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Gothic Star Wars
Format: Paperback
This trade paperback collects all the issues for the Screaming Citadel story spread over several titles, including the main stay Star Wars series and the Dr Aphra book. As one might expect from a story spread over different titles with different artists and writers, the presentation varies. The art is all over the place. In the Marco Checchetto-drawn initial issue, everyoneโs favorite amoral artifact hunter, Dr Aphra, is a striking space vixen. But in the following issues sheโs hardly recognizable as the same character--mousier, if still menacing, in her trademark Russian tankerโs hat. To a lesser degree, the same is true for the other characters, including the main SW group. Itโs understandable, but a bit disconcerting.
The story centers on Dr Aphra, who, in need of a Jedi for one of her typically nefarious purposes, recruits Luke into her scheme. Unfortunately for Aphra, sheโs up against a more ruthless foe in the harlequin-looking vampire-like Queen of the Screaming Citadel. Before long, the rest of the group has to show up to rescue them. Itโs a gothic story, set in scary castleโnot the usual Star Wars fare. There are some good points. Dr Aphraโs almost sociopathic outlook is always good for a few choice lines, the โmurderous machinesโ Bee Tee and Triple Zero are on hand for their own gruesome commentary and some of the Queens hench-people, while not given much to do, are interestingly designed. But overall, the horror movies plotline didnโt seem much like Star Wars to me. Recommended for those who enjoy that type of story, or completists.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2018
