Lit Comics Darth Vader by Greg Pak, February 2020

Loved this issue, and Palpatine was the standout.

 

There will be a Red Wedding coming up... Marvel can't gear it all up and then not explain where they all were during ROTJ. It's going to get messy soon enough!

 

Solicit for issue #30:

Spoiler: issue #30

STAR WARS: DARTH VADER #30
GREG PAK (W) • LUKE ROSS (A) • Cover by RAHZZAH
VARIANT COVER BY PHIL NOTO
Return of the Jedi 40th Anniversary Variant Cover by CHRIS SPROUSE

ALL HER SHADOWS!
During their terrible battle at Padmé's tomb on Naboo, the Queen's most devoted handmaidens were no match for the fury of Darth Vader. So as they are about to face the Dark Lord again, the handmaidens have prepared. But so has Vader. Who will triumph in the rematch? And what dark price will that victory exact?

32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99

 

Messy and emotional.

 

Solicit for issue #31, via SW.com:

Spoiler: issue #31

STAR WARS: DARTH VADER #31

GREG PAK (W) • IBRAIM ROBERSON (A)
Cover by RAHZZAH
Variant Cover by LEINIL FRANCIS YU
Return of the Jedi 40th Anniversary Variant Cover by CHRIS SPROUSE

THE TAMBOR GAMBIT!

• The Dark Lord finally comes face-to-face with Skakoan revolutionary Jul Tambor – and Sabé finally must pick sides! Is Jul just another selfish, revenge-driven monster? Or is he a freedom fighter who desperately cares about his people? Or both?
• And is Vader more interested in crushing Jul – or completing the co-option of the Handmaidens of Padmé Amidala?

 

*snort* That's simultaneously most hilarious and awesome.

 

Tabor wasn't exactly the sort of character I'd expect would leave vengeful relatives behind.

 

What a Chad.

 

I’m really enjoying seeing Sabe’s continued presence and her powerful effect on Darth Vader. I like that in bits and pieces, we’re seeing Anakin Skywalker resurface from the shadowy depths of the dark side of the Force. This series does a wonderful job of showing how Vader goes from demanding Luke join him and help destroy the Emperor to being completely defeated in the Endor bunker and claiming that it is too late for him turn back.

 

Yes!!!! More Wat Tambor content! I love that guy to death. Where is his Disney+ series?

 

Love seeing more Sepratist content.

 

The best part is, if you're like me and could stand to have your glasses prescription tweaked, he kind of looks like he's fighting Vader while wearing a pair of little blue shorts.

So did Skakoans always have legs and I just didn't realize it because the only one we ever see depicted is Wat Tambor, or are the legs new for canon?

 

Kul Teska from The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes had legs.

 

Skakoans in Legends were described as mammals and bipedal. However in canon, they are still bipedal but are now amphibians I believe due to some of the slurs that a Skakoan was called (frog) I believe.

I always wondered what was under Wat Tambor's robes (jeez that sounds weird haha) but I guess he's always had legs. If Jul is the grandson then I want to see the rest of the Tambor clan.

 

I haven't read the latest issue, but get the gist. I'm really enjoying see Sabe and can't wait till each following issue. I'm really wondering how this will be part of Vader's overall change in ROTJ.

 

Preview is up for issue #29, via SW.com:

Spoiler

 

Spoiler: Issue #29

Well, that was fast. Although, thanks to solicits, highly unlikely that Jul is indeed dead.

Like that there is a focus on ordinary Skakoans, that paid the price for Tambor's ambitions.

 

This was a curious issue.

Spoiler

Jul Tambor seemed like a Skakoan Saw Gerrera, but things are not looking too good in that particular revolution.

What still bothers me in this story is the fact that the handmaidens are treated like they all look almost exactly the same. To the point that Sabé´s personal guard mistakes Dormé for her, even if Dormé´s face is no longer covered, and she is standing right next to the Stormtroopers. And it's not only the face, but height, voice, intonation, speech pattern... all identical, or so close to be unrecognizable.

Vader wasn´t fooled, though, and that's the important part in the story. Personally, how will he finally deal with these handmaidens is starting to feel very much like a question in need of an answer.

 

Though it is the techno union, so maybe Wat was always riding around on a hover scooter we couldn't see. Or even had his legs replaced with a repulsor unit.

(random aside, but I always wonder how those species that need to wear breathing devices outside their homeworlds eat when living offworld, particularly here since they can't go back)

 

a thing we learned this issue

Spoiler

Sabe smokes Juls.

 

I somehow think there will be twist to the end.

 

Spoiler

Jul: I killed them all to get these respirators. And not just the men, the women and children, too!
Sabe: *gunshot*

 

So, Wat Tambor had a son, named Wat Tambor II, sadly, also killed by Vader.

IIRC, he and his son Jul are the first relatives of one of the Separatist Council's members mentioned in NU Canon.

 

Spoiler

Jul has several body parts and no plaster bolts kills him.