![]() ![]() Many of them - even in this new Marvel era - are not very good comics at all, despite being good entries of the franchise. ![]() More important than any of that, at least for the purposes of this review, is that this comic is very good on a technical level, which isn’t always a guarantee with Star Wars comics, at times content to just trade on the popularity of the characters and the franchise. It all leaves me excited to see where the very cool storytelling decisions in this book ultimately go. What happens in this comic, however, is a really good and thematically crunchy event that links to the events of the Star Wars Prequels in an interesting way. It can’t really be avoided at this point, to be honest, and to be fair, some good has been done with much of the bad that exists in the franchise. ![]() See, like most long-running franchises, there is a lot ( a lot) of bad Star Wars. So yes, the aesthetics of this are good, yet most Star Wars has good aesthetics. Keeve is fairly unique within the new cannon, which immediately makes this comic feel fresh and new, as if it occupies a space all its own. This first issue follows and introduces a whole new cast of characters, with a primary focus on an apprentice named Keeve, who cusses, wears an asymmetrical haircut, and wields a double-bladed lightsaber. In 20 pages, this comic pitches the story’s emotional stakes, makes itself stand out from the rest of the franchise, and provides surprising and important connections along the way. If I hadn’t already overcome my reticence and committed to following this new era, reading Star Wars The High Republic #1 would have done it. While I came to this era and specifically Star Wars The High Republic #1 reticent, I’m happy to now report: But it’s still Star Wars, a franchise that I will again remind you I am a (literal!) lifelong fan of, so of course friends and Twitter got me to commit to consuming basically every part of this initiative. Most of the marketing seemed to put Jedi at the fore, which isn’t really my lane when it comes to the franchise. This new era takes place long before the events of the typical Star War, at least 200 years before the earliest stories linked to the Skywalker family, and, indeed, The High Republic seems to promise fans both old and new a fun jumping-on point for our beloved galaxy far, far away.Īs a (literal) lifelong Star Wars fan, one might expect that I would personally be an easy sell for all of this, but I absolutely wasn’t, almost aggressively so. This line includes novels and books for readers, as well as - most importantly for our purposes here - comics, the first of which is Star Wars The High Republic #1, out today. By Keigen Rea - The High Republic is the title of a new cross-media line of Star Wars stories. ![]()
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