Comics The Battle of Jakku Maxiseries (Oct 2024)

Almost certainly the case.

 

In my opinion this run had a good first issue, but everything after that had no juice in it. No "rock" that tied down the story. It was just event after event. Adelhard turned into an interesting character into saturday morning warlord character #45. Luke did nothing. The actual Battle of Jakku was a measly, what, 10 panels in the entire maxi-series about the leadup TO the Battle of Jakku?

 

I am extremely stoked.

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Olde-tyme Marvel #96 was the first Star Wars comic book I ever bought (I had a copy of #17 that a friend in kindergarten had given me, but the comic books had otherwise remained off my childhood radar up to that point). I was enthralled by Lumiya and the Nagai, confused when the series promptly went off the rails during that weird fiasco surrounding issues 98-101, and then enthralled again with 102 and 103 before the store I bought the comics from closed. It would be years before I managed to obtain the issues needed to finish out the Nagai arc, and longer still before I'd completed my collection of the original Marvel series (which I still have, and treasure). Getting a new canon version of that story forty years later, or even something that resembles it, feels very full-circle for me as a fan.

 

Probably assumes every comic reader has seen or played Battlefront and Battlefront II or read Aftermath: Empire's End, Victory's Price: An Alphabet Squadron Novel or Lost Stars to get the "full story". Problem is, that's not what they should've been doing. Heck, it seemed more like a side-piece to what it should've been called: "Star Wars: Adelhard, Rae Sloane, Gallius Rax and the Acolytes of the Beyond who Never Appeared in the Sequels or Films in General".

 

I echo the ‘it was so slow, but felt rushed’ sentiments.
A 12 issue series that had to rush the main point of its title into the last issue.
It could really have benefitted with cross reference call outs (remember those? They were a really useful tool)

 

This is honestly my biggest gripe. If they didn't frame the series as being so Jakku focused, I wouldn't have been bothered. But, when presented the way that Marvel did, I think a lot of us had a reasonable expectation we'd actually SEE more of the battle. It was such a missed opportunity, IMO. This could have showed the visuals of the definitive version of the battle- incorporating scenes from the Aftermath trilogy, the Alphabet Squadron trilogy, and other sources.

Also- the whole inclusion of the pirate SSD for literally 2-3 panels that amounted to nothing seemed like a fanservice failure. Like much in this series, there was potential, but it wasn't realized.

--Adm. Nick

 

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I don't like to get my hopes up, but this feels like it really has some potential to happen.

If the Nagai return, will the Tof as well...and perhaps the Hiromi?

XD

 

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Luke wasn't really on the destroyer in that story. It was a hologram of Luke

that the main character hallucinated was attacking and pulling down ships - as I recall.

But the later part of the story might still be closer to literal. Still, it was left very deliberately ambiguous.

 

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The same instincts that told me that the Inquisitor was female even before we found out that it was Reyna under the hood are telling me that the Praetor is a man. He probably is a Nagai, though. He kinda reminds me of Nom Anor from Legends. In his early appearances, Nom was keeping in the shadows, making shady deals with people who hated the New Republic.

I see things going in three ways:

1. Reyna Oskure and Grand General Loring do not like each other. It would take a charismatic villain to get them to pool their resources against the New Republic. Enter the Praetor.

2. The ongoing will borrow a page from the third season of Transformers (the '80s post-movie season) with three factions instead of the traditional two:

• New Republic = Autobots (the heroic underdogs are now the Federation, ruling the Galaxy in a new Golden Age).
• Imperial Remnant = Decepticons (the previously dominant bad guys, now under new leadership and slightly reduced as a threat).
• Na'gai = Quintessons (the third party that hates both of them).

Reyna, whose loyalty is to the Dark Side of the Force first and foremost, will be the wild card in this three-way conflict.

3. The ongoing incorporates a little bit of both 1 and 2.

 

This shows how little I have taken in from this 12 issue series. I have no idea whether you are referring to a scene in the series or from the books. How sad is that? It’s probably a reflection on me more so than on the series, but it shows me just how little I connected with this series.
& it doesn’t bode well for my connecting with the new series when it launches.

I do agree that the Praetor is giving off distinct Nom Anor vibes. Compounded by my current reread of TNJO

 

I liked the 12 issue series on the battle of Jakku but you have to have read the books to get a bigger grasp. If your just reading the comic then yeah it feels short, rushed and out of sync

 

I surprisingly thoroughly enjoyed the series. I picked them up finally from my pull box and binged several months worth of comics at once. Welp.

 

Numidian Prime takes his shot at unraveling the tangled continuity of this series, and points out a couple deep cuts I'd completely missed: Star Wars: Battle of Jakku Continuity Breakdown – Numidian Prime

 

Alternately:

 

So - that was kind of a mess at times. Not always sure what was accomplished.
At least Luke and Leia had some nice moments, as did Valance, briefly.

Oskure and the Acolytes stole the show, frankly, coming off probably the best of the villains. Sloane got undercut somewhat again (plus seems more gullible than before, now she knew Jakku was being planned)
The art work is also disappointingly basic - when compared with the great recent work in the High Republic comics of late.
A shame - felt rather rushed.

Oh well - not a total waste. But boy did Adelhard feel rather forced - as a threat, and character.

 

yes, he should have died at the end of the first 'arc'. Him hanging around till the end was annoying.

 

Somehow I get the feeling they might bring him back. Don't know why, but that's the feeling I get

 

How, he was shot point blank

 

I don't really mind them bringing him back, or being a rogue element who can destabilize things.

The idea he was building some background super alliance that could change everything was where it got kind of silly though. I like wild cards more in these circumstances (probably why I warmed to Daala more over time) Or the idea that he could now strike all over the place.