Star Wars: Infinities Comic Book Trilogy Review (AKA The Best Star Wars Trilogy Ever!)

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[00:00:10] I'm gonna have a real hot take for May the 4th. The Infinities Trilogy is the best Star Wars trilogy.

[00:01:04] I can agree with that. Everyone's gonna be like... I hate the OT, but I do like the Infinities story. And I also, I own that series actually. And you're not alone. I knew people growing up who liked newer Star Wars stuff. They couldn't get into the original trilogy, but they got in the prequels. And now I've seen people who are like, can't get in the prequels and OT's, you know, way too old for me. So, you know, I get interested in the sequel trilogy.

[00:01:31] So it is interesting to see Star Wars is on and unfortunately become a little bit like Alien Star Trek. It is like, oh, whatever got me into it, that's what I'm loyal to, even though it's like, okay. Whatever version of Exorcist or Hellraiser floats your boat, I guess. Like I bought, I got, this is funny with the Infinities story. I was at my library and looking at the books for sale.

[00:01:55] And lo and behold, they had the Marvel epic collection of Infinities on the for sale shelf. They actually acknowledged it. Wow. Yeah, they have, it's the entire trilogy plus the original, the Star Wars storyline that George Lucas wrote included. And I bought it for a fucking dollar. Aw, lucky you. I don't know. I was like, I saw, I was like, no way. And I snagged it off the shelf in a heartbeat.

[00:02:25] I was like, that's mine. Like, that's mine. Oh man. Lucky. Yeah. So yeah, this, this ran from, so from 2001 to 2004 ish. And it's really so fascinating. Like it, what happens if Luke misses? Yeah. He's a one trick pony. I just literally phrasing, but so.

[00:02:55] And man, massive body counts for everybody in this. And so a new hope. I hate that subtitle so much. The original Star Wars starts off with what if Luke was unable to destroy the Death Star, but the torpedoes still burnt up the power grid, making the Death Stars laser inoperable. And I love how this just starts off. Like everything I need to know is explained away in like literally two sentences.

[00:03:20] It's like, they make it sound like the Twilight Zone is like if this alternate dark chapter happened, let's just say for argument's sake, this is what happens. And then they, they quickly give like five inserts within two pages showing is like everything you saw in the movie happened. And now let's say that this timeline starts from here and go. Yeah, pretty much. I had so much fun taking notes from this.

[00:03:47] Now, keep, keep in mind, this was in 2002. So there's only like one minor quibble I'm going to unleash here. But again, they didn't know. So, but I love this much, a bunch. What did I rate it? I gave it a full blown five out of five stars and I'll explain my reasoning. But yeah, so for the it's the whole original trilogy. Just a what if. And I usually don't like what else I can't stand them in Marvel.

[00:04:13] I love them here because they're fun, though, because they work in different ways depending on what's who the character is. I like the alternate stuff like the Punisher kills the universe or Deadpool kills the universe, because at least that's just a random just one story deal. Flabbergast, the whole other stuff. I understand. I Star Wars for me growing up, I always had like alternate endings.

[00:04:36] So I think because I even though what it made up for with flat dialogue, with philosophical speeches and scenarios they could have done with the wisdom of the characters, I think that's where I was like, yeah. What if so and so, you know, became a Jedi sooner or so and so became a smuggler in this part of the galaxy. But this is cool because, yeah, this is like, let's just say Luke's unsuccessful. And I like how he's like, what's going on?

[00:05:04] And Han's like, well, we better we better get out of here. You know, it's about Yavin four moons about to get blown up. But yeah, Tarkin then orders his remaining TIE fighters to ambush the Yavin four planet. Free rebel ships escape but are captured by Darth Vader and his TIE interceptor. And fire squad. And yeah, if you want them to talk like Monty Python, you can. And the dust star power comes back on and they destroy the planet.

[00:05:33] Luke, thinking they're all dead, then goes ape shit and destroys dozens of TIE fighters that are chasing him and the Falcon. Luke abandons his unreactive X-Wing in space and brings him and R2 on board the Falcon. After a fight with Han on the Falcon, Luke is told by Obi-Wan spirit to start training now with Yoda. Like, we're going straight into Empire Ville and after and Leia's captured again by the Empire and tells her when to go to hell.

[00:06:04] Yeah. Well, you do. But as mild as you get in Star Warsville, but yeah, Empire fleet and dust star pull up into the now seemingly invincible Coruscant planet. and Vader takes Leia to the Emperor's throne palace. Do it. The rebel fleet is all captured now. That's my daughter. Yes, I'm such a tool. Such a glut for punishment.

[00:06:30] Han and Chewie go with R2 and Luke to Yoda's planet, Dagobah. Han knows that Yoda is playing them and calls it while stating that it takes a con man to recognize another con man because Yoda's doing the typical, oh, not to speak up. It's like, yeah, yeah, no, we came here. And Vader brings Seafree Pio to Leia's quarters and then gives her Obi-Wan's saber that he took after killing him earlier. Interesting. Yes. I haven't read Infinities in a long time.

[00:07:00] Well, but you were the one who brought it up to me and then Josh was like, you got to fucking read this cam. I'm like, I will. This sounds amazing. I don't know how I don't know about this. It is really amazing. It's just been a long time. Well, I'm going to catch you up. I did all the notes. So, yeah, Freepio being as usual. Oh, no, no, no. Mr. Melodrama does that. But Vader trains Leia to be angry in a practice saber match, but then takes the saber from her when she attempts to commit suicide by pointing it at her head. Wow.

[00:07:30] She also can't jump to her death as there are force fields around the palace that prevent such a thing. So then, yeah, Han and Chewie depart on the Falcon to find a new pressure stabilizer for their Falcon while Luke continues training after Obi-Wan warns him that he's still at the same crossroads that Vader was at his age. Roll tide. Get with the flow. Do what Obi tells you. Oh, this was the same year that New Jedi Order was out, too.

[00:08:01] Yeah, that's still going. And the new movies are coming out. Vader continues telling Leia that she has more choices than she realizes. Ooh. While Luke does the whole fighting the vision. Well, in one of these, he definitely is a very useless, but I'll get to that. He does the whole fighting the vision of Vader and the Dagobah cave. But this time he sees Leia's face in the Vader body instead of his own.

[00:08:31] Oh, no. Chewie and Han meet at the Ord Mantell outer rim planet. And I had so much fun taking screenshots of this. There's an Imperial News report TV on that notes that the Rebel Alliance has been over for five years now. And now to Han's surprise, Leia has been appointed senator, which causes, which shocks Chewie when he sees it on the broadcast. And then Han destroys the TV set

[00:08:59] and the bar, even letting out a shut up. And the stir causes the hunters and bar patrons to all recognize him just now. Oh, applauded his stupidity. Just now? All right. But the duo runs away in a stolen Jawa cart from both the Imperials and bounty hunters. They get away in the Falcon, despite Chewie not properly making their pairs that Han asked him to make earlier. Martini! Yeah. Martini! Yeah.

[00:09:27] They're literally saying martini the entire day. Anyway, so the Falcon flies back to Dagobah as Luke's training is completed. Yoda orders Luke to go to the cave without weapons, and Luke sees all kinds of Sith and Jedi visions, including Qui-Gon, young Obi-Wan and Anakin, the Emperor, Podme, Darth Maul, and the current turning of his sister Leia by Vader. So, yeah. A bit of everything. Yeah. Ah! Turn it off! Turn it off! Han drops by. Luke is scared by a snake crawling on his arm.

[00:09:57] Han notes that it's not bothering anybody. Well, I got deadpan. That was snake crawls up Luke's arm. He's scared of it. Yeah, but he's been such a crybaby after all this training. Well, he is a whiny twink. Oh! He is a whiny bitch. I like him. Yeah, for real. But he's a whiny bitch. So, Yoda asks why Han came back, because it's too long a trip to come here just for Yoda's stew. Yoda then says that Luke has completed training the fastest, but still ready. He isn't.

[00:10:28] So, he just spills the beans on Vader being his dad while throwing Obi-Wan under the bus for his lie. Luke is angry at the withheld info, but Yoda notes it will only fuel the anger had he given it away earlier, while also noting that Leia is his sister. Obi-Wan's spirit notes that Luke's ready to let the Force guide him and that he withheld Leia's relation to Vader to keep her safe as well. So, yeah, we're tricking along.

[00:10:54] We're taking less long than it takes to watch both movies. For real, that's the pacing. I like good, fast pacing. It helps. It does. A lot. But it's like, ugh. We just summed up five different HBO miniseries in this length of time. For real. So, he, yeah. Han and Chewie have eaten all of Yoda's stew, but after he's done giving them grief,

[00:11:23] Yoda offers to tag along with the trio and implies that he hopes to sit in the Jedi Temple again. Very soon, we're like, whoa, whoa, whoa. So, Han teases Yoda. He's got this Muppet in his vehicle and he teases Yoda by asking him if he really thinks the Force is with him, to which Yoda notes they'll soon find out which side of the Force is strongest. And later, Vader notes that he feels a Force disturbance. But the Emperor knows that this is yet another destiny he's put in place. Sure.

[00:11:53] Sure. All right, Trump. You got a... Concepts of a plan. Concepts of a vision. So, the best game plan by far. The pair of four dock at the Death Star. Again. Yoda and R2 come out of the Falcon while Yoda does his mind tricks on the troopers, stating that Moff Tarkin has asked to see them and that the Falcon is cleared for departure. Han is jealous, wishing he had Force powers for use on his favorite planetary casino, the Smuggler's Moon.

[00:12:22] The Falcon goes to Coruscant. Stewie stays with the ship, keeping it running, while Han unexpectedly tags along with Luke on foot while stating that he's still owed a reward for saving the princess. So, he's still in mercenary mode, which makes sense. He hasn't matured yet and gone and attached. Yes. Han and Luke meet four red Imperial Royal Guards who are equipped with red double-bladed lightsabers. Ooh. It's as cool as it sounds, and I always wondered what they were hiding, because I was like,

[00:12:52] it's not just those electrical sticks. Yeah, they were arm of force pikes originally. Really? Yeah. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Yeah. So, this is a cool, very cool fight scene with neat artwork. I like how it's just as cool as everything you picture in a comic book, where the characters are crossing over into the different boxes and what have you. It's like they're jumping off the page. It's very, very cool. Han takes one of those sabers,

[00:13:20] and he and Luke are taken to the Imperial Chamber by Frippio, where the Emperor, Vader, and Empress, Leia, are ready to fight them all. Oh, boy. Luke reveals he'll never fight his sister, while Leia gasps, and both Emperor and Vader act like, that's a Jedi lie. Frippio, this motherfucker, he takes out a blaster and takes Han hostage while the siblings sword fight. I'm like, okay, so,

[00:13:50] Han's Gruber, Mr. C. Freepio, is doing a terrorist move. I'm not. That's a stiff-ass motherfucker taking Han hostage. Oh, no. Oh, yeah. And I'm surprised they couldn't take it out of his damn metal thing. He's just a guy in a plastic helmet and suit. Whatever. So I thought it was cool, even though, realistically, yeah, it wouldn't work in the movies, but yet, I think this is so fun. This guy is just fucking going for it,

[00:14:18] and he's still making it work on the page by having the right exposition. No, but it's still, yes, me saying this doesn't do it justice, but hopefully at the end of this, everyone's sold on it, but meanwhile, Vader questions, if this is true, that it's his daughter. It's like, you didn't know, you blind fascist. Well, the Emperor acts surprised going, you couldn't tell? She has the Skywalker fire in that part. Like, what fire?

[00:14:48] I read that in a Christopher Walken way. Then, Yoda makes Moff Tarkin, still under his Jedi spell, lock the Death Star's control room and lock the lasers onto four Super Star Destroyers, destroying them all. Yoda racks up a huge-ass body count than he did in any of the movies. It's fucking awesome. For that alone, one of, legit, one of my favorite movie characters of all time. Leo snaps out of it and stops fighting Luke

[00:15:18] when emotional Vader speaks to her. And the Emperor, like, he's like, he's coming too. Yeah, this is before he does the whining. No. But, the Emperor begins shocking both Luke and Leia. Oh, how shocking. Yeah, for real. Vader pins the Emperor down, wrestler style, with him going, have you, with the Emperor going, have you gone mad? Dad? Luke knocks out Freepio, while I'm surprised his head didn't go flying,

[00:15:48] uh, well, again, or, technically a second time, but while Han begrudgingly has to drag his ass back to the ship, and that's some, the funniest lines in the whole comic book run, the Emperor stops attacking Vader when Yoda tells him on the view screen he'll be finally facing him. The Emperor calls his bluff, and this is cool because, like, this is before Revenge of the Sith movie ever came out, so they kind of assumed he's like, they must have fought at one point or another, so it's like, man,

[00:16:17] this still works regardless of what, as a non-canon alternate reality. So, the Emperor calls his bluff as he says, the Death Star weapons are deactivated now. Our heroes get off the planet of Coruscant just in time for Yoda to ram the Death Star into the palace, killing himself, Moff Tarkin, Vader, the Emperor, and the other Death Star members. Man! It was like, fucking hell, and it was like, R2 is piloting that, presumably,

[00:16:47] so it was like, yeah, or he's mind-controlling Tarkin to pilot it, but either way, it's like, man, what a baller move. And so, after that awesome yet shocking explosion, a peace ceremony is held, and Luke sees older Anakin, Yoda, and Obi-Wan spirits while Frippio notes how he misses R2. Oh, poor sap. The ironic phrases and snarky comments by Han and venomous threats by the Emperor

[00:17:16] aren't just on point. They're just so flat-out inspired writing for this what-if comic. The only issue I had is that I know they couldn't have known it was three years prior is that Yoda would have acknowledged that he fought side-by-side with Chewie, but whatever. That's hardly worth nitpicking. Like, he probably forgot him and said, you look just like you're looking at your girl. And so... That's not racist at all. Shh. Yeah, I hope it's not racist. Yoda, you monster. Let me go on

[00:17:46] to Empire Strikes Back. We're the what-if infinity. We're what-if Luke escaped the Wampa Pit, chopped off the creature's arm, and then decapitated another Wampa, and then died. Oh, boy. Fucking dies right then and there. The damage is too much, the cold, everything. But yeah, if Han fails to save Luke, I was like, I had to reread it. I'm like, wait, what just happened? Oh, so, I've done that awkward start. I'm down. I'm like, so Solo takes

[00:18:15] Luke's place in this story, and they, you presumably, they kill Wedge and Tilly is also at the Battle of Hoth, so, but on a good note, the rebels evacuate quicker because there's also some TIE fighters there and what have you, so Han, Leochui, and Frippio go straight to the space junk and then to Cloud City. They avoid that worm monster and everything all together. And the other melodrama, like, I want to keep fighting with you. So, Boba Fett,

[00:18:45] however, has followed them and he's en masse sitting in the dining room chamber and yes, he does look like Jango because post-2002, 2003. Yeah. And he's waiting to speak to Lando telling him to get ready for his employer's arrival and this is how you realize very little of them actually get in deep detail. Lando decides to turn the tables by having Chewbacca and his security team beat up and capture Fett, but Fett then disarms two guards and jetpacks over into a hand-to-hand

[00:19:15] fight with Solo. Chewie grabs and hurls Boba into a wall, much like in Dark Empire, causing him lifetime knockout. For now. But Han thinks up an idea and asks Chewie to not finish Fett off. Han and Lando wrongfully assume that the talk of the so-called employer that Boba mentioned meant that Jabba was coming onto the planet, not knowing he actually meant Vader. He's like, had they actually asked for clarification before this whole fight, they might have gone somewhere.

[00:19:45] But as the Falcon leaves for Dagobah, Lando gets a hologram transmission from Vader and then he realizes that Fett's so-called delay and Vader learns that the Falcon was not held here. Vader then says over the hologram that he notes to Lando that he's complicit with helping the rebels and TIE fighters begin attacking his Bespin city. Lando orders an evacuation.

[00:20:15] Bespin is bombed and destroyed as he and his crew get away in their ships. Han, Lea, Chewie, and the droids land the Falcon on Dagobah while Han jokes that he never expected to be a force-wielding Jedi and Leia senses a void of darkness. So again, guys, yes, I like how each of these comics stay in their own ground. It's like, okay, let's say we started here. Let's say we started there. Here's where the storyline is going to go. And some of the ideas cross over, they all make

[00:20:44] good use of your favorite characters. They all get a moment in the sun. And I was, I could not put this down. This was dynamite. Like, this would be awesome even if I wasn't a Star Wars guy. Like, this is fucking awesome. So, yeah. While angry that he's not the real chosen one, Yoda remarks that Lea is actually the one needing to be trained, not Han, reveals the Darth Vader connection, holds back Han with his king, calling him a death marked scoundrel, then tells everyone to come over to

[00:21:14] his hut for dinner. Han, Chewie, and the droids leave once again. Han gets his ego back in check, realizing that he's actually be endangering everybody, not the other way around. Lea trains many months later on Dagobah, using the flying rocks, a purple lightsaber given to her by Yoda, I guess it's Mace Windu's, um, maybe, encountering some weird giant beasts made entirely of water. Yeah, we're getting some X-Men level shit here. Twilight Zone.

[00:21:43] While searching on another unnamed planet, so this is the only star takeoff, explain where the fuck it is, don't say I don't know where it is, it's somewhere. dude, like when Cotter came out in 2003, and the last part of that was Unknown World, it remained that way for a good decade before it actually was named Leon. Wow. Yeah, that, it didn't get its name until Darth Bane, Path of Destruction.

[00:22:13] Wow. Yeah, that long, it remained Unknown World for a long time. You bastards. It's same with, um, give me a name. Yeah, Revan was ambiguous. The Exile was ambiguous, which was a lot of fun, because when I played Cotter 1 and 2, I made the old Republic, you noobs. Yeah, like I made, I made Revan a woman, and then in Sith Lords, I made

[00:22:43] the Jedi Exile a man, and then I would switch back and forth. But I always felt that Revan should have been a chick, but they were like, no, Revan's a dude, and Meetra Surix did Exile. I'm like, okay, all right, fine. But I still like female Revan. True. I can see that. they should do more of those games, or better yet, continue them in comics, with the old Republic, all that

[00:23:13] stuff. So, where the fuck was I? Purple lightsaber. Yeah, lightsaber. It's the pride lightsaber. Yeah, the LGBTQ Star Wars. Take this. well, yeah, that's the Bruce Valange version, if not George Takai. So, yeah, while searching on another unnamed planet, Imperial Superior notes rumors of Luke's death and announces a

[00:23:43] new Death Star being built. Vader doesn't buy it, as he still senses a force disturbance and wants to know where Solo went after threatening that officer, getting more pro droids and hiring new bounty hunters, some who are Wookie and Rodian Cerrito species. So, that was cool. Yep. Um, and then Solo and crew have a Devonian smuggler, an actual expanded universe smuggler character named Uncle Villy, who appears in Attack of the Clones bar scenes and other comics.

[00:24:13] who instead of, so that's the only question I had, I was like, who is that character? I had to look him up. So, instead of taking payment to Jabba, this guy then betrays them so he can keep both the money and the Falcon. Oh, you cunt. You f***er. So, at the palace, Jabba notes that he's bored and wants to prove something in subtitles. R2 manages to open the pit escape door where Han and Chewie are fighting two Nexus, those giant

[00:24:42] cat beasts. Yeah, those giant cat beasts from the Geonosis arena in the Dark of the Clones. Love that movie. I do too. And so, once R2 hacks it, those beasts come in and they start slaughtering guards despite being injured from the duo hitting them over the head with leftover bones. Some funny bloody moments in this scene as they approach Jabba's guard. And again, it's Star Wars so no one cares. They're like, eh, just a little blood. It's all good. It's normal. No one in bikinis. We're good.

[00:25:13] So yeah, Han, Chewie, and R2 escape on another pirate ship and they come back later for the Falcon. The next day, the Nexu beasts are dead. Jabba tells his main right hand as other guards and droids bodies lay to get a different beast they can control like a Rancor. Vader and troopers arrive at Jabba's den and notice Freepio who's still there with the other droids. This was the best plot to us. This was the best plot arc. Vader interrogates Freepio, takes his head from his body.

[00:25:47] Actually, yeah, no, I'm jumping ahead. Vader takes him and Jabba gladly surrenders him as it's just another one of Solo's properties and he has plenty of other translators. Vader interrogates Freepio on his ship, takes his head from his body to bypass his protective programming and realizes he needs to set a course for Dagobah. And so much of the artwork looks so much like the Star Wars tell comic book cover, which has the same thing, him looking at the droid he created. So then Leia is floating in the air meditating and Yoda then instructs her.

[00:26:17] Her final task is to go to the cave and collect a crystal so she can build her own saber. This had a great ending. It was so tragic. So Vader arrives on Dagobah, tauntingly calls Yoda an elf while Yoda electrocutes him. And both Obi-Wan and Mace Windu spirits fight Vader, all causing actual damage to Vader while Yoda plays more mind games with him. Leia is building her saber and sees the reflection of Yoda and Vader fighting. In Hoth Ice Planet

[00:26:47] illusion, Vader's helmet is off and looks too much like young Anakin. Yoda notes how he could relieve himself of his selfish cruelty while Qui-Gon spirit delivers additional damage to Vader by chopping off his arms in the vision. While Yoda shows Luke's icy grave, Vader begins to look like an awful young and then when Yoda's guard is down, the vision disappears in real world. Vader chops off Yoda's hand.

[00:27:24] Wow. Yoda gives a brief talk to Leia before dying and vanishing. They start to return to saving the galaxy as they burn Vader's body. Pretty solid follow-up. It didn't really hit its stride until the second issue for me personally, but it was too unnecessarily recreating the hot battle in the first issue, but then the neat plot twist and tie-ins with other established parts of the universe. This was a three and a half out of five. That'd be a seven out of ten scale. This wasn't my favorite, but this still the plot twist made up for it.

[00:27:53] I just had so much fun with all the other stuff. And I like how they're expanding upon the universe, even though this is just a what if. So that is why I give it more than my usual grief. Like, it's like, see, these guys actually had a lot of fun. Like, they did basically their special edition. They did their own thing instead of just I have a license. What the fuck can I do besides play around with my crayons? So then we come to Return of the Jedi. What if? What if Leah, Lando,

[00:28:23] and Chewie avoided the drama at Jabba's Palace? Oh, shit. I don't think you even need that sequence in the movie, kind of like the pod racing. I still like it, but if you took it out, it just would make the movie go way faster. But anyway, so we start off here. Lando stops Boba from ambushing Leah, but she's still stunned by the blast and drops her thermodentonator blowing up Jabba, his two buddies and Freepio. Don't worry, she mourns. I blew up Freepio by accent.

[00:28:53] Boba gets a robot. I love how they use that same helmet for the Breen on Deep Space Nine. So the trio and Luke hijack the cell barge with R2 on it. Boba gets away with carbonite, frozen carbonite Han while they waste their time beating up bar patrons for answers on where Fett is. Yoda is dying, and despite Kenobi's spirit telling him to hold on, Luke is too late when he gets to Dagobah,

[00:29:23] but the Emperor also senses the loss of life and orders Vader to check out the Dagobah planet coincidentally. Luke arrives and gets more pep talk from Yoda's and Obi-Wan spirits. Oh, come on, you didn't miss that much. Luke and R2's X-Wing is then tractor beam onto a Star Destroyer while Vader plans his next move. Leia spies in tactical sniping gear on Ondar presumably. She sees that Boba's being taken frozen Han to the Imperials there at the stations with the Imperial shuttle so they can

[00:29:53] lure his friends out and he gets paid either way. And of course, this is where it's fun spy assassin territory. It's original technology they're using this issue, so that's why I give it some extra points. Leia's kills the Imperials via future rocket launcher while Lando shakes the Falcon around causing Boba to trip and go flying to his death from a separated jet pack that way. Leia steals Fett's Park Slave one shit

[00:30:22] after harassing hassling with the controls. Luke is on the Death Star too while Han is being removed from Carbonite on a rebel ship by pals. The medic says that Han has been frozen too long so he likely won't regain his vision again all while the rebels kill stormtroopers at the Ondar's shield base but then can tell it's a trap as their signals are jammed. The rebel ships get Luke's distress signal. He sent pre-capture telling Leia about them being siblings and Vader being their dad.

[00:30:52] So that's how they do it this time around. Leia sneaks onto Death Star 2 using the Boba Slave One ship while the trio follows her in the Falcon. Lando says Han can come as long as his blind self doesn't control the controls. Leia is captured while Lando and his fleet are on the same space trap they're in in the actual movie. No, no, no, no, the Emperor orders Vader to kill Leia while Luke engages in combat. The rebel

[00:31:22] breach the rebels breach the Imperial shield bunker on on door via explosives. But finally, the Ewoks show up attacking both sides. Fucking traitors. Little teddy bears. So I like this. I could tell this guy was not a fan of that subplot, so he did not focus on that at all. He avoided the Ewoks altogether other than that scene. So, yeah, Han realizes the Imperial bunker shield is down and suggests Lando go in for the attack raid now.

[00:31:52] Chewie is injured by the TIE fighters shooting at the Falcon, but Han takes over while telling Lando to keep the Falcon running in a straight line. And Luke stops fighting, but the Emperor briefly zaps him while asking if he'll join or not. Luke asks Vader why he want to kill both his only kids. Vader doesn't think he can be anything else, but Luke chops off Vader's arm mid-final fight. Wedge and another X-Wing blow up the Death Star core because, get it? Lando and Han are too busy blowing up

[00:32:22] the on-door bunker. But yeah, so Wedge goes in now that that's down, as everyone's evacuating, the Emperor notices something is wrong and vanishes. Wow, he can vanish. Yeah, he takes off. We don't know how he evacuated or what. Lando drives the Falcon back to save the free Skywalkers. Vader dies on board while thanking Leia for bringing him back to the light side. So he evacuates everyone. The Death Star blows up. Second one,

[00:32:51] the spirit of Vader appears to Luke while knowing that together they'll hunt down the Emperor eventually. So a lot of sassy Lando lines in this outing. A little more grim, but just downright zany fun, especially because Vader didn't get redeemed, but he's now an ally. So you're like, I don't know how that's going to turn out. But Han's still blind. Yep. And he's flying. Well, no, he's using the gunner. So Lando's flying. Oh, okay. Okay. And that's why he said, keep it in a straight line because I'm just going to keep

[00:33:21] firing. Oh, God. Yeah. So I didn't care for that part, but it was kind of cool. But. So I'll have to reread it sometime. Yeah, this was really a shit ton of fun. It really was like I just dynamite artwork. I would have if you made this even an original thing, that would have been cool. But no, that's cool that you told me that Marvel reprinted it is like good because everyone deserves to see this. Every kind of sci-fi fan should read this.

[00:33:49] This is a lot of fun, vibrant dialogue and all these. And this makes me wonder if they could do that with any other movie property. I don't know. I think they were and I remember people were clamoring for them to do for the prequel see for the prequel trilogy and they never did it. And I'm like, that's such a fucking shame because it would have worked. They could have made it work. They could have said, hey, what if Darth Maul was the main Sith Lord and the entire prequel trilogy? That'd be way

[00:34:19] better. What if Darth Jar Jar? And then they finally did Darth Jar Jar and Lego Star Wars. Yes, they did. Someone had to. Of well worth reading. I'm so glad everyone turned me on to this. I was a blind spot. I did not see it promoted much and it should be totally seen. It should totally be read. It is. There's a lot of Star Wars comics that are really fucking good. That Empire. Yeah, I've read. Let's see.

[00:34:49] Star Wars was great. I love the Jedi Old Republic. Yeah, I have the Old Republic trilogy comic. Nineties books were fun. The best Star Wars comic I read was Jedi Volume 1 The Dark Side. I actually bought that one. I read it and then I immediately bought it after I read it. That's how good it is. So given your love-hate relationship, why did you continue with Star Wars? Was it really just the expanded universe just

[00:35:19] taking ideas that you liked better or was it? I don't know. Like I've been uploading the old Star Wars books to my channel and shit and the other day I uploaded Legacy of the Force Tempest and that was from 06 and I sat there and I'm editing it and I'm realizing that yeah, I was writing my Star Wars trilogy while I was listening to this book back in 06 and I'd never realized that until I was editing it like damn.

[00:35:49] But it's amazing because I love the new Jedi order the most because it's so brutal and so bleak. It's alright. And the audio the audio adaptation The bleak stuff was fine. I just couldn't get into the using Vong. I just thought those guys sucked. Those were like a discount version of the Borg. Xenomorphs. But hey, glad you like it. Yeah, like the Vong were so brutal and

[00:36:18] the fun thing about that was the writing group at the time when they were working on that they pretty much had free reign with them and they didn't realize how far they were going to go with it until they became they made the Vong masochist. trilogy they did that had like some insects something. Oh yeah, the killer crisis. Yeah, the killer trilogy. Yeah, that darkness. Yeah, that darkness trilogy was good. Yeah, Jedi Academy was good.

[00:36:47] Yeah, I did. Yeah, I enjoy it. I own that on cassette actually. Sweet. I bought it from my library. But yeah, infinity is there should be like the ultimate peacekeeper. Everybody read this. You'll realize why you like the universe so much and you'll have fun knowing that someone had all this freedom and decided to do their own wacky alternate special edition that doesn't suck. We'll return

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