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Star Wars (2020) (Single Issues)
Star Wars #9
“OPERATION STARLIGHT” BEGINS, AS THE REBEL PATHFINDERS UNDERTAKE A DESPERATE MISSION TO THE IMPERIAL CORE. In the Imperial Museum on CORUSCANT, an ancient droid holds the key to salvation of the REBEL ALLIANCE. The Rebels’ elite operations team, the PATHFINDERS, must pull off a daring heist right under the nose of the EMPEROR himself, with LANDO and LOBOT along for the ride!
32 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 9, 2020
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Charles Soule
1,522 books1,692 followersCharles 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.
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December 11, 2020
Not sure why Leia was on the cover. This issue dealt more with Lando and the Pathfinders. My favorite era of Star Wars, are the first three movies (IV, V, and VI). And this is a good story that fits into that time frame.
December 13, 2020
The cover is misleading as Leia reslly doesnt feature much. A heist story with a team led by lando. Its definitely a the build of a new arc. Will be interesting to see where this goes.
January 1, 2021
The Empire have collected artefacts looted from other cultures and collected them into a single museum under the pretence that they're better equipped to take care of them than the cultures they were stolen from. But enough about my last trip to the British Museum, what about this comic?
Heh.
I'm amused at people wondering why Leia is on the cover of this issues when she's hardly in it and it is, rather, really about Lando, Lobot and the Pathfinders infiltrating the Galactic Museum to steal an ancient translator droid to help them create a new code to use when communicating with the Rebel fleet. The answer is simple: Because that cover will sell better. Also, it's Leia in her Hoth outfit, which is Leia's best outfit.
This issue is really good. It's a welcome change of pace to focus on some relatively unknown characters, rather than the Big Three for once. It enable Soule to include some genuine stakes in the story, as we don't know that these characters survive well into their old age. It's a witty, dramatic, tense and action packed story, which does, indeed, include some clear commentary on the nature of modern museums, whose collections are filled with the spoils of empire.
The arty is also solid, if nothing particularly amazing. I do wish that the Star wars comics would be a bit more ambitious and daring with their artistic choices. But, that said, I still prefer this to the early days of the Dark Horse comics, where the art put me off reading them for far too many years.
Heh.
I'm amused at people wondering why Leia is on the cover of this issues when she's hardly in it and it is, rather, really about Lando, Lobot and the Pathfinders infiltrating the Galactic Museum to steal an ancient translator droid to help them create a new code to use when communicating with the Rebel fleet. The answer is simple: Because that cover will sell better. Also, it's Leia in her Hoth outfit, which is Leia's best outfit.
This issue is really good. It's a welcome change of pace to focus on some relatively unknown characters, rather than the Big Three for once. It enable Soule to include some genuine stakes in the story, as we don't know that these characters survive well into their old age. It's a witty, dramatic, tense and action packed story, which does, indeed, include some clear commentary on the nature of modern museums, whose collections are filled with the spoils of empire.
The arty is also solid, if nothing particularly amazing. I do wish that the Star wars comics would be a bit more ambitious and daring with their artistic choices. But, that said, I still prefer this to the early days of the Dark Horse comics, where the art put me off reading them for far too many years.
January 4, 2021
I was in a Star Wars heist story mood before reading this, so I like that this turned out to be in that vein. The Quermian known as Needle was a nice addition, though I think his name (nickname?) is too on the nose. Not sure if this mission was a bust and what they'll do next, but it was nice to see Coruscant. Though I was hoping the droid they'd go after would end up being Huyang. That's a character I've been wanting to see in these comics for over five years.
March 2, 2022
So the Millenium Falcon, the most famous ship in the galaxy that the enire Empire is looking for just landed on Coruscant without breaking a sweat? Yeah, right. I love this series but this was really dumb.
December 16, 2020
A decent and surprisingly bleak issue
April 11, 2021
Just a synoptic of the series so far, very good, great art, great expansion on empire strikes back and awesome rebel and imperial action.
July 4, 2021
3.25/5
February 4, 2023
Star Wars (2020)
#9 – “It’s time for OPERATION STARLIGHT to begin.”
#9 – “It’s time for OPERATION STARLIGHT to begin.”
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