Comics Darth Maul (Marvel) #1-5 & Probe Droid Problem (5/5 Released)

For a second I thought that was the Black Sun symbol, and thought they really were pretty much going back to the well....

Actually, is that the first time the EU Sith symbol has been used in nu-canon?

 

To my knowledge, I think it's the first time. It should be noted, however, that the TFA card game used a red version of the Old Sith Empire's quad sun.

 

Yep, reviving a minor side-point from four pages ago.

I just looked back to the entry in the Visual Dictionary, which says:
"A centuries-old fixture within the castle, Tuggs has a surly attitude that is the subject of good-natured ribbing by those who eat his cooking in the dining hall."
I don't read that to necessarily mean he's worked there for centuries. Seems more to me like he's centuries old and also a fixture. Having worked there for 20 years at the time of TFA would certainly be long enough to make him a fixture.
It just seems weird that the collection would include a bunch of stories implied to have occurred shortly before TFA and one set 170 years before TPM. Probably not the author's intent.


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Darth Maul #2

• A Jedi Padawan has been captured by sinister forces…
• …and Darth Maul is determined to find her?!
• This early tale of the galaxy’s deadliest Zabrak continues!

 

New interview is up on star wars.com

http://www.starwars.com/news/exclus...eries-plus-a-first-look-at-new-variant-covers

 

I really like Maul's characterization in TCW and Rebels so it's cool that that influenced his characterization in the comic.

I don't understand that ANH variant cover, though, although it is a cool illustration.


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Most of the comics I've read were great so I'm excited for this given it fleshes out his role before TPM. Hope for some new Sith info.

 

I believe all of the comics are doing ANH variants because it's the 40th anniversary year. Even ones not remotely related to the film, like this one.

 

Maul versus Rathtars. I shouldn't be excited about something so fannish but...

Maul versus Rathtars.

 

I've always liked Maul best BEFORE he came back to life so I'm glad this series is set during a time when he was at his most non contrived.

 

Idk, when TPM first came out Maul just seemed very nu-metal to me. The kids that dressed up as Maul for Halloween 99 were also the kids who listened to bands like Slipknot and Korn. Sam Witwer made him sound classy and intellectual.


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Hmm, Maul was intellectual in TPM, he was always calm , collected and calculating. His silence and speech pattern delivery was someone in control and thoughtful. He controlled the Theed duel and led the Jedi into the shields to split them up, dividing and conquering. He also anticipated the Queen's attack and had droids cutting them off. Problem was he was working with Neimoidians and those silly B1 droids something in the old EU he detested. Sounds like the writers just trying to publicize and sell their comic, playing up his aggression stuff , which was always more the fury and speed of his blows and raw unrelenting energy. Also he doesn't make an evil faces at Jinn on the otherside of the ray shield wall, he just smirks coldly and Jinn arrogantly sits and mediates . Maul mostly spoke through body language than verbal, his movies and pasture so animalistic in that sense but that is also the martial art and cerebral - something more lost in TCW probably because of the cartoon villain medium. Maul and Vader were always at their most menacing when they weren't speaking, just brooding and thinking & fighting, there was a sense of dread and menace. Nowadays everything has to be said and spelled out & the need to capitalize on past lines or create new ones or the actors or both.

 

Yeah, Maul always came off as very methodical to me in TPM. When Qui-Gon gets away on Tatooine, he doesn't start slashing up stuff in anger like Kylo Ren throwing a tantrum, or even shouting like Vader. Just turns off his saber and watches his quarry fly off.

 

I like nu-Maul but the thing I hate about him is that he never shuts up. In TPM he was a man of few words and throughout the entire duel with Obi and Qui he doesn't say a single word (as a kid I thought he might be mute ) and you wouldn't believe how refreshing that is in this world of comic book movie villains who always monologue.

Then in TCW they ruined that part of him with such cliché bad guy lines as "I gutted you MA...ster while you stood helpless and watched, how did that make you feel.....Kenobi!?"

I recently read the novel Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter and even in a 300 page book Maul only speaks a handful times and you wouldn't believe how effective it was at painting him as a badass.

 

He does speak a bit too much, agreed. But I think that may be a side effect of his madness during the ten years between TPM and TCW. Even Talzin's powers couldn't completely cure his mental...instability.

 

So the old DH Naga Sadow Sith emblem is re-canonized. Wonder if they'll delve into the history of the Sith in these issues or create a new one just using older designs, or they're just re-using a known symbol for aesthetics reasonings.

That Maul and Sadow's emblem combination was used for a Star Wars 2013 calender I own and saved btw

 

This is a good point. One of the variant covers is a package of a Darth Maul action figure. That doesn't mean Darth Maul action figures are canon.


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Well the Jaxxon covers are a different case I would say, and his corpse or a corpse of his species was canonized on TCW in the Droid/Gascon arc and corroborated in the episode guide. That is more of a gray area, there seems to be a push to (re)canonized Jaxxon in the current Marvel run, but just how serious though who knows.

 

Frankly, I wish they would recanonize Jaxxon, instead of just making jokes about him. He's no more particularly absurd than many other things in Star Wars, Legends and canon.

 

I think they don't want to touch him in particular because Lucas hated him with a passion.

 

True. However, he's sort of a different kind of absurd that has to be handled well, or it comes off badly.

 

Marvel's SW comics have been varied in terms of quality lately, but I'm always happy to return to the prequel era and particularly Maul. Getting very excited about this one, love the Albuquerque variant cover in particular.