New Marvel SW has been quite a mixed bag I think. A lot of the miniseries have been quite good. Nothing spectacular, but there’s some good stories there. The new content had a somewhat rough start, and the ongoing series, with the exception of Charles Soule’s Darth Vader series, have been pretty mediocre story-wise, and, in my opinion, borderline amateurishly drawn. I personally find the “movie accurate” ones from the first Vader series to be the worst of the bunch. It genuinely annoys me as artist literally just traced photos from the movies and the result is this kind of uncanny feeling. This article explain what I’m referring to.

I’ve really enjoyed Soule’s Vader series. The art may not be realistic, but it is “Marvel” in the sense that its dynamic and colourful. The Han Solo miniseries is a good example of art that is both movie accurate and dynamic.

But I think the biggest problem, as I’ve mentioned before, is that modern SW is just a completely different thing than classic SW. It’s nearly impossible nowadays, after 10 movies and 40 years of lore to go back to the simplicity in the old comics. The world itself adheres to more rules now, and even the characters aren’t as flexible ad simple as they used to be.

In the end I think a lot boils down to what your personal perception of what SW is supposed to be like. What “Star Wars” refers to has expanded and changed quite a lot in the past 40+ years, and new content is always going to mostly conform to the latest “baseline”.