Darth Vader to Battle the Rebel Alliance Alone in New STAR WARS Comic Series
Marvel announced a new Star Wars comic mini-series at Comic-Con called Star Wars: Vader Down. This story puts Darth Vader in a position that we've never seen him in before. It's a fascinating concept that is sure to make a great story arc.
The comic is being promoted as a crossover event, as it combines the Star Wars and Darth Vader comic series'. In it, Darth Vader is "forced to face the entire might of the Rebel Alliance alone, after he crash lands on a planet. The Alliance – including heroes Leia, Han, Luke, and Chewie – decide they cannot pass up the opportunity to rid themselves of their most fearsome foe.”
Vader Down is a six-part crossover event that will kick off with the oversized Vader Down #1 and continues in each individual ongoing series. StarWars.com had the opportunity to talk to Star Wars writer Jason Aaron and Darth Vader writer Kieron Gillen about the comic, and they offered us some additional insight:
“Hopefully, you get to see Vader in a kind of situation we haven’t seen him in before. Where he is cut off and surrounded and really in a tough spot. So how does Vader react to that? He’s probably not going to run and hide. He’s Darth Vader. So whatever the threat is before him, he’s going to turn on his lightsaber and step out to meet it. But we’re throwing him up against quite a lot in this. That’s the inciting incident, and that draws in the cast of both our books, which complicates things even more. Again, it’s called Vader Down. You’re going to get to see Vader cut loose in a way beyond what either one of us has shown before.”
“We very clearly wanted to show from the beginning that our two books were closely linked, which was easy because Kieron and I were in the same room for our first meetings with Lucasfilm when we talked about all this. The end of the first arc was a huge moment, where Vader hears the word 'Skywalker' for the first time in connection with the pilot who blew up the Death Star. That sets the course for both us going forward, and then we diverged with our second arcs. Kieron was introducing a lot of new characters, and I sent Luke off on a very particular story. It just made sense to bring everything crashing back together with the third arc.
"We’re doing the biggest story we’ve done so far. The movie of the Marvel Star Wars comic books.”
This sounds like an incredibly epic story arc, and it will be cool to see what happens!
Source: ComicBook