Comics The Last Jedi: DJ (One-Shot)

Pleasantly surprised by this one. I enjoyed it quite a bit.

 

Can someone explain the ending, I was following the story pretty well until the last few pages then I was like....

 

Spoiler

From what I gather, the "bad" guy was DJ's robot from the beginning the whole time. DJ created a fake persona and his robot downloaded it somehow which created a lot of trouble for him along with the natural trouble that was going on with his splicing and cheating. I guess in Canto Bight you're allowed to have a calculator robot at your side. I think that's frowned upon in real life.

I definitely need to read it again. It felt a lot like the Usual Suspects and it had an air of noir about it especially with the random characters involved at different points in the story which you couldn't really tell if they were good or bad or a mix of both. I echo what @bsmith7174 says.

 

did the Canto security guards fire there stun weapons at all? I mean they looked cool in the movie but they did nothing.

 

I see your point but like I said their are likely 200,000,000,000 alien species. Plus a galaxy is ENORMOUS. If a galaxy is the continental US, Earth is a white blood cell. That's the scope we are dealing with.

 

Fair enough, but I should point out you're assuming every planet that supportslife contains native sentient life. That's not always the case (examples: Scarif, D'Qar).

 

The DJ comic had so little info, so I'll just fill in the blanks.

DJ was born in 16 BBY.

DJ joined the Rebels at 16 and was assigned to the Profundity (He lied about his age. General Draven knew and recruited him anyway). At the Battle of Scarif, Admiral Raddus activated the self-destruct sequence to destroy the Profundity with Vader on it. Fearing for his life, DJ delayed the self-destruct sequence with his hacking skills, giving Vader time to escape and DJ followed him. Knowing that DJ was responsible for his survival, Vader let him live to join the Empire. Raddus and the crew went down with their ship.

At age 21, serving the Empire at the Battle of Jakku, DJ found Luke's lightsaber pointed at him. Dropping his weapons, DJ declared he knew a Jedi would not kill an unarmed man. DJ was then arrested and after a short prison sentence allowed to join the New Republic.

Joining the New Republic slicer team, DJ single-handedly saved the New Republic on multiple occasions. A plan to wipe out the New Republic with Spaarti clones was prevented when DJ hacked the Spaarti cylinders. An attempt by Palpatine to return via clone bodies was averted when DJ hacked the Byss cloning chambers and shut down life support for all of Palpatine's clones. DJ hacked the Maw Research Installation to prevent the launch of the Sun Crusher, hacked Crseih Station to self-destruct killing Hethrir and Waru, hacked the Yevethan government to cripple their military, hacked Centerpoint station to prevent it from being used as a weapon, and quickly sliced the holonet to grab the authentic Caamas document to avert a constitutional crisis.

DJ then got into biohacking, using slicing skills against biotechnology. With these skills, he single-handedly stopped some species who didn't seem very nice. They had some funny name, calling themselves the Yuuzhan Vong.

DJ created a computer game that helped psychologically prevent Killiks from entering some "Joiner" cult. He sliced into some nasty cyborg called Lumiya and shut her down. His hacking skills located the Dagger of Mortis that allowed Luke Skywalker to kill some nasty being called Abeloth.

In all these decades, DJ never got a raise. He was just a no-name slicer, a faceless cog for the New Republic. Not even so much as a 'Thank you.' Luke Skywalker didn't even remember who he was, until one day...

One day, Luke approached DJ and asked him to join his Jedi. Tired of his thankless job, DJ obliged. His life so far had all been about joining, why stop now?

One day, Ben Solo burned down the temple and told DJ: "Join me or die."

DJ: I'm tired of this, I will never join anyone again!!!

Kylo: Ok.

And DJ went freelance, and wrote Don't Join into his hat.

 

I thought for a moment this was serious.

 

The actual comic itself has very little info on DJ. I thought my line about filling in the blanks and the emoticon was enough to tip people off.

And, as far as I know, nothing in canon so far contradicts what I wrote anyway.

 

The fan fiction thread is thataway.

 

@sidv88 that read like the Devaronian Version. Dontjoinian Version?

 

I thought the DJ comic was just okay; I didn't love it as much as other movie tie-ins like the Rogue One: Cassian and K2SO one-shot or the Phasma mini-series. It read much like the scenes in TLJ on Canto Blight, interesting but not compelling. I think there is potential with the character DJ, but they need to utilize the medium of comics better. There is no budget with a comic like a movie; there should have been more action, more interesting background characters, etc.

 

Anyone else recognized Zord's Spa from the original Marvel U.K. Star Wars issue Way of the Wookie?

 

This was a fun little story. Nothing big or important and it doesn't add much to TLJ, but it expands the character of DJ a little.

The whole thing with the gangster nobody saw reminded me a lot of Keyser Söze and some of the aliens looked like something Moebius would draw.