing to look at, but yet not the artist's best work. Charles Soule did a good job at tying Poe Dameron and his droid BB-8 into their own adventures and making their voices sound like those we've got familiar with in the movies. We meet some other familiar faces along the way, too, as characters like Leia and Captain Phasma make their cameos along the way, the latter making an interesting statement about the difference between the Empire and the First Order:

"The First Order is not the Empire. We are purer. We have been through the crucible and emerged stronger."

The problem was less the characters however (even though most of the secondary characters were forgettable), but more what they were doing. The storyline itself wasn't horrible, but also not truly exciting or engaging. I guess this is a read that will only be interesting for people who are keen to lay their hands on everything Star Wars related - but beware, there won't be much new stuff waiting here for you.

[Julie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Oh gosh, this comic book was a delight! 4.5 stars. It covers some of Poe's shenanigans with Black Squadron (Jessika Pava, Snap Wexley, et al) in the leadup to The Force Awakens, on their search for Lor San Tekka -- and their clashes with Agent Terex, a First Order intelligence operative who is amazing, all mustachioed charm and whimsy as he and Poe wind up in a new cat-and-mouse game, an almost Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner-esque situation. There's a prison break. There's an exasperated Leia. There's his ace pilots, the comfortable camaraderie and love in the group. There's Phil Noto's gorgeous, photo-realistic artwork that looks so much like the actors that it's uncanny. The whole thing read like an actual Star Wars movie, and I loved it. Only very slightly rounded down because I would have liked to see more from Jess & Snap & co, and I hope they're developed more in subsequent volumes (since where else am I gonna get to see them??).

Also the very last add-on in the volume is a teeny tiny story where BB-8 takes it upon himself to stage a meet-cute for a Resistance pilot and technician, and it is the cutest.

[Bhanuj · Rating 2 out of 5]

The story, the artwork, the plot, everything was below average.

Poe Dameron is my third favorite character from Star Wars after Yoda and R2D2. You can say, that I have a little man-crush on the best pilot in the whole galaxy. I was super excited to find that Poe has his own series but I am super disappointed after reading it.

The story is a prequel to Episode 7. The volume 1 collects issue #1-6. Everyone wants to find out where Luke Skywalker is, but before they find out the map to Luke skywalker they must find the person who has the map. The artwork was average. I hated the way they made Poe look. There were no interesting dialogues. Not a single memorable dialogue in the whole volume.

It could have been an interesting tale, but it wasn't. The plot was very thin and dull. The jovial jibe between the characters that has been the corner stone of the Star Wars series was blatantly missing.

[Scott · Rating 3 out of 5]

This one started promisingly enough - with Dameron (quipping in a similar manner to the silver-screen version) engaging in the expected brave and/or reckless piloting, and then assembling a squadron for two special missions - but did not quite rise above B-level plotting. (The events depicted take place just before The Force Awakens.) The villain Terex, who appeared to resemble actor Robert Shaw in looks and DC's Sinestro in uppity / arrogant manner (ugh), was an average antagonist. BB-8, though, acquits himself nicely and probably should've received equal billing with the title character.

[Nicole · Rating 2 out of 5]

The art is excellent. But I found the plot threads boring.
A character says, "You know Poe. He could charm the pants off a Hutt, and they don't even *wear* pants." Not only is that a weird phrase, but I didn't find any examples of Poe being extremely charming. He's a nice guy, with a good sense of fair play, though.

[Sesana · Rating 3 out of 5]

Essentially a direct prequel to Force Awakens, the story of how Poe found Lor San Tekka, and, I presume, how the First Order was right behind him. The story was fairly good, and there's some nice action sequences. But there's some truly awful dialog in there. Nice art, though.

[Matěj Komiksumec · Rating 1 out of 5]

BOOOOOOOOORING

[Lance Shadow · Rating 3 out of 5]

Star Wars: Poe Dameron is yet another comic book series released by Marvel that focuses on a side character from the films. This series is meant to be a direct prequel to The Force Awakens. Despite the slight feeling of pointlessness to it all, writer Charles Soule and artist Phil Noto delivered a very fun read and I look forward to seeing how this story connects to the opening scene on Jakku.

This is one of those stories that much like Drew Karpyshyn's Old Republic novel Annihilation, I really like despite the obvious flaws and more than a few goofy moments.

THE STORY: This comic follows the exploits of ace pilot Poe Dameron right before The Force Awakens opens. Poe is assigned to find galactic explorer Lor San Tekka (the old man played by Max Von Sydow that gets murdered on Jakku by Kylo Ren) by General Leia Organa, and he assembles Black Squadron to pull it off. This team, composed of Snap Wexley, Jess Pava, L'ulo, Kare Kun, and their technician, Oddy Muva. Snap and Jess actually appear in The Force Awakens during the battle of Starkiller Base alongside Poe. I also did a bit of research and found that Oddy is not the alien that dies in that battle when his X-wing gets shot down.
This trade paperback actually compiles two shorter story arcs that each take up three issues, "Black Squadron" and "Lockdown".
The first 3 issues, which are what I call "The Black Squadron Trilogy", follow Poe and his pilots as they journey to Lor San Tekka's most recent known location, a strange planet called Ovanis. Poe gets in contact with a local cult who developed a close relationship with San Tekka as the squadron is ambushed by Terex.
In the second set of issues, which I call "The Lockdown Trilogy", the pilots head to Megalox Beta, a planet with extreme gravity where a private prison system operates. After getting betrayed by their escort of guards, Poe and the gang must fight their way out of the prison, and against Terex.

THE BAD: From the opening crawl of the first issue, you will find that this series will have little to no real tension and it's going to be highly predictable. It is interesting to learn what happened leading up to The Force Awakens and seeing some of the film's background characters fleshed out, but the fact that about half of these people are alive during the events of the film means you won't be worrying about what will happen to them. There's also the fact that The Force Awakens opens with Poe finding Lor San Tekka shortly before Kylo Ren axes him, so you know exactly what's going to happen- Black Squadron is going to find San Tekka and outsmart Terrex. And even though I like this series and I often go into the Star Wars novels and comics with this idea in mind, I can see why others would be turned off by it.
The comic definitely has its cheesy moments, from those weird flying monsters in the Black Squadron Trilogy to the fact that Agent Terrex sometimes comes off as the stereotypical mustache twirling James Bond villain.
I also find Phil Noto's art to be inconsistent. Noto happened to be the artist behind Star Wars: Chewbacca, and while I thought he did a good job, it wasn't anything special either. With the Black Squadron Trilogy, I was thinking that Noto made progress since Chewbacca and I was quite happy with it. The action was about the same level of quality (just ok) but the character design looked great. But then during the Lockdown Trilogy there are multiple panels that just looked rushed and a bit cheap.

THE GOOD: One of Charles Soule's strong points in all three of his Star Wars comics series has been the dialogue, even with the mediocre Obi-Wan and Anakin. I laughed frequently at the banter between Poe and Terrex, and there was an interesting dynamic between the pilots of Black Squadron. I never read the X-Wing books from Michael Stackpole and Aaron Allston, but from what I hear many Star Wars fans enjoy those books for the diversity of the cast and the relationships between Wedge Antilles and the pilots of Rogue and Wraith Squadrons. I think Soule does well with a similar dynamic here.
Despite his occasional cheesiness, Agent Terrex can also be cunning and intimidating and makes for a fun bad guy for Poe to battle. I really like his dialogue and have a good time reading his lines with a Steve Blum voice.
Soule does a fantastic job with the characters of Poe Dameron and BB8, getting them spot on from what we saw in the Force Awakens with Poe's snarky one liners and BB8's cute and silly antics. I also think he does a great job fleshing out the extras from the movie.
Finally, I really like how much Soule connects this comic with the rest of cannon by bringing in elements of other books and comics. Papa Torren from Soule's very own Star Wars: Lando, Grakkus the Hutt from Star Wars, Vol. 2: Showdown on the Smuggler's Moon, L'ulo from the comic book miniseries Shattered Empireand the Carrion Spike from Tarkin all show up. I especially like how the Carrion Spike is now Agent Terrex's personal craft.
The comic does a great job distracting from the weightless story by putting in easter eggs from previous canon novels and comics as well as provide wonderfully entertaining dialogue and a great portrayal of Poe Dameron. This comic isn't perfect by any means but I still had alot of fun with it.

THE CONCLUSION: Charles Soule's Poe Dameron is not as good as Lando, but in my opinion he has redeemed himself from the misstep that was Obi-Wan and Anakin. I recommend this to those who miss the fighter squadron dynamic of the X-wing books and/or closely follow the Star Wars canon because this will be a rewarding read. Not the best comic book collection in the new canon, but I enjoyed it enough. If you don't care about the events directly lleading up to The Force Awakens, this is passable. But if you don't care about that and just want to read about Poe Dameron flying around with his pilots kicking First Order Buckethead butt, have fun!

Update: final rating is 3.5, rounded down. I just finished legend lost and liked it much more than this one, so I needed to show the comparison better. Gathering storm still sucks but I’m keeping that same rating. It’s 2.5 Stars.

[Neil R. Coulter · Rating 1 out of 5]

I'm glad people (and opening-crawl texts) so often mention that Poe Dameron is the Best Pilot in the Galaxy (tm), because if they didn't, I would assume he's really uninteresting and helpless.

Poe's highlights:

**gets captured in the first few minutes of his film debut
**his ship gets destroyed on a middle-of-nowhere planet
**recites lame, quippy dialogue ("Who talks first? You talk first? I talk first?") in the presence of a cool villain
**entrusts important information to a childlike droid rather than guarding it himself
**leads the enemy to a peaceful village, which they completely destroy
**needs to be rescued by a complete stranger
**tries to escape in a TIE fighter without disconnecting a cable
**imposes his will on a stranger's identity ("Well, I'm not going to call you that. Let's see, 'FN.' I'm going to call you Finn. How about that?")
**gives clunky expositional dialogue ("That's right. He's a BB unit, orange and white, one of a kind.").
**crashes and destroys the second of two ships he has flown in the first few minutes of his film debut
**wakes up from the crash landing and ditches his new buddy on a planet in the middle of nowhere
**returns to the Resistance base without trying to find his droid and the important information that was the whole point of the mission
**arrives on Takdana a little bit too late to save Maz Kanata's thousand-year-old castle, and also too late to save Rey; also allows Kylo Ren to escape, even though Kylo flies a ship that's identifiable because it's different from all other First Order ships
**keeps shooting at Starkiller Base, even though it does no good until someone else more or less blows it up for him
**repeats generic pilot lines, such as "Give it everything you got!"

That's Poe. Can't wait to see what he gets up to in Episode 8.

But until then, we have the Poe Dameron graphic novel. And even though, as I've just indicated, Poe is far from the greatest Star Wars character, this graphic novel is even stranger and more disappointing than I expected. The dialogue is about as bland as possible, and the artwork is unexceptional.

The story includes odd elements, such as a group of people who guard a large, blue egg that contains their savior. Except that when it hatches, it actually contains a monster who doesn't seem to fit into the Star Wars universe at all. And there's never any further explanation. But it does lead to some, what should I say--fantastic? lines that haven't been uttered before in a Star Wars story (or, dare I say, elsewhere):

"He's got a detonator--He's threatening the egg!"

"If you talk now, maybe I can see about saving their savior. If not . . . my men will get to enjoy the galaxy's largest omelet."

Not Star Wars's finest moment. (But still not quite as bad as Aftermath.)

Why does Lucasfilm even have a "story group" if they're going to approve books like this?

[Chelsea 🏳️‍🌈 · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've only read one other series of the more recent Marvel Star Wars comics. They seem very exposition heavy. This one did, as well. I felt like I didn't get a whole lot of Poe? Or his character. It's a lot more of the rest of the cast and like a glimpse of Poe at the beginning and the end. I really wanted more of him, to be honest. I'm not sure if that's because this series is meant to take place in the time right before The Force Awakens or because this series came out before The Last Jedi and they didn't want to establish anything that might be ret-conned out later? Not sure.

Either way, I wanted a lot more of Poe but the premise is interesting.

[Anne Vivliohomme · Rating 2 out of 5]

Poe is a bit too cocky for my liking, and the uncanny resemblance of real life Poe to the cartoon Poe slightly unsettles me. There seems to be too much detail in his face, but not enough in the rest of his body, which makes his head look out of proportion. The rest of the art and the story line are similar, since both are pleasing enough, but not very remarkable.

Note: the second volume isn't on Goodreads yet, but I felt pretty much the same about it. However, volume 2 is a bit more exiting and unexpected, so I'd say it's closer to 3 stars. Plus, there's a romance! That I didn't care about! Yay...

[Jessamyn Leigh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Poe is a precious noble loyal sea turtle. I love BB-8. I love the rest of the squad. All of them going on adventures? Sign me up.

Phil Noto's art is always the prettiest and I'll never be over the way he does stuff with color.

Basically this is everything I could want in a comic.

[Ivy · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 🌟

Enjoyed seeing Poe and the other members of Black Squadron. Hope they find Lor San Tekka soon. Didn't really like the prison very much. Wonder who the spy in Black Squadron is.

Can't wait to read Poe Dameron #2: The Gathering Storm!!!

[Matthew Ward · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars. I really enjoyed this one a lot more than I expected that I would. Following Poe and his squad against a the enemy in the single form of Agent Terex makes for an entertaining chess match to watch. Plus, who doesn’t love a story involving the Hutts?!

[clumsyplankton · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really liked this because I’m such a big fan of poe dameron

[Silvana · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay, I have to admit that I have been having a huge crush on Oscar Isaac since he played Jose Ramos Horta in the 2009 movie, Balibo. Long story short, when I found out he got a role in Star Wars, an X- Wing pilot, I almost did a backflip because of I was so elated (kidding) and basically devoured anything I can get about his character's back story and so on.

Lucky there were this Marvel sale, so I grabbed anything with the expectation of a high rolling, exhilarating, dogfight-vaganza, blaster-raining, adventure. After all, his part in Greg Rucka's Before the Awakening is the most fun.

Well, I should have had lower expectation since this one, while not too bad, it also did not wow me. I appreciated that Poe had shown some strategic thinking and the signs of a capable leader (of his squadron at least) but the plots are rather bland and left me thinking 'oh okay, so that's finished, what's next?'

And the villain, gosh, Terex was such a dumbass, even that Hutt is more intimidating.

I like BB-8 here (who doesn't?). He is adorable, brave, industrious and so very cheeky. I think droids especially astromechs are the real hero of Star Wars.

Anyway, I hope the second volume is better.

[amanda luke · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love sequels content and I love the art