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Title: Star Wars-Crimson Empire: Council of Blood, Volume 2 by Mike Richardson, Randy Stradley, Paul Gulacy, Randy Emberlin ISBN: 1-56971-410-X Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Pub. Date: 13 December, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: They screwed up in the transistion
Comment: I'm afraid the makers of CE botched their attempt to go from a simply, direct revenge-type story to a complex tale of woven intrigue. The art, while still somewhat cinematic in stlye, suffers from highly unstable character depictions and cartoony inconsistencies. The change of Sinn's character and appearance is equally as annoying. While she was quite a bother in the original, its even more bothersome when they switch character personalities and appearance.
As for the story, Mastadge's title puts it well. Way too much. Masters of intrigue and complex plots like Stackpole and Zahn should stake their claim as such, as other writers' attempts at such tales are consistently going astray. Carivus is an annoying, bloated dolt, and my interest in Nom Anor dropped about the same time NJO began coming out and butchering 'Star Wars'.
And the Council. While some of the talks seemed to be only well-done examples of intrigue in the whole bloody thing, I still found that it was overdone at times. And why the aliens? I can understand a move toward a more inclusive Empire, but why add Whiphids, Givin, Defel, and other such races that have no real status in the overall galactic community? If they were going to add alien reps they would have at least added ones from species that had actual power in galactic affairs.
Oh, well. If you want to learn a bit more about what happens after CE you can do so, but I can't say I reccomend the book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Good
Comment: This addition to the Crimson Empire may not be as good as the first, but it still packs a punch and delivers to Star Wars fans.
Rating: 2
Summary: Too much
Comment: While the first Crimson Empire tale was very good and effective, this one fails in many areas.
The main problem with this issues is that they had so many subplots and characters, it was like they were trying to compress a thick novel into a comic book series. There was so much going on they couldn't focus enough on any one theme and develop it.
Also, as much as I didn't like Sinn, heroic rebel commander, being portrayed as a complete slut in the first one, I hate it even worse when they change how a character looks from one comic to another, in the same way that it annoys me when different actors play the same character in different movies.
This book did have pretty good renditions of ships, and it was cool how they introduced mysterious Nom Anor, one of the main baddies in the New Jedi Order series. Unfortunately, although the ship and landscape art was mostly very well done, the people were badly rendered and disproportianate. The Hutt was tiny sometimes, normal sized at others, Sinn's face was a complete disaster, none of the carry-overs from the first issue looked right, and most of the time the faces were just too thick and disgusting.
Another thing, the alien races on the Imp Council! Not only were several of those species known to be sided with the New Republic, plus the fact that the Empire is all anti-aliens, makes this not work. Plus several of those species are so obscure I'm not sure why'd they'd have a member on the council. Oh well.
Still, I am definitely looking forward to CE III, as it is going to tie in pretty heavily to NJO...
If you really love Star Wars, buy this one, but if you're just a moderate fan, I'd recommend skipping it over.
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Title: Star Wars: Crimson Empire, Volume 1 by Mike Richardson, Randy Stradley, Paul Gulacy, P. Craig Russell ISBN: 1569713553 Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Pub. Date: 02 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Star Wars - Mara Jade: By the Emperor`s Hand by Timothy Zahn, Michael A. Stackpole, Carlos Ezquerra ISBN: 1569714010 Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Union (Star Wars) by Michael A. Stackpole, Robert Teranishi, Chris Chuckry, Christopher Chuckry ISBN: 1569714649 Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Pub. Date: 10 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Star Wars Dark Empire I by Tom Veitch, Cam Kennedy ISBN: 159307039X Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Star Wars - Boba Fett: Enemy of the Empire by John Wagner, Ian Gibson, Jim Amash ISBN: 156971407X Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Pub. Date: 06 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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