Journey to The Last Jedi: Captain Phasma comic #4 by Kelly Thompson
"Journey to The Last Jedi: Captain Phasma #4" written by Kelly Thompson, illustrated by Marco Checchetto, Andres Mossa, and VC's Clayton Cowles
So the battle between the indigenous species of Luprora, the R'ora (although they really do just look like baby Tsw'ells), and the colonizing Lupr'or begins. Phasma leaves the battle to hunt down the location of Rivas and finds him bound in a dungeon. She demands he confess to letting down the shields, but he relentlessly implores he cannot confess to what he did not do. Phasma, of course, executes him as was her plan all along.
In defending herself against Pilot's (TN-3465) admonition that they help the Lupr'or in battle, Phasma declares that "This planet is rejecting them. They are not suited to its evolution." Phasma goes on to coldly explain that the Lupr'or are on their way out already, and Phasma/Pilot just helped their demise along. Phasma is as cold as ever (having tricked the Lupr'or into thinking she would support them and guide them to victory and then just leaving them behind in the dust), but I get her point of view - she decides the indigenous species should win over the colonizers - which I can definitely sympathize with.
Sadly, I discovered the droid who came with them was not BB-9E. I still have no idea where BB-9E is going to come into play in The Last Jedi. This droid was BB-K8. But he's still such a cute little ball of mechanics!
After some more shenanigans, Phasma makes her way to the Resurgent-class Finalizer and reports to Hux why she has been gone for so long. He accepts her story and asks no further questions. Perhaps she got off clean...
Not much happened in this final issue and I wonder if this short-run series really added much to canon at all. We do get a new planet and two new species. We get to see more of Phasma's "winning" personality. We get our first glimpse of a First Order BB droid in action. And there are those awesome canon connections to Parnassos from the Phasma novel. Besides that, there's not all that much meat to speak of. It was nice in this final issue to see Phasma standing up for the indigenous species, albeit in a truly twisted way, but it shows at least one good aspect of her inner workings. Maybe I can grow to appreciate her after all...
I'll have to wait until December 14th to see where I stand.
In defending herself against Pilot's (TN-3465) admonition that they help the Lupr'or in battle, Phasma declares that "This planet is rejecting them. They are not suited to its evolution." Phasma goes on to coldly explain that the Lupr'or are on their way out already, and Phasma/Pilot just helped their demise along. Phasma is as cold as ever (having tricked the Lupr'or into thinking she would support them and guide them to victory and then just leaving them behind in the dust), but I get her point of view - she decides the indigenous species should win over the colonizers - which I can definitely sympathize with.
Sadly, I discovered the droid who came with them was not BB-9E. I still have no idea where BB-9E is going to come into play in The Last Jedi. This droid was BB-K8. But he's still such a cute little ball of mechanics!
After some more shenanigans, Phasma makes her way to the Resurgent-class Finalizer and reports to Hux why she has been gone for so long. He accepts her story and asks no further questions. Perhaps she got off clean...
Not much happened in this final issue and I wonder if this short-run series really added much to canon at all. We do get a new planet and two new species. We get to see more of Phasma's "winning" personality. We get our first glimpse of a First Order BB droid in action. And there are those awesome canon connections to Parnassos from the Phasma novel. Besides that, there's not all that much meat to speak of. It was nice in this final issue to see Phasma standing up for the indigenous species, albeit in a truly twisted way, but it shows at least one good aspect of her inner workings. Maybe I can grow to appreciate her after all...
I'll have to wait until December 14th to see where I stand.
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