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A review by lunchlander
Star Wars: Vector, Vol. 1 by John Jackson Miller
2.0
All Star Wars comics are not created equal, and while there are things I like about all the Star Wars comics Dark Horse is currently publishing, I only pick up two of them in trade regularly.
So I was a bit annoyed that to keep following the stories without skipping a trade, I had to buy the trades for the other ones. Randy Stradley's intro admits that they came up with this crossover as a response to Secret Wars/Final Crisis, etc. and unfortunately, while the series may have hit its commercial goals, creatively it's a hit to the two books in this volume.
The Knights of the Old Republic story is not bad, exploring the origin of the Rakghouls (a legitimate KOTOR mystery) and furthering some of the story arcs of the characters, but it suffers from cartoony, exaggerated art that is not a fit to the story. The Dark Times story has great art, but has the same "shock value" excesses that put me off Dark Times in the first place.
Soooo... meh. I'm not entirely sure, but at this point I'd probably recommend that regular readers of any of the Star Wars titles just skip over Vector in favor of the next stories.
So I was a bit annoyed that to keep following the stories without skipping a trade, I had to buy the trades for the other ones. Randy Stradley's intro admits that they came up with this crossover as a response to Secret Wars/Final Crisis, etc. and unfortunately, while the series may have hit its commercial goals, creatively it's a hit to the two books in this volume.
The Knights of the Old Republic story is not bad, exploring the origin of the Rakghouls (a legitimate KOTOR mystery) and furthering some of the story arcs of the characters, but it suffers from cartoony, exaggerated art that is not a fit to the story. The Dark Times story has great art, but has the same "shock value" excesses that put me off Dark Times in the first place.
Soooo... meh. I'm not entirely sure, but at this point I'd probably recommend that regular readers of any of the Star Wars titles just skip over Vector in favor of the next stories.