Drew Johnson

The comic of the movie of the novel? Really?? This seems spectacularly pointless. Sure, do a comic of the original novel and unleash the visual imagination of Frank Herbert in a way that can't be captured by another medium. (And I believe there are some comics directly based on the novel.) But why try to capture the visual imagination of a film of a novel on the page? It seems pointless—and once you read it, you realize it is pointless. This vastly accelerated set of highlights with art that essentially copies film stills gives you little sense of the grandeur of either film or novel.… (more)

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This is quite nicely done, but lacks both the visual grandeur of the film and the narrative detail of the book (even though of course it has more narrative detail than the film, and more visual grandeur than the book).… (more)

These four issues wer a fun and different look at the Star Wars Universe. It took a simple idea. What would happen if Luke 'missed' or something else went wrong so that the Death Star didn't blow up? And then it goes from there.

It was interesting to see what the author chose to change and what to keep the same. I liked what they did with the Yoda part and I was very surprised that I liked the Leia story too.

I will say that I didn't love how fast it all came together at the end, but, other than that it was a fun read.… (more)