Comics Poe Dameron #7-13: The Gathering Storm (7/7 released)

Poe's family is connected to Luke . And that whole Force-sensitive tree stuff. So I would say it was more than a mission from Leia for him. Both Finn & Rey had some general awareness, but Rey was on some backwater world thats not really a backwater world, and she knew about Han Solo and the Kessel run that seems more popular somehow , presumbly cause its like a pirate/smuggler world like Tatooine all over again. Her scenes mimicked Luke's from ANH(and some from Anakin in TPM) about the Clone Wars, Jedi Knights and wanting off the planet to go fight for the Rebellion, being already a hotshot ace pilot and all of that kinda thing. TFA was a strange movie, cause it was largely a loose reboot/remake as much as it was a sequel.

 

Yes I agree. Poe as a character is all over the place in this series but Terex (battle of Jakku perfectly ties with Aftermatch Empire's End) and lately Threepio are much better. I also admire how well BB-8 is portrayed - he's not only cute but also really smart.

But I still don't like this series that much, mostly because what it did to Poe's character. He's never been so... stupid in other sources.

 

To be fair, it’s not like “smart” was a specific character trait of Poe in the movie.
But I think the main appeal of Poe Dameron is the actor, not the (rather bland) way the character was written. So I think Soule is doing a decent job with the material he has.

Still, it’s an undeniable fact that the true star in these comics is Terex.

 

The storm has gathered. BB8 and C3P0 are presumed dead. It's only Poe and Nunzix. Poe removes Nunzix ROM unit and reprograms his CPU. Poe uses the metal from his broken arm to fashion three metal claws on Nunzix's good arm. Nunzix goes into berserker mode, killing Terex and all his men very graphically. Not knowing friend from foe, he turns on Poe - "DIE, MEAT!"

This is all inter cut with space battle shots where Black Squadron looks to be in trouble, but then Oddy helps even the odds on the Carrion Spike.

Suddenly, Snap shows up in a snap on the planet, blasting Nunzix in the chest. As Nunzix lays dying, losing power, he begins to tell Poe, "Snoke's identity is not on stored on my ROM, but in my RAM. His real identity is..." and powers down.

THE END.

 

I am a little disappointed with the latest issue of Poe Dameron. I hope the final issue of this arc will more than make up.

 

Do we see a female Tiranii in this issue? If not, does anyone know what species the feline looking female is?

 

Or a Farghul, perhaps?

 

That's possible too. It would be nice if someone from Marvel or the story group could give a list of background alien species in each issue. Not talking about obvious species like rodians, twileks etc.

 

Well, I remind you that Rey is literally next to a guy who collected the Millennium Falcon. The irony she didn't realize it was part of his collection makes sense since if anyone knew, they'd steal it.

 

These were the weakest parts of the issue for me by far. I really have no tolerance for stories of any sort that try to build tension off characters "dying" when we already know they aren't dead.

 

I haven't read the series yet. Disappointed to hear it's not very good.

That being said, I'm not sure why Marvel is so into Soule. I haven't been wowed by anything he's done. But he keeps getting pretty high profile gigs.

I would guess Marvel likes how prolific he is (he puts out quite a lot) and that he meets deadlines.

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I wouldn't say it's bad. I just don't think it's living up to its full potential.

...Also, you weren't wowed by Lando?

 

Haven't read Lando yet, either. But I've been seeing all the buzz. I'll move it up to read sooner!

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I like the comic just fine but I have a problem with Terex the villain.

Basically, he comes off as a forum fanboy.

"I hate the First Order for not being NEARLY as cool as the Empire! You suck! Being all kids with your heavy metal and your shiny armor."

God, can't we get some actual First Order villains?

 

ST-era Threepio is amazing. The only thing that I feel really ever compared to his droid spymaster role was his "memento mori" arc in the NJO, and that ultimately just kind of fizzled out. I really hope we see more of him in TLJ.

Speaking only for myself, partially it's the characterization of Poe - while he didn't have a ton of scenes in the movie, he did come across as having both charismatic swagger and a certain "Captain Resistance" sort of idealism. Greg Rucka captured that well in Before the Awakening, but I feel like Soule's Poe has the swagger but not quite as much of the idealism.

But the bigger issue is that, as I've said, I feel like the series just isn't doing as much as it could be. There's a lot of individual episodic plots that feel kind of padded out to fit the TPB format rather than a real continuing buildup to TFA, and it doesn't help that they keep doing fake-outs like Suralinda's story in the annual and what even Poe is suspicious of now with Nunzix.* And while the book was described as an ensemble series with Poe's name on the cover, and we've certainly had flashes of further characterization, I feel like the rest of Black Squadron isn't being as developed as much as they could be.

*(Actually, I think Nunzix really does have information on Snoke's whereabouts - but it's just that he has a mobile headquarters, as established previously, which is technically useful but doesn't actually accomplish anything).

 

I wish it wasn't a build-up honestly. I'd rather read about the Resistance blowing up First Order factories and star destroyers than looking for Luke skywalker.

 

That's one of the things that bugs me a little about TLJ picking up right after TFA. Its release might not open up all that much storytelling space for releases between now and ep 9. There will probably be more freedom to tell post-RotJ stories, but unless TLJ takes place over a long period of time we probably won't have a lot of new Rey, Finn, and Poe adventures until the trilogy is over.


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I'm sure there will be plenty of revelations in TLJ that will then allow storytellers to go back in time and tell more of the story. Really, the big storytelling mystery period isn't the TFA/TLJ era. It's Battle of Jakku - TFA. The plan is clearly to fill in more of those gaps as the big revelations come in the films. Knowledge about Luke was absent in TFA. So, appropriately, knowledge about Luke isn't present in the ROTJ - TFA stories, save for material we basically learned in the film. TLJ will reveal more about what Luke was up to, and very likely, more about Ben's story (and possibly Rey). Then? We get more stories featuring them. I bet around the release of TLJ, we'll get stories showing what Luke was doing during and beyond Aftermath. We may even get the parallel to Bloodline. And perhaps more inbetween.

There's a lot of story and major character events left to tell in the 'past'

 

Perhaps that is why they chose to do a Poe ongoing when they did because after Ep. VIII and IX are released the ongoings are probably going to be all over the backstories for Luke, Rey, and Ben.