Jason Aaron closes out his mediocre Star Wars run with Volume 6: Out Among the Stars, a meh collection of short stories.
Sana (basically Han without a willy or a giant crossbow-gun-wielding dog) with Lando in tow, double-crosses one group of villains after another in a cleverly-plotted episode. The other interesting stories feature Han outwitting Grakkus the Hutt to find out where his weapons/supplies cache is hidden while R2 rescues C-3PO from Vader’s grip in a pretty fun tale.
The stories about Luke and Leia stranded on an island and Scar Squadron weren’t badly written but were immediately forgettable. There’s an utterly pointless Tusken Raiders short and Jason Latour pens the worst story here - some rubbish about some guy upset after Han screwed him over or something.
Salvador Larroca’s art is so polished and photo-realistic it makes me wonder whether he’s literally just tracing over movie stills. At any rate, the book looks fantastic thanks to his skills.
Out Among the Stars is a very ho hum Star Wars book but I suspect it’ll be the last halfway decent one for a while given that Kieron Gillen’s taking over the title - if that abominable Screaming Citadel rubbish is any indicator, Star Wars is about to become unreadable garbage!
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