Comics Poe Dameron #1-6: Black Squadron, Lockdown (6/6 released) & SaBBotage

This is a Wendig comic?

 

Yes, it is. And while I didn't like his prose in a novel, I think I'll like it much more in comic form.

 

Interesting. The first two comics haven't been bad at all. I agree his prose in a novel wasn't great but if you can get around it the story itself wasn't bad.

 

Just to be clear, Wendig is writing the TFA adaptation. Poe is by Charles Soule.

 

Yes. Wendig's comic isn't going to come out until later on in June.

 

(Issue 3 preview)

Spoiler

It's official, Terex is Kallus 2.0.

 

"First Order Security Bureau". Sheesh! Such copycats!

 

“You stole First Order property that we paid for”.
Okay now I think I understand the ‘thieves’ part of Kylo's line “murderers, traitors and thieves you call friends”. That kinda confused me in the movie, as it was such an oddly specific category of crime to complain about.

NO.

 

Where does the lettered preview come from, by the way?

 

http://jedi-bibliothek.de/blog/2016/06/marvel-vorschau-auf-poe-dameron-3/

 

So if there's a fist order security bereau, I suppose it'd be reasonable to assume there's a first order ruling council, a first order royal guard....pretty much everything the empire had just with the first order symbol on it

 

Oh, you are just now thinking their might be a Ruling Council in the First Order? The thought didn't occur when JJ Abrams, Kathleen Kennedy, Pablo Hildago and dozens of others referred to it as a "military junta"?

 

What I wanna know is how the First Order going to be able to bring up charges for Poe in a New Republic court? I bet the NR would be like "you have no authority here. GTFO"

 

Yes, that part is confusing.

 

Now we have the first order security bereau, think we'll ever get first order commandos?

 

I assume he means he could turn Poe over to the Republic and have them try him, since the Resistance is semi-illegal at best. Presumably the trade-off would be something like the risk of a sympathetic court versus the risk that the NR objects to having one of its citizens tried by the First Order.

 

Great minds, huh?

 

I was doing this without even realizing it. It's that natural.

 

They're still both Oligarchies.

By the way, what do you think of Terex's statement "Titles matter?"

 

Is this just a five part series or will there be more?

 

3/5

So what's in the egg? Continue reading if you can't wait, but I would recommend buying it if you already have the first 2.

Spoiler

Not one, but two giant creatures. A white one first emerges that attacks everyone, good and bad guys. Then out of the rest of the egg comes the black one. It is mentioned that they can grow larger (and smaller) so I guess the black one was busy getting bigger to attack and kill the white one, and ultimately it was the black one that was the savior to take the Creche to their new world at the end.

While the creatures fight, Black Squadron is fighting for their lives. Once the creatures break out of the ceiling of the cavern, they are able to land. Jess gets hit and her droid is destroyed, but I never felt any of them were in grave danger.

Speaking of also no danger, Poe and Terex spent the whole issue arguing. Poe throws a punch but it's a distraction to grab his gun. When the black creature emerges, Poe is distracted and Terex attacks in an attempt to get his gun back. When the creatures break through the ceiling, rocks falling killing the First Order troopers, distracting Terex and BB-8 (or as Poe says in the comic Bee-Bee Ate) zaps him.

To wash their hands of everything, the Poe and his Resistance Team leave Terex behind and he mentions he has to head to a prison as the Creche told him where Lor was headed next for helping save their lives.

I appreciate this issue resolving the mystery and setting up the next adventure, but it felt like A LOT of talking and no one was really in any danger.