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horoxv's review against another edition
4.0
Marvel has done amazing so far with the new star wars canon comics.
Poe Dameron Vol 1: Black Squadron contains issues 1-5 of the new Poe Dameron comic from marvel. This is one of the few series in the new marvel comic selection that takes place in unknown time periods during and around the events of episode 7, The Force Awakens. So, of course, this makes me very excited to see more into the new universe.
This volume was very exciting and showed me several things that I love in any star wars media:
New planets.
New aliens.
X-Wing Squadrons.
BB8.
Poe is a confident, charming pilot and the Black Squadron, consisting of Snap Wexley, who is one of the main characters from the Aftermath Series by Chuck Wendig, is Black 2. I have a love of X-Wing squadrons and any story that deals with average, ordinary citizens doing amazing things.
Sure I love the force, Jedi, Sith, Lightsabers, etc, but there's just something about ordinary joes taking on evil that puts me on the edge of my seat.
Can't wait for the rest of the series and Volume 2!
Poe Dameron Vol 1: Black Squadron contains issues 1-5 of the new Poe Dameron comic from marvel. This is one of the few series in the new marvel comic selection that takes place in unknown time periods during and around the events of episode 7, The Force Awakens. So, of course, this makes me very excited to see more into the new universe.
This volume was very exciting and showed me several things that I love in any star wars media:
New planets.
New aliens.
X-Wing Squadrons.
BB8.
Poe is a confident, charming pilot and the Black Squadron, consisting of Snap Wexley, who is one of the main characters from the Aftermath Series by Chuck Wendig, is Black 2. I have a love of X-Wing squadrons and any story that deals with average, ordinary citizens doing amazing things.
Sure I love the force, Jedi, Sith, Lightsabers, etc, but there's just something about ordinary joes taking on evil that puts me on the edge of my seat.
Can't wait for the rest of the series and Volume 2!
siobhan15's review against another edition
adventurous
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.5
tomesproject's review against another edition
3.0
3.5 stars
This was fun, which is exactly what I wanted from a Star Wars comic. Was it the most interesting story that could have been told with Poe? Maybe not, but I think it's definitely the most natural to come from his character and what we see of him in The Force Awakens. In this series we get the stories and adventures that Poe Dameron and his Squadron of veteran Resistance pilots (featuring BB-8, of course) in order to find Lor San Tekka. (He's the guy in the opening scenes that gives Poe the missing part of the map to Luke Skywalker in case you don't remember this obscure name.) It was good, it was enjoyable. It wasn't the best thing I've ever read, but I definitely see the potential for the rest of this series and where it will go.
(I was seriously debating whether or not to even pick this up, but Phil Noto--who also did the art for [b:Black Widow, Volume 1: The Finely Woven Thread|19539419|Black Widow, Volume 1 The Finely Woven Thread|Nathan Edmondson|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1421774798s/19539419.jpg|27665966] and that entire series--is a fantastic artist so I knew I had to at least give it a shot. It didn't miss.)
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Why did no one tell me there was a Poe Dameron comic? Gimmie gimmie gimmie.
This was fun, which is exactly what I wanted from a Star Wars comic. Was it the most interesting story that could have been told with Poe? Maybe not, but I think it's definitely the most natural to come from his character and what we see of him in The Force Awakens. In this series we get the stories and adventures that Poe Dameron and his Squadron of veteran Resistance pilots (featuring BB-8, of course) in order to find Lor San Tekka. (He's the guy in the opening scenes that gives Poe the missing part of the map to Luke Skywalker in case you don't remember this obscure name.) It was good, it was enjoyable. It wasn't the best thing I've ever read, but I definitely see the potential for the rest of this series and where it will go.
(I was seriously debating whether or not to even pick this up, but Phil Noto--who also did the art for [b:Black Widow, Volume 1: The Finely Woven Thread|19539419|Black Widow, Volume 1 The Finely Woven Thread|Nathan Edmondson|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1421774798s/19539419.jpg|27665966] and that entire series--is a fantastic artist so I knew I had to at least give it a shot. It didn't miss.)
Previous Updates:
Why did no one tell me there was a Poe Dameron comic? Gimmie gimmie gimmie.
hummeline's review against another edition
3.0
Damn gorgeous art (the only reason it's not one or two stars), damn boring book
clairesneverland's review
4.0
Can never have too much Star Wars in your life? And how can you fail with Poe Dameron? Answer: you can’t!
skyphantom's review against another edition
adventurous
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
neilrcoulter's review against another edition
1.0
I'm glad people (and opening-crawl texts) so often mention that Poe Dameron is the Best Pilot in the Galaxy (tm), because if they didn't, I would assume he's really uninteresting and helpless.
Poe's highlights:
**gets captured in the first few minutes of his film debut
**his ship gets destroyed on a middle-of-nowhere planet
**recites lame, quippy dialogue ("Who talks first? You talk first? I talk first?") in the presence of a cool villain
**entrusts important information to a childlike droid rather than guarding it himself
**leads the enemy to a peaceful village, which they completely destroy
**needs to be rescued by a complete stranger
**tries to escape in a TIE fighter without disconnecting a cable
**imposes his will on a stranger's identity ("Well, I'm not going to call you that. Let's see, 'FN.' I'm going to call you Finn. How about that?")
**gives clunky expositional dialogue ("That's right. He's a BB unit, orange and white, one of a kind.").
**crashes and destroys the second of two ships he has flown in the first few minutes of his film debut
**wakes up from the crash landing and ditches his new buddy on a planet in the middle of nowhere
**returns to the Resistance base without trying to find his droid and the important information that was the whole point of the mission
**arrives on Takdana a little bit too late to save Maz Kanata's thousand-year-old castle, and also too late to save Rey; also allows Kylo Ren to escape, even though Kylo flies a ship that's identifiable because it's different from all other First Order ships
**keeps shooting at Starkiller Base, even though it does no good until someone else more or less blows it up for him
**repeats generic pilot lines, such as "Give it everything you got!"
That's Poe. Can't wait to see what he gets up to in Episode 8.
But until then, we have the Poe Dameron graphic novel. And even though, as I've just indicated, Poe is far from the greatest Star Wars character, this graphic novel is even stranger and more disappointing than I expected. The dialogue is about as bland as possible, and the artwork is unexceptional.
The story includes odd elements, such as a group of people who guard a large, blue egg that contains their savior. Except that when it hatches, it actually contains a monster who doesn't seem to fit into the Star Wars universe at all. And there's never any further explanation. But it does lead to some, what should I say--fantastic? lines that haven't been uttered before in a Star Wars story (or, dare I say, elsewhere):
Why does Lucasfilm even have a "story group" if they're going to approve books like this?
Poe's highlights:
**gets captured in the first few minutes of his film debut
**his ship gets destroyed on a middle-of-nowhere planet
**recites lame, quippy dialogue ("Who talks first? You talk first? I talk first?") in the presence of a cool villain
**entrusts important information to a childlike droid rather than guarding it himself
**leads the enemy to a peaceful village, which they completely destroy
**needs to be rescued by a complete stranger
**tries to escape in a TIE fighter without disconnecting a cable
**imposes his will on a stranger's identity ("Well, I'm not going to call you that. Let's see, 'FN.' I'm going to call you Finn. How about that?")
**gives clunky expositional dialogue ("That's right. He's a BB unit, orange and white, one of a kind.").
**crashes and destroys the second of two ships he has flown in the first few minutes of his film debut
**wakes up from the crash landing and ditches his new buddy on a planet in the middle of nowhere
**returns to the Resistance base without trying to find his droid and the important information that was the whole point of the mission
**arrives on Takdana a little bit too late to save Maz Kanata's thousand-year-old castle, and also too late to save Rey; also allows Kylo Ren to escape, even though Kylo flies a ship that's identifiable because it's different from all other First Order ships
**keeps shooting at Starkiller Base, even though it does no good until someone else more or less blows it up for him
**repeats generic pilot lines, such as "Give it everything you got!"
That's Poe. Can't wait to see what he gets up to in Episode 8.
But until then, we have the Poe Dameron graphic novel. And even though, as I've just indicated, Poe is far from the greatest Star Wars character, this graphic novel is even stranger and more disappointing than I expected. The dialogue is about as bland as possible, and the artwork is unexceptional.
The story includes odd elements, such as a group of people who guard a large, blue egg that contains their savior. Except that when it hatches, it actually contains a monster who doesn't seem to fit into the Star Wars universe at all. And there's never any further explanation. But it does lead to some, what should I say--fantastic? lines that haven't been uttered before in a Star Wars story (or, dare I say, elsewhere):
"He's got a detonator--He's threatening the egg!"Not Star Wars's finest moment. (But still not quite as bad as Aftermath.)"If you talk now, maybe I can see about saving their savior. If not . . . my men will get to enjoy the galaxy's largest omelet."
Why does Lucasfilm even have a "story group" if they're going to approve books like this?