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Summary: Mara Jade: Beautiful, Competent, Deadly
Review: This book is a must for not only Mara Jade fans, but also for Star Wars fans who really don't know who she is. The story chronicles Mara's journey from being the Emperor's Hand to how she learned to survive with everything she knew taken away from her. The artwork does a great job of showing Mara's personality and not making her a Barbie figure. Also, with Michael Stackpole and Timothy Zahn at the helm, Mara is as witty and intelligent as ever. It's definately worth every cent.
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Summary: Simply Fantastic!
Review: This comic, Emperor's Hand, is an example of how good things can get you get the right artist and a great plot. You get an insight into the life of Mara Jade and how she came to be in the paperback novels. This comic is exciting and really fast paced. I enjoyed it and I am sure any fan of Star Wars will too.
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Summary: Excellent! Fun and Interesting...
Review: This has to be one of the most truly entertaining comic books I've ever read. The storyline is awesome, the graphics are awesome, and most of all, Mara herself is awesome. This story focuses entirely on her, (making it a definite must of you're a Mara fan at all) and follows her from shortly before the Emperor's death, to perhaps a year afterwards, long before she came to be in Talon Karrde's smuggler organization. After failing utterly in her mission to kill Luke Skywalker, Mara is determined to make it up to her master in the next one: destroy the head of Black Nebula (a branch-off of Black Sun). And this she accomplishes easily. Too easily perhaps? But all fades into the backround when her world comes to a violent end in the death of her beloved master... Far from just another depthless, action saturated drone, (though there is plenty of action) this is also in a lot of ways a character story, as it subtly let's us see other, kinder sides of Mara. Though at times she does some pretty awful, heartless things without batting an eyelash, we can forgive her because we know she has one. As I sais before, this book would be great for any Star Wars fan, though I would recommend being at least fairly well versed in the Expanded Universe, otherwise you most likely won't know who most of these people are.
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Summary: Excellent! Fun and Interesting...
Review: This has to be one of the most truly entertaining comic books I've ever read. The storyline is awesome, the graphics are awesome, and most of all, Mara herself is awesome. This story focuses entirely on her, (making it a definite must of you're a Mara fan at all) and follows her from shortly before the Emperor's death, to perhaps a year afterwards, long before she came to be in Talon Karrde's smuggler organization. After failing utterly in her mission to kill Luke Skywalker, Mara is determined to make it up to her master in the next one: destroy the head of Black Nebula (a branch-off of Black Sun). And this she accomplishes easily. Too easily perhaps? But all fades into the backround when her world comes to a violent end in the death of her beloved master... Far from just another depthless, action saturated drone, (though there is plenty of action) this is also in a lot of ways a character story, as it subtly let's us see other, kinder sides of Mara. Though at times she does some pretty awful, heartless things without batting an eyelash, we can forgive her because we know she has one. As I sais before, this book would be great for any Star Wars fan, though I would recommend being at least fairly well versed in the Expanded Universe, otherwise you most likely won't know who most of these people are.
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Summary: Finally a comic that is a great page turner!
Review: This is a great book. But you would not expect anything less from Zahn. I will warn you, though, that this book IS A COMIC. I bought it not knowing if it was a comic or not but when I found out it was, I was a little disappointed. To my surprise, it was well worth my money and ranked up high with novels I have read. I could not put this down. It was great! It gave a lot of history on Mara before Heir to the Empire and just what she did for the Emperor. I would strongly recomend this book to novel readers and comic readers alike! I loved it and I know you will too!
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Summary: YOU WILL MARRY LUKE SKYWALKER!!!
Review: This is a review of Mara Jade ' By the Emperors Hand a comic TPB which collects 6 issues. ISBN 1569714010 published Sept 1999 and made in Canada. Before the Emperor died he planted the thought in Mara: YOU WILL KILL LUKE SKYWALKER!! Now they marry. This is a beautifully done comic given the technology available at the time, 1999. Visually the artwork took the time to draw the panels at a higher quality level than was usually done in the late 90's. Artwork gets 4 stars. Inking and lay out is a step up from, but still has the newspaper comic strip appearance. The inking and color selections are subdued so I grade at 3.5 because it lacks the richness that Dark horse is capable of, but not displayed in this comic. Story but Zahn and Stackpole oh my' Story is worth any quibbling about art and ink, though this is a comic as in a visual story. The story is 4.5 and pulls the overall grade up to 4 stars. This is written almost as a companion to Zahn trilogy that revived the EU. We also see Mara in Jabba's fortress. The cover shows Mara with a Red light saber, but she wields a purple one throughout the book. Old Red eye ' blue eye Isard is in this story. JediMack! Only 4 stars? This is arguably the best comic produced in its timeframe given the technology that existed in 1999. The binding is superior, which is good because this book has been re-read and seen some abuse and was made well enough to take it. I must reserve 5 star ratings for the best of the best, and in future years dark horse starts producing comic that are jaw dropping gorgeous with rich coloring and awesome penciling.
Rating:
Summary: YOU WILL MARRY LUKE SKYWALKER!!!
Review: This is a review of Mara Jade ' By the Emperors Hand a comic TPB which collects 6 issues. ISBN 1569714010 published Sept 1999 and made in Canada. Before the Emperor died he planted the thought in Mara: YOU WILL KILL LUKE SKYWALKER!! Now they marry. This is a beautifully done comic given the technology available at the time, 1999. Visually the artwork took the time to draw the panels at a higher quality level than was usually done in the late 90's. Artwork gets 4 stars. Inking and lay out is a step up from, but still has the newspaper comic strip appearance. The inking and color selections are subdued so I grade at 3.5 because it lacks the richness that Dark horse is capable of, but not displayed in this comic. Story but Zahn and Stackpole oh my' Story is worth any quibbling about art and ink, though this is a comic as in a visual story. The story is 4.5 and pulls the overall grade up to 4 stars. This is written almost as a companion to Zahn trilogy that revived the EU. We also see Mara in Jabba's fortress. The cover shows Mara with a Red light saber, but she wields a purple one throughout the book. Old Red eye ' blue eye Isard is in this story. JediMack! Only 4 stars? This is arguably the best comic produced in its timeframe given the technology that existed in 1999. The binding is superior, which is good because this book has been re-read and seen some abuse and was made well enough to take it. I must reserve 5 star ratings for the best of the best, and in future years dark horse starts producing comic that are jaw dropping gorgeous with rich coloring and awesome penciling.
Rating:
Summary: YOU WILL MARRY LUKE SKYWALKER!!!
Review: This is a review of Mara Jade ' By the Emperors Hand a comic TPB which collects 6 issues. ISBN 1569714010 published Sept 1999 and made in Canada. This is a beautifully done comic given the technology available at the time, 1999. Visually the artwork took the time to draw the panels at a higher quality level than was usually done in the late 90's. Artwork gets 4 stars. Inking and lay out is a step up from, but still has the newspaper comic strip appearance. The inking and color selections are subdued so I grade at 3.5 because it lacks the richness that Dark horse is capable of, but not displayed in this comic. Story but Zahn and Stackpole oh my' Story is worth any quibbling about art and ink, though this is a comic as in a visual story. The story is 4.5 and pulls the overall grade up to 4 stars. This is written almost as a companion to Zahn trilogy that revived the EU. We also see Mara in Jabba's fortress. The cover shows Mara with a Red light saber, but she wields a purple one throughout the book. Old Red eye ' blue eye Isard is in this story. JediMack! Only 4 stars? This is arguably the best comic produced in its timeframe given the technology that existed in 1999. The binding is superior, which is good because this book has been re-read and seen some abuse and was made well enough to take it. I must reserve 5 star ratings for the best of the best, and in future years dark horse starts producing comic that are jaw dropping gorgeous with rich coloring and awesome penciling.
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Summary: YOU WILL MARRY LUKE SKYWALKER!!!
Review: This is a review of Mara Jade ??? By the Emperors Hand a comic TPB which collects 6 issues. ISBN 1569714010 published Sept 1999 and made in Canada. This is a beautifully done comic given the technology available at the time, 1999. Visually the artwork took the time to draw the panels at a higher quality level than was usually done in the late 90???s. Artwork gets 4 stars. Inking and lay out is a step up from, but still has the newspaper comic strip appearance. The inking and color selections are subdued so I grade at 3.5 because it lacks the richness that Dark horse is capable of, but not displayed in this comic. Story but Zahn and Stackpole oh my??? Story is worth any quibbling about art and ink, though this is a comic as in a visual story. The story is 4.5 and pulls the overall grade up to 4 stars. This is written almost as a companion to Zahn trilogy that revived the EU. We also see Mara in Jabba???s fortress. The cover shows Mara with a Red light saber, but she wields a purple one throughout the book. Old Red eye ??? blue eye Isard is in this story. JediMack! Only 4 stars? This is arguably the best comic produced in its timeframe given the technology that existed in 1999. The binding is superior, which is good because this book has been re-read and seen some abuse and was made well enough to take it. I must reserve 5 star ratings for the best of the best, and in future years dark horse starts producing comic that are jaw dropping gorgeous with rich coloring and awesome penciling.
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Summary: Mara emerges as strong, reliant, and savvy.
Review: What can i say? Mara rules. I liked how the story progressed within the same patterns, but the visual motifes changed. The artwork is great, and it's good to see Mara not exploited in ways Lara Croft has been.
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