Organization: Penn State University
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 22:47:13 EDT
From: <DCC117@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Star Wars Miniseries from Dark Horse Comics
Distribution: na
 <1992Sep11.171540.6052@ncsu.edu> <uplink.716691512@cwis>
 <92262.102147ACPS0685@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca>

In article <92262.102147ACPS0685@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca>, ACPS0685@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca
(Sylvie Coleno) says:
>
>>   Hey, doesn't anyone here remember the old Marvel comics series?  Yeah,
>>it may have been lame, but it _did_ exist!
>
>Yeah, and there were even a few that weren't all that lame, too!
>The particularly good ones were those by Jo Duffy;  she'd
>obviously put a lot of effort into plot development and
>characterization.  Some of those post-ROTJ Marvel stories outshine
>the Dark Horse series by a longshot, IMHO.
>At worst, the Marvel series was predictable and tacky, but I still
>haul 'em out every couple of years on one of those rainy Sundays.
>
>---------------------- "FLY  CASUAL!" --------------------------------
>Sylvie Coleno
>Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Canada
>ACPS0685@RyeVm.Ryerson.CA
>----------------------------------------------------------------------

Yeah, some of the post-ROTJ stories in particular were pretty good....
I liked that they finally showed what became of Shira Brie, because ever
since the "Pariah" - "Trial of Luke Skywalker" storyline, the readers knew
that Shira was still alive and in the Empire's care.  I'm glad they finally
did something with her, and it was cool to have Luke fighting the Dark Lady
with a curiously oriental double-lightsaber fighting technique.
    IMHO, a lot of the stories, even back in the years between SW and Empire,
were really good. The Valance character seemed to be the forerunner to Boba
Fett and the others in Empire, and Vader and Valance "fighting" it out to the
death was pretty cool. They made a super-gaffe by claiming to have killed off
Han Solo in one notorious issue, and I can't for the life of me remember how
he was supposed to have lived. They also expanded the Jabba the Hut(t) charac-
ter and did some interesting stuff with him, using the way Jabba appeared in
the comic version of the SW film, i.e. yellow-skinned, whiskered humanoid.
Again, a gaffe, though: as a result of one of the stories, Jabba renounced
the price on Solo's head. Oh well. The whole Pariah/ Shira Brie storyline was
well done, IMO; it was neat how Luke's reliance on the Force caused him to
kill a fellow Rebel and become shunned by the rest of the Alliance. Still, it
doesn't seem like the kind of stuff I'd want to see happen to Luke in one of
the films...it just disrupts that "hero" aura around Luke. ( Which makes it
really neat in its own way. ) I thought that the period between Empire and
Jedi was sort of contrived, and for all I know the comics could have really
conflicted heavily with what was laid down in Jedi, what with time discrep-
ancies and all that. It sure seemed like they should have. That whole thing
about "chasing down other bounty hunters to get more information about Boba
Fett's whereabouts" was really a stretch. The issue where they went to Fett's
planet and encountered other members of his combat team ( with the same outfit
as Fett ) was kind of interesting, but in reading it I always kind of took it
as non-canon stuff from the very beginning. After Jedi, there was some artist
I really liked, and I have no clue about his/her name, but he drew this elf-
like pale humanoid race that was kind of neat, and he drew the Dark Lady
storyline with Shira Brie as a female Darth Vader type. I don't know how it
ended; they had this disposition in some of the last issues I read to call the
Rebel Alliance the Alliance of Free Planets ( aha! not the New Republic ) .
It just seemed to me that a lot of really creative stuff came out of the years
between ANH and Empire, and I thought the stuff between Empire and Jedi was
really strained for legitimacy. At one point, they did some issues with Luke's
past that were interesting ( like Crucible ) and actually had some insight
into aspects of Luke's former life. The Skyhopper races were great. ( And we
know Luke had one; after all, you could see it in ANH! )




#################################################################
#                                                               #
# *****   *  *    **    ***    *   ****   ***    *  *   *   *   #
#   *     *  *   *  *   *  *   *   *  *   *  *   *  *   **  *   #
#   *     *  *   *  *   *  *   *      *   *  *   *  *   **  *   #
#   *     *  *   *  *   *  *   *     **   *  *   *  *   *** *   #
#   *     ****   ****   ***    *    **    *  *   *  *   *****   #
#   *     *  *   *  *   *  *   *   **     *  *   *  *   * ***   #
#   *     *  *   *  *   *  *   *   *      *  *   *  *   *  **   #
#   *     *  *   *  *   *  *   *   *  *   *  *   *  *   *  **   #
#   *     *  *   *  *   *  *   *   ****   ***    ****   *   *   #
#                                        DCC117@psuvm.psu.edu   #
#                                                               #
#################################################################
#                                                               #
#                                                               #
#                   I                                           #
#               <---]=========================>                 #
#                   I                                           #
#                                                               #
#                                                               #
#################################################################
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars