![]() ![]() After 3 ongoing series, 100+ issues, and 7 years of stories, he’s more than earned it. Still, one can’t help but feel reading this that it might be time to give ol’ Darth a break for a while. To its credit, Volume 4 continues Pak’s series’ strong run, introducing compelling new narrative elements into the mix that manage to reinvigorate the proceedings a tad bit more than what one might expect. Darth Vader is a FANTASTIC character…but even the best of characters can only have so many comic issues written about them before one starts to suspect that most of what can be said about said character has probably ALREADY been said. That it never quite achieves the heights of either of the previous series has less to do with Pak’s talents as a writer – which are immense – and more to do with the fact that, as well written it is, it is also – by its very nature as the THIRD ongoing “Vader series” – can’t help but feel a bit played out and even semi-obvious in many of its various story developments. Greg Pak’s “Darth Vader” run has been, in many ways, an interesting mix of the previous ongoing “Darth Vader” series, mixing the twisty-turny plotlines that characterized Kieron Gillen’s first run with the more bombastic, “blockbuster”-y elements that made Charles Soule’s series so consistently entertaining. ![]()
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