More importantly, though, it’s their first physical confrontation. This is the first time the two have encountered one another since the destruction of the first Death Star at Luke’s hands. The primary action of the issue comes from the clash between Luke and Vader. Or, should I say, Vader’s interest in Luke. While the story service is necessarily paid to the focus of the end of the last issue-namely Han and the Rebels trying to flee the Empire’s forces-Aaron throws the spotlight moreso on Vader’s part in the proceedings. While the last installment focused on reintroducing Luke, Leia, and the gang, issue two throws the spotlight on the Dark Lord of the Sith himself, Darth Vader. The second issue maintains the high bar writer Jason Aaron and artist John Cassaday set in the previous issue. Let’s just saying that the book is better than a trip to Toshi Station to pick up some power converters. Or that the series isn’t for scruffy-looking nerf-herders. Or that the issue was magnificence worthy of a Jedi. And no, I won’t say that the Force was with that comic. If you read my review of the first issue of Marvel Comics’ Star Wars relaunch, then you know that I was pretty damn jazzed about it.
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