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Warning : SPOILERS for Vader : Dark Visions # 4
TheStar Warsuniverse would have been completely different without Anakin Skywalker or Darth Vader , but a new canyon comic book has show just how shut the Rebels hail to victory … and that Vader was aninchaway from death long before his final appearing .
The Jedi always uphold that fear was a path to the Dark Side , butVader : Dark vision # 4perfectly illustrate just how effective fear can be for a Sith Lord . Specifically , how potently one ’s report can precede them if it ’s establish on execution , torture , and morose necromancy . Fans of theStar Warsmovies know that Darth Vader ’s arrival was guaranteed to cause all royal spines to support a bit straighter . But thanks to this new comedian , fans now love that report also keep Darth Vader ’s life … when he was contribute closer to death than anyone ever realized .
The series from Dennis " Hopeless " Hallum has skip around theStar Warsuniverse thus far , show how a unlike position on Vader is n’t just possible , but rich grounds for storytelling . This prison term around , it ’s Darth Vader behind the control of his usance fighter that takes the spotlight . The thrilling ' what if ? ' scenario is offered inVader : Dark imaginativeness # 4 , chronicling the Rebel pilot referred to only as " Kid , " the son of a runner who freeze up when he should have shoot , and understand his forefather killed because of it . In pursuit of a greater purpose , " shaver " fall in the Rebels and shortly becomes one of their greatest pilots , before Luke , Han , or Poe Dameron were family name for their work behind the control of an ten - extension .
As in previous issues , Vader is relegate to a support role , with " Kid " the friend working his fashion towards an ten - wing cockpit for a battle , or a aim good enough to make up for his past failure . And when Darth Vader enters their attempted ambush himself , this " Kid " gets incisively that . The chance to vote out the Emperor ’s learner is worth the life of countless Rebels , including the pilot ' dominate officer . She sacrifice herself to give her military recruit the perfect shot to obliterate Vader . But as the artillery lock is support , and the best pilot for the job has his finger’s breadth hovering over the induction … the terrible specter of Darth Vader , Dark Lord of the Sith , and servant of Emperor Palpatine causes the pilot to once again freeze out , crumple , and flee back to safe . With Vader tag him close behind , of grade .
shortly after " fry " exits his fighter and is swallow up more and more by the growing image of Vader in his creative thinker , coupled with his own cowardliness that allowed Vader to fly the coop a weapons whorl and follow him to this base , the true power of fear becomes evident . As the Empire ’s forces go far , led by Vader , to lay waste to all of the Rebels they chance at their Jamiri Outpost , the " Kid " is destroyed along with them … as Vader take his body , having take his mind and intent already .
TheStar Warscomic books that have expanded on Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader ’s story have done a lot to make him a richer , deeper , more reliable character – while also change much of what we officially know about the Sith Lord . Whether it ’s the fact thatAnakin was sort of the Emperor ’s son , or that he managed to intersect into the afterlife , where he hada Force vision of Luke someday put down him . But this unexampled issue keeps the reputation and fearsome , ruthless , and allow ’s be true , lucky nature of Anakin / Vader dead intact . It ’s just the result of the larger galaxy that could have all turn out differently if he was n’t such a walking nightmare .
Now the only interrogation fan have to ask is how much the course of galactic history would have changed , if this " Kid " was able-bodied to do what he demand to , and blow Vader to bit . Or , perhaps just as complicated a question to chew over : if the Rebel hero had gone through with his chance … would the Emperor ever have been brought down at all ? Perhaps this tale should alternatively be learn as a foretoken of how end the Rebels in reality came to dooming the coltsfoot for good ?
Vader : Dark Visions # 4is usable now from your local comic volume shop , or verbatim fromMarvel Comics .
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