![]() Rogue One was well received by Star Wars fans and critics alike, and grossed more than $1 billion at the global box office. ![]() Des Willie (Des Willie / Lucasfilm Ltd.)Īndor is a prequel to Rogue One (2016) and tells the origin story of the Rebel Alliance that fights back against the Empire and steals the Death Star plans. ![]() ![]() Tony Gilroy and Diego Luna during the London filming of 'Andor' at the height of the pandemic. It’s a political spy thriller and it has a different tone,” Luna told EL PAÍS in Los Angeles. It’s darker and overtly political, because it’s about a revolution, about a reaction to a totalitarian system. Instead of offering a lovable Baby Yoda ( The Mandalorian) to enchant viewers, Andor adopted a different tone and a very effective narrative arc to continue the galactic epic. And that’s exactly the intent of this new installment in the science-fiction saga that just joined Disney’s other Star Wars spinoffs: The Mandalorian, Obi Wan Kenobi and The Book of Boba Fett. They seem darkly reminiscent of Blade Runner instead of the rollicksome galaxy inhabited by the likes of Han Solo and Chewbacca. Star Wars fans might find it hard to square these opening scenes with the cinematic universe created by George Lucas. They add just a little bit of extra depth to the characters they feature and it's always nice to see familiar old faces in action again.įor me the highlights here were the two tales of bounty hunters, Boba Fett and IG-88, who have always been favourites of mine.Ī solid and enjoyable anthology of comic book stories, but you won't be missing out on anything major to Star Wars if you skipped it.In the opening minutes of Star Wars: Andor, the Disney+ series that premiered on September 21, Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) enters a brothel searching for a woman. These stories are all relatively short and, by their nature, can't feature any really major character moments for any of the protagonists but nevertheless they're pretty enjoyable to read. I’m glad I didn’t spend money on this.Ĭollecting the Age of Rebellion 'Heroes', 'Villains' and the Special, this book features eleven stories from the war between the Empire and the Rebel Alliance.Įach story focuses on a famous character from the era of the Original Trilogy Princess Leia, Grand Moff Tarkin, Han Solo, Boba Fett, Lando Calrissian, Jabba the Hutt, Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, IG-88, Yoda and Rebel pilots Biggs Darklighter and Jek Porkins. It just goes to show that the corporate conglomerate of Disney/Marvel can release about anything with great packaging and it will sell because of its affiliation, regardless of its creative merits or lack thereof. The best parts were the short write ups that concluded each story, but even these were little more than lightly researched, paraphrased Wikipedia articles. While the art does have some high points, there are still instances that I found it to be lacking as well (to my tastes). Thoroughly contrived and completely predictable, you’re not missing much here. However, each of them were only a few pages and featured some of the dumbest writing I’ve witnessed in some time. That’s totally fine, I just wish the stories themselves would’ve had a bit more substance. This was basically a compilation of one shots that create little character vignettes about most of the OG trilogy’s main cast. It wasn’t necessarily what I expected, I was hoping for more of a thorough single narrative set around the original trilogy. The art almost, ALMOST makes up for the absolutely low-effort writing throughout the entire book. His “hard man” fantasy is legit kind of good character work that’s… a little too good for Star Wars, almost!įunny that all the good guy tales were *fine*.įrustratingly mediocre at best. On the character front, Greg Pak’s take on Tarkin is essentially “what if Herr Starr sans comedy” – a powerful, successful military man whose physical masculinity is constantly cast in doubt by people like Vader and Kreel. Boba and Jabba’s tales are I’m sure what fans were hoping for from Book of Boba Fett (with a respectful tone towards the Tuskens no less). The OT characters are sketched broadly yet firmly enough that vignettes such as these can constitute “a wrinkle” rather than a “character moment.” There’s no need to sketch them in, they been sketched! Best ones are Tarkin, Boba, Jabba and – incredibly – Biggs and Porkins, whose comedy vacation actually legit did crack me up. But what a difference having actually two-dimensional characters makes! With media surrounding prequel characters, there’s so little to work with that you’re essentially working with a different character almost every time. I was expecting more of the same from “Age of Rebellion,” which, don’t get me wrong, it absolutely is. The previous collection “Age of Republic” was a solid, if unremarkable, collection of little character moment vignettes centered around a smattering of prequel characters.
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