After completing his mission on Vorzyd 5 Luke Skywalker, now a decorated hero of the Rebellion resumes his routine missions with counter parts C-3P0 and R2- D2. When on a reconnaissance mission Luke is ordered to abandon and travel to his home world of Tatooine to follow up a mysterious case. Much to Luke’s dis like of the planet he sets a course for home.
Upon entering the atmosphere of the sandy dust planet he receives a rushed transmission to meet with Anduvil of Ogem in the Mos Eisley cantina. Luke sets the ship down to a very busy spaceport, barely recognizable as the abandoned dusty town that it used to be. Now it was a bustling spaceport, twice the size with more people and a heavy increase in Imperial forces.
Luke quickly locates the cantina and recalls where it all started so long ago. But one thing hasn’t changed about Mos Eisley, and that’s the danger. Before Luke can even start searching a laser bolt streaks out across the room and narrowly misses his head. Another streaks out to disarm the culprit, however this shot, was fired by Anduvil of Ogem. Luke finally finds out why he was sent back to this dusty wreck of a place. Apparently the Empire have been launching transport pods full of Squills onto planets. These small bat like animals carry one of the deadliest diseases – Bledsoe’s! This has then resulted in huge outbreaks throughout cities followed by the destruction of Rebel bases. A strange and very mysterious occurrence.
The Review
In this issue of early adventures a whole new and exciting story is launched. The primary action will be seen from Luke, Anduvil of Ogem and everyone’s favourite comedic duo, R2-D2 and C3P0. This story really portrays a great original story line throwing deadly diseases, classic memories and heated battles all into one issue of a damn good read! There’s a great balance of classic scenes and memories with new alien species and vehicles to show one of the true beauties of Star Wars.
Every strip is filled with great detail whether its foreground or background illustrations showing that time and effort has gone into this issue. It makes it a much more satisfactory read knowing that that bit more effort has been put in and that that small detail filled in shows the reader that they are reading something good and something that is completely unique to Star Wars. Tatooine was never revisited much in the saga. However there is one scene that stands out to me. In the comic Luke doesn’t enjoy revisiting his home world and doesn’t want to talk about it, the same as in The Clone Wars when Anakin crash lands on the planet and just wants to complete the mission and won’t speak about his past as a child. So I think that link is really cool and unique (whether done purposely or not).
Personally I would like to see more Star Wars comics composed in this way as it shows that Star Wars can be classic but also create new stories that still link to the film and still grab the audience. While first generation fans recognize the classic scenes and see that new can work with old, second generation fans can appreciate the classic scenes while also enjoying the new stories. This proves that old generation fans and new generation fans can enjoy the same stuff without the obvious separating border. While also receiving that “I love Star Wars” feeling!
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