Originally a four-part comic series released in late 2003, I recently decided to pick up the trade paperback collection that has been sitting on the stands of my local comic book store for some time now. I was disappointed at first to see that our main characters are nowhere to be found in this series; the plot follows a group of scheming Imperial Moffs who plan to assassinate the Emperor and Darth Vader. Vader sets off a series of the Moff's traps as he travels to the outer rim to confront a renegade Jedi, while the Emperor and his royal guards fend off a legion of Stormtrooper drones. Most of the excitement was taken out of this plot because of the fact that we know both Vader and Palpatine survive to take place in the story of the original Star Wars movies.
The art in this series was excellent, penciled by Ryan Benjamin, who has worked with the Star Wars infinities comic series. This comics features some awesome fight sequences, as well as a cameo appearance by Boba Fett, who gives Vader a hand escaping a horde of bounty hunters. We also got to see the Royal Guards in action, which was cool to see. Four of them took out an entire brigade of Stormtrooper drones.
Overall, the story was engaging and fun, even though I was disappointed with the lack of familiar characters. I look forward to getting more of the early Empire comics that have been collected into trade paperbacks.
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