Tag: Darth Vader

Star Wars: Tarkin

Star Wars: Tarkin

by James Luceno (Del Rey, 2014)

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A relatively slim Star Wars volume, sketching out Tarkin’s formative years in flashback while teaming him up with Vader for a runabout battle of wits against anti-Imperial dissidents. Luceno provides constructive character development for Tarkin, Vader and the Emperor pre Episode IV.

 

 

Vader’s Little Princess

Vader’s Little Princess

by Jeffrey Brown (Chronicle Books, 2013)

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A peon to parenthood, expressed through a comic (and comedic) imagining/retrofitting of the father/daughter relationship between Darth Vader and Princess Leia. Amidst the Star Wars in-jokes, there lie such simple pleasures as tiny Leia cutting love hearts from Vader’s cape.

 

 

Star Wars: Splinter of the Mind’s Eye

Star Wars: Splinter of the Mind’s Eye

by Alan Dean Foster (Del Rey, 1978)

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Set and first published between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back, Foster’s hurriedly written, workmanlike tie-in novel sends Luke and Leia on a meandering, curiously pointless quest, before pitting them (belatedly) against an ineffectual and always-likely-to-be canonically suspect Darth Vader.

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