Star Wars: Legacy, Volume 3

author: John Ostrander

name: Wayne

average rating: 4.19

book published: 2007

rating: 3

read at: 2014/05/28

date added: 2014/05/28

shelves: graphic-novels

review:

'Star Wars: Legacy Volume 3' is a big sprawling graphic novel. It's over 400 pages long and takes place about 100 years after 'Return Of The Jedi.' It's dialogue heavy and it took me awhile to finish it, as well as to absorb or understand all I was reading. I'm a Star Wars movie fan, and less familiar with the stories surrounding the movies.



Luke Skywalker's descendant Cade Skywalker is sort of pirate/rogue using his powers of the force for personal gain. He travels around in his own ship, The Mynock, with a couple faithful companions, Syn and Blue. Syn's speech manner kind of bugged me because it seemed reminiscent of Jar Jar Binks, but he grew on me. And that's the first 20 pages. I won't recap the whole thing here, I promise.



Cade has had a run in with a Sith named Darth Krayt. Krayt tries turning Cade to the dark side. Cade really wants part of neither the dark or light side. Eventually, he's pushed to the point where he decides all Sith must die. At this point the book turns into a big sprawling epic with lots of dialogue.



It's very exposition heavy, even in the battle scenes. I kind of wanted the characters to stop talking and fight, but there is a lot of story to tell here. Art is good, but suffers from comic book type art. All men are handsome, even if they have scars. All women are beautiful and wear clothing that exposes their midriffs. I don't know why it bothers me more in Star Wars comics. Maybe it's the other aliens that are offsetting it or something. The art is really good, the story is very epic and I thought it was okay.



I was given a review copy of this graphic novel by Diamond Book Distributors and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.





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