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jaredkwheeler's review against another edition
4.0
Star Wars Legends Project #275
Background: Boba Fett and the Ship of Fear was published in April 2011, the fifth in the Star Wars Adventures series of graphic novellas. It was written by [a:Jeremy Barlow|20006|Jeremy Barlow|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1451249560p2/20006.jpg] with art by [a:Daxiong|7249883|Daxiong|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]. Barlow wrote a few dozen issues of various comics, including half of this series, and edited the Clone Wars Adventures series, among other things. Daxiong also drew another of the Star Wars Adventures, but these are his only Star Wars credits.
Boba Fett and the Ship of Fear takes place around 2 years after the Battle of Yavin. The main characters are Boba Fett and some random one-off characters. Most of the story takes place in the midst of a massive ship graveyard.
Summary: Always on the lookout for a score worth his time, Boba Fett is intrigued to learn of a priceless artifact that may be aboard the wreck of an ill-fated luxury liner. He'll have to act fast to confirm it, though. The ship is slated for destruction at any time. Pursued by a pair of bounty-hunting brothers with a deeply-held grudge, Fett soon finds out why no one else has successfully retrieved the treasure. And even his considerable skills may not be enough to guarantee success!
Review: The bar for a good Boba Fett story is relatively low, and this one clears it with ease. I expect action and excitement and maybe a few creative twists, or at least an unforeseen double-cross. A lot of Boba Fett stories make the mistake of trying to introduce some additional secondary characters that we can attach our sympathies too, since Fett isn't really about that. This one doesn't bother with any of that.
Fett is not a difficult character to get right, but a lot of stories about him fail anyway because they're determined to try and explain him or give him some kind of depth. And there's nothing really wrong with that impulse from a storytelling perspective, but it's almost inevitably doomed to failure because if you're going to establish something definitive about Fett for the fandom to latch onto, it had better be pretty damn compelling and live up to the hype that surrounds him. And almost no one can do that. Plus, whatever you come up with, you have to have some way of getting the other writers doing Fett to adopt it as well, which also doesn't ever seem to happen.
Maybe it's because this is meant to be a short, entertaining one-off, but the success of this story's approach to Fett is that it sticks to the things we already know about him: He is absolutely ruthless in pursuit of his goals, but he won't go out of his way to kill or maim needlessly. He is highly-skilled, he leaves nothing to chance, and he is totally unsentimental. He operates by weighing the cost of every action or goal against the payoff, and if it's not worth it, he won't do it. These are not difficult qualities to capture in a story, and this one succeeds by keeping it simple. It's nothing very special beyond that, but if you like Boba Fett, it's worth checking out.
B
Background: Boba Fett and the Ship of Fear was published in April 2011, the fifth in the Star Wars Adventures series of graphic novellas. It was written by [a:Jeremy Barlow|20006|Jeremy Barlow|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1451249560p2/20006.jpg] with art by [a:Daxiong|7249883|Daxiong|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]. Barlow wrote a few dozen issues of various comics, including half of this series, and edited the Clone Wars Adventures series, among other things. Daxiong also drew another of the Star Wars Adventures, but these are his only Star Wars credits.
Boba Fett and the Ship of Fear takes place around 2 years after the Battle of Yavin. The main characters are Boba Fett and some random one-off characters. Most of the story takes place in the midst of a massive ship graveyard.
Summary: Always on the lookout for a score worth his time, Boba Fett is intrigued to learn of a priceless artifact that may be aboard the wreck of an ill-fated luxury liner. He'll have to act fast to confirm it, though. The ship is slated for destruction at any time. Pursued by a pair of bounty-hunting brothers with a deeply-held grudge, Fett soon finds out why no one else has successfully retrieved the treasure. And even his considerable skills may not be enough to guarantee success!
Review: The bar for a good Boba Fett story is relatively low, and this one clears it with ease. I expect action and excitement and maybe a few creative twists, or at least an unforeseen double-cross. A lot of Boba Fett stories make the mistake of trying to introduce some additional secondary characters that we can attach our sympathies too, since Fett isn't really about that. This one doesn't bother with any of that.
Fett is not a difficult character to get right, but a lot of stories about him fail anyway because they're determined to try and explain him or give him some kind of depth. And there's nothing really wrong with that impulse from a storytelling perspective, but it's almost inevitably doomed to failure because if you're going to establish something definitive about Fett for the fandom to latch onto, it had better be pretty damn compelling and live up to the hype that surrounds him. And almost no one can do that. Plus, whatever you come up with, you have to have some way of getting the other writers doing Fett to adopt it as well, which also doesn't ever seem to happen.
Maybe it's because this is meant to be a short, entertaining one-off, but the success of this story's approach to Fett is that it sticks to the things we already know about him: He is absolutely ruthless in pursuit of his goals, but he won't go out of his way to kill or maim needlessly. He is highly-skilled, he leaves nothing to chance, and he is totally unsentimental. He operates by weighing the cost of every action or goal against the payoff, and if it's not worth it, he won't do it. These are not difficult qualities to capture in a story, and this one succeeds by keeping it simple. It's nothing very special beyond that, but if you like Boba Fett, it's worth checking out.
B
sydnapped's review against another edition
5.0
An enjoyable Boba Fett adventure that can be appreciated by ALL ages with no prerequisite needed on any backstory other than the SW movies, really. But, I do think this story was ALSO great for loyal Boba Fett lovers; I've loved these one-shot stories in the Star Wars Adventures digests and have found them engaging, and sometimes there's connections to the expanded universe.
This Fett adventure delivers action and Boba blowing things up but also we get a sense of another facet of his character in that even to Boba, perhaps there's some things worth more than money...
Priorities, Boba has them. Has he at last found a bounty not worth the prize? Read and find out!
I also enjoyed seeing Boba finding himself having to work together with a couple bounty-hunting competitors also seeking the artifact while maintaining a game of wits as they attempt to stay one step ahead of each other.
As much as I love the title Boba Fett and the Ship of Fear, there wasn't a whole lot of fear going on, but then again, we *are* talking about Boba Fett.
There are however, vicious creatures, the hair-raising Arachedrons, who guard the valuable ancient relic inside the wrecked starship Reverie, which I don't feel we saw enough of that vast interior, but the artwork overall was REALLY good, very detailed throughout. What was shown of the ship was nicely done for sure.
I really enjoyed this fast-read, I found it engaging and I totally recommend Boba Fett and the Ship of Fear to any SW fans!
aisling15's review against another edition
funny
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
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