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Title: Star Wars - Jedi Academy: Leviathan by Kevin J. Anderson, Dario, Jr. Carrasco, Mark G. Heike ISBN: 1-56971-456-8 Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Pub. Date: 12 September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Fair story good artwork
Comment: Kevin J anderson wrote one of my favorite sets of SW novels, The Jedi Academy. This comic picks up after that trilogy, and now Kip is a student. The story was a little below what i hoped for so I rate it 2 stars, but I really liked the pencils, inking and general production quality of this comic, giving it 4 stars for a final rating of 3 stars.
The best part of the story was the inclusion of the many characters we have only read about, Kyp, Kirana Ti, Tionne, Streen, Dorsk 82, Luke and Leia.
Rating: 1
Summary: As Bad As It Gets
Comment: 1) This is the thinnest plot I have ever seen. It's like they called Kevin J, said "Hey, we want a comic related to the Jedi Academy, but we need the whole script in five minutes" and this is what they got. Nothing is ever explained, nothing makes sense, the characters repeat themselves constantly, and the whole point seems to be to make Dorsk 82, who never really shows up again anywhere else as far as I know, feel good about himself. And I'm not even sure he does that!
2) Luke looks like He-Man on a bad day, and I originally thought Leia was some totally new character. Does Dorsk 82 have to be drawn *shaking* in every frame? Why must everyone have spit lines between his teeth? The art in this comic is rock-bottom awful.
Rating: 2
Summary: This You May Miss
Comment: This specific collection of chapters that form, "Leviathan", is one of the weaker installments from Dark Horse that I have read. The two key elements that are critical, a good story, and good illustrations are glaringly absent.
I generally don't enjoy when artists take great liberty with the appearance of characters that have been solidly established for nearly three decades. A way to get by this fault is to offer readers a great story, however this does not happen here. Luke starts the story by musing to himself about nothing of great importance, and this is followed by a task for his newest Jedi Knights that is vague and one dimensional. A planet appears to suffer total destruction on a fairly regular basis, and even though this is documented, new colonists keep coming back for more. For some unknown reason nobody ever catches on that this planet is a less than hospitable spot, and invariably the cause of destruction is routinely disturbed.
The only other consistent theme is how unsuited Kyp is as a Jedi, and how hopeless he would be as a Jedi Master. His treatment of a new potentially force sensitive recruit is hopelessly inept and abrasive. When the central conflict does arrive it is terribly predictable and not worthy of the material Dark Horse generally offers. It is rare when a written installment of this saga does not offer any new insight, however this one is nearly vacant.
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Title: Star Wars - Mara Jade: By the Emperor`s Hand by Timothy Zahn, Michael A. Stackpole, Carlos Ezquerra ISBN: 1569714010 Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Star Wars: Vader's Quest by Darko Macan, Dave Gibbons, Angus McKie ISBN: 1569714150 Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Pub. Date: 10 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Star Wars: Underworld - The Yavin Vassilika by Mike Kennedy, Carlos Meglia ISBN: 1569716188 Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Pub. Date: 12 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Union (Star Wars) by Michael A. Stackpole, Robert Teranishi, Chris Chuckry, Christopher Chuckry ISBN: 1569714649 Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Pub. Date: 10 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Star Wars Dark Empire I by Tom Veitch, Cam Kennedy ISBN: 159307039X Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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