Lando: Double or Nothing comic #4 by Rodney Barnes
"Lando: Double or Nothing #4" written by Rodney Barnes, illustrated by Paolo Villanelli and Andres Mossa
An overall exciting issue with Lando being debonair as ever, but with a few confusing parts.
The opening lines to this issue are fantastic. L3 asks how Lando proposes to get them away from the TIEs on their tail and Lando says, "It's uncanny how your voice inspires anxiety." To which L3 replies, "I'd say your unexpressed desires for me are at the heart of your anxiety." Haha!! Too funny. I can't wait to get deeper into Solo: A Star Wars Story's novelization to get more of their wonderful banter.
After they shake off the TIEs, I'm confused. They land the Millennium Falcon near a sewage egress and Lando goes in--cape and all. But what good is it doing him to get into the factory if he doesn't have the weapons with him? Aren't the weapons still on the ship? I don't get it. Then he just traipses into a command central with video displays of camera feeds from the factory...in the middle of the sewer. Huh? Luckily, the not having weapons on him thing makes more sense later as he manages to inspire the Petrusians and acquire a gaggle of them to go back to his ship and gather the weapons to then attack. Okay, that makes sense. It just seems kinda round about. But I guess there would be no other way to get the weapons into the factory otherwise.
So we get a little hint of Lando's purported pansexuality in this issue. He says that he was once "lounging with a Dawinian host" and uses the pronoun "it" in reference to whatever this is. He also makes it obvious it was sexual by saying he was naked. I'm intrigued. Admittedly, "it" is not a flattering pronoun but it provides a degree of nice ambiguity. Finally a tiny morsel for us LGBTQ folks in regards to a main character.
There's also an interesting new spider creature that breaks apart with blaster fire and comes back together...forming an even larger and scarier beast.
Next issue is the last one in this short-run series! Will Lando and the Petrusians make it out safely?? Or will all go to hell? Can't wait to find out!
The opening lines to this issue are fantastic. L3 asks how Lando proposes to get them away from the TIEs on their tail and Lando says, "It's uncanny how your voice inspires anxiety." To which L3 replies, "I'd say your unexpressed desires for me are at the heart of your anxiety." Haha!! Too funny. I can't wait to get deeper into Solo: A Star Wars Story's novelization to get more of their wonderful banter.
After they shake off the TIEs, I'm confused. They land the Millennium Falcon near a sewage egress and Lando goes in--cape and all. But what good is it doing him to get into the factory if he doesn't have the weapons with him? Aren't the weapons still on the ship? I don't get it. Then he just traipses into a command central with video displays of camera feeds from the factory...in the middle of the sewer. Huh? Luckily, the not having weapons on him thing makes more sense later as he manages to inspire the Petrusians and acquire a gaggle of them to go back to his ship and gather the weapons to then attack. Okay, that makes sense. It just seems kinda round about. But I guess there would be no other way to get the weapons into the factory otherwise.
So we get a little hint of Lando's purported pansexuality in this issue. He says that he was once "lounging with a Dawinian host" and uses the pronoun "it" in reference to whatever this is. He also makes it obvious it was sexual by saying he was naked. I'm intrigued. Admittedly, "it" is not a flattering pronoun but it provides a degree of nice ambiguity. Finally a tiny morsel for us LGBTQ folks in regards to a main character.
There's also an interesting new spider creature that breaks apart with blaster fire and comes back together...forming an even larger and scarier beast.
Next issue is the last one in this short-run series! Will Lando and the Petrusians make it out safely?? Or will all go to hell? Can't wait to find out!
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