Issues #15-16
Writer: Rob Williams
Artist: Dustin Weaver
Colorist: Will Glass
Cover Artist: Travis Charest
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Issue 15
Years after his last confrontation with Celeste Morne, Darth Vader is once again determined to get his hands on the Muur Talisman. When Vader sends a platoon of Stormtroopers down to the planet Celeste is stranded on, they find, unfortunately, Celeste is alive and well. Using the power of the Talisman, Morne turns the Stormtroopers into mindless Rakghoul minions.
After loosing contact, Vader assumes the worst. Seeing the opportunity of wounding the Rebellion by exposing them to the Rakghoul plaque, Vader tells Wil Tarson, a captive of the Empire, to plant information about an abandoned Imperial superweapon on Celeste’s moon into the Rebellion spy networks. With any luck, the Rebellion will send an army down to the surface, and have them killed by the Rakghouls.
The Rebels jump at the chance of finding an Imperial superweapon, and a commando group led by Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Princess Leia is launched. Upon arriving at the crash site of the afflicted Stormtrooper’s landing shuttles, the Rebels are attacked by an army of Rakghouls. The troops are either killed or evacuated back out in the Rebel’s landing ship, and in the fray of the escape, Luke and Leia are left behind on the moon.
This was a great issue. This is what Rebellion should have been from the beginning. Cool stories, original trilogy characters, great art. I like the setup this issue gives for the next issue, though I do get the feeling Rebellion’s part of Vector will just be a filler to get us by into Legacy’s slice of Vector.
Weaver drew this issue in his more inked, cartoony style, comparable to his art in KotOR 21-24. When I saw some scans of the art on Dustin’s blog prior to the release of the issue, I was a little disappointed he didn’t decide to do the art like his pages in Knights of the Old Republic: Flashpoint, or like his amazing painting-like work in his two Star Wars: Tales mini comics. But after seeing the art colored by Wil Glas, I can’t see him doing it any other way. The art is perfect for this issue. His portrayals of original trilogy characters are spot-on, and he perhaps draws the best Han Solo I’ve ever seen drawn in a Star Wars comic book. .
The cover by Travis Cherest is, as always, great, but I wish it had been something more relevant to this issue. Karness appears only on the last page of the issue, and Celeste is seen very briefly in the beginning of this issue attacking the Stormtroopers. I would have rather seen some OT characters on the cover. This was a good issue, but it leaves a lot to be wrapped up in just one more issue of Rebellion.
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