Death, Lies, and Treachery (Star Wars: Boba Fett)
Is there anyone cooler than Boba Fett? Like a cross between Clint Eastwood and Chow Yun Fat--but with a jetpack and kneepad rocket dart launchers--Fett has always symbolized cool, quiet power. If Fett wants you, you're as good as got (that ridiculous incident over the Great Pit of Carkoon inReturn of the Jedinotwithstanding).So any book or comic featuring his royal Fettness had better be good. Fortunately, our boy gets his due in this quality Dark Horse collection of three previously published comics (Bounty on Bar-Kooda,When the Fat Lady Swings, andMurder Most Foul). The story, by John Wagner ofJudge Dreddfame, is by no means brilliant, but it's clever enough to rise a cut above the more schlockyStar Warsspinoff fare. What really sets this collection apart, though, are the moody colors and expert composition of Cam Kennedy (Star Wars: Dark Empire). From our favorite bounty hunter nonchalantly capping some thug without even turning around to breezing through the defenses of a H'unn's criminal stronghold,Death, Lies, and Treacheryis classic Fett.--Paul Hughes