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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Water Bob" data-source="post: 6979459" data-attributes="member: 92305">The Vader series is probably the best of all the new Marvel series.  And, I think it will definitely stand the test of time.Look at all the great characters this series added to the Star Wars universe....Dr. Aphra - A cute, love-able, smart, sociopath.  She has exactly zero sense of right and wrong.  Otherwise, you'd want to marry her.<img src="http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/d/d2/Aphra.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150508052900" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />I spoke about these guys above.  Triple-Zero and Beetee.  Two homicidal droid maniacs with a sense or humor and subtext.<img src="http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/b/b8/0-0-0.png/revision/latest?cb=20160813000808" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />This shot of Beetee and R2 cracks me up.  R2 has his arc welder out!<img src="http://www.popoptiq.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/R2D2vsBT.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Then, there's Black Krrsantan, the wookiee.  And, the wookiee wants his money.<img src="http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/6/69/Black_Krrsantan.png/revision/latest?cb=20151109233801" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Finally, there's Cylo.  I think his name is an inside joke.  [sblock]If you kill him, his consciousness is transferred to another clone body.  So, I think it's a nod to Battlestar Galactica and the Cylons (new BS, not old BS).  Cylo is worthy adversary for Vader.  He's a bad guy for a bad guy.[/sblock] He's a Lex Luthor to Vader's Superman.  Cylo always seems to be one step ahead of Vader, out-thinking him.And, Cylo is a master with cybernetics.  In fact (and this is canon now), [sblock]Cylo was the lead designer of Vader's suit.  You can say that the Emperor ordered Cylo to rebuild Vader after Anakin's near death on Mustafar.  Near the end of this series, we find out...that Cylo hid a kill switch among Vader's suit circuitry![/sblock]  Awesome!<img src="https://retconpunchdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/making-friends-as-a-sith-is-hard.jpg?w=593&h=539" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Is that Tagge you see in the panels above?  It sure is!  Remember, he's the guy that Vader nearly choked to death aboard the Death Star in A New Hope.  Nope, he didn't die in the explosion.  He escaped, and Palpatine raised him in rank to Grand General.  Vader has lost face with the Emperor.  Palpatine blames Vader for the Death Star's destruction.  (Yep, it even fits with the story of Rouge One--probably more so than it did when the story came out.)  So, Tagge has been a thorn in Vader's backside.And, by the end of the series, [sblock]Vader has engineered it that Tagge drops a few notches in the Emperor's estimation.  Palpatine takes the Executor away from Tagge and gives it and the fleet to Vader.  We know something like this happened between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back--so, here, it's spelled out.  Vader gives Admiral Ozzel command of his flagship (and Vader ends up killing Ozzel because he came out of light speed too near the Rebel Base on Hoth and was detected, in TESB).[/sblock]It's awesome stuff, this book series (trade paperback series).It's got giant, living starships made of unbelievably big whales!  You want SPACE OPERA?  YOU GOT IT!It's got some scenes with some amazing depth that reveal some of Darth Vader's demons.It's got some jaw dropping moments.  THEY DID...WHAT!?And, it's got a new CANON story that fills in some gaps right after A New Hope.I love it.</blockquote>

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