Darth Vader hunts down a Jedi librarian and someone else is trying to assassinate him – just another day in the life of the Dark Lord of the Sith!
Charles Soule is really floundering for purchase on a solid storyline with his second Vader book. What’s interesting about hunting down a Jedi librarian or yet another nobody assassin when Vader is such an invincible, unstoppable force? There’s absolutely no tension in the narrative, no-one can stand up to him and he always gets what he wants. At least the first book’s story – the origin of his lightsaber – had something to do with the character (however pointless); this second book doesn’t even have that! It’s so tediously generic and unimaginative.
It’s a fine looking book though and I enjoyed Giuseppe Camuncoli’s sharp, vibrant art a lot. The scene where Vader recreates the Jedi’s destroyed ship from its pieces with the Force was cool and the Jedi library robot librarian design looked great. And I liked seeing Vader’s charred spirit and raging interior life while he’s meditating – never seen that before.
The story though is seriously lacking and the book just ends unsatisfyingly, further underlining its feeble plotting. Charles Soule can churn out the comics on time but can’t make them the least bit interesting to read – Legacy’s End is a weak follow-up to the mediocre Imperial Machine.
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