Finished reading Star Wars: Vader Down, this brings together writers Jason Aaron and Kieron Gillen for Marvel's first Star Wars crossover with their Star Wars and Darth Vader series. The book opens up with Vader traveling to Vrogas Vas the planet where Luke Skywalker has come to in hopes to learn more about becoming a Jedi, and Vader plans to have Luke for himself before Commander Karbin, his rival in the Empire, finds Luke. After coming out of hyperspace Vader is surprisingly met by a large fleet of X-Wing's on a training exercise. After an intense battle Luke decides to ram his X-Wing into Vader's Tiefighter leading to the two to crash land on the planet below. When news of this hits elsewhere Doctor Alphra and her droids BeeTee and Triple-Zero head to Vrogas Vas to help capture Luke for Vader while Han, Chewie and C3PO also head to the planet to help Luke, with Leia coming along for the ride to confront Vader and get revenge for the destruction of Alderaan. Overall this was an amazing book as it tells a Star Wars story that is fit for the big screen thanks to its explosive action, great use of comedy and character development that helps to build upon the foundations set by the films. The character interactions are great as the book brings together the main Star Wars cast and the new characters that writer Kieron Gillen has been using in the Darth Vader series and they instantly work perfectly together with BeeTee and Triple-Zero who are dark and twisted versions of R2 and C3PO along with Alphra being a great matchup for Han. The art by Mike Deodato and Salvador Larroca is amazing as it feels movie quality with how the book is laid out and drawn while credit should also be given to colourist's Frank Martin and Edgar Delgado with how things are brought to life and how the tones of colour palettes work with the location. 9/10.
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