Books A/V Doctor Aphra: An Audiobook Original

I so need a sequel with continued Aphra comic stories adapted and expanded... including Tolvan, Vulada and Co... please!

 

Pair the Dooku audiobook with Master & Apprentice

 

Anyone have the book version of this yet? I have it on my next Amazon UK order list and am wondering how good it is. I don't really do audiobooks.

 

Thanks. I looked for it when I was in town on Wed but the bookstore didn't have it.

 

Just got the book from Amazon UK. It might pop to the top of my reading list as

Spoiler

Boba Fett and Bossk

are listed in the Dramatis Personae.

 

Of course, they're both in the Vader comic upon which this is based.

 

I just saw this book at Target yesterday as I caught my eye so I figured I'd look for the thread on it. It seems this came out a few weeks ago. From what I gathered in this thread and via the StarWars.com article, it sounds like its a retelling of the Aphra's intro in the DV 2015 comics.

I started listening to the 3 minute audio clip available from the penguin random house link below. After 15 seconds I turned it off as my initial reaction was not favorable. I figured I'd give the full clip a shot and I found that it reminds me of Paget Brewster's take on Della Duck and not really what I expected Aphra to sound like.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/636423/doctor-aphra-star-wars-by-script-by-sarah-kuhn/

 

Am I a horrible person if I said that Dr Aphra was interesting only in her relationship to Vader and outside of that she's kind of bleh, while the Torture droids as an inverse 3PO R2 got old long long ago ?

 

Of course not, and I somewhat agree on the latter point. I completely disagree with the Vader thing, though. Her sort of kinky death-wishy thing there never really made sense to me and I feel like she's become much more interesting doing other stuff with other characters.

 

Personally, I like Aphra so much more after listening to the audio drama. The actress wasn't the voice I had in my head for Aphra at all but it really grew on me and I think makes the character really endearing.

 

Finally listening to this.

One thing the audio conveys very differently to the comics is the sheer unnerving atmosphere of having to quickly re-activate a droid matrix with an impatient Vader looking on.

 

This adapts a lot more material than I expected. It covers the entirety of Gillen's Vader run, the Vader Down crossover, the Rebel Jail arc Star Wars and Gillen's Aphra run pre-Screaming Citadel. That's a good chunk of content.

The running strand through the entire story is Aphra frequently over-estimating her own skills, having every plan blow up on her while either under-estimating or totally misreading everyone she encounters. This is particularly so where the Murderbots are concerned, and especially dangerous with regard to Vader, and even more so the Emperor.

Overall, the casting is pretty good. Vader is done well, as is the Emperor. Fett and Leia are OK, only Luke and more so Han sound off.

Next, The High Republic: Tempest Runner.

 

Thanks, it has been a while. Still a major adaptation.

And once that really uses the audio medium well.

 

In one moment he sounded like Peter Griffin, and that was strange, to say the least.
Very liked Trip's voice there, it was both gleeful and sinister.

I did not remember Rebel Jail arc very much while listening to this audiobook, and for me moment with Sana almost strangling Aphra to death was quite shocking. Because of it their reconcile in the current run still seems somewhat fake.

 

Oh, Aphra had that coming.

 

Caught up with the hardcover of the script today - pretty good. I hadn't read the comics of her and Vader but that didn't seem to matter.

 

It shouldn't matter at all - nice bonus if you have, as you can compare and contrast, but the script alone will lack the neat audio touches and the performance.

 

Yeah, I realize that. However audiobooks aren't really my thing. This sounded like it would have been a good one though.