Man, this first issue was good! I had high, high expectations, and it somehow exeeded them. I love it. 🤣
And now my question's answered: Vader in this interpretation is trying to suppress all his other emotions so that he can have power; classic sith philosophy.
This is probably my favorite interpretation of Vader. I hated how the "Lost Command" and "Ghost Prison" comics in Legends basically made Vader understand the perspective of good and consciously reject it. The movies always made Vader seem like he was misguided more than just evil. And it wouldn't make sense if he were to have already been through similar experiences to the one on the Death Star II, and not turn to the light. If he already understood that what he was doing was evil, and still chosen to do it, then why did the whole ordeal on the Death Star II get him to see the light? It makes more sense that he stayed misguided until Luke refused him, at which point he realized that he was lost, and that got him conflicted enough for Luke to turn him back to the light.
I remember I got really scared when I saw the same ideas being implied in the 2015 and 2017 Vader comic book runs. But I'm glad they're choosing to stray from that route.
In a way it's inconsistent: chronologically, he goes from fully embracing the path of darkness and rejecting happiness immediately after Revenge of the Sith, then becomes a misguided character who thinks what he's doing is right on Ryloth and tries to bring Padme back on Mustafar. Then, he goes back to being pure evil and consciously rejecting the good in him when he kills Cylo. And then goes back to being a misled villain after Ep V.
By publication, he starts off misguided in Lords of the Sith, then becomes evil in the 2015 run, then it turns out he was evil since Revenge of the Sith in the 2017 run, then he's misguided again in Vader Immortal, and then he's misguided, but learning and growing to see the light more clearly in the 2020 run.
But then again, it could just be that some days he wakes up feeling like a sith lord and others, feeling like a hollow Anakin.
I'm rambling agian, but this comic just portrays his journey so, so perfectly. Him understanding Luke's perspective by remembering what he once held dear. And how that just makes him angrier and angrier until you think he's gonna explode, but he just...fizzles into sadness. It's a huge moment in Vader's life.
Everything about this comic is perfect. This is EXACTLY what I want! 😄 😄 😄
Yeah, it seems weird that a perfect clone of Amidala would be waiting with a machine gun in her old house, especially when that place had been locked down for decades.
This might actually be cause for concern if she's been planted there in anticipation of Vader. Because then it would be some stupidly unrealistic scenario like "Target Vader" which begs for not just suspension but complete suppression of disbelief. It reminds of the "Endgame" arc from DC comics back in 2016, which was ruined by the unlikely plot.
Originally posted by Galan007So yeah...
Nah, it isn't just a hologram/illusion, because the droid sees her too.If I had to guess I'd say that it's one of Padme's doppleganger handmaidens... Who must be extreeeemely devoted, given that Padme's been dead for a few decades by this point.
I actually enjoyed this issue quite a bit.
So Pak recently stated that the next arc of the comic series will tie-into the events of the Skywalker saga...
In the new Darth Vader comics, writer Greg Pak is including callbacks to the prequels and ties to the latest film, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
Pak said he's taking a fresh look at the galaxy after Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back from a certain point of view -- Vader's -- as he's just been rejected by his son. "We tend to think of that from Luke's point of view," he said. "But when you dig into that, you realize Vader himself is as traumatized as Luke is in that moment. And that moment is echoed purposefully multiple times throughout the series." Pak has already worked Sabe into the mix for the first arc, but he says readers can expect the next arc to include key elements to tie into the most recent films in the Skywalker saga, "which dig into some great unexplored territory and also dig deeply into the heart of Vader."
