Star Wars: The Bounty Hunters

Star Wars: The Bounty Hunters #1-3

by Randy Stradley, Andy Mangels, Timothy Truman

The Star Wars galaxy is populated by rogues, Rebels, and rabble-rousers. Many carry a hefty price on their heads, whether put there by criminal overlords like Jabba the Hutt or by the iron fist of the Galactic Empire. And where bounties are offered, bounty hunters will be there to claim them: the stealthy and merciless Aurra Sing; the fierce and relentless Bossk; the sly and mercenary Dengar; the calculating and precise 4-LOM; the audacious and deadly Kenix Kil; and the most feared manhunter of them all...Boba Fett! Four tales of life on the run created by a small army of comics luminaries, The Bounty Hunters is a must-read for Star Wars fans, predator and prey alike! Includes the popular — and hard to find — Boba Fett: Twin Engines of Destruction.

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

117 pages, Paperback

First published November 7, 2000

About the author

"Nearly thirty years of writing and editing comics, and this is what I have to show for it."
—Randy Stradley, pointing to this biography.

More to come, folks!

Reviews

[Darren-lee · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5

[J · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Bounty Hunters is a collection of 4 individual issues from 4 different series:

-Aurra Sing #1
An interesting view of a character you see only in passing in the movies but who had a few scenes in the Clone Wars cartoon. Nice artwork, a decent story and not just all action.

-Kenix Kil #1
A cute "man with no name" story. Crimson Empire featured the character with more backstory and more, well, STORY.

-Soundrel's Wages #1
I really dislikes the art here. Lando does not look like Lando to the point I thought it was a ploy. The story is barely ok. Maybe it sets up a better series but as a one off in this book, poor.

-Twin Engines of Destruction #1
Older, comic-style artwork than I'm used to with Star Wars. I liked the story and the chance to see Boba Fett in his prime.

All and all, only 3 out of 5. None of the art was groundbreaking, and some of it poor. The stories are mostly average with the exception of Twin Engines. But still worth a read at least once.

[Roman Colombo · Rating 3 out of 5]

There are four 1-shots. The first two are great, with two characters I've never seen before, Aurra Sing and Kennex Kil. The third one, with Lando Clarissian, was awful. Art and story. And the Boba Fett one was kind of boring.

[Michael · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've been reading a lot of Disney-canon comics recently and coming back to Legends was very refreshing - compared to Disney-canon, they are unhinged, but for me, in a good way.

I enjoyed this one a lot.

[Andrew Alvis · Rating 5 out of 5]

A surprisingly great collection but then again this was before Disney got a stranglehold on Star Wars and ruined notable characters like Boba Fett.
Really well drawn in all shorts and the stories were entertaining with a few other Star Wars heroes and villains of note make an appearance.

[Connor · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was alright. It's a collection of 4 one-shots about Star Wars bounty hunters. I liked the artwork in the first issue, about Aurra Sing. The Boba Fett issue at the end was pretty good too.

[Kai Charles(Fiction State Of Mind) · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a collection of multiple legends mini series featuring Aurra Sing, Boba Fett and a few other Bounty Hunters. Great art and story.

[Tom · Rating 2 out of 5]

A time capsule to a vastly different era of Star Wars. Of the four one-shots in this volume, only the Boba Fett one is worthwhile, the rest are various shades of bland.

[Kat · Rating 4 out of 5]

V episodic and snippet-y. Which was the intent and had a great time but I want more 😭

[Malcolm Cox · Rating 5 out of 5]

I previously read this a long time ago and only vaguely recalled the Boba Fett story. The first story, Aurra Sing, sees Aurra hunting down a pirate who has two doppelgangers. It was great seeing Aurra in different situations and the story had a nice twist at the end. The artwork was also of a high standard. My only issue with it was the unoriginal locations: Endor, Bespin, Hoth and Tatooine. In a galaxy with thousands of habitable planets, having a single adventure that travels to the exact same ones as the original trilogy of films is highly unlikely. Though it was nice seeing a young bartender-to-be Wuher.
Next up was Scoundrel's Wages, which follows Lando Calrissian as he falls foul to a Hutt's wrath and ends up being the prey in a bounty hunter hunting party (including Bossk 4-LOM, and Dengar). This story showcases Lando's incredible luck, not just at gambling, but also at getting out of scrapes. This was a lot of fun, which was amplified by the zany cartoon artwork.
Boba Fett: Twin Engines Of Destruction sees the notorious bounty hunter tracking down Jodo Kast, a bounty hunter who's getting better jobs because he also wears Mandalorian armour. This story features one of the few times we see Boba Fett without his armour - though heavily bandaged thanks to his experience inside the salacc. It also shows just how important reputation in his line of work is and how a pretender in Mandalorian armour is still a nobody. The artwork had less production behind it, but had a classic feel to it.
Finally, Kenix Kil fits the gap between the first two Crimson Empire stories where Kir Kanos becomes the bounty hunter to lead the majority of those hunting him to their doom. Featuring great artwork and action-packed violence, this was a satisfying end to the book.
The final page of the book helpfully features a timeline showing when the four stories take place, which is nice.

[Roz · Rating 2 out of 5]

This TPB includes three stand-alone comics about Aurra Sing, Kir Kanos, and Lando Calrissian. Aurra Sing follows the titular character as she hunts down a fallen Jedi who has hired two Shi'ido to disguise themselves as him and throw off pursuit. Kenix Kil follows Kir Kanos as he establishes himself as the bounty hunter Kenix Kil, a persona he uses in the larger Crimson Empire series. And in Scoundrel's Wages, Lando finds himself on the wrong side of Quaffag the Hutt while on a mission for the Rebellion and ends up being hunted by a group of bounty hunters on Xokhal. Aurra Sing is definitely the best of the three stories here, highlighting Aurra's intelligence and ruthlessness. Scoundrel's Wages had the weirdest artwork; Lando looked downright disturbing a couple of times. Kenix Kil was largely just meh.

[Angel · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a collection of stories about bounty hunters. The interesting thing about this collection is that the stories take place at various times in the Star Wars eras. From the days of the Republic to after the fall of the Empire, so you get a bit of everything. I do not rank it higher because the quality of the stories is so so. I liked the one featuring Lando Calrissian, and Aura Sing's was fairly good. The last story was a bit short. Overall, if you like Star Wars, you will probably like this collection.

[Angela · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a collection of 4 stories about bounty hunters. The Sing story had a nice twist to it and pretty artwork. The one with the ex-imperial guard was so-so, but he seemed to have potential as a character. The Lando story was just a lot of fun with him trying to escape bounty hunters. The Boba Fett one was the most disappointing, someone steals his name and he wants to stop him. A good read.

[Chad Hansen-Saunders · Rating 3 out of 5]

A collection of stories about different bounty hunters throughout different periods of time in the Star Wars galaxy. Nothing here is mandatory reading, but die hard fans will find these shorts of interest. The artwork varies drastically between each. Some good while others are not what I like.

[Andrew Rose · Rating 5 out of 5]

The most dangerous prey

The best hunters in the universe are featured in this collection of stories from the Star Wars Universe. The stories aren't interconnected or chronological which is the only real complaint I had

[Kurt Zisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice set of takes about a group of the most interesting scum and villainy in the Star Wars Universe.