Not a lot of votes for this round despite a fairly strong group of responses, but @Zor ekes it out. I may have forgotten to do this one earlier. Or was it all part of my plan...?
Naga Sadow has to fight his arch-enemy Ludo Kressh, who is quickly killed when Naga Sadow turns his apprentice to the Dark Side by tricking him into pressing a button that kills people, The Sith armies attack places by dropping troops outside the walls and attacking by foot, the last good Hutt is killed, the war ends the same afternoon it began and Sadow has to fight his arch-enemy Ludo Kressh... who is quickly killed.
The Sith Empire falls, probably because they relied on illusions to invade Coruscant, let their army at Kirrek get defeated by a brain-jellyfish committing suicide and some prisoners pressed into military service by the imperialist empress the Jedi are still for some reason friends with, let some random kid who just showed up act as an important military commander because Sadow thought he'd turned him to the dark side probably and that makes you an impeccably loyal military genius, fought a war among themselves in the middle of a war against an enormous Galactic Republic, and then as soon as the Republic showed up had their leader sacrifice all his forces and run away.
A huge Galactic War of three battles, in other words, 6 issues that tell a story that should have been 12 issues long.
Okay, RC's old entry has blown away the competition in this, the most tepid round of voting ever. We're only about halfway through TotJ, but I can take a hint--we'll get back to it later.
If you thought Darth Malgus was going to be a badass like Darth Vader because he looks like him, you would be wrong; Darth Malgus is inspired by the Darth Vader that cries himself to sleep at night in Lost Command.
Darth Malgus sacks the Jedi Temple and apparently some other things happened, but I don't remember what they were.
In the first Star Wars novel based on a video game's trailer, a Smuggler (who does Bad Things to support an Ill Child) flies a Jedi Knight (who seeks Vengeace, possibly, for her Slain Master) to Coruscant to fight a Sith Warrior (who is Cross and Married but Mostly Cross).
A book is based on a five minute game trailer and in spite (or maybe because of) its short length and easily categorized characters ends up working pretty well.
Continuing the trend of awesome novel covers following Millennium Falcon, they can't even get Malgus' lightsaber right, but aside from that, not a bad story starring someone whose idea of growth is eternal war, along with some cameos from a Jedi, a smuggler and a gangster.
