I think I found Vader scary as a villain in the OT, but I never really had any feelings about him, he was just sort of a blank slate to me. I was far more interested in Luke and Leia, their relationship with him was interesting to me only in how they felt about him.
It took the prequels + The Clone Wars, but most especially Revenge of the Sith for me to have feelings about Anakin Skywalker for himself. And even then I really didn't care that much about the Vader parts of his life until this comic and all the connections it drew between Vader and Anakin, so that they were inseparable in my mind. We've always known it, of course, but this comic really did the heavy lifting of showing Darth Vader is Anakin Skywalker, forever and ever, and so it drew all these things together.
While I don't find Vader as terrifying in the OT (partly because he never really hurts people on the same level as Anakin did to children in the PT and that hallway scene in Rogue One) what I love about this comic is that it's the pathetic monster of the OT and the depressed idiot who made all the wrong choices of the PT and that scary bastard from Rogue One. He is all of those things in this comic and I think that's why I'm suddenly a thousand percent more interested in Vader than I ever was because of this series.
Yeah, sure, a lot of things were really cool about this comic, lots of good structure and gorgeous art and badass moments! But the psychology of Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker, in showing how he is all of those things at once, is the most intensely cool thing about it.
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Date: 2019-01-02 02:58 am (UTC)I think I found Vader scary as a villain in the OT, but I never really had any feelings about him, he was just sort of a blank slate to me. I was far more interested in Luke and Leia, their relationship with him was interesting to me only in how they felt about him.
It took the prequels + The Clone Wars, but most especially Revenge of the Sith for me to have feelings about Anakin Skywalker for himself. And even then I really didn't care that much about the Vader parts of his life until this comic and all the connections it drew between Vader and Anakin, so that they were inseparable in my mind. We've always known it, of course, but this comic really did the heavy lifting of showing Darth Vader is Anakin Skywalker, forever and ever, and so it drew all these things together.
While I don't find Vader as terrifying in the OT (partly because he never really hurts people on the same level as Anakin did to children in the PT and that hallway scene in Rogue One) what I love about this comic is that it's the pathetic monster of the OT and the depressed idiot who made all the wrong choices of the PT and that scary bastard from Rogue One. He is all of those things in this comic and I think that's why I'm suddenly a thousand percent more interested in Vader than I ever was because of this series.
Yeah, sure, a lot of things were really cool about this comic, lots of good structure and gorgeous art and badass moments! But the psychology of Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker, in showing how he is all of those things at once, is the most intensely cool thing about it.