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vendea's review against another edition
5.0
I thought this was pretty great. It was a creepy, high stakes plot line, with some good character development at the end. I don't care for Aphra and her droids as characters, but they were well used in this story. The art was also fantastic.
daileyxplanet's review against another edition
4.0
Certainly an interesting concept. The art on the One-Shot was pretty magnificent. Luke is such a wholesome character at this point and Aphra is the opposite, so they make a great pair. I think I did enjoy this better than the Vader Down crossover.
jenny_librarian's review
adventurous
dark
informative
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
4.5
This story was really good! Vampire-type Queen, a bit of horror, rogues and rebels teaming up… definitely one of my favourites so far.
I still don’t like the lifelike faces though. Those issues are the ones I like the least because it looks like the faces were drawn later and pasted on. It’s just weird. I don’t read comics to see photograph-like drawings.
And now I need to read Aphra 1-6 😅
I still don’t like the lifelike faces though. Those issues are the ones I like the least because it looks like the faces were drawn later and pasted on. It’s just weird. I don’t read comics to see photograph-like drawings.
And now I need to read Aphra 1-6 😅
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gun violence, Blood, and Violence
Moderate: Torture
Minor: War
ppetropoulakis's review against another edition
2.0
Good artwork and a well-executed story but still I have a big problem with this arc. It is not very Star Warsy with many elements that would fit better in a horror story than a light-hearted space opera.
tris_the_gray's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
This is the second Star Wars comic I read, and I really enjoyed it! It was really cool getting to see a crossover with Doctor Aphra. The storyline was enjoyable, the artwork was great, and it was overall a solid read.
sqeeker's review against another edition
4.0
- I'm not reading the Doctor Aphra series, but I like when they crossovers like this.
- The artwork is wonderful! I really like how the characters are portrayed.
- I like Doctor Aphra. I hope we get to see her in a movie sometime.
- The party and everything is something I haven't seen in the Star Wars universe before. It was really cool.
- I'm not sure what happened in the last couple of pages, but it was creepy.
- The artwork is wonderful! I really like how the characters are portrayed.
- I like Doctor Aphra. I hope we get to see her in a movie sometime.
- The party and everything is something I haven't seen in the Star Wars universe before. It was really cool.
- I'm not sure what happened in the last couple of pages, but it was creepy.
faemorgan's review against another edition
5.0
Have not been reading/watching these in chronological order so there could be things I'm missing. However, I am kinda understanding why Vader wanted Doctor Aphra death, but she is also a fun character. I even liked Luke's interactions with the droids and Aphra. That ending though.
neilrcoulter's review against another edition
1.0
Marvel's Star Wars graphic novel series—or at least the Doctor Aphra part of it—has become really bizarre and distasteful. Aphra's first solo story was about some dorky techno-alien, Jedi-consciousness-in-a-crystal thing. And now, instead of leaving it in the past, where it should remain, forgotten, that crystal gets brought into an even worse story. In this one, Aphra convinces an incredibly naive young girl named Luke Skywalker (I know, Luke's a boy. But if I didn't know that beforehand, a lot of the artwork in this story would make me assume Luke's a girl) to come on a mission to some planet ruled by an evil queen who will know how to unlock the crystal's secrets. How does she know this? And how does Aphra know that she will know this? No clue.
The queen, it turns out, rules everyone else on the planet by means of symbiotic bugs that infect everyone's consciousness. As the story unfolds, the bugs also take over Han and Luke, and the queen imprisons Luke and drinks his "life essence." Weird. Along the way, the droids Beetee and Triple-zero say the same things they always say, which is no longer funny or surprising. The artwork is awful. Every instance of Han is obviously traced over a very recognizable pose from the movies; Carrie Fisher continues to be impossible to draw accurately; and Aphra's physical appearance changes in every panel.
There is no way that this story is canon. In fact, a story like this shows the weakness of Lucasfilm's "everything is canon" mentality. That is, if a writer wants to do a Star Wars story with vampires, or zombies, or alien bugs, there is no place for them to play that out in a "not officially part of the canon" way. I don't mind if a writer wants to do something odd like that, but this is not something that actually happened between Episodes 4 and 5. Lucasfilm needs to allow Marvel to create some kind of Star Wars Infinities line for noncanonical oddities like this. I'm sure it'll happen eventually, but it is now too late.
The queen, it turns out, rules everyone else on the planet by means of symbiotic bugs that infect everyone's consciousness. As the story unfolds, the bugs also take over Han and Luke, and the queen imprisons Luke and drinks his "life essence." Weird. Along the way, the droids Beetee and Triple-zero say the same things they always say, which is no longer funny or surprising. The artwork is awful. Every instance of Han is obviously traced over a very recognizable pose from the movies; Carrie Fisher continues to be impossible to draw accurately; and Aphra's physical appearance changes in every panel.
There is no way that this story is canon. In fact, a story like this shows the weakness of Lucasfilm's "everything is canon" mentality. That is, if a writer wants to do a Star Wars story with vampires, or zombies, or alien bugs, there is no place for them to play that out in a "not officially part of the canon" way. I don't mind if a writer wants to do something odd like that, but this is not something that actually happened between Episodes 4 and 5. Lucasfilm needs to allow Marvel to create some kind of Star Wars Infinities line for noncanonical oddities like this. I'm sure it'll happen eventually, but it is now too late.
jagussow's review against another edition
5.0
Marvel's Star Wars books have been wonderful with Gillen's Vader books being the best. While that book ended, he did spin off Doctor Aphra into her own series which lead to this first crossover into the main Star Wars line. This story wonderfully mixes in a bit of horror into the Star Wars adventure.