Comics Star Wars #21-25: The Last Flight of the Harbinger

Anyone else thinking the sniper might be a woman?

 

Another wacky arc full of crazy ideas that turn this comic more and more into a Saturday morning cartoon even more zany than the Saturday morning cartoon we already have -.- Is it too much to ask for Aaron to treat the OT characters and the Empire with the same respect he shows Obi-wan in the one-shot?

 

It kind of looks like Jodo Kast's Foxcatch from Legends http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Foxcatch
Or possibly a Mu-class shuttle, which made its way from Legends to canon already with the Whisper Bird from the Adventures in Wild Space series http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Mu-class_shuttle/Canon


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You mean like TCW which is the mentioned inspiration for the whole wacky, super, special and extra extra Stormtrooper squad thing? Instead of gods behold them just telling a story about a normal Stormtrooper squad.
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You know it is stuff like this that just makes me even more appreciative of what Dark Horse did with Empire. .

 

Re: Those preview panels

To quote Star Wars: The Geordie Edit - Sarge, use the big gun Sarge.

 

I just love how a good half of the stormtrooper variants/units are presented as the elite.

"Lord Vader, we need to send our elite troops right away."
"Yes, my master. I'll dispatch stormtroopers immediately."
"No, I meant the elite within the elite."
"Of course, I'll contact the storm commandos."
"No! Not that elite. The other one."
"All right. The shock troopers it is, then."
"No, no, no! The newer elite!"
"Oh? You mean the phase II dark troopers, then? Or perhaps Commander Bragh's Purge Troopers?"
"Dammit, Vader! I mean the Imperial Special Forces!"

 

And Rogue One will be presenting us with another elite group! But I don't mind, since it just gives us new badass Stormtrooper designs.

 

Anyone ever fancied running a one shot regarding just such a team of troopers?

Just wondering how that fared compared to what's been talked about in this thread!

 

No different then in real life.

"Mr. President, we need to send in our elite troops."
"Ok, let's deploy the Rangers."
"Wrong elite unit sir."
"Green Berets?"
"Guess again, sir."
"Delta Force?"
"Sir, you know which unit I am talking about."
"Oh, you mean the SEALs!"
"No, I mean the Combat Control Teams."

 

Well you know, sometimes you want an elite group that is dark and no parents, and sometimes something more shinier takes your fancy, or you experiment little with different skill sets, and all these different elite troops just pile up. In the end Palpatine puts a whole legion of them on Endor just so they could have something to do.

 

Unfortunately, by Endor all his actual "best troops" had been wiped out, so he had to settle for the best of...whatever was left.

 

Three colored, unlettered preview pages and two covers:

Elite Stormtroopers Prepare to Strike in Star Wars #21 – First Look!

Spoiler

 

I just love that cover... I'll agree a couple of the designs look a bit goofy, but I've been wanting a Stormtrooper focused story forever so I'll gladly take it.

 

That giant E-11's gonna bug me more than the giant E-11s in the Lando miniseries...partly because it's even bigger than the Lando ones, I think, but mostly because the artist clearly used a 3D assist program like SketchUp and still managed to scale it all wrong.

 

Don't have a problem with this but I have a feeling that one of those special forces troopers will be female, specifically the hooded one.

 

Wouldn't surprise me at all. That one's build does look a bit different.

 

If those guys were the best of the rest, then what did the worst look like?

Sure, but I don't think the Dark novatroopers E11 will ever be beaten:


Although I have to admit that I kind of like the possibility of several sizes of E-11s for different sorts of "calibers".

 

Good grief... this new guy's weapon comes pretty darn close, tho. Different "calibers" would be okay, but the gun shouldn't just scale up entirely (scope, grip, and all) with a higher caliber... that's my main problem with it. It's not a bigger gun with an E-11 scope & pack & all, it's just a ginormous E-11.

I did a quick & sloppy mockup of what Han would look like if his blaster were scaled more like Kreel's:

(here's the original for comparison)

 

So you're saying you prefer the front three over the rest in the back, right?

 

I actually quite like the Demolitions (far back) and Pilot (breather tubes) designs. I guess the Demolitions design may not feel super Star Wars-y or stormtrooper-y, but putting it in a vacuum, I think it looks good. Bazooka is comically hulking huge, though. I'm predicting headbutts.

Excited to have Kreel back!

 

The back one is all hoses... I think he's the flamethrower guy? The pilot with the two pistols is a bit annoying with that low-slung box attached to the hoses...why wouldn't he just be in regular pilot gear? Or regular stormtrooper gear with a pilot helmet & box like Phase I clone pilots? The designer in me would rather see 'em all have a unified armor design distinct from regular stormies--with some customization--rather than 7 one-off armored looks tailored to specific roles. More "Republic Commando" than this.

 

It's not like Vader's servants haven't had personal armor before, just see Rebels.