A review by hstapp
Star Wars: Dark Empire Trilogy by Tom Veitch

3.0

The Legendary Dark Empire trilogy. I've been wanting to read this graphic novel for around 12 years now. This was a very influential piece. Most Star Wars Novels written after this series reference the events of this book in some way. It has interesting sets of events, but the story moves along rather fast over a considerable period of time. It is hard to orient yourself on the time frame, and events seem a bit hollow. I enjoy the artwork, it has a kind of water color effect with many panels being in shades of a single color. with white and black. This effect does mean that images are not as crisp as we would like sometimes. Details on equipment being hard to make out at times. The character likenesses are also not very accurate. Luke looks very little like himself. The elder Palpatine resembles himself fat more, but the younger Palpatine resembles him not at all. Over all I get the feeling this could make an excellent novel if it were to be rewritten that way, but the pace of the story is just to rapid, and contains to few details of what is happening outside the main story line.