Some of these moments are flashbacks, but they never linger too long, only lasting one or a few panels, supplementing the present moment in the story. Despite the negative stigma those films have, they are canon for better or worse, and this story picks key moments to help flesh out the pain Vader is still holding on to.
We don’t get a look into exactly what Vader is thinking at any given time, maintaining an air of mystique to the character.Īnother choice made was to tie a lot of his feelings to events from the prequel trilogy. One key choice Gillen has openly said he made was the absence of narration boxes. Fortunately, the reputation he has garnered from the films is not sacrificed to do this. As the summary suggests, this series is filling in the gap between the films specifically, how Vader learns that he even has a son, and how he finds himself in a position of greater power in Empire despite his failings in the first film.Ī number of small but significant choices were made in telling a story from Vader’s perspective that helped to flesh out the otherwise monolithic villain, giving him more depth and making him somewhat sympathetic. I was pleasantly surprised to find just how much this story really worked to expand upon the Star Wars storyline, rather than simply telling an ultimately inconsequential side-story. I couldn’t help this wary, cynical approach, but I was interested in the character enough to give it a try.
I wasn’t sure what to think of the story at first, as an ongoing featuring Darth Vader sounds like an easy cash-grab. Vader works toward discovering what the Emperor is plotting behind his back, while also seeking to learn the identity of the Force-gifted Rebel pilot he encountered outside the Death Star. As the sole survivor, the brunt of the blame for the Death Star’s destruction has rested onto Darth Vader’s shoulders and he has fallen in the esteem of his master, the Emperor, as a result. The story takes place between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back. One such series that saw release in early 2015 was Darth Vader, an ongoing monthly series by Marvel Comics, written by Kieron Gillen with art by Salvador Larroca.
Regrettably, this resulted in a lot of the old expanded universe fiction being relegated to “Legends” status in the canon, but I’ve seen it as an opportunity to get deeper into the now more manageable canon of expanded fiction. With the release of Star War: The Force Awakens has come a lot of new fiction to the Star Wars universe.
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