Comics Star Wars #17: Rebel Jail, part 2 (of 4)

Sana is no Salla Zend!

 

I was literally just thinking last week that it'd be cool to have diverse new neutral characters with motivations other than money and it'd be cool to see Star Wars Punisher

 

Hm, strangely I’m not that engaged in the Leia’s part of the story. I though it came off a bit over the top and the team-up felt forced? I’m not entirely convinced that in that entire prison, Leia thought that the number one Vader fangirl aka Aphra, who could just simply kill her and flee on her own, would be a good idea for a temporary ally.
The part with Han and Luke is hilarious though.

 

While the new villain is very cool and interesting, this whole arc is feeling pretty bland to me 5/10
+The new Bounty Hunter is as I just said very cool and his speeches are pretty interesting
+The art is excellent
+Han and Luke becoming Nerf herders
-The story feels so bland and forgettable, all I can remember is the Luke/Han story and that Leia freed Aprha
-Freeing Aphra was a pretty stupid decision by Leia

I have no favorite quote in this issue, so instead I'll reveal my smilie grading scale in case anyone cares
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The Leia/Aphra team-up is definitely forced, but I can buy the logic behind it. Leia doesn't want to just let her prisoners get slaughtered. Releasing Aphra is a bold and sort of reckless action that will take her opponent by surprise.

What Aaron is doing is very Marvel. It's fun and entertaining and borderline ridiculous. It's also a huge step up from the stuffy nostalgia that characterized the early part of his run.

 

Yeah I do enjoy Leia's stuff as things keep getting worse and worse and Aaron does a great job of slowly tightening the vice and upping the stakes. It's worth it just for that and also Aphra making snarky comments.

But I will say, oddly, even though the page count totals only, like, 4 pages, the Han & Luke stuff I flat-out love, just because it has a cool callback to Luke selling the Falcon by parroting what Han said in ANH, Luke taking on a smuggling gig more for the greater good and profit, and I also love how every time we cut back to Han & Luke things keep getting progressively more ridiculous (the Nerfs in the cockpit panel was genius). The actual Rebel Jail of Rebel Jail is pretty dark stuff but even just with a few pages, I love seeing Han & Luke bicker and get in a fairly silly situations.