It’s nice to see a book featuring Yoda as the protagonist as he’s been largely absent during Marvel’s Star Wars relaunch. Unfortunately his adventure here is pretty damn boring!
In a mashup between Lord of the Flies and Mad Max, Yoda goes to some primitive planet full of warring kids who use rock magic in a seemingly unending war. O...k… but doesn’t sound very Star Wars-y to me!
Jason Aaron writes Yoda well, especially when he learns rock magic, humbling himself by becoming a pupil again. We never saw Yoda do that in the movies but Aaron’s right, that’s exactly the kind of action I believe he would do.
Besides that though, Aaron couldn’t make me care at all about this pointless war or these stupid new characters. There’s a couple of subplots involving Obi-Wan on Tatooine and Luke’s flying about in an X-Wing - like a Russian doll, the book has a story within a story within a story - but they don’t really go anywhere and serve mostly as filler.
Salvador Larroca’s art is as slick as it was on his Darth Vader run though his Han Solo looked weird, probably because he didn’t have photo references for some of the expressions the script called for.
Kelly Thompson and Emilio Laiso produce the Star Wars Annual #2 that closes out this volume and it’s the pantiest issue here. Leia’s injured on some planet and someone helps her escape back to the Rebels. Overlong and dull, I hope not to see either of these creators on any Star Wars comic again!
Like the last couple books, Jason Aaron’s Star Wars run continues to be uninteresting rubbish. Recommend Yoda’s Secret War, I do not.
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