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Summary: Interesting comic of Luke's and Mara's wedding.
Review: Personally, I would have liked that Luke and Mara's wedding be in a novel form, but having a comic like "Union" is, does have its pluses. For one, we actually could see the characters and what they were doing. The dialogue at times can be confusing (like the bar room brawl and the people plotting against the wedding), but overall it makes sense and Michael Stackpole does a good job at it. The biggest problem I have with the comic was the picturing and drawings. Certainly the known characters we know from the movie trilogy look like they should look like (though at times, I think Luke and Han could have been drawn better), but I felt that the drawings weren't as good as some of the past comics, like the comic adaption of the Timothy Zahn book, "Dark Force Rising", which I feel is the best comic version out of almost all of them. With the drawings, Mara herself could have looked much better, which brings back the comic of DFR, which I felt had Mara down to the hilt of the way that Zahn wrote her. Besides that, "Union" was a excellent entry into the Star Wars universe with the marriage of probably the most famous person from the original movie trilogy, Luke Skywalker (duh!). It does have some problems (which is why I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 stars), but it is a refresher before the New Jedi Order book series, which I hate overall (the exception being the birth of Luke and Mara's son Ben).
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Summary: My favorite (Comic books & normal novels)
Review: The BEST of all books since the movies!Very nice and clean drawing. (Unlike 'Dark Empire')
Very nice and kind story.
Very nice, deep feelings of family and friendships:
Luke, Mara, Solo Family, Antilles Family, Horn Family, T.Karrde, Rogues (Tycho, Janson, etc.), Jedi Academy friends,... A must have for all, but specially for those who wonder all those people do and how they live in peacetime! (My favorite, of all the SW books and comics I have (Sith comics, Dark Empire, X-Wing books+comics, Post-ANH books, NJO).)
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Summary: Good, but not the best.
Review: The wedding of Luke and Mara's something I've been waiting for for years, and I was finally glad to be able to see it. It's still a little hard for me to swallow the tough-as-nails Mara as getting soft and romantic as she was in these comics, but not impossible-- it was well done here. It was far from perfect, though: perhaps I'm spoiled by the art in the "By the Emperor's Hand" comics, but I thought the art in this series was far from above par, especially with the portrayals of previously established characters: they barely looked like them, and the characters I didn't know so well from the other novels all blended together with very little to tell them apart (except in a few select places). And the so-called added 'conflict' of the Imperials crashing the wedding was pretty weak, though to be fair there's really not much room to develop a deep conflict with a four-issue series and half of that is spent on Luke/Mara mush. It really just seemed like a 'token' conflict, just a conflict to stick in there so the whole story line was not a continuous stream of nothing but happy wedding stuff for Luke and Mara. I enjoyed reading it-- as I previously said I loved the romance, it was about time Luke really got some!-- and I don't regret spending the money on it; but it's still definitely not the best SW story I've read.
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Summary: Almost Perfect
Review: This book was pretty much excellent. It was about Luke and Mara's wedding, and we all wanted to see that. The thing with the wedding gowns was funny. I thought it was weird that a Hutt would try to sell a Hutt gown to a Human, thinking a different color would make it better. The only bad thing was that at some times I couldn't tell who was talking. Also, the riot at Luke's bachelor party made no sense. It kind of looked like it was shortened from what it was intended to be. But that's about it.
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Summary: Subpar work...
Review: Union, after so much hype, was really dissapointing. Sure it showed the marriage of Luke and Mara, but that was about it. The Imperial "threat" to their marriage never felt very threatening, but that wasn't the point of this comic. In fact, I felt that the marriage itself wasn't the point. I think this comic was basically just a medium to give all us loyal readers a look at characters we've never seen drawn before. The art was up to Taranishi's usual standards, but there were so many characters, most of them drawn without real reference, that they tended to blend together over the course of the book. Adding to the confusion, it seems that occasionally the letter would mix up dialogue bubbles or something. The dialogue was usually pretty good in here, but it was punctuated frequently by Stackpole's overblown rhetoric, and because they crammed so many goings-on, characters and subplots into a four issue series the whole thing just felt very condensed. There were a few great scenes in here, but it's not all it's cracked up to be.
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Summary: Good but could be better
Review: Where to start? The UP side: I thought that it showed a more careing side of Luke and Mara. The relationship between Luke and Mara was well put. The Down side: Unlike many of the readers of this novel I am yet to read the Mara Jade comic but I also thought the animation in this comic was very poor. Also the action was not there which was ok with me because thats not what the comic was about (if the only reason you read star wars is for the battles than I do not suggest this Comic for you.) In more than one ways the flaws in this comic were simalar to the flaws in The Courtship of Princess Leia such as Poor charachterization and a loose foucas. All things consider I would like to see a better editied novel of these comic and I would HIGHLY recomond theses comic to Luke and Mara fans and Star Wars romance fans and would NOT recomond it to star wars action fans
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Summary: Not as good as most of the comics.
Review: While this was an interesting story to read, it was pretty confusing at times. There were way too many supporting characters to keep straight and a lot of others that I'd never heard of before. The artwork was so cluttered and most of the supporting characters looked so similar to each other that it was near impossible to tell who was who. It also didn't help that the villains in the story looked like the good guys and so you couldn't keep them straight, either. However, I think Stackpole nailed the characterizations for the main characters...attitudes, facial expressions, emotions. They were all dead on. He even got the interplay between R2-D2 and C-3PO right. Speaking of interplay, I loved the scenes between Mara and Luke. They were so well done that it made you feel happy to see them together. Hopefully we'll see them together more in either the comics or the novels. I have yet to read any of Stackpole's Star Wars novels, but if these characterizations are any indication, they should be pretty good. Unfortunately, the plethora of supporting characters and lackluster artwork made this story almost a headache to read.
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