Lit Is the Jedi vs. Sith collection reading?

Hi, I just finished reading the first two volumes of the Darth Bane trilogy and I went on wookiepedia to get some more background on the story and saw that a comic series by dark horse covered some plots in those books...actually vice versa since the comics came out first....Anyway I checked the net and saw that a used copy of this collection is a wopping 40 bucks. Is this worth buying and reading? Most of the reviews I read give mixed reactions....

 

It's frequently cited as portraying the relevant events better (in certain ways) than the first two Bane books do. And there's scenes in it that aren't in the Bane books.

I found it worth reading, at least.

 

The comic came first and the trilogy very loosely adapts some of the same events and then continues after them. I much prefer the comic since it covers the war more broadly with a large cast of characters, but then I read it when it first came out so it was fixed in my mind as the "real" story long before the trilogy entered the picture.

You could likely find the individual six issues for less than the price of the paperback.

 

I personally prefer Bane in JvS over Bane in his own trilogy, but that's just me.

 

Bane of the Sith also has some little differences from the account of events in Rule of Two.

 

For myself I find the tone of the story and the art style to be utterly at odds with each other, but other people seem to love it!

 

I also preferred JVS to the Bane Trilogy (which was frankly not very good), but I should note that the presentation takes some getting used to. It's much more straightforwardly fantasy than most of Star Wars.

 

I loved the Jedi vs. Sith comic and think its depiction of Bane, Kaan, and Githany (and the events on Ruusan) is more nuanced on just about every level. Take the implications of Bane's "the poison was on your lips" statement to Githany from the comic, and how Karpyshyn takes it the most literal way possible (Githany poisoned Bane with poison lipstick).

 

Jedi vs. Sith approaches things from a different perspective, focused mostly on Ruusan.

I enjoy the Bane trilogy equally (unlike some), and the portrayal of events is somewhat different, though in concept the same.

The art style is odd however. *shrug*

Worth reading for sure I think. Gives a nice back ground for Zannah.

 

It's one of my fave comic series. The artwork is simply beautiful, very nostalgic. Interesting insight into the wear and tattoo designs of the New Sith. Also a great little story in the relationship with Tomcat and Bug. They seem to start off in opposing paths but then get mixed up and end up going the other way. Tomcat in the end is just a boy who was scared, and truly a character you can feel for.

 

Love JvS.

Wooden battleships, 'nuff said!

 

I liked, but it feels very, very, unstarwarsy. Almost like Kopecz was thrown in there as a token just to remind us it's SW. However, the art and content is pretty enjoyable.

 

I loved Kopecz specifically because he's not a Star Wars stereotype. He's a Twi'lek who's fat and unappealing, and a Sith who's pretty mellow and straight-thinking.

 

"Tomcat, all you ever dreamed of was being a Jedi! How did you end up a Sith!?"

Of of my fave quotes from the whole SW universe, and very telling I think, of the falling to the dark side for many Jedi.

 

Agree with that. I meant that he is the only non-human recognizable/frequent SW species.

 

I agree; Kopecz is a character who doesn't do much, but he's pretty cool nonetheless. I also loved the way he went out.

One thing about JVS that I found odd was the totally random depictions of lightsabers. Sometimes it was traditional, and sometimes it had this weird reversed colored-core-but-white-blade thing going on. What got really weird was when both were in the same panel. See:



I don't particularly mind the look of Kopecz's lightsaber in and of itself, but when it's literally right next to a normally-drawn lightsaber, it's a little odd.

 

Get it, why not

 

Thanks everyone for your insight...I am definitely going to pick this baby up! I loved the Bane trilogy and if you guys are saying the comic does things better than it can only enhance and better my experience with this story arc...thanks again

 

If you don't mind e-books, you can get a copy through Dark Horse Digital.

 

Thanks for the recommendation...I just found all 6 issues online for 15 bucks! Way cheaper, thanks for the advice!

 

What did you think of it Darth Zannah ?
JvS is certainly worth a read. I enjoyed it, got a soft spot for Darko Macan's SW stuff (cough Farfalla's ship cough). Need to look into ordering the stuff that I'm missing, before the "end" of DH.

 

The Bane Trilogy thread has that opinion:

 

Yeah as I said above...there's no comparison at all, In my opinion the Bane Trilogy towers over the Comic arc, like a God among ants...it was cool to have a visual of some stuff like Hoth and the bouncers but I feel Farfella looked ridiculous, especially his ship...when I read the books, yes he's flamboyant and eccentric in his attire but I never imagined it to be that far out...also Bane is barely in the comic...i understand why because even in this time frame in the book he's merely plotting and lurking behind the scenes, waiting for Kahn to destroy himself....but for some people to completely right off these books as expendable is outrageous..the author goes into the motives, backstory, and character traits that are essential to actually give the story meaning to me...if I were to have read just the arc without the book I wouldn't have understood the scope of it all, how much Bane despised the Brotherhood and WHY he wanted to destroy it...some parts of the comic were interesting...notably how Githany and Darovit were together during the thought bomb...but like I said the Bane trilogy is light years ahead of this but I am grateful for the comic for being the original inspiration

 

Have you read Bane of the Sith - as the original inspiration for the start of the Rule of Two novel? I googled it, and found it a good read.

 

I really think it's pretty easy to predict people's response to JvS if they read and enjoyed PoD, mostly because they are almost entirely different stories. For me, JvS towers so far above PoD it's not even funny. PoD casts aside all the subtlety and interesting themes of JvS while maintaining only the surface elements. It completely misunderstands what makes this narrative compelling and plugs in a video game narrative. Seriously, PoD casts aside the interesting in media res opening of JvS, absolutely butchers it, in order to make Bane a video game character who can start as a blank slate at the beginning of the novel and slowly "level up" throughout the narrative.

In addition, Karpshyn just completely gets rid of the three cousins storyline to focus on Bane, which is a disservice to really the best fall to the dark side ever seen in the EU. Worst of all, Karpshyn misunderstands Bane's motivation in the comic and uses Revan of all people as a sort of "guiding light" that Bane uses as a stepping stone to his own philosophy. Not because Revan is a bad character, but because his storyline and nature don't mesh well with Bane except on a surface level as both being darksiders. Obviously I don't have the perspective of reading PoD first before reading JvS, but from purely a story standpoint, JvS stands so far above the Bane trilogy that it's hard for me to pick out redeeming qualities from the novel.