Vader: Dark Visions #5: "You Can Run..." by Dennis "Hopeless" Hallum
Vader: Dark Visions #5: "You Can Run..." written by Dennis "Hopeless" Hallum, illustrated by Geraldo Borges and Marcio Menyz
Huh...so this was an interesting issue with quite a bit of flair but it ended so abruptly that I was left feeling unsatisfied. It definitely did not live up to the depth of story in the first two issues (see here and here) but was way better than the previous two (see here and here). So it's kind of hanging out in the middle for me.
This issue takes place on Lokud 7 where a band of Rebels called Black Squadron have just acquired some secret Imperial data. Darth Vader is bound and determined to get that data back so he ransacks a bar, killing everyone inside except the owner who escapes...with the data (for no other reason than it was in the pack of guns he grabbed). So Vader chases after the man through the jungle, intent on re-capturing the stolen data. The barkeep falls into a bed of Flowering Anxynth which pricks him all over with its thorns...thorns that cause nightmares while the victim is awake! The rest of the issue follows the bartender as he experiences terrifying experience after terrifying experience trying to get away from Vader.
The title of "You Can Run..." was apt considering the ending of that statement would be "but you can't hide" as the bartender absolutely cannot get away from the nightmares no matter how hard he tries. And he spends the entire issue literally running from Vader.
I LOVED a good bit of the artwork. It was scary and intense and the Darth Vader/skull motif on the cover is freaking brilliant! See a frightening carnivorous plant and terrifying nightmare Vader below:
So a step up from the last two issues and most definitely the scariest issue yet. But I was really hoping for more meat and excitement from this series. Oh well, it seems to me that Vader has played himself out as a character...at least regarding "Vader: Dark Visions." Here's hoping the Vader one-shot for "Age of Rebellion" will prove otherwise and show that Lucasfilm isn't out of stories about the powerful Sith Lord!!
This issue takes place on Lokud 7 where a band of Rebels called Black Squadron have just acquired some secret Imperial data. Darth Vader is bound and determined to get that data back so he ransacks a bar, killing everyone inside except the owner who escapes...with the data (for no other reason than it was in the pack of guns he grabbed). So Vader chases after the man through the jungle, intent on re-capturing the stolen data. The barkeep falls into a bed of Flowering Anxynth which pricks him all over with its thorns...thorns that cause nightmares while the victim is awake! The rest of the issue follows the bartender as he experiences terrifying experience after terrifying experience trying to get away from Vader.
The title of "You Can Run..." was apt considering the ending of that statement would be "but you can't hide" as the bartender absolutely cannot get away from the nightmares no matter how hard he tries. And he spends the entire issue literally running from Vader.
I LOVED a good bit of the artwork. It was scary and intense and the Darth Vader/skull motif on the cover is freaking brilliant! See a frightening carnivorous plant and terrifying nightmare Vader below:
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