Invasion comics

Invasion: Refugees
Invasion: Rescues
Invasion: Revelation (upcoming, issue one comes out July 13)

The Invasion comic series takes place in 25 ABY during the Yuuzhan Vong war. It stars an original cast but with lots of existing characters as the supporting cast. For instance one of the main characters is Finn Galidrian and he often travels with Jacen and Jaina.

First off, let me say that reading this series is very nostalgic, and it does a great job of capturing the essence of the NJO. There's gritty drama and a good balance of humor as well. The storytelling is also a lot like reading a graphic novel. Sometimes parts of a story in a comic feel rushed because they want to move on to the action, but Invasion isn't afraid to linger on a particularly moving scene to fully develop the characters and the story.

Secondly the art is very good. The artist does take some liberties with drawing the canon characters, so that might take some getting used to, but the other characters look great. Plus it's awesome to see the Vong and all their biots.

And the series is packed with cameos: from Lowbacca to Tsavong Lah. I highly recommend checking it out. Well worth buying the trade paperbacks. Amazon had them really cheap.
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Knight Joined: 13 Apr 2011 Posts: 397 Location: western NY

what's with all the R titles? ugh

Oh, come on. Surely you have a better complaint that "R" titles Laughing

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Master Joined: 22 Dec 2010 Posts: 1796 Location: Carcosa

I read the first few issues, what's the time frame? I thought it was between either VP and the Stackpole duology, or between the Stackpole duology and the Luceno duology, correct? Has it advanced at all?

Knight Joined: 13 Apr 2011 Posts: 397 Location: western NY

Well it says it's taking place in 25 ABY. Chewie is dead and everyone knows about the Vong invasion and worlds are starting to be taken over by the Vong, plus the Jedi are reacting to the situation, though towards the end Luke has adopted his defensive stance. It's a pretty good story so far over all.
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Beautiful new cover for Invasion: Revelations #4 has been released. I love this one. Chris Scalf really does a nice job.

Click here to see the hidden message (It might contain spoilers)

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Finally got Revelations #1 read today (didn't get it with my comics last week [boo hiss]).

One thing I love about this story is how Luke Skywalker gets some moments that places the story in context with the NJO series. This one shows Luke on Dantooine (so story takes place right after Onslaught) and shows him defending the refugees. The art was amazing! I want a comic just showing Luke kicking Yuuzhan Vong behind throughout the whole war!!...or at least when he gets over his inner turmoil of "Are the Yuuzhan Vong alive since I can't sense them in the Force?" If the art had included Anakin and Jacen, who did fight beside Luke in this battle, it would have been epic.

Everyone, check out this issue at least for the awesome Luke vs Yuuzhan Vong art! Very Happy

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"Changes are nice--but so is continuity!"

"Then you saved my life. How disgusting. How unfortunate."
"No, don't gush on so. It was nothing, really."

I agree, the Luke scenes at the beginning had that epic quality to them. They were really nice. However, I do have a small gripe with the rest of the story. In my opinion, these flow much better as TPB's than individual comics. It's a really nice story but it's hard to just read it in small chunks. Maybe I'm just impatient. Sad

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That is a problem with comics right now: you get chapters of a book. Because of that, it's almost worth waiting for the trades. If you look at old comics, they were one story per issue. However, there are writers that can make a chapter feel like a single story and that makes the waits a lot easier. But I can be impatient, too Very Happy

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"Changes are nice--but so is continuity!"

"Then you saved my life. How disgusting. How unfortunate."
"No, don't gush on so. It was nothing, really."

New cover for Invasion: Revelations #5 revealed along with synopsis

Click here to see the hidden message (It might contain spoilers)

They did some interesting things in issue #2, so it'll be neat to see where they go with it.
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I like the invasion story so far. I got volumes one and two (refugees and rescues)
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Well the last Revelation issue confirms that they are 2 months deep into the Invasion.
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