Darth Vader - Comic Book Thread

Originally posted by One Big Mob
"Superman is... dead? Find out how in this week's issue!

...

It was a ruse, Superman only died inside from his uncle molesting him! Tune in next week to find out how Superman murders his entire family (with kindness), and sprays their blood all over the walls (for Halloween decoration with food coloring), and cheats on his wife with Jimmy Olsen (with his penis and Jimmy's arse)"

Covers lie to put asses in seats. My favorite one is when Vulcan beats Gladiator on a cover and the audience is like "Oh darn, that's a scary dude", and then it turns out he gets one shotted. It's interesting, people want to see what happens, and why that happens.

Well I was meaning objects and the like, not like people or beatdowns. But fair enough.

Example in the cover above, Tarkin is holding an SE-14r repeating blaster pistol, yet in the issue he has no such weapon.

Darth Vader (1/2):

Darth Vader (2/2):

Translations:
-Yoda
-Obi-Wan Kenobi
-Coleman Kcaj
-Oppo Rancisis
-Selrahc Eluos (Charles Soule backwards)
-Ka-Moon-Kholi (not sure if this is an accurate translation, as the text is hard to see.)

So...I mean I get the whole hiding thing, but this "Jedi turning against other Jedi or succumbing to their anger/fear whatever" is something I hope isn't gonna be the norm. Koth was gonna tell Vader where other Jedi were...that one Jedi Master who's name I can't remember let cities/people get destroyed...

Oh oppo and Coleman are still alive. Good. Well there are a lot of powerful Jedi still around: Yoda, Obi Wan, Quinlan vos, Koth, Rancisis, Kcaj etc considering that Inquisitors are fodder, VAder is no where close to full-power, I guess that if they teamed up together they could possibly take out the emperor and vader

Yoda/Vos vs Palpatine
Kenobi va Vader
The rest vs Inquisitors

The could take it

Too edgy for me.

Very dark

Spoiler:
he way the Inquisitor stole the Jedi

Also Poor Koth never stood a chance, and was very clearly desperate to keep his family alive. I can get his motivations

Quinlan Vos better run

Originally posted by carthage
Very dark

Spoiler:
he way the Inquisitor stole the Jedi

Also Poor Koth never stood a chance, and was very clearly desperate to keep his family alive. I can get his motivations

yes, i believe he can. he is over vader's level, my guess, though he is slightly under darth tenebrous

Originally posted by victreebelvictr
yes, i believe he can. he is over vader's level, my guess, though he is slightly under darth tenebrous

Not a bad issue to be honest. I like the dark tone.

How are people interpreting the duel? Was Vader keeping him alive until his family were caught? If not, an out of shape, out of practice and emotionally tilted Koth held up pretty well. On the backfoot, sure, but that was a long duel, time wise.

I mean, Vader did state that the emotions Koth was feeling during their battle made him considerably more powerful than he ever was(or would have been) as a Jedi.

That said, Vader still dominated him.

So did this issue confirm Vader outranks Tarkin?

Or was that already established?

Vader only 'outranked' Tarkin before he was a Grand Moff... But even when Vader did 'outrank' him, Palpatine made it clear that Tarkin was still beyond his retribution/jurisdiction:

But in the recent Annual, Palpatine himself reestablishes the fact that Grand Moff Tarkin most definitely outranked Vader:

*This fact is also corroborated by numerous other sources, btw.

Vader choked him out with ease
He could’ve ended the fight anytime

Originally posted by TheIndyJedi
My comment was meant to be a joke, as the guy above despises Bane

It's worth noting that Eeth Koth landed at least two or three glancing blows or near hits on Darth Vader in this fight. In one panel, we see Eeth Koth striking Vader's helmet (though the attack leaves no visible damage, we can clearly see that the helmet was struck on the 8th page that was posted). Also, at the end of the fight, we can see that Vader's right arm and the cloak over his left leg are both rather tattered, showing that Koth landed either glancing strikes or near misses.

This is probably Koth's best showing, considering the only other lightsaber duel we've seen him in (that I recall) was against Grievous, in which he didn't fare all that well. Sure, Koth was certainly inferior here, but it doesn't appear it was by too much if he was able to land a few blows. And we know in canon that Vader>RotS Anakin, as the suit doesn't appear to hinder him in canon the way it did in Legends.