Legacy #40: Tatooine, part 4 (of 4)

I can't believe no one's seen Leonardo's Romeo and Juliet. Mercutio is totally Syn. He looks the part, is fun loving, flirty and the perfect foil for out serious hero. After Killfire's comment, I'm a firm believer Syn is a walking dead man.

 

Just got my copy...it comes so late, I miss the whole conversation to remain unspoiled. But best line: "Cade! You're doing that thing again!" --Syn

 

Hey, nobody lives forever; we all gotta be the bloody bones eventually.

 

It'll probably happen just as Cade is edging ever closer to some form of redemption. Must extend the drama, after all.

I really liked this one. In spite of what some may think, I'm of the mind that if Cade isn't exactly heading toward the path of the light, at least he's realizing that it's in his interest to avoid the dark. And he'll do it in his own way, which works for me. The end when he attacks his mother but cuts himself off, declaring he doesn't want to be that kind of person is at least some form of progress. It reminded me somewhat of the moment in Vector when he cures himself and Azlyn of the plague, where Muur realizes he's using the dark side but Celeste senses he's fighting against it. Perhaps Tatooine will be the turning point in his own personal story.

It was actually a good arc for many of our characters. Turns out Corde really does have a heart for her long-abandoned family (though we already knew that). Syn rocks as he always does, and Blue gets her moment to shine as well.

The Rus situation is rather interesting. I'll look forward to seeing where that goes, since the hint that the Mission hasn't been tainted by the Sith and our new emperor now ordering that it will aren't exactly the most subtle coincidence. I'm ready for some more GA stories, though.

 

Pretty good. At least better than some of the past issues.

Comments:

Cade - I actually enjoyed this month's tantrum Seriously, I felt sorry for Cade, and thought Morrigan/Nyna got off easy. I also liked how Syn talked Cade down.

Gunner - I can't wait to see how this plays out.

Rus - See above. I really hope 1) Veed gets duped, and 2) Wyyrlock gets revealed as a traitor (but no resurrecting Krayt!)

Excited for the Mandos next month, but this whole comic really needs to bring its storylines together soon. The "all over the place" storytelling is getting annoying.

 

She's as much as a Skywalker as Han. IF she isn't also by Kol, but I think the train that would have allowed a graceful revelation has passed.


I found the issue very boring. Ooooh! Bounty hunter attack! Poison dart! Slash! Nobody ever believed that these characters were really posing a threat, they were just posing for the pinups. Morrigan knew everything all along! Starbuck knows nothing, but wears a pullover that doesn't look like it should still cling to her body, which will surely please the guys who come up to JD at comic conventions and want her to draw slave Leia. Corrupt Moff woman easily found out about the Morrigan revelation that used to shock the comic to its core, which is the equivalent of Google Earth revealing the batcave. Cade simply walks into a Black Sun station that somehow is manned by just a Vigo and is afraid that people will not deal with him anymore once they find out that he breaks deals when there was nobody there to find out that he breaks (or negotiates) deals except for the Anzati pinup that might have survived but would know that Cade didn't break any deals but the mean woman who poisoned her did and wouldn't rat him out anyway because if anything she wants to kill him herself for his soup and maybe the revenge for killin Twillight Boy. In the meantime, Blue has the lesson we know from the preview that doesn't change anything about Blue but rather sets up the tragedy of the Sith finally telling old mercy man to go to hell and fetch the textbooks. One liners aplenty for coolness factor. Characters not talking when they are in the same room so that the reader knows about the conflicted situation. Because Cade's mother is conflicted! As will be elaborated on in about a year's time. Starbuck is Cade's half-sister from the mother he doesn't even accept, which doesn't mean anything and isn't even played for a Dark Helmet revelation moment. Wasn't the arc called Tatooine? Beggar's Canyon! Still reading? Now you know how I feel.

Really, for a mega 4-issue arc that boasts about including the most iconic SW planet, a confrontation between Luke and Cade and Cade meeting his mother and unknown sister, all of this happened in the most mundane way and didn't add up to anything. It's telling that the comic actually has to leave for somewhere else to get an end to the story. Instead of Cade contemplating the abounding family and destiny stuff, he goes to some gangster boss in space. Luke's lesson told him to not use the dark side or he'll still wear the same clothes once he's powerful enough to kill everyone. A lesson that is then incorporated into a Syn-induced Pawlow reflex: no, I don't want to end like that. So I'll just ignore my family destiny some more and go off to do pirate stuff for myself, like the last time an arc tried to tell me a lesson.

There's been much talk about Tatooine appearing all too often. This is the consequence: A story that boasts about the importance of Tatooine and then doesn't use it. Luke could have transported his message anywhere. The force isn't strong at his childhood home. The most important vision was that of Cade killing everyone, which doesn't have anything to do with the homestead. Bad people are everywhere, especially on space stations. It's just another sales boost in a long line.

I can understand everyone who doesn't continue reading the series. I guess I'll continue because it isn't really that much money every month.

It's not even that I'm disappointed that my favourite comic series ends while Legacy continues. It's rather that Legacy is the most successful and the most popular title and I once again find myself larg

 

Well, what I really meant is that we've had non-FS Skywalker spouses and parents, but that's a whole different kettle of fish from having a non-FS sibling. Husband-wife and parent-child differences are less glaring than when you have brother and sister, and one's got the Force and one doesn't. It's not nearly as new or interesting as having a female Skywalker (a real straight-up Skywalker, not a Solo or a mostly-untrained Solo-nee-Organa or a Fel), but it's something.

 

Yeah, I see what you mean... I agree that this would be interesting, by nature because of the idea of "comparibility". Somehow both are on the same level, and somehow they are not. Vector Prime and SBS implied something similiar about Anakin and the twins, with Anakin somehow having more Force talent (or more Midi-Chlorians) that might culminate in him being really, really much stronger, but they didn't really elaborate on that.

It's a bit different with Cade and Starbuck anyway, because even though they are nominally siblings, there's nothing to connect them. And I think that's also why the "reveal" in this issue fell extremely flat - it's become a total "so what" situation. Cade doesn't really miss his extended family. You can, of course, tell that story one day; but it isn't told right now. He finally did work against and together with his half-sister, but the end result does leave no impact on him. It's also hard for me to remember who knows and by which design they know, because it's all so evident; normally, you'd think it was all revealed when everyone was around in the end, but it rather gets spilled by a side-character who, of course, got the information in a way the main characters would never think about. And I'm counting the issues until Starbuck really makes a move on it - I've got a sneaking suspicion that it might not be the most important thread in the next big series.

And as for "my mother is not important because she didn't raise me"... that's the realistic way to go that the SW movies, for the sake of mythical construction, did not use. In the movies, Luke gambles all on saving his father that never really did anything than provide the necessary DNA. Legacy creates a very similar situation, but goes for the realism. Either that, or it's a "daddy's cool and mommy's boo" message, like with the new Trek movie in which Kirk almost ends up as a total loser because his precious daddy is dead, while his mother is busy offscreen and evidently doesn't really (successfully) motivate him to do something with his life. That part belongs to the new "mentor father". Obi-Wan. Err, the old captain. Anyway, if I were into gender politics in fiction, I'd have a field day.

 

I think Legacy is still a quality comic, but its starting to feel like days of our lives. Lots of talk and movement, but no real change. When a series is ongoing it should feel like it actually has the plot to be that, but its been continually threading water for a long time now. I honestly thought Cade had solved his emotional problems in "Claws of the Dragon", boy was I wrong. This series has really lost focus in the last 15 issues, and killing of your main villain in a crossover was something I thought was truly beneath Dark Horse.

 

Pshaw, you call that a crossover? Letting Usagi Yojimbo do it-- now That would be a crossover!

 

Grey1 I agree with you, and what is sad is that issue 40 of Legacy I think was the first time that it failed to score in the top 100 in sales (Sept 2009). I think that all these simple character stories are going to finally catch up. I think that we are going to have to shake things up or.....just look at the whole Blackest Night for DC, its awesome and selling. Star Wars is getting to mundane. Limit the action, force powers, and what not. It's starting to show across the boards with there titles.

 

Wow...just read thru - I usually don't because I get my comics so late and everyone has passed me by. But I couldn't disagree more with some of the more recent comments/complaints. I dig Cade's story arc and all the twists and turns don't feel like they are drudging along or treading water to me. I think it is kick that Cade is laying waste to all the famous backstory points - I think it sets up for a better future. Maybe it has something to do with all the recent Marvel and DC disappointments I'm still trying to swallow, but for me it is sweet to have a dedicated arc moving slowly but surely under an original idea that makes sense - wouldn't change a thing. Except on another note, continue KOTOR - RIP.

 

Dude DC is not a dissapointment. Your not checking your stats. They have several issues in the top 25. On other news Legacy 41 looks like its going to be good. Hopefully that will put the series back on track. More action, like GL says: faster, faster and faster

 

I wasn't talking about the popularity; I don't keep up with the rankings. I was talking about some of the executive decisions being made, especially with some of my bat/super/spidey family titles. I agree Legacy #41 looks great though, looking forward to it.

 

I think most of the Cade issues are between good and great, but mostly they work best in TBP. To be honest I think the alliance/Roan Fell issues are in general so much better on an issue by issue basis. So far the non Cade issues have been 1/4 of the series, I really wish it could be more like 50/50. The Legacy era is way to interesting to just focus on one character.