![]() Vader has action, to be sure (including Vader swinging his lightsaber around Jabba the Hutt's palace in the opener), but rarely does Vader seem truly endangered to the reader. Gillen glosses over the three-issue action-packed opening of Aaron's Skywalker Strikes in the span of a couple panels, and it's indicative of the differences between the two titles. ![]() That's no easy feat, and it marks Gillen's Vader as one worth watching. ![]() Whereas Aaron tells a functional but familiar Star Wars story, Gillen's is atmospheric and expansive, including a moment at the end that all but recontextualizes Darth Vader all the way through to the end of Return of the Jedi. 1: Vader, collecting the first issues of that series running parallel to Aaron's, is the better of the two. And indeed Kieron Gillen's Star Wars: Darth Vader Vol. 1: Skywalker Strikes was the Luke material, but that overlooks the other side of that coin - the best part is the parallel Luke and Darth Vader material. I stated earlier that the best part of Jason Aaron's Star Wars Vol. ![]()
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