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Post #897090

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ZkinandBonez
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A DIY Star Wars comics universe
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15-Jan-2016, 8:01 AM

ben_danger said:

Tobar said:

All you need is the Classic Star Wars collection.

Maybe its mw just being grown up - but the classic MARVEL and the Daily strips are really enjoyable to read. It might be the throw-away absurdity of some of it, or just how it resonates with the era of the OT.

I was born roughly a decade after Marvel stopped making SW comics, and I never read them until I was in my late teens, yet they’re some of my favorite SW material. I do find some of it a tad too goofy even for my taste (the whole Aduba-3 thing is a good example), but the Archie Goodwin issues from the late 70’s are some of the best EU material I’ve ever read. Apart from simply capturing the sense of adventure in ANH and adding some surprisingly interesting new characters, I really appreciate them for simply being untouched by the canon-obsession that came later. I mean, they refer to “warp-speed”, the designs are completely insane, and Jabba is a yellow walrus-man, but I actually think that’s part of it’s charm. They’re just good and entertaining stories that was never concerned about following a canon of any kind.
(The old Marvel illustrations are pretty awesome as well, especially the Infantino ones.)

darklordoftech said:

Veitch initially wanted to write about the Great Jedi Purge. It would have involved Obi-Wan among a group of Jedi, with the rest of the group getting wiped out throughout series and ending with Obi-Wan moving into his hut. Seeing that concept would be interesting.

So Dark Empire II (I haven’t read Empire’s End yet) was based on this idea? It sounds very similar.
Although I did enjoy Dark Empire I & II (though I’ll admit it was mostly for the art), I did find the story to take a surprisingly dark turn which felt slightly out of place in the New Republic timeline. It makes sense if it was based on a Jedi-purge story-line.
I’d love to see a “Legends/Infinities” comic written by Veitch, and illustrated by Cam Kennedy.

PS. Why does so many people have a problem with the Emperor returning. I though t was a nice way to continue that particular subplot from ROTJ which was never really allowed to flourish due to Lucas’ suddenly deciding to make it more child-friendly. Also the OT was more centered around Luke and Vader so Palpatine was ever that particularly important to the overall emotional story, he was mostly just there for the sake of the lore. So post-Vader, it makes sense to make to expand him into a more important character. And a younger one works much better to offset Luke and the new Jedi’s in my opinion.
I also like the idea of Palpatine being more of an ancient evil character (more in a Sauron kind of way) as opposed to just some random Sith from Naboo as he was later retconned into. The idea of him as this evil energy entity that possess (cloned) bodies is a lot more interesting, too me at lest.