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Summary: Oh No! The clone had a clone!
Review: The clone emperor cloned himself and Luke must stop him again. This is the sequel to Dark Empire and is very entertaining. There is a Dark Empire III, but you can skip that one. Dark Empire II is worth a listen.Dark Empire and Dark Empire II take place Six years after the Battle of Endor, (but after the Zahn trilogy). Luke discovers that the emperor is still alive. Luke researches whether a jedi has ever returned from the dark side. This is cool, because this acknowledged the earlier comics dealing with the jedi and sith 3,000 to 5,000 years ago (learned in the holocron's that Luke has gathered.) This is the description of the comic which the audio tape is based on.
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Summary: Someone wanting to make money off of Star Wars
Review: The first book was mildly interesting, but Veitch really has no grasp of what Star Wars is. It's not creating better and better weapons and making things look more and more hopeless. It's about people pulling together to overcome the odds. The way they portray the Emperor is highly implausible. If he could make Dark Jedi with a mere touch he should have been able to obliterate the Rebellion without a thought the first time. And I doubt that all the warlords are going to just stop fighting each other and join up with the first person that comes along claiming to be the Emperor. Where does he get all these resources? All in all it looks like someone wanted to cash in on the Star Wars resurgence and decided one book wasn't enough. Lots of nice art and action, but annoyingly little substance. Veitch saddled a lot of good authors with his poor plot, forcing them to acknoweldge his ideas to preserce continuity. It's a shame.
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Summary: Good, but not great.
Review: The plot is good, but why can't the Emperor die. I'm really getting sick of super weapons and battle droids.I also think the evil dark force creatures were a sad idea. The book is worth reading, though.
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Summary: Too many unexplained weapons...
Review: The storyline for Dark Empire II was okay, but Tom Veich never knew when to stop adding all those WMD's (Weapons of Mass Destruction). There is the Galaxy Gun, which can blow up planets like the Death Star; war droids; more advanced war droids; and evil Force-endowed creatures of death. These have too little background on how they were made, and make the collection seem more predictable and less interesting.
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Summary: Not bad for a pair of smugglers...er, comic book artists....
Review: The struggle for mastery of the galaxy continues in this second installment of Dark Horse's Dark Empire graphic novel series. Although Leia Organa Solo and her twin brother Luke Skywalker defeated the clone of Emperor Palpatine, his minions, led by Warlord Sedriss, continue their campaign to wrest star systems away from the New Republic and back into the Imperial fold. Even worse, the spirit-force of Palpatine still resonates even though it is disembodied, and although rebellious members of his own court have destroyed more of his clone bodies all the Emperor needs is one in which to take physical form. Knowing that he will really die forever without another body to inhabit, Palpatine sets his sights on Leia's third child, Anakin Solo. If he succeeds, Palpatine will achieve two of his most cherished goals: continued survival and revenge upon the man who betrayed him at Endor, Darth Vader. Tom Veitch and Cam Kennedy return to dazzle Star Wars aficionados with their story and artwork in Dark Empire II. As in the best Expanded Universe novels, this creative team mixes classic Star Wars characters from the movies and meld them with a cast of new friends and foes, while enriching the "galaxy far, far away" with new worlds and exotic aliens. They even follow the trilogy's structure by making Dark Empire II a cliffhanger, making sure we readers looked forward to the concluding installment, Empire's End.
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Summary: Not bad for a pair of smugglers...er, comic book artists....
Review: The struggle for mastery of the galaxy continues in this second installment of Dark Horse's Dark Empire graphic novel series. Although Leia Organa Solo and her twin brother Luke Skywalker defeated the clone of Emperor Palpatine, his minions, led by Warlord Sedriss, continue their campaign to wrest star systems away from the New Republic and back into the Imperial fold. Even worse, the spirit-force of Palpatine still resonates even though it is disembodied, and although rebellious members of his own court have destroyed more of his clone bodies all the Emperor needs is one in which to take physical form. Knowing that he will really die forever without another body to inhabit, Palpatine sets his sights on Leia's third child, Anakin Solo. If he succeeds, Palpatine will achieve two of his most cherished goals: continued survival and revenge upon the man who betrayed him at Endor, Darth Vader. Tom Veitch and Cam Kennedy return to dazzle Star Wars aficionados with their story and artwork in Dark Empire II. As in the best Expanded Universe novels, this creative team mixes classic Star Wars characters from the movies and meld them with a cast of new friends and foes, while enriching the "galaxy far, far away" with new worlds and exotic aliens. They even follow the trilogy's structure by making Dark Empire II a cliffhanger, making sure we readers looked forward to the concluding installment, Empire's End.
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Summary: It was okay.
Review: This book was okay. The galaxy gun is a little over hyped. Also, why does everybody look green? Cam Kennedy's art stinks!
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Summary: eh...
Review: this graphic novel was pretty good, but as the reviews seem to indicate, not as good as the original. the emporer coming back again is...kind of annoying...makes one wonder if he CAN be killed. Luke's apparently got another girlfriend, but she gets killed. no surprizes here folks. the story was OK and believe if you've read Dark Empire I you should go ahead and read this one although it ends in a semi - cliffhanger, with the alliance on the losing end. a bit of a disappointment but worth reading. -=-zulumaccamehota-=-
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Summary: Star Wars -Dark Empire II- (Seafire12)
Review: This is just an excuse to make a trilogy. The first chapter in this series was good enough and didn't need to be drawn out into three graphic novels. There is no excitment because the plot is lame and the same from Dark Empire. It's all about huge weaponry that could destroy the galaxy.
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Summary: Oh boy, he's at it again!
Review: To put in bluntly, this sequel has mostly the exact same plot as it's predecessor.
The Emperor returns from the dead, again...he has a superweapon, again...and he is out to blow people up...again. In that sense, this book is actually something like the prototype sequel. It takes everything readers liked about the original, and provides us with more of it without bringing in anything really new.
Of course the writers did bother to invent some new ships, characters, weapons and sofort, but nothing that really adds to the story. It is just more of the same stuff we got from Dark Empire I. In addition to this, one of the major drawbacks to this comic is the fact that a lot of the new things the artists DO come up with are kind of ridiculous. I mean, which Evil Emperor would give his new superweapon a name like "the Galaxy Gun"? And how come the Emperor can magically turn any random underling into a powerfull Dark Jedi all of a sudden? If he could do that, why did he bother with Luke in the last book? If you were one of the people who enjoyed Dark Empire I, and you insist on reading more of the exact same thing, then you might want to buy this book. If you didn't like the original, you're certainly not going to like this one either.
The only other people who might wish to bother with this comic are the vivid Boba Fett-fans. Like all other villians from DE I, he returns in this one AND he has a lot more screentime than he did in the last book.
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