I am far too obsessed with Star Wars comics. It's still similar to what we've seen before, but different enough to keep things interesting. Yet another Darth Vader solo series could get a little grating, but the new setting, the new quest, and the new supporting characters make this opening arc surprisingly solid. He still has some awful faces at times, and the lightsaber combat feels a little limp, like he's not quite sure where the blade is meant to go once its done its job, but he manages to evoke a lot of emotion out of Vader's stoic face through subtle use of lighting, and the varied locales that the story visits across these five issues are all well rendered. I'm not overly familiar with Raffaelle Ienco's art, aside from some truly heinous fill-in work he did on Fantastic Four a long time ago, but this is a marked improvement. That said, the Forensics Droid is a maybe a little too talkative - I think Pak was trying to create the newest incarnation of the evil droids from Doctor Aphra's series, but he falls short unfortunately. It's a twist on a tried and true story, and it also gives us lots of characters to focus on aside from Vader himself who is never the most compelling protagonist given his penchant for not saying very much. Greg Pak goes one step further and throws loads of familiar (ish) faces at Vader so that he has no choice but to confront his past literally head on. We've had a lot of exploration of Darth Vader's character in terms of who he is and how he got to where he is - both Kieron Gillen and Charles Soule had him come face to face with metaphorical demons from his past, including himself and the ghost of Padme.
Darth Vader's encounter with Luke Skywalker during The Empire Strikes Back is fresh in his mind, and he is out for blood - all those that made his son weak must perish, but his quest for vengeance becomes something else entirely when a face from his past makes themselves known.
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