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A review by mcacev
Star Wars: Rebel Heist by Marco Castiello, Dan Parsons, Adam Hughes, Michael Heisler, Marco Castiello, Gabe Eltab, Matt Kindt
2.0
This is... not what I thought it would be? Maybe it gets better, but honestly I have no patience or desire to read 3 more issues in hopes it does. One was enough of wasted time.
When I read the title Rebel Heist, I thought it was going to be a fun side mission of the original 4 having to infiltrate and steal something from the Empire, maybe set between A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back. But no, instead, issue 1 is from the perspective of an entirely nameless idiot who wants to join the rebellion and is unlucky enough to have his contact be Han Solo.
You see the cover? It has that Cowboy Bebop feel right? Han is front and center, Leia in the corner. Well Han is in this all right, has maybe 4 lines of dialogue and is entirely useless. Leia isn't even in it. The comic takes place on Corelian but it might as well take place in any futuristic space port. There's no flare, no interest, no personality. The bar is just a rip off of Mos Eisley, and we spend 100% of this issue reading this insufferable character tell us about how cool and capable, and vain, but also suicidal Han is. It's written by someone who's clearly a fan of the character but has no idea how to actually write him; instead someone else gushes about him for 24 pages.
I hoped maybe this guy will redeem himself, we'll find out something else about him that makes him interesting, but no. For all I know maybe he gets better by the end of the story, but 24 pages of non-stop dialogue from him didn't make me care, so I doubt an additional 72 will.
And the art? Awful. It was plain awful. All the characters look the same, they have weird facial and body proportions, but it isn't stylized, it's just wrong. The pencil-work is scratchy, with unnecessary lines that make everyone look either old or like they're deflating and the composition and angles are flat and uninspired.
Sorely disappointed by this. I have no desire to continue; Han in theory is the easiest one of the trio to get right, and if Kindt got it this wrong, I don't even want to think about what his take on Leia or Chewey might be.
When I read the title Rebel Heist, I thought it was going to be a fun side mission of the original 4 having to infiltrate and steal something from the Empire, maybe set between A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back. But no, instead, issue 1 is from the perspective of an entirely nameless idiot who wants to join the rebellion and is unlucky enough to have his contact be Han Solo.
You see the cover? It has that Cowboy Bebop feel right? Han is front and center, Leia in the corner. Well Han is in this all right, has maybe 4 lines of dialogue and is entirely useless. Leia isn't even in it. The comic takes place on Corelian but it might as well take place in any futuristic space port. There's no flare, no interest, no personality. The bar is just a rip off of Mos Eisley, and we spend 100% of this issue reading this insufferable character tell us about how cool and capable, and vain, but also suicidal Han is. It's written by someone who's clearly a fan of the character but has no idea how to actually write him; instead someone else gushes about him for 24 pages.
I hoped maybe this guy will redeem himself, we'll find out something else about him that makes him interesting, but no. For all I know maybe he gets better by the end of the story, but 24 pages of non-stop dialogue from him didn't make me care, so I doubt an additional 72 will.
And the art? Awful. It was plain awful. All the characters look the same, they have weird facial and body proportions, but it isn't stylized, it's just wrong. The pencil-work is scratchy, with unnecessary lines that make everyone look either old or like they're deflating and the composition and angles are flat and uninspired.
Sorely disappointed by this. I have no desire to continue; Han in theory is the easiest one of the trio to get right, and if Kindt got it this wrong, I don't even want to think about what his take on Leia or Chewey might be.