Comics Star Wars (Marvel) #5: Skywalker Strikes Part 5 (of 6)

Loved this issue. Was great to see Fett kicking some ass and the Han/Leia dialogue was great - it wouldn't have been out of place in the films.

 

Fett wasn't kicking ass, he murdered good and bad people to get the answers he was looking for, so tell me in what world is that an "ass kicker"? he's a villain plain and simple.

 

Good issue. I was drawn in by the previous issues a little bit more but still a good issue nonetheless. At first I thought Han and Leia fighting for control of the pilot seat was a little silly until I realized it was essentially Han trying to take the controls from Leia (which fit his character well).

Also did anybody notice how Han said 'bucketheads'? Surely that is not a coincidence of them putting that in there and I wonder if that is a little hint that Sabine is still alive at this point in time?

 

"Bucketheads" lol. gotta love Continuity.

 

I don't think we saw much of Boba's personality enough in the films to actually judge his personality though, which is making it free for the comics to decide.

 

I don't tend to think of Boba as a psycho, and I'd agree that the OT's depiction of him doesn't really fit the idea. On the other hand, AOTC definitely does. TCW, on the other hand, I see more of OT Fett coming to light. He was pragmatic and sure, he was going to take the girl into slavery, but he wasn't malicious about it; he was just doing his job, getting the money. This new depiction of him is certainly odd, but it remains to be seen whether this is going to carry across the board or it'll be only this writer who does this with him. Next guy who writes Fett (and I'd bet there will be a "Fett" series to go along with "Princess Leia" and "Lando" before all that long...), he may once again be a more calm, collected guy. This could just be an oddity. Maybe Boba's in a bad mood this day.

 

Don't give them any more bad ideas.

Gotta say I'm really disappointed so far with the Marvel comics. If this keeps up in the next round it will be Luke against the emperor.

Why would he hire Fett to go around trying to find out the identity of the guy who blew up the death star? I mean it wasn't a secret with Luke getting a medal and all in front of pretty much the whole Alliance so word must have gotten out and I would suspect that it would be easier to get the information that way than to have Fett running around like an idiot beating up people on Tat. From the movie I would guess that Luke had never been to Mos Eisly and Obi-Wan probably not that much, I don't think that would pass for hiding out. Yet somehow a friend of Luke's just happened to be in the cantina, how very convenient.

To me it all just feels like a reason to throw in Fett in the mix to get the Fett fans excited.

 

How exactly is word getting out? The rebels are a tight-knit group, if there was an imperial plant in their midst then Vader wouldn't have had to torture Leia in ANH, they'd already have known the location. I'm sure that the rebellion doesn't advertise in the whole galaxy that Luke Skywalker destroyed the Death Star.

 

That must have been For a few dollars more, when Lee Van Cleef was still more or less allied with him.

 

I enjoyed this issue, as I've enjoyed the other issues. I do like seeing Fett being a cold murderer. He wanted information, he got it, he tied off the lose end - What if he leaves the kid alive and he goes to warn "Wormie"? Bang, bang, you're dead. The cantina is lucky he didn't drop a thermal detonator in the place to make it really clean.

The Han & Leia stuff was really fun, I loved how Han started to bolt, which turned out to be a bad idea. The way I see it, this is why he "flies casual" in the shuttle in ROTJ. He has experience that bolting from the Imps is a bad idea, but he's still hesitant telling Chewie "Keep your distance but don't make it look like you're trying to keep your distance."

I do like how hesitant Luke is portrayed in this but he has bursts of Force inspired moments. I'm guessing with him blinded, it'll be a fun fight but he can tune into the Force to fight off Fett, sort of a graduation ceremony from the training remote in ANH which he did blindfolded. Also, yes, Tuskens know to run very far away when they see a lightsaber now.

Gonna miss Cassaday when he leaves but getting one more issue, and I get the feeling they'll put him on an annual or a mini so it can come out. But 5 issues in 5 months by John Cassady standards is pretty amazing. But I think the replacement artist, Stuart Immonen, is also a genius idea.

Fittingly, I like this book the most out of the all the Marvel series because it says "Star Wars" on the cover and has Our Heroes in it doing stuff that they do. I gets what I pays for! Me likey!

 

To be fair, it's perfectly understandable as to why. He's a popular, well known character, and we haven't seen much of him in the new canon. I don't see anything wrong with his inclusion, I'm just irritated he's being written so poorly.

 

Fett has become sort of the Jason Vorhees of Bounty Hunters. Or, you might say, he's embodies the terror one has of Vader without needing the Force. I think that's a pretty new take on him, but if this is the path they're taking, I think it's an interesting new direction.

It's a further extention of the already existent idea that Vader and Fett are strange parallels of each other.

The kid who was unnaturally created and only had one parent


...who had that parent die in front of him after the result of a brutal physical attack which scarred him and launched a thirst for revenge



Who embraces his path to power first under an apprenticeship



before coming into his own as a leader




, and eventually embraces his identity, and is hardened into an unstoppable masked killing machine.

 

Why are you speaking of Fett's childhood? We know nothing about his origins. Also, why have you posted images of some Maori kid? Is that supposed to be Fett?

 

I, too, agree that he's written in a way that makes him...unlikeable.

Understandable? Meh. Popular? Meh. Vader is busy running errands for Palps, so I understand why the story requires a middle man to collect Luke. That I understand. Fett might be popular (Force knows why), but he's still an ***hole. Where's Ventress when I need her?

 

Fett's status as the guy hired by Vader makes sense. It establishes Fett as one of Vader's contacts and explains why he would be one of Vader's go-to guys when he needed to find the Falcon. Besides, we haven't seen Fett in action in the new canon, regardless of your feelings on the character there are a lot of Fett fans, why shouldn't they get to see a character they like in action?

Ventress? Bleh. We've seen plenty of her and I'm sick of PT era content. Ventress being called up makes less sense than Fett.

 

What do you mean with well known? We don't know much about adult Fett, only what we saw in the movies, and in those he was a stone-cold mercenary without morality.

 

I mean he's a well-known Star Wars character. He's known by many people, even people who aren't too familiar with Star Wars know who Boba Fett is, or at least what he looks like.

Regarding Fett as a character, in the movies I didn't get any feeling that he could be characterized by a complete and utter lack of a moral code. He hunts down Han Solo, who previously smuggled narcotics. Yeah there's the "no disintegrations" line, but that doesn't necessarily imply a complete lack of morality.

 

In order to hand him over to Jabba - Solo's boss in the spice-smuggling business.

 

What I was trying to say was that Fett's targets weren't exactly innocent either, so his targets don't serve as the best indicator for Fett's moral code or lack thereof.

 

Which means nothing in the "moral code" department - only evidence that Fett avoids targeting innocents would mean anything.

And we only see one character "targeted by Fett" in the movies.

In TCW, he does accept a contract to deliver a package to a dictator - and refuses to renege on it even when it turns out that the "package" is an innocent woman:

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Bounty_(episode)