Lit Agent of the Empire #9: Hard Targets, part 4 (of 5)

(don't get me wrong -- I do like the cover.)

John does NOT have co-writers on this. John wrote it all by hisself.

-- John

Pasta? Where?

So anybody else pick up this issue today? And yes, the inside cover confirms that John wrote it all by hisself.

Still plenty of great action, lines and chase scenes of course, all with great art and excellent writing, a great Bond-style adventure. Honestly, nothing super-original, but a great story still with a few good messages. And I like seeing so many Star Wars vehicles too (though the Imperial fleet still hasn't arrived so no Star Destroyer shots). Now just one more issue to go.

I particularly liked the weird plant in Cross sr.'s living room.

Also the first picture, and the brawling scene in front of the bar. Very nice gritty futuristic city setting with a palpable, realistic feel to it. Great art on the whole -- Otoh Dooku (lol -- who would have guessed we'd get that name sometime) was a nice touch, too.

Loved the issue. Really hope to see more from this series. The world building is just amazing. Otoh Dooku? Just brilliant This is perhaps the biggest development we have seen on Serenno.

This issue was alright. Fett's speech pattern seemed a bit off. Resembled Rorschach from Watchmen.

Still, I continue to love Fabbri's art and how it meshes with Ostrander's world-building.

With how many different Fetts there have been, is there even a standard speech pattern?

Considering we barely have a standard background for the character, I guess a standard speech pattern is too much to ask.

Rorschach Fett? Sounds good to me.

Given how screwed up his childhood was it even seems fitting.

Too bad they dropped the celibate thing, that was another parallel to Rorschach.

Too bad they dropped just about anything from those great stories.

Could be worse. His Shadows of the Empire iteration was atrocious.

I just imagined almost everything said by Fett in Shadows of the Empire was a thought bubble

I really love this series. It has great action, an interesting protag that I'm curious to hear more about--but at John's pace, not mine. The art is fantastic. I love all the nods to continuity. Great, great stuff.

This issue has a James Bond style Sub-Battle as well as an underwater city! Simply awesome.

In The Essential Reader's Companion, it makes a point of saying that it didn't match up with anything else written about Fett before or since.

I'd disagree that it "didn't match up with anything before", since nothing had been established at that point. It was something that Moran established, but it went against nothing that came before or anything in the prequels. The inconsistency comes later, when authors decided to give Fett a child, a wife and a mistress. I still maintain that these elements add little to Fett as a character.

Like Darth Bane, it seems all the unique traits about Fett are retconned one by one.

Moran's version of the character beats every other depiction.

idgaf