Finding issues to like is to be expected, there were a lot of comics and I am a Star Wars fan. There were stories I enjoyed, the IG-88 mini-story in the Age of Rebellion special and Boba Fett’s issue (although both firmly fall into the character reinforcing trope). We were introduced to a plant-based species but the story was so basic there will never be a reason to revisit that species and it’ll likely be forgotten. Is this meaningful? It felt like fan fiction. I won’t get into summaries of every book but the Qui-Gon story was him having a moral dilemma and then talking to Yoda about it and having a force vision. Unfortunately Qui-Gon’s title would be a preview of what the series as a whole would be: filler stories that at best reinforce traits that have already been established or at worst were a complete waste of your time and $3.99. The films left a lot of story to tell especially for characters like Qui-Gon Jinn, whose one-shot was one of the first to be released. The majority of these characters were rich with history and mystery. When the news first broke I thought there might be an interesting high-level narrative that connected all the books but as the initial Age of the Republic books release dates came near it became clear that these books would stand alone. Marvel comics announced, mid-year 2018, a series of one-shots that would span the entire current Star Wars timeline from the prequel era through the original trilogy and end in the era of the third film trilogy. ![]() The most popular Star Wars ‘ships’ on AO3. ![]()
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