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EXEGOL UNLEASHED! As punishment for his rebellion, DARTH VADER was broken by THE EMPEROR, his limbs shattered, forbidden to use THE FORCE. But after surviving OCHI OF BESTOON, THE EYE OF WEBBISH BOGG and the horrors of THE RED NEBULA, Vader stands on the verge of uncovering the Emperor’s greatest secrets. But will the revelations on EXEGOL empower Vader or his master? And what new doom awaits LUKE SKYWALKER as a result?
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With a couple of months between installments, they never helps a storyline and certainly not one like this where it’s trying to fix things from the Rise of Skywalker film. To Greg Pak’s credit, he does a solid enough job here of trying to make the case that this has been the plan all along. And the novels have laid out that Palpatine has had a larger goal all along as well, though it’s mostly been believed it related to where Thrawn is from. Pak works through mor
What They Say:
In his search for vengeance in the depths of MUSTAFAR, DARTH VADER has seized the mysterious key to the EMPEROR’S greatest secret. But the key itself needs a key which only the deadly assassin OCHI OF BESTOON seems to have. Vader and Ochi are in for the fight of their lives with the fate of the Emperor in the balance but how much of this is all PALPATINE’S plan? And what happens when the SITH LORD and the SITH ASSASSIN start to figure that plan out?
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INTO THE FIRE! Hungry for vengeance after his brutal punishment at the hands of THE EMPEROR, can DARTH VADER uncover his master’s secrets in the depths of MUSTAFAR? Stripped of his greatest weapons, can the dark lord survive the fire and the EYE? Or will he be overcome as the EYE turns Vader’s every question back to his own terrible secrets?
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While Greg Pak is still keeping some of the cards close to the vest at the moment, I’m enjoying his attempt at weaving the Bogg into the storyline. With it being a Mustafar thing that was planned and made for Rise of Skywalker, bringing it into focus here works pretty well and it provides a variant on the Dagobah cave thing to work with. Raffael Ienco continues to be one of the best Vader artists that I’ve seen over the past five years or so of those working on the character for Marvel and this run really has a really neat feeling to it, espec