<blockquote>Reegar said:I checked out Dark Empire since Bingowings and I talked about it in the TFU2 thread.
The art is awesome. Hypnotic, even.
But I walked from the story feeling like it was pretty pointless. I was disappointed we never actually saw a dark side Luke (hey, if that's the hook, which it was, stick with it). Instead all he does is stand among some Imperials and glare at people, all the while sabotaging Palpatine's plans while Palpatine is fully aware of the sabotage and happy for it.
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Dark Side Luke would have been another Vader. What we saw was more interesting--an inchoate Dark Side Luke. Someone in the process, but not quite there yet. Veitch was exploring how Vader might have fallen, by showing us Luke's stepwise descent and the rationalizations he makes along the way. It also parallels another one of Veitch's characters, Ulic Qel-Droma from Tales of the Jedi. (It's like poetry, it rhymes.) But where Ulic killed his brother to protect his power, Luke, knowing the price of that power from his father's example, repents and rejoins his sister in the light.

I don't think Luke's climactic turn would have been believable with a fully Dark Side devoted Luke. Veitch chose to explore how a zealous Darksider could come back to the light side with Kam Solusar. Though his full story was never published, it involved years of solitude and lingering guilt even after he reintegrated with society--not something Veitch could do to Luke.